US Patent Issued to NEC Solution Innovators on July 15 for "Face authentication apparatus, face authentication method, and computer-readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,753, issued on July 15, was assigned to NEC Solution Innovators Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Face authentication apparatus, face authentication method, and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Kazuhide Umeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A face authentication apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that acquires face image data of a person from image capturing apparatuses, a determination unit that determines whether registration data, having degree of matching with the face image data that is equal to or more than a threshold value, is registered in a storage device, a prompting unit that prompts the person to input identif...