US Patent Issued to SoftBank on Aug. 5 for "Authentication device, authentication method, and computer readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,730, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SoftBank Corp. (Tokyo).

"Authentication device, authentication method, and computer readable storage medium" was invented by Kazuto Suda (Tokyo), Yuko Ishiwaka (Tokyo) and Shun Ogawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an authentication device comprising: a data acquisition unit that acquires spherical data including a video of a person taken by a fisheye camera; and an authentication performing unit that performs facial recognition performed by a spherical convolutional neural network on the spherical data. Provided is an authentication device comprising: a data acquisition unit th...