US Patent Issued to SoftBank on Nov. 18 for "Authentication device, authentication method, and computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,205, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SoftBank Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an authentication device which includes an authentication moving picture obtaining unit which obtains authentication moving picture in which a person is captured for authentication and an authentication unit which authenticates the person based on the motions of the facial muscle of the person identified by analyzing the authentication moving picture. Provided is an authentication devi...