ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,883, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"System, imaging apparatus, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program" was invented by Naoyuki Miyada (Tokyo), Hideki Yanagisawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Mamiko Ishida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus generates a first image signal by synchronously scanning all pixels at a predetermined timing and performs image capturing in either a first imaging mode or a second imaging mode An information processing apparatus recognizes the user on the basis of the first image signal,...