ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,761, issued on July 15, was assigned to Wicket LLC (Las Vegas).
"System and method for access control using liveness detection" was invented by Yann Henon (Somerville, Mass.), Gennady Livitz (Belmont, Mass.) and Samson Timoner (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides, in some aspects, a method of access control that includes receiving one or more frames ("depth frames") of a depth image stream acquired by a depth camera and, for each of those depth frames, generating one or more scores of the liveness of the image and/or of a candidate individual therein. The method includes creating a point cloud from ...