US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Sept. 15 for "Entry system and entry control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,935, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Entry system and entry control method" was invented by Mitsunori Nishino (Tokyo), Tomoya Okuda (Tokyo) and Seonghun Lee (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entry system includes: an acquisition unit configured to repeatedly acquire a face image of a target person approaching a moving body from a camera; an authentication unit configured to authenticate that the target person is a registered user based on the face image; a control unit configured to automatically open a door of the moving body when the authentication unit succeeds in authentication, the auth...