ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,127, issued on April 21, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Authentication device, processing method, and program" was invented by Koyo Shibata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Degree-of-importance information indicating a degree of a possibility that an authentication target person approaches is acquired for each imaging direction of a plurality of imaging devices. An imaging device with an imaging direction corresponding to a direction for which the degree of the possibility that the person approaches is high is identified based on the degree-of-importance information, as an imaging device with a high degree of importance. F...