US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 27 for "Store management system, store management method, computer program and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,833, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Store management system, store management method, computer program and recording medium" was invented by Mitsunori Morisaki (Tokyo), Gen Shimizu (Tokyo) and Masamichi Tanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A store management system includes: an acquisition unit that obtains a face image of a customer from an imaging apparatus that captures the face image of the customer at a timing at which the customer intends at least one of to enter a store, to make payment, and to leave the store; a notification unit that notifies the customer that the face image is to be obtained ...