US Patent Issued to NEC on June 16 for "Gate system, gate apparatus, control method therefor, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,976, issued on June 16, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Gate system, gate apparatus, control method therefor, and program" was invented by Kazuhito Murata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gate apparatus (10) includes an imaging unit (102) that images a person passing through a passage leading to a gate, an acquisition unit (104) that acquires a detection result from a detection unit which is provided on a floor of the passage, and a control unit (106) that controls, by using the detection result acquired by the acquisition unit (104), imaging timing of an imaging unit (102)."

The patent was filed on July 23, 2024, under A...