US Patent Issued to NEC on June 23 for "Face authentication method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,848, issued on June 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Face authentication method" was invented by Hiroki Yokoyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A face authentication device 100 of the present invention includes an extraction means 121 for extracting a plurality of face images in a captured image, a determination means 122 for determining, on the basis of at least one of the face images, determining whether or not the person of the face image satisfies an exclusion condition of a face authentication process, and an authentication means 123 for excluding the face image of the person satisfying the exclusion condition, and...