ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,536, issued on May 12, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Liveness detection apparatus, control method, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Takamichi Miyamoto (Tokyo) and Koichi Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liveness detection apparatus (2000) causes a display apparatus (20) to display a plurality of screens (30). At least one of the plurality of screens (30) has a plurality of regions (32). At least two of the plurality of regions (32) include different indications. The liveness detection apparatus (2000) acquires a plurality of captured images (40). The captured image (40) is generated by capturing an ...