US Patent Issued to NEC on May 19 for "Authentication system, authentication method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,529, issued on May 19, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Authentication system, authentication method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Masataka Satoh (Tokyo), Hideki Irisawa (Tokyo), Takayuki Kase (Tokyo) and Naoki Tokunaga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication system includes: an imaging unit that is configure to switch between normal imaging and blur imaging that is imaging in a state of blurring with lower sharpness than that in the normal imaging; a target detection unit that detects an authentication target on the basis of a blurred image acquired by the blur imaging; a switching unit that...