US Patent Issued to NEC on May 26 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,984, issued on May 26, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Yoshinori Koda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes: an acquisition unit that performs an acquisition operation of acquiring a surface image including fingerprints of a target person; a first estimation unit that performs a first estimation operation of estimating a pattern of the fingerprints from the acquired surface image; and an estimation control unit that controls the acquisition unit and the first estimation unit to repeat the acquisition ope...