US Patent Issued to NEC on Nov. 3 for "Face authentication apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,496, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Face authentication apparatus" was invented by Taketo Kochi (Tokyo) and Kenji Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A face authentication apparatus includes a face image acquisition unit that acquires, as a first face image, a face image of a user who moves from a first area to a second area via a gate provided between the first area and the second area, a collation unit that performs face authentication, a flow rate measurement unit that measures a flow rate of users who move from the first area to the second area via the gate and a flow rate of users who move from the ...