Patent ID: 11948398
Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. A face recognition system comprising:
a memory configured to store instructions;
a processor configured to execute the instructions to:
detect a plurality of faces from a plurality of images captured by a camera, each of the plurality of faces corresponding to a different person;
acquire, from a database, a plurality of registered images that are stored in the database;
identify, from the plurality of images, the image in which the detected face is closest to a gate, as a face image to be used for matching; and
compare the plurality of the registered face images with the identified face image to identify the registered face image that the identified face image matches,
wherein the identified face image is captured before an authentication subject having the face in the identified face image arrives at a gate.