US 11,238,144 B2Granted

User selection assistance apparatus, image forming apparatus, user selection assistance method, and storage medium storing user selection assistance program

AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorMasaki Tawada

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Abstract

A user selection assistance apparatus includes: a registration unit that registers information of a plurality of users, which includes biometric features of the respective users, in advance and creates a list; a biometric detection unit that newly detects a current biometric feature of one user; a determination unit that compares the biometric feature that is detected to the biometric features that are registered, and determines a degree of similarity therebetween; a user choosing unit that chooses, from the list, one or more registered users having a biometric feature the degree of similarity of which satisfies a predetermined reference and creates a chosen user list; a display unit that displays the chosen user list; an input unit that receives selection of a specific registered user from the chosen user list; and an execution processing unit that executes predetermined processing when the input unit receives the selection of the specific registered user.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A user selection assistance apparatus comprising:

a processor,
a memory, and
a display,
wherein the memory stores instructions that cause the processor to:
register information of a plurality of users, which includes biometric features of the respective users, in advance and create a list;
newly detect a current biometric feature of one user;
compare the biometric feature that is detected to the biometric features that are registered, and determine a degree of similarity between the biometric feature that is detected and the biometric features that are registered;
choose, from the list, one or more registered users having a biometric feature the degree of similarity of which satisfies a predetermined reference and create a chosen user list;
control the display to display the chosen user list;
receive an input of selection of a specific registered user from the chosen user list;
execute predetermined processing when the input of the selection of the specific registered user is received;
add second biometric features of the plurality of users to the list;
detect a current second biometric feature of the one user when an input of selection of one registered user from the chosen user list is received;
compare the second biometric feature that is detected to the second biometric features that are registered and determine a degree of similarity between the second biometric feature that is detected and the second biometric features that are registered;
and
execute predetermined processing when the degree of similarity satisfies a predetermined authentication reference,
wherein
the memory stores instructions that cause the processor to calculate a recognition rate of each of the registered users;
and
control the display to rearrange the chosen user list in descending order of the recognition rate and perform display.

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Facts

Application: 16/523,661Filed 26 Jul 2019
Priority: JP JP2018-14153527 Jul 2018
Published: US 2020/0034523 A130 Jan 2020
Granted: 1 Feb 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

G06F 21/32
User authentication: using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
G06F 21/35
Involving the use of external additional devices, e.g. dongles or smart cards: communicating wirelessly
G06V 40/50
Recognition of biometric, human-related or animal-related patterns in image or video data: maintenance of biometric data or enrolment thereof
G06V 40/70
Recognition of biometric, human-related or animal-related patterns in image or video data: multimodal biometrics, e.g. combining information from…