US 2006/0133652 A1Published application

Authentication apparatus and authentication method

AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.

InventorTaiji Iwasaki

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Abstract

An authentication apparatus and authentication method in which ID information and a registered facial characteristic amount of the principal and of an associated individual associated with the principal in advance are read out by the card reader. The principal and associated individual accompanying the principal are imaged by the imaging section, and a characteristic amount of each of them is calculated by a characteristic amount generating section based on the image data obtained. The registered and obtained characteristic amounts of each of them are compared by the characteristic amount matching level calculating section to calculate respective matching levels. The principal is initially authenticated by the authenticating section by comparing the matching level with a threshold level. If it is unsuccessful, the associated individual is authenticated in the similar way, and if it is successful, the principal is determined to be successfully authenticated.

Claims4

Dependent claims

An authentication apparatus, comprising:

an information readout means for reading out personal information of a primary authenticatee including at least ID information thereof recorded on an authentication card;
a registered biometric information storing means for storing registered biometric information of the primary authenticatee and of a secondary authenticatee associated with the primary authenticatee in advance, with the registered biometric information of the primary authenticatee and of the secondary authenticatee being linked to the ID information of the primary authenticatee;
a registered biometric information readout means for reading out the registered biometric information of the primary authenticatee and of the secondary authenticatee from registered biometric information storing means based on the personal information read out by the information readout means;
a biometric information obtaining means for obtaining biometric information of the primary authenticatee and of the secondary authenticatee;
and
an authenticating means for performing an authentication process comprising the steps of:
matching the registered and obtained biometric information of the primary authenticatee with each other to initially authenticate the primary authenticatee;
matching the registered and obtained biometric information of the secondary authenticatee with each other to further authenticate the secondary authenticatee if the authentication of the primary authenticatee is unsuccessful;
and
determining that the primary authenticatee is successfully authenticated if the authentication of the secondary authenticatee is successful.

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An authentication method, comprising:

a registered biometric information storing step for storing registered biometric information of a primary authenticatee and of a secondary authenticatee associated with the primary authenticatee in advance, with the registered biometric information of the primary authenticatee and of the secondary authenticatee being linked to the ID information of the primary authenticatee;
an information readout step for reading out personal information of the primary authenticatee including at least ID information thereof recorded on an authentication card;
a registered biometric information readout step for reading out the registered biometric information of the primary authenticatee and of the secondary authenticatee stored by the biometric information storing step based on the personal information read out by the information readout step;
a biometric information obtaining step for obtaining biometric information of the primary authenticatee and of the secondary authenticatee;
and
an authenticating step for performing an authentication process comprising the steps of:
matching the registered and obtained biometric information of the primary authenticatee with each other to initially authenticate the primary authenticatee;
matching the registered and obtained biometric information of the secondary authenticatee with each other to further authenticate the secondary authenticatee if the authentication of the primary authenticatee is unsuccessful;
and
determining that the primary authenticatee is successfully authenticated if the authentication of the secondary authenticatee is successful.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/311,382Filed 20 Dec 2005
Priority: JP 367546/200420 Dec 2004
Published: 22 Jun 2006
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Classification7 codes

G06V 40/10
Recognition of biometric, human-related or animal-related patterns in image or video data: human or animal bodies, e.g. vehicle occupants or…
G06F 21/32
User authentication: using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
G06F 21/34
User authentication: involving the use of external additional devices, e.g. dongles or smart cards
G07C 9/257
Using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition: electronically