Iris image pickup apparatus and iris authentication apparatus
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsTomoyoshi Nakaigawa, Ken Ikoma
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Abstract
The iris image pickup apparatus includes a recess sinking in the direction of a sight line of a person to be authenticated, the recess provided on an outer panel covering the image pickup unit for picking up the iris image of a person, indicators arranged at the bottom of the recess, external indicators arranged on the periphery of the recess, and a controller for performing lighting control of the indicator as well as keeping the external indicators off in a period where the image pickup timing of the image pickup unit is overlapped. Since the external indicators are kept off during picking up the image, the sight line of a person to be authenticated does not move to the external indicators thus picking up an iris image without blurs.
Claims7
An iris image pickup apparatus comprising:
- an image pickup unit for picking up the iris image of a person;
- an indicator unit provided substantially above said image pickup unit, wherein the indicator unit is configured to guide the person to an appropriate standing position and to indicate the progress of authentication of the person, and wherein the indicator unit comprises a plurality of LED groups respectively arranged radially;
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- a controller for controlling the indicator unit.
An iris image pickup apparatus comprising:
- an image pickup unit for picking up the iris image of a person;
- an indicator unit provided substantially above said image pickup unit, wherein the indicator unit is configured to guide the person to an appropriate standing position and to indicate the progress of authentication of the person;
- a recess portion provided substantially above said image pick up unit, wherein said indicator unit is arranged at a bottom of said recess portion sinking in the direction of the line of sight of the person to be authenticated;
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- a controller for controlling the indicator unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.