US 7,398,555 B2Granted

Electronic apparatus and medium

AssigneeFujitsu Limited

InventorsHaruhisa Sakuma, Naoki Iwasa, Makoto Kawasaki, Yoshihisa Harada

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Abstract

Recording peripheral image information by an electronic apparatus only when illegal use of the apparatus is determined to minimize resources and simplifying recording. The electronic apparatus includes a first memory storing a parameter representing at least one condition for the illegal use of the apparatus and a control unit for storing in a second memory image information by a photographing device that photographed a user of the apparatus after the conditions are satisfied. The control unit controls the output of the image information stored in the second memory through an output direction and directs a BIOS setup program to read out the parameter in the first memory and record the image information into the second memory and directs an operating system or an application program running on the apparatus to set and alter the parameter in the first memory via an interface in the BIOS program.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An electronic apparatus having a display, comprising:

a photographic device acquiring image information of a user that operated the electronic apparatus;
a first memory, provided within said electronic apparatus, storing therein parameters which are set by a user authorized to access said electronic apparatus and representing conditions at which said image information is to be acquired, wherein said conditions include when a power supply for said electronic apparatus is turned ON, when a BIOS setup program installed in said electronic apparatus is activated, when said electronic apparatus is resumed, and when an illegal password is entered in said electronic apparatus, wherein an image information acquiring format and writing mode are selected, set and stored in said first memory;
a second memory, provided within said electronic apparatus, storing image information acquired by said photographing device;
a control unit reading out said parameters from said first memory when a user operates said electronic apparatus, directing acquisition of image information by said photographic device when one or more of said conditions represented by the read parameters are established, and storing, in said second memory, the acquired image information;
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an input unit for designating to display said image information stored in said second memory, by said authorized user, wherein said control unit causes the acquired image information to be read out from said second memory and then displayed on said display in accordance with the received input.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/771,689Filed 30 Jan 2001
Priority: JP 2000-25776228 Aug 2000
Published: US 2002/0026593 A128 Feb 2002
Granted: 8 Jul 2008
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06F 21/554
Detecting local intrusion or implementing counter-measures: involving event detection and direct action
G06F 21/31
Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals: user authentication
G07C 9/33
In combination with an identity check: by means of a password
G06F 2221/2101
Indexing scheme relating to G06F21/00 and subgroups addressing additional information or applications relating to security arrangements for…:…