Information terminal, and method and program for restricting executable processing

A method for restricting executable processing carried out in an information terminal having an image pickup portion arranged in a position where an operator is included in an image pickup range and outputting image data obtained by picking up an image, the method comprising the steps of:

• accepting an operation by an operator;
• in response, to said accepted operation, executing processing corresponding to said operation;
• requesting an input of identification information;
• performing authentication of the identification information input in response to said request;
• in the case where an input of identification information is requested in said identification information requesting step, activating said image pickup portion to acquire image data;
• storing the acquired image data;
• extracting an area including an image recognized as a person from said acquired image data;
• enabling execution of processing other than deleting said image data by said processing executing step in the case where a first condition that authentication in said authentication step succeeds and a second condition that said area including an image recognized as a person is extracted from said image data in said area extracting step are both satisfied;
• deleting said image data when the authentication succeeded, and preventing deletion of said image data when the authentication fails;
• and
• transmitting image data to a predetermined destination when the authentication failed.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions thereon for, when executed by a processor, restricting executable processing carried out

• in an information terminal having an image pickup portion arranged in a position where an operator is included in an image pickup range and outputting image data obtained by picking up an image, the instructions causing the information terminal to execute processing comprising the steps of:
• accepting an operation by an operator;
• in response to said accepted operation, executing processing corresponding to said operation;
• requesting an input of identification information;
• performing authentication of the identification information input in response to said request;
• in the case where an input of identification information is requested in said identification information requesting step, activating said image pickup portion to acquire image data;
• storing the acquired image data;
• extracting an area including an image recognized as a person from said acquired image data;
• enabling execution of processing other than deleting said image data by said processing executing step in the case where a first condition that authentication in said authentication step succeeds and a second condition that said area including an image recognized as a person is extracted from said image data in said area extracting step are both satisfied;
• deleting said image data when the authentication succeeded, and preventing deletion of said image data when the authentication fails;
• and
• transmit said image data to a predetermined destination when the authentication failed.

An information terminal, comprising:

• an accepting portion to accept an operation by an operator;
• a processing execution portion to execute processing corresponding to said operation in response to said operation accepted by said accepting portion;
• an authentication portion to perform authentication of identification information input by the operator;
• an image pickup portion arranged in a position where the operator is included in an image pickup range and to output image data obtained by picking up an image;
• an image data acquiring portion to activate said image pickup portion to acquire the image data when said accepting portion accepts the operation by the operator;
• an image data storage portion to store the image data acquired by said image data acquiring portion;
• an area extracting portion to extract an area including an image recognized as a person from said acquired image data;
• an enabling portion to enable execution of processing other than deleting said image data by said processing execution portion in the case where authentication by said authentication portion succeeds and an area including an image recognized as a person is extracted from said image data by said area extracting portion;
• a deleting portion to delete said image data from said image data storage portion when the authentication by said authentication portion succeeded, and to prevent deleting when the authentication by said authentication portion fails;
• and
• an image data transmitting portion to transmit said image data to a predetermined destination when the authentication by said authentication portion failed.