Information processing device, authentication system, authentication method, and program

• US 10,114,936 B2
• Filed: 07/30/2014
• Issued: 10/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd (NEC Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation, NEC Solution Innovators, Ltd (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Moriya, Atsushi, Umeda, Kazuhide
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhao, Don G
• Application Number:
  US14/908,192
• Publication Number:
  US 20160188858A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,553 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/316 by observing the pattern of computer usage, e.g. typical user behaviour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2111 Location-sensitive, e.g. geographical location, GPS
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/70 Multimodal biometrics, e.g. combining information from different biometric modalities

Abstract

An information processing device includes a first acquisition unit that acquires first biological data, a collation unit that refers to a collation data storage unit that stores a plurality of pieces of second biological data, and collates the first biological data with each piece of the second biological data, a second acquisition unit that acquires attribute information for each piece of the second biological data from an attribute information storage unit that stores attribute information associated with each piece of the second biological data, and a specification unit that compares the attribute information acquired together with the first biological data with the attribute information associated with each piece of the second biological data, and specifies at least one of the pieces of second biological data corresponding to the first biological data, on the basis of a result of the comparison and a result of the collation.

Claims

1. An information processing device including:

a non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium storing code; and

a processor executing the code to

acquire first biological data which is biological feature data of an object,

acquire first attribute information indicating an attribute of the first biological data,

collate the first biological data with a plurality of second biological data which is identified biological feature data stored in a storage, the storage storing second biological data,

compare the first attribute information with second attribute information stored in the storage in association with the second biological data, the second attribute information indicating an attribute of the second biological data,

specify at least one of the plurality of second biological data corresponding to the first biological data on the basis of both similarity of biological data and similarity of attributes, the similarity of attributes resulting from comparing the first attribute with the attributes of the second biological data, the similarity of biological data resulting from collating the first biological data and the second biological data, and

biometrically authenticate a user from the second biological data and the first biological data,

wherein each of the first and second attribute information includes at least one of position information and time information,

wherein the processor executes the code to further accumulate the first attribute information as new second attribute information to be associated with the second biological data in the storage,

wherein execution of the code improves efficiency in biometric authentication in a client-server context, in that the first biological data is transmitted from a client, and the second biological data is selected by a server and transmitted back to the client to perform the biometric authentication.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to specify at least one of the plurality of second biological data corresponding to the first biological data by weighting the similarity of biological data using the similarity of the attributes.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein when the plurality of second biological data corresponding to the first biological data are specified, the processor is further configured to determine priorities of the second biological data, on the basis of the similarity of biological data and the similarity of the attributes.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein a priority is set for a type of each attribute, and

the processor is further configured to specify at least one of the plurality of second biological data corresponding to the first biological data, on the basis of similarity for the type of the first attribute information and the second attribute information, the priority for the type of each attribute, and the similarity of biological data.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the storages are present in accordance with a section of an attribute, and

the processor is further configured to select at least one of the storages to be referred to during the collation, on the basis of the first attribute information.

6. The information processing device according to claim 5, the processor is further configured to move or copy the second biological data stored in one of the storages, to another storage corresponding to the second attribute information associated with the second biological data.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1, the first and second attribute information includes at least one of information on location, information on time, information on age, and information on sex.

8. An authentication system comprising:

an information processing device; and

a server,

wherein the information processing device includes a first non-transitory medium storing code and a first processor, which executes the code to

acquire first biological data which is biological feature data of an object, and

acquire first attribute information indicating an attribute of the first biological data,

transmit the first biological data and the first attribute information, and

the server includes a second non-transitory medium storing code and a second processor, which executes the code to

receive the first biological data and the first attribute information,

collate the first biological data with a plurality of second biological data which is identified biological feature data stored in a storage, the storage storing second biological data,

compare the first attribute information with second attribute information stored in the storage in association with the second biological data, the second attribute information indicating an attribute of the second biological data,

specify at least one of the plurality of second biological data corresponding to the first biological data, on the basis of both similarity of biological data and similarity of attributes, the similarity of attributes resulting from comparing the first attribute with the attributes of the second biological data, the similarity of biological data resulting from collating the first biological data and the second biological data, and

biometrically authenticate a user from the second biological data and the first biological data,

wherein each of the first and second attribute information includes at least one of position information and time information,

and wherein the first processor executes the code to further accumulate the first attribute information as new second attribute information to be associated with the second biological data in the storage,

wherein execution of the code improves efficiency in biometric authentication in a client-server context, in that the first biological data is transmitted from a client that is the information processing device, and the second biological data is selected by the server and transmitted back to the client to perform the biometric authentication.

9. The authentication system according to claim 8, the first and second attribute information includes at least one of information on location, information on time, information on age, and information on sex.

10. An authentication method comprising causing a computer executing code to:

acquire first biological data which is biological feature data of an object;

acquire first attribute information indicating an attribute of the first biological data,

collate the first biological data with a plurality of second biological data which is identified biological feature data stored in a storage, the storage storing second biological data;

compare the first attribute information with second attribute information stored in the storage in association with the second biological data, the second attribute information indicating an attribute of the second biological data,

specify at least one of the plurality of second biological data corresponding to the first biological data, on the basis of both similarity of biological data and similarity of attributes, the similarity of attributes resulting from comparing the first attribute with the attributes of the second biological data, the similarity of biological data resulting from collating the first biological data and the second biological data, and

biometrically authenticate a user from the second biological data and the first biological data,

wherein each of the first and second attribute information includes at least one of position information and time information,

and wherein the method further causes the computer to accumulate the first attribute information, as new second attribute information associated with the specified pieces of second biological data, in the storage,

wherein execution of the code improves efficiency in biometric authentication in a client-server context, in that the first biological data is transmitted from a client that is the computer, and the second biological data is selected by a server and transmitted back to the client to perform the biometric authentication.

11. The authentication method according to claim 10, further comprising causing the computer to specify at least one of the plurality of second biological data corresponding to the first biological data by weighting the similarity of biological data using the similarity of the attributes.

12. The authentication method according to claim 10, further comprising causing the computer to, when a plurality of the second biological data corresponding to the first biological data are specified, determine priorities of the specified pieces of second biological data on the basis of the similarity of biological data and the similarity of the attributes.

13. The authentication method according to claim 10, wherein a priority is set for a type of each attribute, and

the method further comprises causing the computer to specify at least one of the plurality of second biological data corresponding to the first biological data, on the basis of similarity for the type of the first attribute information and the second attribute information, the priority for the type of each attribute, and the similarity of biological data.

14. The authentication method according to claim 10, wherein a plurality of the storages are present in accordance with a section of an attribute, and

the method further comprises causing the computer to select at least one of the storages to be referred to during the collation, on the basis of the first attribute information.

15. The authentication method according to claim 14, further comprising causing the computer to move or copy the second biological data stored in one of the storages, to another storage corresponding to the second attribute information associated with the second biological data.

16. The authentication method according to claim 10, the first and second attribute information includes at least one of information on location, information on time, information on age, and information on sex.

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing code causing a computer to perform a method comprising:

acquiring first biological data which is biological feature data of an object;

acquiring first attribute information indicating an attribute of the first biological data;

collating the first biological data with a plurality of second biological data which is identified biological feature data stored in a storage, the storage storing second biological data;

comparing the first attribute information with second attribute information stored in the storage in association with the second biological data, the second attribute information indicating an attribute of the second biological data,

specifying at least one of the plurality of second biological data corresponding to the first biological data, on the basis of both similarity of biological data and similarity of attributes, the similarity of attributes resulting from comparing the first attribute with the attributes of the second biological data, the similarity of biological data resulting from collating the first biological data and the second biological data, and

biometrically authenticate a user from the second biological data and the first biological data,

wherein each of the first and second attribute information includes at least one of position information and time information,

wherein the method further comprises accumulating the first attribute information, as new second attribute information associated with the specified pieces of second biological data, in the storage,

wherein execution of the code improves efficiency in biometric authentication in a client-server context, in that the first biological data is transmitted from a client that is the computer, and the second biological data is selected by a server and transmitted back to the client to perform the biometric authentication.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, the first and second attribute information includes at least one of information on location, information on time, information on age, and information on sex.