Apparatus and method for electronic payment with strengthened authentification capability and vending machine equiped with the same apparatus
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1. An electronic payment apparatus, comprising:
- a card reader section which reads personal information, the first body identification codes, and payment amount information from a card type storage medium;
a scan section which scans one particular part of a body and outputs the body identification data;
a personal authentication section which computes the second body identification codes from the body identification data of said scan section and processes the personal authentication by comparing between the first body identification codes from said card reader section and said second body identification codes;
a authentication processing section that includes a restricted authentication section which determines whether or not a user is eligible for a restricted transaction from the personal information obtained from said card reader section;
a payment processing section which receives the payment request from outside, executes payment process based on the payment amount information read from said card reader section and the authentication result from said authentication processing section, stores the result in a payment database, and controls said card reader section to renew the payment amount data in the card type storage medium; and
a display section which displays the payment result information.
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Abstract
The object of the invention is to provide an apparatus for electronic payment with strengthened authentication capability that is even capable of selectively selling restricted sales commodities. Another object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for electronic payment that is capable of a high speed processing of personal authentication and transaction information.
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1. An electronic payment apparatus, comprising:
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a card reader section which reads personal information, the first body identification codes, and payment amount information from a card type storage medium;
a scan section which scans one particular part of a body and outputs the body identification data;
a personal authentication section which computes the second body identification codes from the body identification data of said scan section and processes the personal authentication by comparing between the first body identification codes from said card reader section and said second body identification codes;
a authentication processing section that includes a restricted authentication section which determines whether or not a user is eligible for a restricted transaction from the personal information obtained from said card reader section;
a payment processing section which receives the payment request from outside, executes payment process based on the payment amount information read from said card reader section and the authentication result from said authentication processing section, stores the result in a payment database, and controls said card reader section to renew the payment amount data in the card type storage medium; and
a display section which displays the payment result information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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8. An electronic payment method, comprising the steps of:
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reading personal information, the first body identification codes, and balance information from a card type storage medium;
scanning one particular part of a user'"'"'s body;
calculating the second body identification codes by processing the scanned data;
personally authenticating by comparing between the first body identification codes and the second body identification codes and determining whether or not the user is eligible for a restricted transaction from said personal information;
executing the payment process based on said balance information by receiving the payment request information from outside when successful in authenticating, and storing the result in a payment database, and renewing the payment amount in a card type storage medium; and
displaying the transaction result. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17)
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