Apparatus, method, and program for personal identification
First Claim
1. An apparatus for personal identification comprising:
- a storage unit for storing an image of a blood vessel pattern of a certain person as a registered image;
an image pickup section for picking up an image of a blood vessel pattern of a human body; and
an identification section for computing a degree of similarity according to a data difference between the image of the blood vessel pattern picked up by the image pickup section and the registered image to carry out identification according to the relationship between the degree of similarity and a predetermined threshold.
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Abstract
An apparatus and a method for personal identification include an image pickup section for picking up an image of a blood vessel pattern of a wrist, a storage unit for storing, in advance, an image of a blood vessel pattern of a certain person as a registered image, and a control section (CPU) for computation of degrees of similarity according to data differences between the image of the blood vessel pattern picked up by the image pickup section and the registered image to determine identification according to the relationship between the computed degrees of similarity and a threshold, thereby eliminating the need to carry out processing by a characteristic extraction section or the like.
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10 Claims
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1. An apparatus for personal identification comprising:
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a storage unit for storing an image of a blood vessel pattern of a certain person as a registered image;
an image pickup section for picking up an image of a blood vessel pattern of a human body; and
an identification section for computing a degree of similarity according to a data difference between the image of the blood vessel pattern picked up by the image pickup section and the registered image to carry out identification according to the relationship between the degree of similarity and a predetermined threshold. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method for personal identification comprising the steps of:
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storing, in advance, as a registered image, an image formed by extracting spatial frequency components within a predetermined range from an image of a blood vessel pattern of a certain person;
picking up an image of a blood vessel pattern of a person to be identified; and
forming an identification image by extracting spatial frequency components within the predetermined range from the picked up image of the blood vessel pattern to determine whether the person to be identified and the certain person are the same, according to a degree of similarity between the identification image and the registered image. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7)
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8. A program for enabling a computer to determine the identity between two images representing a physical characteristic of a human body,
wherein the program operates the computer so that the program functions as a first means for computing a degree of similarity between the two images according to a sum of data differences between corresponding pixels composing the two images, and as a second means for determination of the identity between the two images by comparing the degree of similarity with a predetermined threshold.
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