Content data processing system, electronic device apparatus, and server device

• US 20030179914A1
• Filed: 03/19/2003
• Published: 09/25/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ntt Electronics Corporation (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Ntt Electronics Corporation (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Tokunaga, Keiichiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,215,799 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/125
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/94 Hardware or software architectures specially adapted for image or video understanding
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/12 Fingerprints or palmprints
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99944 Object-oriented database structure

Abstract

An electronic device apparatus includes: a generating unit for acquiring an authentication image containing an image of a fingerprint of an owner of the electronic device apparatus and/or an image of a possession of the owner, and for generating first authentication image data based on the given acquired authentication image; a write unit for writing the first authentication image data, to a recording medium which the owner has purchased; a read unit for reading given authentication image data from a recording medium to which the given authentication image data and given content data are written; a determination unit for comparing the given authentication image data with the first authentication image data, and for determining whether or not they match with each other; and a processing unit for processing the given content data based on a determination result by the determination unit.

Claims

1. A content data processing system in which an electronic device apparatus reads content data containing at least any one of a program, character data, sound data, video data and image data and performs a process relating to the content data, the content data being transmitted from a server device through a public network, the content data processing system comprising:

a first authentication image data generator for acquiring an authentication image containing an image of a fingerprint of an owner of the electronic device apparatus and/or an image of a possession of the owner, and for generating first authentication image data based on the acquired authentication image;

a first unit configured to store the first authentication image data;

a second authentication image data generator for acquiring an authentication image containing an image of a fingerprint of a purchaser who purchases the content data and/or an image of a possession of the purchaser, and for generating second authentication image data based on the acquired authentication image;

an authentication image-added content generator for generating authentication image-added content based on the second authentication image data and the content data;

a determiner for comparing the second authentication image data contained in the authentication image-added content with the first authentication image data stored in the first unit, and for determining whether or not the second authentication image data matches the first authentication image data; and

a processor for processing the content data contained in the authentication image-added content based on a determination result by the determiner.

2. The content data processing system according to claim 1,

wherein the server device comprises:

a receiver for receiving a request for the content data, the request being transmitted from the electronic device apparatus; and

a transmitter for transmitting the content data to the electronic device apparatus based on the request, and

wherein the electronic device apparatus comprises the authentication image-added content generator, and

the authentication image-added content generator generates the authentication image-added content based on the content data and the second authentication image data generated by the second authentication image data generator.

3. An electronic device apparatus for reading content data from a recording medium to which content data containing at least any one of a program, character data, sound data, video data and image data is written, and for processing the content data, the electronic device apparatus comprising:

an authentication image data generator for acquiring an authentication image containing an image of a fingerprint of an owner of the electronic device apparatus and/or an image of a possession of the owner, and for generating first authentication image data based on the acquired authentication image;

a first unit configured to store the first authentication image data;

a writer for writing the first authentication image data, which is stored in the first unit, to the recording medium which the owner has purchased;

a reader for reading given authentication image data from a recording medium to which the given authentication image data and given content data are written;

a determiner for comparing the given authentication image data with the first authentication image data stored in the first unit, and for determining whether or not the given authentication image data matches the first authentication image data; and

a processor for processing the given content data based on a determination result by the determiner.

4. The electronic device apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

an outputter for outputting an input request for an authentication image in the case where the determiner has determined that the given authentication image data does not match the first authentication image data stored in the first unit,

wherein the authentication image data generator acquires the authentication image inputted based on an output result by the outputter, and generates second authentication image data based on the acquired authentication image,

the determiner compares the given authentication image data with the second authentication image data generated by the authentication image data generator, and determines whether or not the given authentication image data matches the second authentication image data, and

the processor processes the given content data based on a determination result by the determiner.

5. The electronic device apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising:

a second unit configured to store the given authentication image data and the given content data,

wherein the determiner compares the given authentication image data stored in the second unit with the first authentication image data stored in the first unit and/or the second authentication image data, and determines whether or not the given authentication image data matches the first authentication image data or the second authentication image data, and

the processor processes the given content data based on a determination result by the determiner.

6. The electronic device apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

a secured authentication image data generator for executing a security process including at least any one of an encryption process, a randomized process, and a feature process for the first authentication image data generated by the authentication image data generator, thus generating first secured authentication image data,

wherein the first unit stores the first secured authentication image data,

the writer writes the first secured authentication image data to the recording medium, which is purchased by the owner and to which content data is written,

the reader reads given secured authentication image data from the recording medium to which the given secured authentication image data and given content data are written,

the determiner compares the given secured authentication image data with the first secured authentication image data stored in the first unit, and determines whether or not the given secured authentication image data matches the first secured authentication image data, and

the processor processes the given content data based on a determination result by the determiner.

7. An electronic device apparatus for reading content data from a recording medium to which content data containing at least any one of a program, character data, sound data, video data and image data is written, and for processing the content data, the electronic device apparatus comprising:

an authentication image data generator for acquiring an authentication image containing an image of a fingerprint of an owner of the electronic device apparatus and/or an image of a possession of the owner, and for generating first authentication image data based on the acquired authentication image;

a writer for writing the first authentication image data, which is generated by the authentication image data generator, to the recording medium which the owner has purchased;

a reader for reading given authentication image data from the recording medium to which the given authentication image data and given content data are written;

an outputter for outputting an input request for an authentication image;

a determiner for comparing the given authentication image data with second authentication image data, and for determining whether or not the given authentication image data matches the second authentication image data, in the case where the authentication image data generator has acquired the authentication image inputted based on an output result by the outputter and has generated the second authentication image data based on the acquired authentication image; and

a processor for processing the given content data based on a determination result by the determiner.

8. An electronic device apparatus for reading content data containing at least any one of a program, character data, sound data, video data and image data and performs a process relating to the content data, the content data being transmitted from a server device through a public network, the electronic device apparatus comprising:

a first authentication image data generator for acquiring an authentication image containing an image of a fingerprint of an owner of the electronic device apparatus and/or an image of a possession of the owner, and for generating first authentication image data based on the acquired authentication image;

a first unit configured to store the first authentication image data;

a second authentication image data generator for acquiring an authentication image containing an image of a fingerprint of a purchaser who purchases the content data and/or an image of a possession of the purchaser and for generating second authentication image data based on the acquired authentication image;

a determiner for comparing the second authentication image data contained in an authentication image-added content, which is generated based on the second authentication image data and the content data, with the first authentication image data stored in the first unit, and for determining whether or not the second authentication image data matches the first authentication image data, and

a processor for processing the content data contained in the authentication image-added content based on a determination result by the determiner.

9. The electronic device apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

an authentication image-added content generator for generating an authentication image-added content based on the content data transmitted from the server device and the second authentication image data generated by the second authentication image data generator,

wherein the determiner compares the second authentication image data contained in the authentication image-added content with the first authentication image data stored in the first unit, and determines whether or not the second authentication image data matches the first authentication image data, and

the processor processes the content data contained in the authentication image-added content based on a determination result by the determiner.

10. The electronic device apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

an outputter for outputting an input request for an authentication image in the case where the determiner has determined that the second authentication image data contained in the authentication image-added content does not match the first authentication image data stored in the first storage,

wherein the second authentication image data generator generates, in the case that an authentication image is inputted based on an output result by the outputter, third authentication image data based on the inputted authentication image,

the determiner compares the third authentication image data with the second authentication image data contained in the authentication image-added content, and determines whether or not the third authentication image data matches the second authentication image data, and

the processor processes the content data contained in the authentication image-added content based on a determination result by the determiner.

11. The electronic device apparatus according to claim 10, further comprising:

a second unit configured to store the authentication image-added content,

wherein the determiner compares the second authentication image data, which is contained in the authentication image-added content stored in the second unit, with the first authentication image data stored in the first storage and/or the third authentication image data, and determines whether or not the second authentication image data matches the first authentication image data or the third authentication image data, and

the processor processes the content data, which is contained in the authentication image-added content stored in the second unit, based on a determination result by the determiner.

12. A server device for transmitting content data containing at least any one of a program, character data, sound data, video data and image data, to an electronic device apparatus through a public network, the server device comprising:

a receiver for receiving second authentication image data and a request for the content data from the electronic device apparatus, the second authentication image data being generated based on an authentication image containing an image of a fingerprint of a purchaser who purchases the content data and/or an image of a possession of the purchaser;

an authentication image-added content generator for generating authentication image-added content, based on the content data corresponding to the request and the second authentication image data; and

a transmitter for transmitting the generated authentication image-added content to the electronic device apparatus.