Admittance management system and admittance management method

• US 20070046426A1
• Filed: 08/25/2006
• Published: 03/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Ishibashi, Yuuichiro
• Application Number:
  US11/509,743
• Publication Number:
  US 20070046426A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.520
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/00 Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points handling coins or valuable papers, e.g. banknotes, G07D; apparatus for vending or hiring articles or services activated by coins, credit cards, paper currency or the like G07F7/00, G07F17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/257 electronically G07C9/26 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/27 with central registration

Abstract

In an admittance management system, an admission ticket to a security area is issued, biometric information of a person who has performed an issuing procedure of the admission ticket is acquired as first biometric information, biometric information of a person who has approached a gate provided at an entrance to the security area is acquired as second biometric information, a judgment is made upon whether the biometric information of the person who has approached the gate and the biometric information of the person who has performed the issuing procedure of the admission ticket do not correspond to the same person, and the person is allowed to pass through the gate when it is determined that the biometric information of the person who has approached the gate and the biometric information of the person who has performed the issuing procedure of the admission ticket correspond to the same person.

Claims

1. An admittance management system comprising:

a ticketing section which issues an admission ticket to a security area;

a first biometric information acquiring section which acquires biometric information of a person who has performed a ticketing procedure of the admission ticket through the ticketing section;

a second biometric information acquiring section which acquires biometric information of a person who has approached a gate provided at an entrance to the security area;

a judging section which judges whether the biometric information acquired by the second biometric information acquiring section and the biometric information acquired by the first biometric information acquiring section correspond to the same person; and

a gate control section which allows the person to pass through the gate, when the judging section determines that the biometric information acquired by the second biometric information acquiring section and the biometric information acquired by the first biometric information acquiring section correspond to the same person.

2. The admittance management system according to claim 1, further comprising a membership registering section which performs a registration procedure as a member,

wherein the first biometric information acquiring section acquires biometric information of a person who has performed the registration procedure by the membership registering section.

3. The admittance management system according to claim 1, further comprising an notifying section which gives notification of a warning, when the judging section determines that the biometric information acquired by the second biometric information acquiring section and the biometric information acquired by the first biometric information acquiring section do not correspond to the same person.

4. The admittance management system according to claim 1, wherein the gate control section further prevents the person from passing through the gate, when the judging section determines that the biometric information acquired by the second biometric information acquiring section and the biometric information acquired by the first biometric information acquiring section do not correspond to the same person.

5. The admittance management system according to claim 1, wherein the judging section calculates a degree of similarity of the biometric information acquired by the second biometric information acquiring section and the biometric information acquired by the first biometric information acquiring section, determines that the pair of biometric information corresponds to the same person when the calculated degree of similarity is larger than a preset threshold value, and determines that the pair of biometric information does not correspond to the same person when the calculated degree of similarity is smaller than a preset value.

6. The admittance management system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a list in which biometric information of a specific person is registered in advance;

matching section which collates the biometric information registered in the list with biometric information acquired by the first biometric information acquiring section or the second biometric information acquiring section; and

matching result outputting section which outputs a matching result of the matching section.

7. The admittance management system according to claim 1, wherein the biometric information of the person is a facial image of the person.

8. An admittance management system comprising:

a ticketing section which issues an admission ticket to a security area;

a first biometric information acquiring section which acquires biometric information of a person who has performed a ticketing procedure of the admission ticket by the ticketing section;

a second biometric information acquiring section which acquires biometric information of a person existing at a predetermined position in the security area;

a judging section which judges whether the biometric information acquired by the second biometric information acquiring section and the biometric information acquired by the first biometric information acquiring section correspond to the same person; and

a notifying section which notifies that the person existing at the predetermined position in the security area is not the person whose biometric information has been acquired by the first biometric information acquiring section, when the judging section determines that the biometric information acquired by the second biometric information acquiring section and the biometric information acquired by the first biometric information acquiring section do not correspond to the same person.

9. The admittance management system according to claim 8, further comprising a membership registering section which performs a registration procedure as a member,

wherein the first biometric information acquiring section acquires biometric information of a person who has performed the registration procedure by the membership registering section.

10. The admittance management system according to claim 8, wherein the second biometric information acquiring section acquires a facial image of a person sitting in a seat specified by the admission ticket issued by the ticketing section, and

the notifying section notifies that a person sitting in a seat in the security area is not the person specified by the admission ticket issued by the ticketing section, when the judging section determines that the biometric information acquired by the second biometric information acquiring section and the biometric information acquired by the first biometric information acquiring section do not correspond to the same person.

11. The admittance management system according to claim 8, wherein the judging section calculates a degree of similarity of the biometric information acquired by the second biometric information acquiring section and the biometric information acquired by the first biometric information acquiring section, determines that the pair of biometric information corresponds to the same person when the calculated degree of similarity is larger than a preset threshold value, and determines that the pair of biometric information does not correspond to the same person when the calculated degree of similarity is smaller than the preset threshold value.

12. The admittance management system according to claim 8, further comprising:

a list in which biometric information of a specific person is registered in advance;

a matching section which collates the biometric information registered in the list with the biometric information acquired by the first biometric information acquiring section or the second biometric information acquiring section; and

a matching result outputting section which outputs a matching result of the matching section.

13. The admittance management system according to claim 8, wherein the biometric information of the person is a facial image of the person.

14. An admittance management method which manages admittance to a security area, comprising:

issuing an admission ticket to the security area;

acquiring biometric information of a person who has performed an issuing procedure of the admission ticket as first biometric information;

acquiring biometric information of a person who has approached a gate provided at an entrance to the security area as second biometric information;

judging whether the biometric information of the person who has approached the gate and the biometric information of the person who has performed the issuing procedure of the admission ticket correspond to the same person; and

allowing the person to pass through the gate when it is determined that the biometric information of the person who has approached the gate and the biometric information of the person who has performed the issuing procedure of the admission ticket correspond to the same person.

15. The admittance management method according to claim 14, further comprising performing a registration procedure as a member,

wherein acquiring the first biometric information acquires biometric information of a person who has performed the registration procedure as a member.

16. The admittance management method according to claim 14, further comprising preventing the person from passing through the gate when the judgment determines that the biometric information of the person who has approached the gate and the biometric information of the person who has performed the issuing procedure of the admission ticket do not correspond to the same person.

17. An admittance management method which manages admittance to a security area, comprising:

issuing an admission ticket to the security area;

acquiring biometric information of a person who has performed an issuing procedure of the admission ticket as first biometric information;

acquiring biometric information of a person existing at a predetermined position in the security area as second biometric information;

judging whether the biometric information of the person existing at the predetermined position in the security area and the biometric information of the person who has performed the issuing procedure of the admission ticket correspond to the same person; and

notifying that the person existing at the predetermined position in the security area is not the person who has performed the issuing procedure of the admission ticket when the judgment determines that the biometric information of the person existing at the predetermined position in the security area and the biometric information of the person who has performed the issuing procedure of the admission ticket do not correspond to the same person.

18. The admittance management method according to claim 17, further comprising performing a registration procedure as a member,

wherein acquiring the first biometric information acquires biometric information of a person who has performed the registration procedure as a member.

19. The admittance management method according to claim 17, wherein acquiring the second biometric information acquires a facial image of a person sitting in a seat specified by the admission ticket, and

notifying notifies that the person sitting in a seat in the security area specified by the admission ticket is not the person who has performed the issuing procedure of the admission ticket when the judgment determines that biometric information of the person sitting in the seat in the security area specified by the admission ticket and the biometric information of the person who has performed the issuing procedure of the admission ticket do not correspond to the same person.