Image Determination Device, Image Determination Method, and Program

• US 20080273762A1
• Filed: 02/20/2008
• Published: 11/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KATO, Yumi
• Application Number:
  US12/034,364
• Publication Number:
  US 20080273762A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/115
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/00 Pattern recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/14 Vascular patterns

Abstract

An image determination device according to the present invention includes: an extraction means for extracting a figuration pattern of an identification subject in a finger reflected on an image; a detection means for detecting a joint line in the finger; and a determination means for determining the image as an image to be registered or an image to be collated with a registration subject when a joint line exists in a first range which is set in one of respective regions obtained when separating the image with the center line that corresponds to a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the finger and that is set as the border, and a blood vessel amount which is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value exists in a second range which is set in the other region different from the region in which the first range is set.

Claims

1. An image determination device comprising:

extraction means for extracting a figuration pattern of an identification subject in a finger reflected on an image;

detection means for detecting a joint line in the finger; and

determination means for determining the image as an image to be registered or an image to be collated with a registration subject when a joint line exists in a first range which is set in one of respective regions obtained when separating the image with the center line that corresponds to a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the finger and that is set as the border, and a blood vessel amount which is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value exists in a second range which is set in the other region different from the region in which the first range is set.

2. The image determination device according to claim 1, wherein

the identification subject is a blood vessel in the inside of the finger, and

the detection means detects the joint line from the image from which the blood vessel is extracted.

3. The image determination device according to claim 1, further comprising:

elimination means for eliminating wrinkle components along a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the finger from the image from which the blood vessel is extracted,

wherein,

from wrinkle components obtained from the difference between the image from which the blood vessel is extracted and the image from which the wrinkle components are eliminated, the detection means detects components which are high in continuity as the joint line.

4. The image determination device according to claim 1, further comprising:

setup means for, with respect to image pickup means, setting a first exposure value which is so prescribed as to pick up an image of an identification subject in the inside of a biological body, and a second exposure value which is so prescribed as to pick up an image of the surface of a biological body,

wherein,

the extraction means extracts the blood vessel from the image obtained from the image pickup means in which the first exposure value is set, and

the detection means detects the joint from the image obtained from the image pickup means in which the second exposure value is set.

5. The image determination device according to claim 1, wherein

the identification subject is a blood vessel in the inside of the finger, and

when the waveform pattern of a luminance histogram in the image is a waveform pattern in which the difficulty in reflecting a blood vessel is large, the determination means switches the threshold value with respect to the second range to a value which is reduced by a predetermined ratio with respect to the criterion value.

6. An image determination method comprising:

a first step of setting a first range in one of respective regions obtained when separating an image with the center line that corresponds to a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of a finger reflected on the image and that is set as the border, and, in case a joint line of the finger does not exist in the set first range, setting the first range in the other region of the respective regions;

a second step of, when the joint line exists in the first range, setting a second range in the other region different from the region in which the first range is set; and

a third step of, when the joint line exists in the first range, and a blood vessel amount which is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value exists in the second range, determining the image as an image to be registered or an image to be collated with a registration subject.

7. A program that makes a control unit controlling a work memory execute:

setting a first range in one of respective regions obtained when separating an image input to the control unit with the center line that corresponds to a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of a finger reflected on the image and that is set to the border, and, in case a joint line of the finger does not exist in the set first range, setting the first range in the other region of the respective regions;

when the joint line exists in the first range, setting a second range in the other region different from the region in which the first range is set; and

when the joint line exists in the first range, and a blood vessel amount which is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value exists in the second range, determining the image as an image to be registered or an image to be collated with a registration subject.

8. An image determination device comprising:

an extraction unit that extracts a figuration pattern of an identification subject in a finger reflected on an image;

a detection unit that detects a joint line in the finger;

a determination unit that determines the image as an image to be registered or an image to be collated with a registration subject when a joint line exists in a first range which is set in one of respective regions obtained when separating the image with the center line that corresponds to a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the finger and that is set as the border, and a blood vessel amount which is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value exists in a second range which is set in the other region different from the region in which the first range is set.