PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM

• US 20090052745A2
• Filed: 01/31/2006
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: SATHATH, Anwar
• Application Number:
  US11/342,683
• Publication Number:
  US 20060245619A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/115
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication

Abstract

According to the embodiment, there is provided a personal identification system including: a storage unit that stores previously registered personal information and biometric information; an input unit for inputting personal information and biometric information; a determination unit that determines whether or not the personal information input in the input unit coincides with the previously registered personal information; a temporary cryptographic key generation unit that generates a temporary cryptographic key when the determination unit determines that the input personal information coincides with the previously registered personal information; an encryption unit that encrypts, with the temporary cryptographic key, the biometric information input in the input unit to generate biometric information data; a decryption unit that decrypts the biometric information data with the temporary cryptographic key into the biometric information; and an identification unit that validates the decrypted biometric information with the previously registered biometric information to perform personal identification.

Claims

1. A personal identification system comprising:

a storage unit that stores previously registered personal information and biometric information of a user;

an input unit for inputting personal information and biometric information of the user;

a determination unit that determines whether or not the personal information input in the input unit coincides with the previously registered personal information stored in the storage unit;

a temporary cryptographic key generation unit that generates a temporary cryptographic key when the determination unit determines that the input personal information coincides with the previously registered personal information;

an encryption unit that encrypts, with the temporary cryptographic key, the biometric information input in the input unit to generate biometric information data;

a decryption unit that decrypts the biometric information data with the temporary cryptographic key into the biometric information; and

an identification unit that validates the decrypted biometric information with the previously registered biometric information to perform personal identification.

2. The personal identification system according to claim 1, wherein the previously registered personal information includes a user ID and a password.

3. The personal identification system according to claim 1, wherein the previously registered biometric information of the user is registered as biometric information feature extracted data obtained by extracting feature portions from the biometric information, the biometric information feature extracted data including a plurality of pieces of data for identifying at least one of a fingerprint, an iris, a voice and a face image of the user.

4. The personal identification system according to claim 1, further comprising an identification condition selecting unit that selects identification condition from the previously registered biometric information of the user.

5. The personal identification system according to claim 4, wherein the identification condition include a plurality of pieces of biometric information.

6. The personal identification system according to claim 1, further comprising a biometric information feature extraction unit that extracts feature portions from the biometric information input through the input unit to generate biometric information feature extracted data.

7. The personal identification system according to claim 6, wherein the encryption unit encrypts, with the temporary cryptographic key, the biometric information feature extracted data generated by the biometric information feature extraction unit.

8. A personal identification system comprising:

a server that performs personal identification based on biometric information of a user previously registered in a storage unit; and

an operation terminal that communicates with the server and is provided with an input unit to be operated by the user,

wherein the operation terminal encrypts biometric information of the user input through the input unit with a temporary cryptographic key that is transmitted from the server to generate encrypted data, and transmits the encrypted data to the server, and

wherein the server decrypts the encrypted data with the temporary cryptographic key, validates the decrypted biometric information with the previously registered biometric information to perform personal identification, and transmits a result of the personal identification to the operation terminal.

9. A personal identification method for performing personal identification based on previously registered personal information and biometric information of a user, the method comprising:

requesting to input personal information of the user in response to a personal identification request made by the user;

acquiring the personal information of the user;

determining whether or not the acquired personal information coincides with the previously registered personal information;

generating a temporary cryptographic key and determining identification conditions from among the previously registered biometric information when determined that the acquired personal information coincides with the previously registered personal information;

requesting to input biometric information conforming to the identification conditions;

acquiring the biometric information conforming to the identification conditions;

encrypting the acquired biometric information with the temporary cryptographic key to generate encrypted data;

decrypting the encrypted data with the temporary cryptographic key to acquire the biometric information; and

validating the decrypted biometric information with the previously registered biometric information to perform personal identification.

10. The personal identification method according to claim 9, wherein the previously registered personal information includes a user ID and a password.

11. The personal identification method according to claim 9, wherein the previously registered biometric information of the user is registered as biometric information feature extracted data obtained by extracting feature portions from the biometric information, the biometric information feature extracted data including a plurality of pieces of data for identifying at least one of a fingerprint, an iris, a voice and a face image of the user.

12. The personal identification method according to claim 9, wherein the identification condition include a plurality of pieces of biometric information.

13. The personal identification method according to claim 9, further comprising extracting feature portions from the acquired biometric information to generate biometric information feature extracted data.