DATA-PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA-PROCESSING PROGRAM WITH BIO-AUTHORIZATION FUNCTION

• US 20110310044A1
• Filed: 02/24/2010
• Published: 12/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: Higuchi, Takeshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,872,617 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1684 Constructional details or arrangements related to integrated I/O peripherals not covered by groups G06F1/1635 - G06F1/1675
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1696 the I/O peripheral being a printing or scanning device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/629 to features or functions of an application

Abstract

A data processing device comprising: a storage unit storing therein a correspondence table in which biometric data pieces are associated one-to-one with different jobs, the biometric data pieces pertaining to respective fingers of a user; a display unit; a designation unit operable to, in accordance with a user operation, designate a target data piece from among data pieces being displayed on the display unit; a generation unit operable to generate a biometric data piece by reading a biometric information piece of a finger of the user; and an execution unit operable to execute one of the different jobs that is associated with one of the stored biometric data pieces that matches the generated biometric data piece by using the target data piece as data input by the user with respect to the one of the different jobs.

Claims

1. A data processing device comprising:

a storage unit storing therein a correspondence table in which biometric data pieces are associated one-to-one with different jobs, the biometric data pieces pertaining to respective fingers of a user;

a display unit;

a designation unit operable to, in accordance with a user operation, designate a target data piece from among data pieces being displayed on the display unit;

a generation unit operable to generate a biometric data piece by reading a biometric information piece of a finger of the user; and

an execution unit operable to execute one of the different jobs that is associated with one of the stored biometric data pieces that matches the generated biometric data piece by using the target data piece as data input by the user with respect to the one of the different jobs.

2. The data processing device of claim 1, further comprising

a touchscreen operable to detect position information indicating a position pressed by the user on the touchscreen, wherein

the designation unit designates a part of the data pieces being displayed on the display unit as the target data piece in accordance with the detected position information, the part corresponding to the position indicated by the detected position information.

3. The data processing device of claim 2, wherein

the execution unit includes:

a judgment subunit operable to judge whether or not one of the stored biometric data pieces matches the generated biometric data piece; and

a notification subunit operable to, when the judgment subunit judges affirmatively, notify the user of information for identifying one of the different jobs that is associated with the one of the stored biometric data pieces that is judged to match the generated biometric data piece, via image display or audio output.

4. The data processing device of claim 3, wherein

the one of the stored biometric data pieces is judged to match the generated biometric data piece when a match rate therebetween is higher than or equal to a predetermined match rate, and

the notification subunit notifies the user of the information for identifying the one of the different jobs that is associated with the one of the stored biometric data pieces when the judgment subunit judges that the one of the stored biometric data pieces matches the generated biometric data piece at the match rate higher than or equal to the predetermined match rate.

5. The data processing device of claim 2, wherein

one or more biometric data pieces stored in the storage unit are each a combination of biometric data pieces pertaining to respective fingers of the user.

6. The data processing device of claim 2, wherein

the execution unit splits a display region of the display unit into two sub-regions, displays data obtained by executing the one of the different jobs on one of the two sub-regions, and displays the data pieces that had been displayed on the display unit until the splitting of the display region on the other.

7. A data processing program for causing a computer to execute:

a designation step of, in accordance with a user operation, designating a target data piece from among data pieces being displayed on a display unit;

a generation step of generating a biometric data piece by reading a biometric information piece of a finger of a user;

a judgment step of, with reference to a correspondence table which is stored in a storage unit and in which biometric data pieces are associated one-to-one with different jobs, judging whether or not one of the stored biometric data pieces matches the generated biometric data piece, the stored biometric data pieces pertaining to respective fingers of the user; and

an execution step of, when the judgment step judges affirmatively, executing one of the different jobs that is associated with the one of the stored biometric data pieces that matches the generated biometric data piece by using the target data piece as data input by the user with respect to the one of the different jobs.

8. A data processing device comprising:

a touchscreen;

a storage unit storing therein biometric information pieces of a user and a plurality of jobs, in one-to-one association;

a generation unit operable to generate a biometric data piece by reading a biometric information piece of the user via the touchscreen;

an execution unit operable to, when the generation unit generates the biometric data piece, execute one of the jobs that is associated with the generated biometric data piece; and

a designation unit operable to, in accordance with a user operation, designate a target data piece from among data pieces being displayed on the touchscreen, wherein

when the target data piece is designated upon execution of the one of the jobs, the execution unit executes the one of the jobs by using the target data piece as data input by the user with respect to the one of the jobs.

9. The data processing device of claim 8, wherein

when the target data piece is not designated upon execution of the one of the jobs, the execution unit (i) splits a display region of the touchscreen into a plurality of sub-regions including a first sub-region and a second sub-region, (ii) displays data associated with the one of the jobs on the first sub-region, and (iii) displays data pieces associated with another one of the jobs that had been executed until the execution of the one of the jobs on the second sub-region.

10. The data processing device of claim 9, wherein

upon designation of a target data piece from among the data pieces being displayed on the second sub-region, when a biometric data piece obtained through the designation of the target data piece matches one of the biometric information pieces that is associated with the one of the jobs executed and displayed on the first sub-region, the execution unit executes the one of the jobs by using the designated target data piece as data input by the user with respect to the one of the jobs.