MOBILE TERMINAL DEVICE, AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, AUTHENTICATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

• US 20140062650A1
• Filed: 10/29/2012
• Published: 03/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamada, Kazunori
• Granted Patent: US 9,171,410 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/34 involving the use of external additional devices, e.g. dongles or smart cards
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/20 involving the use of a pass
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72463 to restrict the functionality of the device

Abstract

A mobile terminal device which a user carries includes: an entry determining unit for determining entry of the mobile terminal device in a residential area; an authentication information storage unit for storing authentication information indicating multiple authentication actions performed by the user carrying the mobile terminal device and an authentication order indicating an order of the authentication actions to be performed; an authentication processing unit for processing for authentication of the user by determining, based on the authentication information, whether or not the user has performed the authentication actions in the authentication order after the mobile terminal device enters the residential area; and an alarm processing unit for indicating a failure of the authentication when the result of the processing for the authentication is the failure.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal device which a user carries, the mobile terminal device comprising:

an entry determining unit configured to determine entry of the mobile terminal device in a target area;

an authentication information storage unit configured to store authentication information which indicates an authentication action performed for authentication by the user carrying the mobile terminal device;

an authentication processing unit configured to execute processing for authentication of the user by determining whether or not the user performs the authentication action between when the entry determining unit determines that the mobile terminal device enters the target area and when a predetermined time elapses, the determination being made based on a comparison between an activity performed by the user and the authentication action indicated in the authentication information; and

an alarm processing unit configured to, when a result of the processing for the authentication is a failure, indicate the failure of the authentication.

2. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1,

wherein the authentication information storage unit is configured to store, as the authentication information, information which indicates authentication actions including the authentication action and performed by the user and an authentication order indicating an order of the authentication actions to be performed, and

the authentication processing unit is configured to execute the processing for the authentication of the user by determining whether or not the user performs the authentication actions in the authentication order between when the entry determining unit determines that the mobile terminal device enters the target area and when a predetermined time elapses, the determination being made based on a comparison between at least one activity performed by the user and the authentication actions indicated in the authentication information.

3. The mobile terminal device according to claim 2,

wherein the authentication information storage unit is configured to store, as the authentication information, information in which each of the authentication actions is associated with a corresponding one of authentication time periods each indicating a length of time it takes for the user to finish a corresponding one of the authentication actions, and

the authentication processing unit is configured to execute the processing for the authentication by determining whether or not the authentication actions have been performed by the user within the respective authentication time periods.

4. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1,

wherein the authentication information storage unit is configured to store the authentication information indicating an operation by the user of a peripheral as the authentication action,

the mobile terminal device further comprises

a peripheral information receiving unit configured to receive operation information from the peripheral via a wireless network, the operation information indicating the

operation by the user of the peripheral, and

the authentication processing unit is configured to execute the processing for the authentication of the authentication action indicated in the operation information received by the peripheral information receiving unit.

5. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1,

wherein the authentication information storage unit is configured to store the authentication information indicating, as the authentication action, a touch operation by the user touching with the mobile terminal device a tag provided to a previously-set position within the target area or to a peripheral,

the mobile terminal device further comprises

a near field communication (NFC) processing unit configured to, when the user performs the touch operation, receive position information indicating a predetermined

position within the target area or peripheral information indicating the peripheral, the position information and the peripheral information being associated with the tag, and

the authentication processing unit is configured to, by determining that the touch operation has been performed by the user, execute the processing for the authentication of the authentication action indicated with the touch operation, the determination being made based on the position information or the peripheral information received by the NFC processing unit, and the touch operation being a touch with the mobile terminal device the tag provided either to the predetermined position indicated in the position information or to the peripheral indicated in the peripheral information.

6. The mobile terminal device according to claim 5,

wherein the authentication information storage unit is configured to store the authentication information indicating an operation by the user of a peripheral as the authentication action,

the NFC processing unit is configured to receive most-recent operation information, along with the peripheral information, from the peripheral, the most-recent operation information indicating a most-recent operation by the user of the peripheral before the touch operation, and

the authentication processing unit is configured to execute the processing for the authentication of an authentication action indicated in the most-recent operation information and defined as a most-recent authentication action before the touch operation.

7. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising

an operation receiving unit configured to receive an operation by the user,

wherein the authentication information storage unit is configured to store the authentication information indicating the operation by the user of the operation receiving unit as the authentication action, and

the authentication processing unit is configured to execute the processing for the authentication of the operation received by the operation receiving unit.

8. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an acceleration sensor;

an angular velocity sensor;

a geometric sensor;

a terminal orientation deriving unit configured to derive terminal orientation information, indicating an orientation of the mobile terminal device, from acceleration information detected by the acceleration sensor, angular velocity information detected by the angular velocity sensor, and geometric information detected by the geometric sensor;

a terminal traveling condition deriving unit configured to derive terminal traveling condition information, indicating a traveling distance and a traveling direction of the mobile terminal device, from the acceleration information detected by the acceleration sensor and the terminal orientation information derived by the terminal orientation deriving unit;

a position estimating unit configured to estimate current position information indicating a current position of the mobile terminal device, based on the terminal traveling condition information and previous position information indicating a position of the mobile terminal device in a previous estimation; and

a traveling route deriving unit configured to derive traveling route information, indicating a route which the user carrying the mobile terminal device travels, from the previous position information and the current position information estimated by the position estimating unit,

wherein the authentication action includes the traveling route information, and

the authentication processing unit is configured to execute the processing for the authentication of the authentication action indicated in the traveling route information.

9. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an acceleration sensor;

a walking characteristics deriving unit configured to derive walking characteristics information, indicating walking characteristics of the user, from acceleration information detected by the acceleration sensor;

a complex degree determining unit configured to determine a complex degree of the processing for the authentication performed by the authentication processing unit based on the walking characteristics information derived by the walking characteristics deriving unit and found within an immediately-before-entry time period which is set immediately before the user enters the target area; and

a notifying unit configured to aurally or visually notify the user of complex degree information corresponding to the complex degree determined by the complex degree determining unit,

wherein the authentication information storage unit is configured to previously stores the authentication information corresponding to the complex degree, of the processing for the authentication, determined by the complex degree determining unit, and

the authentication processing unit is configure to execute the processing for the authentication according to the authentication information corresponding to the complex degree, of the processing for the authentication, determined by the complex degree determining unit.

10. An authentication system comprising:

a peripheral which is previously set within a target area; and

a mobile terminal device which is carried by a user and receives information from the peripheral,

wherein the peripheral includes;

a tag which includes at least peripheral information indicating the peripheral; and

a storage unit configured to store most-recent operation information indicating a most-recent operation performed by the user of the peripheral before a touch operation performed by the user touching the tag with the mobile terminal device, and

the mobile terminal device includes;

an entry determining unit configured to determine entry of the mobile terminal device in a target area;

an authentication information storage unit configured to store authentication information which indicates (i) authentication actions performed for

authentication by the user carrying the mobile terminal device, and (ii) an authentication order indicating an order of the authentication actions to be performed;

an NFC processing unit configured to, when the user performs the touch operation, receive peripheral information included in the tag and the most-recent operation information stored in the storage unit;

an authentication processing unit configured to execute processing for authentication of the user by (i) determining touch operations, including the touch operation, based on the peripheral information received from the NFC processing unit, and (ii) determining whether or not the user performs, in an authentication order and between when the entry determining unit determines that the mobile terminal device enters the target area and when a predetermined time elapses, the authentication actions based on a comparison between (i) authentication actions indicated with the touch operations and authentication actions indicated in the most-recent operation information, and (ii)

authentication information, the touch operation being a touch with the mobile terminal device the tag provided to the peripheral indicated in the peripheral information; and

an alarm processing unit configured to, when a result of the processing for the authentication is a failure, indicate the failure of the authentication.

11. An authentication method for authenticating a user who carries a mobile terminal device, the authentication method comprising:

determining entry of the mobile terminal device in a target area;

notifying, immediately after the determining entry, the user of information indicating a complex degree of an authentication action, the complex degree being required after the determining entry;

executing processing for authentication of the user by determining whether or not the user performs the authentication action performed for the authentication by the user between when the entry determining unit determines that the mobile terminal device enters the target area and when a predetermined time elapses, the determination being made based on a comparison between an activity performed by the user and the authentication action indicated in the authentication information; and

indicating a failure of the authentication when a result of the processing for the authentication is the failure.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for use in a computer, the recording medium having a computer program recorded thereon for causing the computer to execute the authentication method according to claim 11.

13. An integrated circuit which is included in a mobile terminal device that a user carries, the integrated circuit comprising:

an entry determining unit configured to determine entry of the mobile terminal device in a target area;

an authentication information storage unit configured to store authentication information which indicates an authentication action performed for authentication by the user carrying the mobile terminal device;

an authentication processing unit configured to execute processing for authentication of the user by determining whether or not the user performs the authentication action between when the entry determining unit determines that the mobile terminal device enters the target area and when a predetermined time elapses, the determination being made based on a comparison between an activity performed by the user and the authentication action indicated in the authentication information; and

an alarm processing unit configured to, when a result of the processing for the authentication is a failure, indicate the failure of the authentication.