Fingerprint authentication device and information processing device with a sweep fingerprint sensor that acquires images of fingerprint at least two different sensitivity levels in single scan

• US 8,385,611 B2
• Filed: 06/19/2006
• Issued: 02/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Shinzaki, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Bella, Matthew
• Assistant Examiner(s): HEIDEMANN, JASON E
• Application Number:
  US11/454,867
• Publication Number:
  US 20070223791A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,444 Days
• Field of Search: 382/100, 382115-124
• US Class Current: 382/124
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/1335 Combining adjacent partial images (e.g. slices) to create a composite input or reference pattern; Tracking a sweeping finger movement
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/1388 using image processing

Abstract

A fingerprint authentication device includes a sweep fingerprint sensor that acquires images of a fingerprint on a finger at at least two different sensitivity levels in a single scan, and a counterfeit-finger determining unit that determines whether the finger is counterfeit based on the images acquired by the sweep fingerprint sensor.

Claims

1. A fingerprint authentication device comprising:

a sweep fingerprint sensor that acquires a plurality of images of a fingerprint on a finger in a single scan for the same area of the fingerprint at each of sensitivity levels including low sensitivity level and high sensitivity level; and

a counterfeit-finger determining unit that determines whether the finger is counterfeit by comparing among the plurality of images acquired by the sweep fingerprint sensor, the counterfeit-finger determining unit determining that the finger is counterfeit when a difference in a parameter relating to two images among the plurality of images is less than a threshold and the plurality of images do not include a sweat pattern, the counterfeit-finger determining unit determining that the finger is living when the difference in the parameter relating to two images among the plurality of images is greater than or equal to the threshold or the plurality of images include a sweat pattern, the difference in the parameter including a difference in luminance between corresponding pixels of the two images.

2. The fingerprint authentication device according to claim 1, wherein

the sweep fingerprint sensor acquires the plurality of images of the fingerprint at three different sensitivity levels in a single scan, and

the fingerprint authentication device further comprises a fingerprint authentication unit that determines whether the fingerprint is authentic based on an image of the fingerprint at an intermediate sensitivity level among the plurality of images at the three different sensitivity levels.

3. The fingerprint authentication device according to claim 1, further comprising a warning unit that outputs a warning when the sweep fingerprint sensor cannot acquire an image of the fingerprint on the finger.

4. The fingerprint authentication device according to claim 1, wherein the sweep fingerprint sensor is a capacitance fingerprint sensor.

5. The fingerprint authentication device according to claim 1, wherein the sweep fingerprint sensor is a weak-electric-field fingerprint sensor.

6. The fingerprint authentication device according to claim 1, wherein the parameter includes a variation in luminance of the pixels corresponding to the ridges.

7. A fingerprint authentication device comprising:

a sweep fingerprint sensor that acquires a plurality of images of a fingerprint on a finger in a single scan for the same area of the fingerprint at each of sensitivity levels including low sensitivity level and high sensitivity level; and

a counterfeit-finger determining unit that determines whether the finger is counterfeit by comparing among the plurality of images acquired by the sweep fingerprint sensor, the counterfeit-finger determining unit determining that the finger is counterfeit when a difference in a parameter relating to two images among the plurality of images is less than a threshold and the plurality of images do not include a sweat pattern, the counterfeit-finger determining unit determining that the finger is living when the difference in the parameter relating to two images among the plurality of images is greater than or equal to the threshold or the plurality of images include a sweat pattern, the parameter including distribution in luminance of pixels of each of the two images.

8. An information processing device comprising:

a storage unit that stores therein at least two images of a fingerprint on a finger for the same area of the fingerprint at each of sensitivity levels including low sensitivity level and high sensitivity level acquired by a sweep fingerprint sensor in a single scan; and

a counterfeit-finger determining unit that determines whether the finger is counterfeit by comparing among the at least two images in the storage unit, the counterfeit-finger determining unit determining that the finger is counterfeit when a difference in a parameter relating to two images among the plurality of images is less than a threshold and the plurality of images do not include a sweat pattern, the counterfeit-finger determining unit determining that the finger is living when the difference in the parameter relating to two images among the plurality of images is greater than or equal to the threshold or the plurality of images include a sweat pattern, the difference in the parameter including a difference in luminance between corresponding pixels of the two images.