Authentication device, authentication method and program storage medium

• US 9,836,662 B2
• Filed: 02/05/2014
• Issued: 12/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Ishii, Masato
• Primary Examiner(s): Chawan, Sheela C
• Application Number:
  US14/769,532
• Publication Number:
  US 20150371098A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,399 Days
• Field of Search: 382100, 382115, 382118, 713186, 713185, 713176, 713150, 713168, 713182, 713156, 713175, 340 51, 340 52, 340 58, 340 581, 340 582, 726 2, 726 3, 726 5, 726 6, 726 7, 235375, 235380, 235382
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/70 Multimodal biometrics, e.g. combining information from different biometric modalities

Abstract

The purpose of the present invention is to prevent a reduction in authentication accuracy caused by identity fraud. A score calculation unit compares each of a plurality of types of biological information, acquired as acquired biological information from a target person of identity verification, to the same type of registered biological information registered in advance. Based on the comparison, the score calculation unit calculates an authentication score that expresses the degree of similarity between the acquired biological information and the registered information, for each type of acquired biological information. For each type of the acquired biological information, a probability calculation unit calculates as an identity fraud probability using the calculated authentication score to. A determination unit determines whether the target person of identity verification is the registered person, and/or determines whether the target person of identity verification is fraudulently pretending to be the registered person.

Claims

1. An authentication device comprising:

a processor executing instructions to;

compare multiple types of biological information acquired from a target person of identity verification as acquired biological information with the same type of registered biological information preliminarily registered and calculate an authentication score representing a degree of similarity between the acquired biological information and the registered biological information, for each type of the acquired biological information;

calculate, for each type of the acquired biological information, a probability that the target person of identity verification is fraudulently pretending to be the registered person who registered the registered biological information as an identity fraud probability, by utilizing the calculated authentication score; and

carry out at least one of a determination whether the target person of identity verification is the registered person and a determination whether the target person of identity verification is fraudulently pretending to be the registered person, utilizing the identity fraud probability.

2. The authentication device according to claim 1, wherein the processor

calculates, for each type of the acquired biological information, an identity fraud probability distribution expressing a relation between a probability that the target person of identity verification is fraudulently pretending to be the registered person and the authentication score, based on an actual person probability distribution expressing a relation between a probability that the target person of identity verification is the actual person as the registered person and the authentication score and based on a others probability distribution expressing a relation between a probability that the target person of identity verification is the others as the registered person and the authentication score, and

calculates the identity fraud probability for each type of the acquired biological information based on the identity fraud probability distribution.

3. The authentication device according to claim 1, wherein the processor further calculates, in addition to the authentication score, the identity fraud probability utilizing a quality information of the acquired biological information.

4. The authentication device according to claim 1, wherein the processor further calculates, based on the authentication score, an actual person probability that expresses a probability that the target person of identity verification is the identical person as the registered person, and an others probability that expresses a probability that the target person of identity verification is the others as the registered person, and

The processor determines whether the target person of identity verification is the registered person based on the calculated actual person probability, the others probability and the identity fraud probability.

5. The authentication device according to claim 4, wherein the processor determines that, when the identity fraud probability is equal to or greater than a threshold value, the target person of identity verification is fraudulently pretending to be the registered person regardless of the actual person probability or the others probability.

6. An authentication method comprising:

comparing multiple types of biological information acquired from a target person of identity verification as acquired biological information with the same type of registered biological information preliminarily registered;

calculating, for each type of the acquired biological information, an authentication score representing a degree of similarity between the acquired biological information and the registered biological information based on the comparison result;

calculating, for each type of the acquired biological information, a probability that the target person of identity verification is fraudulently pretending to be a registered person who registered the registered biological information as an identity fraud probability, utilizing the calculated authentication score; and

carrying out at least one of a determination whether the target person of identity verification is the registered person and a determination whether the target person of identity verification is fraudulently pretending to be the registered person, utilizing the identity fraud probability.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recorded with a program that causes a computer to execute:

a process of comparing multiple types of biological information acquired from a target person of identity verification as acquired biological information with same type of registered biological information preliminarily registered;

a process of calculating, for each type of the acquired biological information, an authentication score that represents a degree of similarity of the acquired biological information and the registered information based on the comparison result;

a process of calculating, for each type of the acquired biological information, a probability that the target person of identity verification is fraudulently pretending to be a registered person who registered the registered biological information as an identity fraud probability utilizing the authentication score; and

a process of carrying out at least one of a determination whether the target person of identity verification is the registered person and a determination whether the target person of identity verification is fraudulently pretending to be the registered person, utilizing the identity fraud probability.