Person verification apparatus, information processing apparatus and person verification system

• US 20060165263A1
• Filed: 09/23/2005
• Published: 07/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Niitsuma, Tetsuya
• Application Number:
  US11/234,766
• Publication Number:
  US 20060165263A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/115
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/95 structured as a network, e.g. client-server architectures
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/1365 Matching; Classification

Abstract

A person verification apparatus, having a biological information input section to receive an input of biological information of a user and obtain data to be verified; and a first control section to obtain previously registered reference data corresponding to information to identify a type of the biological information input section, and to perform a first person verification process for determining success or failure of a user verification by comparing the obtained reference data with the data to be verified.

Claims

1. A person verification apparatus, comprising:

a biological information input section to receive an input of biological information of a user and obtain data to be verified; and

a first control section to obtain previously registered reference data corresponding to information to identify a type of the biological information input section, and to perform a first person verification process for determining success or failure of a user verification by comparing the obtained reference data with the data to be verified.

2. The person verification apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a first memory section to store the information to identify a type of the biological information input section; and

an operation section to receive an input of a user ID, wherein the first control section obtains the information to identify a type of the biological information input section stored in the first memory section, and a previously registered reference data corresponding to the user ID inputted through the operation section, and performs the first person verification process for determining success or failure of the user verification by comparing the obtained reference data corresponding to the user ID with the data to be verified.

3. The person verification apparatus of claim 2, wherein the first memory section stores a first reference data group including plural user IDs and plural pieces of reference data which respectively correspond to the plural user IDs, and the first control section determines success or failure of the user verification by comparing the data to be verified with each of the plural pieces of reference data, and when the user verification has failed, the first control section obtains a piece of previously registered reference data corresponding to the user ID inputted through the operation section, and performs the first person verification process for determining success or failure of the user verification by comparing the obtained piece of reference data corresponding to the user ID with the data to be verified.

4. An information processing apparatus connected to be capable of mutual communication with a person verification apparatus having a biological information input section to receive an input of biological information of a user and obtain data to be verified, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a second control section that performs, when information to identify a type of the biological information input section is inputted from the person verification apparatus, a first reference data providing process for searching a piece of reference data corresponding to the information to identify a type of the biological information input section, and for outputting a result of the searching.

5. The information processing apparatus of claim 4, wherein when a user ID and the information to identify a type of the biological information input section are inputted from the person verification apparatus, the second control section performs the first reference data providing process for searching a piece of reference data corresponding to the user ID and to the information to identify a type of the biological information input section, and for outputting a result of the searching.

6. The information processing apparatus of claim 5, further comprising a second memory section for storing a verification apparatus type data group, in which identifying information of the person verification apparatus to perform a user verification process is correlated with information to identify a type of the biological information input section provided to the person verification apparatus,

wherein when a user ID and the information to identify a type of the biological information input section are inputted from the person verification apparatus, the second control section searches a person verification apparatus corresponding to the information to identify a type of the biological information input section from the verification apparatus type data group, and obtains the reference data from the person verification apparatus searched to output the reference data obtained.

7. The information processing apparatus of claim 6, wherein the second memory section stores a second reference data group, in which the information to identify a type of the biological information input section, a user ID, and previously registered reference data of a user are correlated with each other, and

when a user ID and information to identify a type of the biological information input section are inputted from the person verification apparatus, the second control section searches reference data corresponding to the inputted user ID and the inputted information to identify a type of the biological information input section, and

when the second control section has determined that there is no corresponding reference data in the second reference data group, the second control section searches a person verification apparatus corresponding to the information to identify a type of the biological information input section from the verification apparatus type data group, and obtains the corresponding reference data from the person verification apparatus searched to output the reference data.

8. A person verification apparatus, comprising:

a biological information input section to receive an input of biological information of a user and obtain data to be verified;

an operation section to receive an input of a user ID; and

a third control section to request a user verification by adding information to identify a type of the biological information input section and information to identify the person verification apparatus onto the obtained data to be verified, and to perform, when a result is inputted that the user verification has failed, a second person verification process for requesting user verification again by further adding the user ID inputted through the operation section.

9. An information processing apparatus connected to be capable of mutual communication with a person verification apparatus having a biological information input section to receive an input of biological information of a user and obtain data to be verified, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a fourth memory section to store a third reference data group in which information to identify the person verification apparatus, information to identify a type of the biological information input section, a user ID, and reference data of the biological information of the user are respectively correlated with each other; and

a fourth control section, wherein when the information to identify the person verification apparatus, the information to identify a type of the biological information input section, and the data to be verified, obtained through the biological information input section, are inputted from the person verification apparatus, the fourth control section determines success or failure of a user verification by comparing the data to be verified obtained by the biological information input section with each piece of reference data in the third reference data group, and

when the user verification has failed, the fourth control section receives a user ID, obtains reference data corresponding to the user ID from the third reference data group, and performs a verification result providing process to determine the success or failure of the user verification by comparing the obtained reference data corresponding to the user ID with the data to be verified obtained by the biological information input section and to output the verification result.

10. The person verification system comprising:

a person verification apparatus, comprising;

a biological information input section to receive an input of biological information of a user and obtain data to be verified; and

a first control section to obtain previously registered reference data corresponding to information to identify a type of the biological information input section and to perform a first person verification process for determining success or failure of a user verification by comparing the obtained reference data with the data to be verified, and

an information processing apparatus connected to be capable of mutual communication with the person verification apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising;

a second control section, wherein when information to identify a type of the biological information input section is inputted from the person verification apparatus the second control section performs a first reference data providing process for searching a piece of reference data corresponding to the information to identify a type of the biological information input section, and for outputting a result of the searching.

11. The person verification system comprising:

a person verification apparatus, comprising;

a biological information input section to receive an input of biological information of a user and obtain data to be verified;

an operation section to receive an input of a user ID; and

a third control section to request a user verification by adding information to identify a type of the biological information input section and information to identify the person verification apparatus onto the obtained data to be verified, and to perform, when a result is inputted that the user verification has failed, a second person verification process for requesting user verification again by further adding the user ID inputted through the operation section, and

an information processing apparatus connected to be capable of mutual communication with the person verification apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising;

a fourth memory section to store a third reference data group in which information to identify the person verification apparatus, information to identify a type of the biological information input section, a user ID, and reference data of the biological information of the user are respectively correlated with each other; and

a fourth control section, wherein when the information to identify the person verification apparatus, the information to identify a type of the biological information input section, and the data to be verified obtained through the biological information input section are inputted from the person verification apparatus, the fourth control section determines success or failure of a user verification by comparing the data to be verified obtained by the biological information input section with each piece of reference data in the third reference data group, and

when the user verification has failed, the fourth control section receives a user ID, obtains reference data corresponding to the user ID from the third reference data group, and performs a verification result providing process to determine the success or failure of the user verification by comparing the obtained reference data corresponding to the user ID with the data to be verified obtained by the biological information input section and to output the verification result.

12. A person verification system comprising:

a first person verification system including;

a first person verification apparatus, comprising;

a biological information input section to receive an input of biological information of a user and obtain data to be verified; and

a first control section to obtain previously registered reference data corresponding to information to identify a type of the biological information input section and to perform a first person verification process for determining success or failure of a user verification by comparing the obtained reference data with the data to be verified, and

an information processing apparatus connected to be capable of mutual communication with the person verification apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising;

a second control section, wherein when information to identify a type of the biological information input section is inputted from the person verification apparatus the second control section performs a first reference data providing process for searching a piece of reference data corresponding to the information to identify a type of the biological information input section, and for outputting a result of the searching; and

a further person verification system of claim 11,

wherein the information processing apparatus of said first person verification system determines whether to perform the first reference data providing process to output the reference data onto the first person verification apparatus based on the information to identify a type of the biological information input section, or the information processing apparatus of said further person verification system determines whether to perform the verification result providing process to determine the success or failure of the user verification and to output the verification result.