Fraud confirmation assisting apparatus and fraud confirmation method including a light source irradiating an object in the invisible wavelength range and read by a reading sensor to output a plurality of pieces of fraud confirmation information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11694455-B2
Application number	US-202217574573-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 13, 2022
Priority date	Jan 18, 2021
Publication date	Jul 4, 2023
Grant date	Jul 4, 2023

Abstract

A fraud confirmation assisting apparatus includes a light source, a reading sensor, and processing circuitry. The light source irradiates an object to be read with light in at least an invisible wavelength range. The reading sensor has sensitivity at least in the invisible wavelength range. The processing circuitry performs a reading operation on the object to be read by a combination of the light source and the reading sensor, and outputs a plurality of pieces of fraud confirmation information based on read information output from the reading sensor by the reading operation.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A fraud confirmation assisting apparatus, comprising:
a light source configured to irradiate an object to be read with light in at least an invisible wavelength range; and
a reading sensor having sensitivity at least in the invisible wavelength range;
processing circuitry configured to:
perform a reading operation on the object to be read by a combination of the light source and the reading sensor;
output a plurality of pieces of fraud confirmation information based on read information output from the reading sensor by the reading operation;
convert information included in the read information into determination information for determining a plurality of frauds on the object to be read, wherein the plurality of frauds include forgery and tampering; and
visualize the determination information converted and output the visualized determination information as the fraud confirmation information.

2. The fraud confirmation assisting apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processing circuitry is configured to output, as the plurality of pieces of fraud confirmation information, original information that is included in the object to be read and is readable in both a visible wavelength range and the invisible wavelength range, and comparison information that is to be compared with the original information and is readable in the invisible wavelength range.

3. The fraud confirmation assisting apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processing circuitry is configured to acquire a part of the determination information from an external apparatus via a network.

4. The fraud confirmation assisting apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processing circuitry is configured to:
convert first information included in the read information into first determination information for determining a first fraud on the object to be read; and
convert second information included in the read information, the second information being different from the first information, into second determination information for determining a second fraud on the object to be read.

5. The fraud confirmation assisting apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processing circuitry is configured to determine one fraud for the object to be read, using a plurality of pieces of information included in the read information.

6. The fraud confirmation assisting apparatus according to claim 5 ,
wherein the light in the invisible wavelength range included in the light source is infrared light, and
wherein the reading sensor has sensitivity to at least an infrared wavelength region of the infrared light.

7. The fraud confirmation assisting apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein one of the plurality of pieces of fraud confirmation information is information indicating forgery of the object to be read, and another one of the plurality of pieces of fraud confirmation information is information indicating tampering of the object to be read.

8. The fraud confirmation assisting apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
another light source configured to irradiate the object to be read with light in a visible wavelength range; and
another reading sensor having sensitivity in the visible wavelength range,
wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to perform a visible information reading operation on the object to be read, using a combination of said another light source and said another reading sensor.

9. The fraud confirmation assisting apparatus according to claim 8 ,
wherein the reading sensor and said another reading sensor are configured as a physically single reading sensor.

10. The fraud confirmation assisting apparatus according to claim 9 ,
wherein the physically single reading sensor includes a light receiver configured to receive light in an invisible wavelength range and another light receiver configured to receive light in a visible wavelength range.

11. The fraud confirmation assisting apparatus according to claim 8 ,
wherein the light source and said another light source are provided as a physically single light source.

12. The fraud confirmation assisting apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a drum to form an image on a recording medium, based on the read information obtained by the reading operation on the object to be read.

13. The fraud confirmation assisting apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processing circuitry is configured to acquire the read information by a single reading operation of the object to be read using at least the light source and the reading sensor.

14. A fraud confirmation method for confirming a fraud on an object to be read, the fraud confirmation method comprising:
irradiating the object to be read with light in at least an invisible wavelength range;
acquiring reading information of the invisible wavelength range of the object to be read by a reading sensor having sensitivity at least in the invisible wavelength range;
outputting a plurality of pieces of fraud confirmation information based on the read information;
converting information included in the read information into determination information for determining a plurality of frauds on the object to be read, wherein the plurality of frauds include forgery and tampering; and
visualizing the determination information converted and output the visualized determination information as the fraud confirmation information.

15. The fraud confirmation method of claim 14 , further comprising:
converting first information included in the read information into first determination information for determining a first fraud on the object to be read; and
converting second information included in the read information, the second information being different from the first information, into second determination information for determining a second fraud on the object to be read.

16. The fraud confirmation method of claim 14 ,
wherein one of the plurality of pieces of fraud confirmation information is information indicating forgery of the object to be read, and another one of the plurality of pieces of fraud confirmation information is information indicating tampering of the object to be read.

Assignees

• Oyama Tadaaki
• Nakazawa Masamoto
• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Oyama Tadaaki
• Nakazawa Masamoto

Classifications

• H04N1/00005

  relating to image data · CPC title

• G06V10/147

  Details of sensors, e.g. sensor lenses (fingerprint or palmprint sensors G06V40/13; vascular sensors G06V40/145; eye sensors G06V40/19) · CPC title

• H04N1/02815

  Means for illuminating the original, not specific to a particular type of pick-up head · CPC title

• H04N1/19584

  Combination of arrays · CPC title

• H04N1/02805

  with photodetectors arranged in a two-dimensional array · CPC title