Biometric information process device, biometric information process method, and computer readable medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9412014-B2
Application number	US-201213428387-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 23, 2012
Priority date	May 30, 2011
Publication date	Aug 9, 2016
Grant date	Aug 9, 2016

Abstract

A biometric information process device includes: a biometric sensor obtaining a plurality of biometric images of a user; a detection portion detecting a surface reflection region of the plurality of biometric images; and a storage portion storing biometric information obtained from biometric images included in the plurality of biometric images, the biometric images having a different surface reflection region from each other.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A biometric information process device comprising:
a biometric sensor to obtain a plurality of biometric images of an identical instance of an identical user;
a detector to detect each of first regions from each of the plurality of biometric images based on a first threshold of a brightness value or a high frequency wave component and detect each of second regions of which brightness value is larger than a second threshold from each of the first regions as each of surface reflection regions of biometric images; and
a storage to store biometric information obtained from each of the biometric images corresponding to the identical instance of the identical user, the biometric images having different surface reflection regions each of which is located in a different location in the biometric images from each other.

2. The biometric information process device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the detector divides one of the plurality of biometric images into a plurality of regions and detects whether each of the plurality of regions are a surface reflection region.

3. The biometric information process device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
a calculator to calculate an overlapping ratio of the surface reflection regions detected by the detector with respect to the biometric images,
wherein the storage stores the biometric information of the biometric images when the overlapping ratio calculated by the calculator is a predetermined value or less.

4. The biometric information process device as claimed in claim 3 , further comprising:
a guider to guide a biological body of a user when the biometric sensor obtains biometric images and the overlapping ratio calculated by the calculator is a predetermined value or more.

5. The biometric information process device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the guider guides at least a position of the biological body, a distance between the biological body and the biometric sensor, and an inclination of the biological body with respect to the biometric sensor.

6. The biometric information process device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein:
the storage stores the surface reflection region; and
the guider has a display device to display the surface reflection region stored in the storage when inducing the biological body.

7. The biometric information process device as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
a selector to select one or more of biometric information of the biometric images stored in the storage; and
a matcher to match the biometric information selected by the selector with biometric information for authentication of a biometric image for authentication of a user subjected to authentication obtained by the biometric sensor.

8. The biometric information process device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein:
the storage stores a plurality of biometric information by associating the plurality of biometric information with a surface reflection region; and
the selector selects the biometric information according to the overlapping ratio between the surface reflection region of the biometric information for authentication and the surface reflection region stored in the storage.

9. The biometric information process device as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the matcher uses the overlapping ratio between the surface reflection region of the biometric information for matching and the surface reflection region stored in the storage during matching.

10. The biometric information process device as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the matcher divides the biometric information selected by the selector and the biometric information for authentication into blocks, and matches with respect to each of the blocks during matching.

11. The biometric information process device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the biometric information is a vein pattern.

12. The biometric information process device as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:
a priority order calculator to calculate a priority order of each of the biometric information stored in the storage, based on a similarity between a location of each of the biometric information stored in the storage and a location of biometric information for authentication of a biometric image for authentication of a user subjected to authentication obtained by the biometric sensor.

13. A biometric information process method comprising:
obtaining a plurality of biometric images of an identical instance of an identical user with a biometric sensor;
detecting each of first regions from each of the plurality of biometric images based on a first threshold of a brightness value or a high frequency wave component and detecting each of second regions of which brightness value is larger than a second threshold from each of the first regions as each of surface reflection regions of biometric images; and
storing biometric information obtained from each of the biometric images corresponding to the identical instance of the identical user, the biometric images having different surface reflection regions each of which if located in a different location in the biometric images from each other.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13 further comprising:
calculating a priority order of each of the biometric information stored in the storage, based on a similarity between a location of each of the biometric information stored in the storage and a location of biometric information for authentication of a biometric image for authentication of a user subjected to authentication obtained by the biometric sensor.

15. A computer readable, non-transitory medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:
obtaining a plurality of biometric images of an identical instance of an identical user with a biometric sensor;
detecting each of first regions from each of the plurality of biometric images based on a first threshold of a brightness value or a high frequency wave component and detecting each of second regions of which brightness value is larger than a second threshold from each of the first regions as each of surface reflection regions of biometric images; and
storing biometric information obtained from each of the biometric images corresponding to the identical instance of the identical user, the biometric images having different surface reflection regions each of which if located in a different location in the biometric images from each other.

16. The medium as claimed in claim 15 , wherein the process further comprises:
calculating a priority order of each of the biometric information stored in the storage, based on a similarity between a location of each of the biometric information stored in the storage and a location of biometric information for authentication of a biometric image for authentication of a user subjected to authentication obtained by the biometric sensor.

Assignees

• Aoki Takahiro
• Fujitsu Ltd

Inventors

• Aoki Takahiro

Classifications

• G06V10/60

  relating to illumination properties, e.g. using a reflectance or lighting model · CPC title

• G06K9/00926

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K9/4661

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K2009/0006

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K9/00382 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic