Biometric authentication system, biometric authentication method, and recording medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9639679-B2
Application number	US-201314030191-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 18, 2013
Priority date	Mar 22, 2011
Publication date	May 2, 2017
Grant date	May 2, 2017

Abstract

A biometric authentication system ( 1 ) records, in a storage unit in an associating manner, position information of a feature area on an image of biometric information whose biometric authentication is successful and reference biometric information referred to in the successful biometric authentication, the feature area being specific to a living-body, and detects a feature area that is specific to a living-body from an image of biometric information of an input object to be authenticated, and narrows down the reference biometric information stored in the storage unit to reference biometric information to be compared with the biometric information of the object to be authenticated, based on the degree of similarity between each position information, and authenticates the biometric information of the object to be authenticated by comparing the reference biometric information obtained as a narrowing-down result and the biometric information of the object to be authenticated.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A biometric authentication system comprising:
a memory; and
a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes a process including:
storing, in the memory in an associating manner, a form of distribution formed by collection of position information of a feature area on an image of biometric information whose biometric authentication is successful and reference biometric information referred to in the successful biometric authentication, the feature area being specific to a living-body;
detecting a feature area that is specific to a living-body from an image of biometric information of an input object to be authenticated;
first calculating a first degree of similarity between a form of distribution formed by collection of the position information of the feature area detected at the detecting and the form of the distribution formed by the collection of the position information of the reference biometric information stored in the memory;
second calculating, in an area other than the feature area detected at the detecting, a second degree of similarity between a feature quantity of the biometric information of the object to be authenticated and a feature quantity of the reference biometric information stored in the memory;
third calculating a third degree of similarity based on the first degree of similarity and the second degree of similarity;
narrowing down the reference biometric information stored in the memory to reference biometric information having the third degree of similarity that is not less than a predetermined threshold as reference biometric information to be compared with the biometric information of the object to be authenticated; and
authenticating the biometric information of the object to be authenticated by comparing the reference biometric information obtained as a narrowing-down result at the narrowing down and the biometric information of the object to be authenticated.

2. The biometric authentication system according to claim 1 , wherein the feature area is an area in which a biometric feature is unclear.

3. The biometric authentication system according to claim 1 , wherein the process further includes correcting the feature area detected at the detecting in accordance with an input state in which the biometric information of the object to be authenticated is input, wherein
the first calculating includes calculating the first degree of similarity between a form of distribution formed by collection of the position information of the feature area corrected at the correcting and the form of the distribution formed by the collection of the position information of the reference biometric information stored in the memory; and
the second calculating includes calculating, in an area other than the feature area corrected at the correcting, the second degree of similarity between the feature quantity of the biometric information of the object to be authenticated and the feature quantity of the reference biometric information stored in the memory.

4. A biometric authentication method comprising:
storing, using a processor, a form of distribution formed by collection of position information of a feature area on an image of biometric information whose biometric authentication is successful and reference biometric information referred to in the successful biometric authentication in a storage in an associating manner, the feature area being specific to a living-body;
detecting, using the processor, a feature area that is specific to a living-body from an image of biometric information of an input object to be authenticated;
first calculating a first degree of similarity between a form of distribution formed by collection of the position information of the feature area detected at the detecting and the form of the distribution formed by the collection of the position information of the reference biometric information stored in the memory;
second calculating, in an area other than the feature area detected at the detecting, a second degree of similarity between a feature quantity of the biometric information of the object to be authenticated and a feature quantity of the reference biometric information stored in the memory;
third calculating a third degree of similarity based on the first degree of similarity and the second degree of similarity;
narrowing down, using the processor, the reference biometric information stored in the storage to reference biometric information having the third degree of similarity that is not less than a predetermined threshold as reference biometric information to be compared with the biometric information of the object to be authenticated; and
authenticating, using the processor, the biometric information of the object to be authenticated by comparing the reference biometric information obtained as a narrowing-down result and the biometric information of the object to be authenticated.

5. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having stored therein a biometric authentication program that causes a computer to execute a process comprising:
storing, in a storage in an associating manner, a form of distribution formed by collection of position information of a feature area on an image of biometric information whose biometric authentication is successful and reference biometric information referred to in the successful biometric authentication, the feature being specific to a living-body;
receiving position information of a feature area that is specific to a living-body detected from an image of biometric information of an object to be authenticated;
first calculating a first degree of similarity between a form of distribution formed by collection of the position information of the feature area received at the received and the form of the distribution formed by the collection of the position information of the reference biometric information stored in the memory;
second calculating, in an area other than the feature area received at the receiving, a second degree of similarity between a feature quantity of the biometric information of the object to be authenticated and a feature quantity of the reference biometric information stored in the memory;
third calculating a third degree of similarity based on the first degree of similarity and the second degree of similarity;
narrowing down the reference biometric information stored in the storage to reference biometric information having the third degree of similarity that is not less than a predetermined threshold as reference biometric information to be compared with the biometric information of the object to be authenticated; and
authenticating the biometric information of the object to be authenticated by comparing the reference biometric information obtained as a narrowing-down result and the biometric information of the object to be authenticated.

Assignees

• Fujitsu Ltd

Inventors

• Nada Hajime
• Abiko Yukihiro
• Yamada Shigefumi

Classifications

• G06V30/242 Primary

  Division of the character sequences into groups prior to recognition; Selection of dictionaries · CPC title

• G06F21/32 Primary

  using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints · CPC title

• G06V10/25

  Determination of region of interest [ROI] or a volume of interest [VOI] · CPC title

• G06V10/993

  Evaluation of the quality of the acquired pattern · CPC title

• G06K9/3233

  Physics · mapped topic