Fujitsu Corporation

Haruhisa Sakuma

Makoto Kawasaki

Naoki Iwasa

Yoshihisa Harada

Hideto Ito

The present invention has an object to provide an information processing apparatus and authentication program storage medium which can prevent unauthorized use reliably at low costs. The information processing apparatus has a connection section to which a device is removably connected and performs information processing using the device connected to the connection section. It is equipped with a condition setting section which establishes insertion/removal conditions for a device inserted into the connection section; and an authentication section which determines upon start-up of the information processing apparatus whether insertion/removal of a device satisfies the insertion/removal conditions established by the condition setting section, and permits the information processing apparatus to perform information processing if it is determined that the insertion/removal satisfies the established insertion/removal conditions.

Information processing apparatus and authentication program storage medium

Recording peripheral image information by an electronic apparatus only when illegal use of the apparatus is determined to minimize resources and simplifying recording. The electronic apparatus includes a first memory storing a parameter representing at least one condition for the illegal use of the apparatus and a control unit for storing in a second memory image information by a photographing device that photographed a user of the apparatus after the conditions are satisfied. The control unit controls the output of the image information stored in the second memory through an output direction and directs a BIOS setup program to read out the parameter in the first memory and record the image information into the second memory and directs an operating system or an application program running on the apparatus to set and alter the parameter in the first memory via an interface in the BIOS program.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Haruhisa Sakuma