Hitachi, Ltd.

Hideitsu Hino

Kenta Takahashi

Shinji Hirata

Masahiro Mimura

The present invention captures user's biometric data during enrollment and converts it by a given conversion parameter to create a template. It creates verification information for the conversion parameter, and enrolls it in an authentication server together with the template. The conversion parameter is stored in an IC card or the like for issuance to the user. During authentication, the authentication server verifies that the authentication terminal knows the conversion parameter, using conversion parameter verification information. Next, the authentication terminal converts user's biometric data newly captured by a conversion parameter to create matching information, and transmits it to the authentication server. The authentication server matches the matching information with the template to determine whether the user is a principal.

Biometric authentication system, enrollment terminal, authentication terminal and authentication server

A computer readable medium embodying a program to be executed by a terminal device used for a biometric authentication, the program including: an image generation code generating an enrolled image and a verification image from biometric information of a user collected at a sensor coupled to the terminal device; a filter generation code generating a random filter for scrambling the enrolled image and an inverse filter of the random filter; a transformation code transforming the enrolled image to a registration template by applying the random filter to the enrolled image and transforming the verification image to a filtered verification image by applying the inverse filter to the verification image; communication code transmitting the registration template and the filtered verification image to a biometric server thereby the biometric server performs biometric authentication of the user based on the cross-correlation between the registration template and the filtered verification image.

Method, system and program for authenticating a user by biometric information

A personal authentication method is provided for authenticating a user by cross-relation between an enrolled image and a verification image of biometric information of the user. Upon registration of the biometric information, the method generates a filter for scrambling the image and an inverse filter thereof, and applies the filter to the enrolled image generated from the biometric information to generate a registration template which is then stored to a memory. Upon authentication of the user, the method applies the inverse filter to the verification image generated from the biometric information collected from the user, and then verifies the identity of the user based on cross-relation between the verification image after application of the inverse filter and the registration template.

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Hideitsu Hino