Fujitsu Frontech Limited

Fujitsu Corporation

Katsumi Ide

Hideo Kamata

Yasuyuki Higashiura

Kentarou Kasugai

Akitaka Minagawa

Satoshi Kataoka

Shunji Sakane

Yasuhiro Morimoto

Yasunao Izaki

Kazumasa Komatsu

Masahiro Kobayashi

Yoshikazu Kosaka

In the case where an imaging apparatus is not able to detect the distance to an object placed over an imaging surface thereof, if the area of a bright region in an image of the object captured by an imaging unit with light emitted from a light emitting unit is equal to or greater than a predetermined area, the imaging apparatus determines that the object is close to the imaging apparatus. Thus, it becomes possible to let the user know that the palm is too close to the imaging apparatus and to prompt the user to move the palm away from the imaging apparatus. Accordingly, it becomes possible to smoothly capture an image of the object.

Imaging apparatus, imaging method, and imaging program

A biometrics authentication apparatus acquires biometric information by a biometric information acquisition section and acquires first registered information and second registered information by a registered information acquisition section. The biometrics authentication apparatus generates a comparison score from the first registered information and the biometric information, compares the comparison score and a threshold, and outputs an authentication result, by an authentication section. The biometrics authentication apparatus generates a comparison score for each of combinations of two of the biometric information by which success in authentication is obtained, the first registered information, and the second registered information, evaluates the comparison score, and generates an evaluation result, by a comparison evaluation section. When the biometric information may be good second registered information, the biometrics authentication apparatus treats the biometric information as new second registered information by a replacement section.

Biometrics authentication apparatus, biometrics authentication system, and biometrics authentication method

An overall image obtained by successively imaging different imaging regions a plurality of times during an image period using an imaging device is separated into a plurality of partial images respectively corresponding to each of the plurality of imaging operations. In cases where the object of imaging consists only of a static object, all of the partial images show more or less the same data. However, in cases where the object of imaging includes a moving object in addition to a static object, differences are generated in the partial images, which have different imaging timing. Accordingly, a judgement as to whether or not a moving object is contained in the overall image produced by synthesizing the plurality of partial images can be made by comparing the partial images.

Image processing method and image processing program

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Katsumi Ide