Nec Platforms, Ltd.

Nec Corporation

Kohei Osugi

Takafumi Koshinaka

Kouji Oosugi

Provided are a personal authentication device performing accurate authentication immediately follow insertion an earphone/microphone device to wear, and preventing spoofing after authentication. This device: detects contact of an earphone/microphone device with a propagation path constituting part of the head of a person; generates a first acoustical signal in an audible range upon detecting said contact; measures an acoustical signal resulting from propagation of the first acoustical signal; determines that first authentication of the person is successful if the measured propagated first acoustical signal satisfies predetermined conditions; generates a second acoustical signal in an inaudible range higher in frequency than said audible range; measures an acoustical signal resulting from propagation of the second acoustical signal; and performs second authentication in which, if the measured propagated second acoustical signal satisfies predetermined conditions, then it is determined that the person is the person to be authenticated, for whom the first authentication is successful.

Personal authentication device, personal authentication method, and recording medium

The accuracy of ear authentication is ensured over a range from an audible range to a non-audible range. An earphone includes a sound emitting unit, a sound collecting unit, a housing containing the sound emitting unit and the sound collecting unit, a sound hole formed inside the housing, the sound hole being configured to propagate an emitted sound to a predetermined direction and propagate a sound coming from the predetermined direction to the sound collecting unit, and an ear pad covering at least a part of the sound hole, in which an ear-pad side end face is configured so as not to project beyond a sound-hole side end face at least in the predetermined direction, the ear-pad side end face being an end face of the ear pad, the sound-hole side end face being an end face of the sound hole in the predetermined direction.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kohei Osugi