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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2019
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihiko Suwa, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Ebata, Tokyo, JP;
Yasunori Yasuda, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiyuki Imada, Tokyo, JP;
Hirotaka Ishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Yu Sugita, San Mateo, CA (US);
Takashi Isa, San Mateo, CA (US);
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An input device for inputting a user operation includes a data-for-authentication holding unit that holds data for authentication regarding one or more registered users, a fingerprint sensor that accepts fingerprint information of a user, and a fingerprint authentication unit that checks the accepted fingerprint information against the data for authentication regarding the one or more registered users. When the fingerprint authentication unitsucceeds in biometric authentication, a communication unit transmits a network account of the user to an information processing device. The information processing device includes a user authentication unit that checks the received network account against network accounts of registered users held in a registered user information holding unit.