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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2020
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Maya Saito, Tokyo, JP;
Kouhei Okinaka, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An entry control apparatus receives an application of a user who uses a specific region, from a terminal of a legitimate user of a facility, acquires biometric information of the user when the user is a user other than the legitimate user, registers an accessible range including regions included in a route from a gateway of the facility to the specific region, and biometric information of the user into a storage device in association with each other, controls first biometric authentication of biometric information acquired from the user at a gateway of a predetermined region, with biometric information registered in the storage device, and issues, when the first biometric authentication has succeeded, and the predetermined region is included in the accessible range associated with biometric information of which the first biometric authentication has succeeded, an unlocking instruction to the locking system installed at the gateway of the predetermined region.