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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2008
Takeshi Endo, Tokyo, JP;
Seiichiro Mori, Fukuoka, JP;
Takeshi Endo, Tokyo, JP;
Seiichiro Mori, Fukuoka, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In order to provide an alcohol test device which can keep evidence that an identical person has been surely tested in an alcohol test, the alcohol test device includes an alcohol test unit which measures alcohol concentration from breath exhaled by a subject; a drinking determination unit which determines whether or not the subject is in a drunken state on the basis of a measurement result of the alcohol test unit; a camera unit which photographs a face image of the subject when the breath is exhaled into the alcohol test unit; a face authentication identical person determination unit which compares a face image photographed by the camera unit with a face image of the subject himself (herself) preliminarily photographed, and performs identical person authentication which determines whether or not the subject is the identical person; a result control unit which edits combining a result of identical person authentication by the face authentication identical person determination unit and a result of drinking determination by the drinking determination unit; and a result display unit which displays a result edited by the result control unit.