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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2009
Tadayuki Abe, Ichinoseki, JP;
Masayuki Abe, Yokohama, JP;
Hiromi Sugo, Kanegasaki, JP;
Kenichi Mizuishi, Hachioji, JP;
Tadayuki Abe, Ichinoseki, JP;
Masayuki Abe, Yokohama, JP;
Hiromi Sugo, Kanegasaki, JP;
Kenichi Mizuishi, Hachioji, JP;
Hitachi Media Electronics Co., Ltd., Iwate, JP;
Abstract
A biometric authentication device includes an accommodation unit and a detection unit in which the accommodation unit accommodates a card-type recording medium providing alternative information alternative to feature information such that the card-type recording medium is faced to the detection unit, with a biologic object absent, and the detection unit detects the alternative information from the card-type recording medium, thereby collating the feature information extracted from an image of the biologic object with the feature information recorded in a memory in the case of placing the finger into the accommodation unit, and collating the alternative information from the card-type recording medium with the alternative information recorded in the memory in the case of placing the card-type recording medium into the accommodation unit.