Abstract: An optical axis of a telephotographic camera for picking up an enlarged image of an iris is placed between guide unit for guiding a subject K into a range in which an iris image can be picked up and direction indication guide unit for indicating the direction in which the subject K is to be directed. If the subject K wears glasses, the face direction of the subject K is changed as indicated by the direction indication guide unit so that an image of illumination light from an iris lighting fixture on the lens, etc., of the glasses of the subject K does not overlap the iris image.

Abstract: To provide an optical filter switching device for a camera in which a clear image can always be obtained during the day and at night. In a cameral in which an image is formed on an image pick-up element (2) through a lens (1a) provided on a camera body (1) and is converted into an electric signal through the image pick-up element (2), thereby obtaining an image signal, optical filter switching means (3) for switching optical filters (3a) and (3b) depending on a level of the image signal is provided on a front surface of the image pick-up element (2) and a clear image can always be obtained during the day and at night. Therefore, in the case in which such a camera is used for a surveillance camera, the reliability of a monitoring system can be enhanced.

Abstract: An information apparatus includes a housing fitted to a support substrate and having a hole portion on a surface opposing the support substrate, a cover part fitted to the housing, and an abnormality detection part disposed inside the housing, including a first movable part urged by first urging force by the cover part in a first direction approaching the substrate support and a second movable part urged in a second direction approaching the cover part by second urging force, and detecting abnormality when either one of the first and second urging forces is released.

Abstract: The iris image pickup apparatus includes a recess sinking in the direction of a sight line of a person to be authenticated, the recess provided on an outer panel covering the image pickup unit for picking up the iris image of a person, indicators arranged at the bottom of the recess, external indicators arranged on the periphery of the recess, and a controller for performing lighting control of the indicator as well as keeping the external indicators off in a period where the image pickup timing of the image pickup unit is overlapped. Since the external indicators are kept off during picking up the image, the sight line of a person to be authenticated does not move to the external indicators thus picking up an iris image without blurs.

Abstract: An eye image capturing apparatus includes a capturing unit which captures an eye image of a person to be authenticated, a plurality of illuminating devices which illuminate the eye of the person to be authenticated, and are disposed so as to have different distances with respect to an optical axis of the capturing unit, and a control unit which controls sequentially illuminations of the illuminating devices to capture the eye image at each timing of the illuminations.

Abstract: A multi-identification apparatus includes a first identification device which executes a first personal identification on a person to be identified, an image pickup unit which takes image data of the person, a controller which presets the image pickup unit on the basis of a person-featuring information of the person obtained from the first identification device, a second identification device which executes a second personal identification on the basis of the image data of the person, and a processing device which determines an integrated identification result based on an identification result of the first identification device and an identification result of the second identification device.

Abstract: An information apparatus includes a housing fitted to a support substrate and having a hole portion on a surface opposing the support substrate, a cover part fitted to the housing, and an abnormality detection part disposed inside the housing, including a first movable part urged by first urging force by the cover part in a first direction approaching the substrate support and a second movable part urged in a second direction approaching the cover part by second urging force, and detecting abnormality when either one of the first and second urging forces is released.

Abstract: The present invention provides an iris imaging apparatus is configured of a platform; a wide angle camera for imaging an image of a person to be authenticated; wide angle camera lighting devices controlled to emit light when the wide angle camera shoots; a telephoto camera for imaging the enlarged image of the eye of the person to be authenticated; iris lighting devices controlled to emit light when the telephoto camera shoots; first motors for rotating the iris lighting devices and directing the luminous light in the direction of the person to be authenticated; a turning stage mounted with the wide angle camera, the wide angle camera lighting devices, the telephoto camera, the iris lighting devices and the first motors, the turning stage rotatablly mounted on the platform; and a second motor for turning the turning stage. All the components required for the turning operation are mounted on the turning stage.

Abstract: There are provided a authentication object pick up device including: a camera 3 for picking up a face image of a person to be authenticated; a camera 2 being pointed at a direction of an eye of the person obtained by analyzing the face image picked up by the camera 3, thereby picking up an eye image of the person; a camera 9 for picking up an image of a circumference of places in which the camera 3 and the camera 2 are disposed; and controller 14 for analyzing the image picked up by the camera 9 and starting an image pick-up operation of the camera 3 when detecting that the person enters a shooting range of the camera 3. Immediately when the person enters the shooting range, the image pick-up operation is started. Consequently, it is possible to shorten a time taken for acquiring an authentication object image.

Abstract: The present invention provides an authentication object image pick-up device including: a camera 3 for picking up a face image of a person to be authenticated; a camera 2 being pointed at a direction of an eye of the authenticated person obtained by analyzing the face image picked up by the camera 3 and picking up an iris image of the authenticated person; a camera 9 for picking up an image of a circumference of places in which the camera 3 and the camera 2 are disposed; and control section 14 for analyzing an image picked up by the camera 9 to obtain a position of a face of the authenticated person and pointing the direction of the camera 3 at a position of the face of the authenticated person before the person enters a shooting range of the camera 3.

Abstract: In a monitor camera system comprising a monitor camera making 360-degree panning rotation and more-than 90-degree tilting rotation and a control unit for controlling the monitor camera, for masking a privacy zone in a picture taken by the monitor camera, the control unit sets mask data through the use of a contour parameter of a configuration of a mask zone for covering the privacy zone, while the monitor camera side holds the mask data to mask a portion of the picture with the mask zone defined on the basis of the mask data. According to this monitor camera system, since only a portion of the picture is masked with the mask zone, it is possible to protect the privacy from the picture taken by the monitor camera without impairing the monitoring function. In addition, since the monitor camera side holds the mask data, quick processing becomes feasible.

Abstract: A belt whose fixed portion is fixed inside a casing is extended around a tilt stage and passed through a through hole of a fixed plate up to aback face of aback cover. When a lock is released, a fixed portion of the belt is inserted into a releasing hole thereby to create a gap between an abutted portion of the belt and a lock part 11c of the tilt stage, and the tilt stage will be made free to rotate. When the tilt stage is locked, the fixed portion is inserted into a locking hole, and the abutted portion of the belt will be pulled to be abutted against the lock part, thereby to hold the tilt stage.

Abstract: The present invention provides an iris imaging apparatus is configured of a platform; a wide angle camera for imaging an image of a person to be authenticated; wide angle camera lighting devices controlled to emit light when the wide angle camera shoots; a telephoto camera for imaging the enlarged image of the eye of the person to be authenticated; iris lighting devices controlled to emit light when the telephoto camera shoots; first motors for rotating the iris lighting devices and directing the luminous light in the direction of the person to be authenticated; a turning stage mounted with the wide angle camera, the wide angle camera lighting devices, the telephoto camera, the iris lighting devices and the first motors, the turning stage rotatablly mounted on the platform; and a second motor for turning the turning stage. All the components required for the turning operation are mounted on the turning stage.

Abstract: The present invention provides a service providing system for providing a user with services in accordance with travel history information of the user indicating the location the user was present and the date/time the user was present, and the system includes a terminal having a travel history information transmitter for transmitting the travel history information and a service information output section for outputting information on the services, and a service information management server having a travel history information storage for storing the travel history information transmitted from the personal authentication terminal, a service information storage for storing information on the services, and a service information transmitter for transmitting information on the services to the personal authentication terminal.

Abstract: An iris pickup apparatus includes: a wide-angle camera for picking up the image of a photographic object, a telephotograph camera for picking up the enlarged image of an iris of a photographic object by focusing the lens of the camera on the iris of the photographic object, a panning mechanism for panning the telephotograph camera, and a tilt mechanism for pivotally tilting the wide-angle camera and the telephotograph camera. The wide-angle camera and the telephotograph camera are arranged so that their optical axes cross each other at right angles. The tilt mechanism operates to pivotally tilt the wide-angle camera and the telephotograph camera on the same plane as the optical axis plane.

Abstract: The iris image pickup apparatus includes a recess sinking in the direction of a sight line of a person to be authenticated, the recess provided on an outer panel covering the image pickup unit for picking up the iris image of a person, indicators arranged at the bottom of the recess, external indicators arranged on the periphery of the recess, and a controller for performing lighting control of the indicator as well as keeping the external indicators off in a period where the image pickup timing of the image pickup unit is overlapped. Since the external indicators are kept off during picking up the image, the sight line of a person to be authenticated does not move to the external indicators thus picking up an iris image without blurs.

Abstract: An opening formed in a hemispherical portion decreases the rigidity of a camera cover, whereby the camera cover is easy to deform due to the lateral external pressure. In a composite camera in which a camera body is housed in a camera box (1) attached onto a ceiling or the like through a camera base (2) so that it can turn and swing up and down, and the aforesaid camera body is covered with a hemispherical camera cover (3) having an opening (3f) from which a lens (4) of the camera body protrudes, the camera cover (3) is composed of a cylindrical portion (3a), a hemispherical portion (3b) and a reinforcing step portion (3c) that connects these cylindrical portion (3a) and hemispherical portion (3b), and ring-shaped edges formed at boundaries between the cylindrical portion (3a) and the reinforcing step portion (3c) and between the reinforcing step portion (3c) and the hemispherical portion (3b) improve the lateral rigidity of the camera cover (3).

Abstract: An iris pickup apparatus includes: a wide-angle camera for picking up the image of a photographic object, a telephotograph camera for picking up the enlarged image of an iris of a photographic object by focusing the lens of the camera on the iris of the photographic object, a panning mechanism for panning the telephotograph camera, and a tilt mechanism for pivotally tilting the wide-angle camera and the telephotograph camera. The wide-angle camera and the telephotograph camera are arranged so that their optical axes cross each other at right angles. The tilt mechanism operates to pivotally tilt the wide-angle camera and the telephotograph camera on the same plane as the optical axis plane.

Abstract: An optical axis of a telephotographic camera for picking up an enlarged image of an iris is placed between guide unit for guiding a subject K into a range in which an iris image can be picked up and direction indication guide unit for indicating the direction in which the subject K is to be directed. If the subject K wears glasses, the face direction of the subject K is changed as indicated by the direction indication guide unit so that an image of illumination light from an iris lighting fixture on the lens, etc., of the glasses of the subject K does not overlap the iris image.

Abstract: The invention aims at providing low-cost iris image pickup apparatus for picking up iris images at a high accuracy.