Abstract: An authentication token includes a personal collation unit and communication unit. The personal collation unit includes a sensor, storage unit, and collation unit. The sensor detects biometrical information of a user and outputs the detection result as sensing data. The storage unit stores in advance registered data to be collated with the biometrical information of the user. The collation unit collates the registered data with the sensing data and outputs the collation result as authentication data. The communication unit transmits the authentication data from the personal collation unit to the use device as communication data. The personal collation unit and communication unit are integrated.

Abstract: An image collation apparatus includes a collation unit, minimum coincidence ratio extraction unit, and determination unit. The collation unit obtains a coincidence ratio between first and second images within a printing element range for each collation unit by collating the first and second images with each other. The minimum coincidence ratio extraction unit obtains a minimum coincidence ratio from coincidence ratios obtained from the collation unit. The determination unit determines that the first and second images are identical, if the extracted minimum coincidence ratio is smaller than a predetermined threshold. An image collation method is also disclosed.

Abstract: To prevent an erroneous operation of a buzzer upon fall of a source voltage, a buzzer driving device connectable with a direct current source (1) comprises a charging/discharging circuit (3) which is connected with the direct-current source (1) via a switch (2) and performs the charging and discharging at a predetermined time constant (CR) when the switch (2) is turned on and off, respectively, a hysteresis circuit (25) to which an output voltage of the charging/discharging circuit (3) is input and which operates until the output voltage rises to or above an operation threshold value (V.sub.T) after the start of the charging of the charging/discharging circuit (3) and thereafter remains inoperative unless the output voltage falls to or below a stop threshold value (V.sub.S) which is smaller than the operation threshold value (V.sub.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus for extracting lines from an image using the Hough transform. A processor element is assigned to each quantization point in a Hough space. Each processor element calculates, for each scanning line of the image, intersections of the scanning line and the line corresponding to this processor element once per scanning line. A black pixel (a Hough transform object point) on the scanning line is also obtained sequentially. The coordinate values of the intersection are compared with those of the Hough transform object point, and when they agree, voting to a ballot box memory of the processor element is performed. The voting results become Hough transform data. This makes it possible to implement a high speed Hough transform, and to reduce the size of the apparatus.

Abstract: The positions where back-projection lines from a plurality of images pass through a predetermined voxel slice of a 3D space are calculated. Letting a predetermined one of the plurality of images be defined as a basic image and the other remaining images as reference images, information about back-projection lines from the basic image is stored in a basic back-projection line information storage part and information about the back-projection lines from the reference images are stored, as information associated with voting, in a voting information storage part. A count is taken of reference back-projection lines which pass through the same passing position of each basic back-projection line, and this count value is used to update the information about the basic back-projection line. After execution of each processing in all voxel slices of the 3D space, the information about the basic back-projection line information is read out of the basic back-projection line information storage part.