Abstract: A biometric image capturing apparatus includes an irradiating unit configured to irradiate a subject with light, a camera configured to capture an image of the subject, a polarizing unit which is disposed on an optical path between the irradiating unit and the camera, and configured to allow passage of light in a first polarization direction and light in a second polarization direction, a processor configured to perform computation using a first image captured by the camera according to the light in the first polarization direction that has passed through the polarizing unit and a second image captured by the camera according to the light in the second polarization direction that has passed through the polarizing unit, and to determine whether the subject is a biological body according to a result of the computation performed by the computing unit.

Abstract: A method performed by a computer for biometric authentication includes: obtaining, by a processor of the computer, a first image group including a plurality of images that are sequentially captured by a biometric sensor configured to capture at least a part of a region of a body of a user; obtaining, by the processor of the computer, a movement amount of the body and a distance between the body and the biometric sensor; and selecting, by the processor of the computer, a second image group from the first image group in accordance with the movement amount and the distance, the second image group including images to be used in authentication processing with respect to the body, wherein the size of a common region between images to be included in the second image group is adjusted according to the distance.

Abstract: A biometric authentication apparatus acquires biometric information of a user, extracts a boundary candidate where a state of the biometric information changes, to extract a region in a vicinity of the boundary candidate and having a threshold area or greater, extracts a state feature quantity having a value that changes according to a change in the state of the biometric information, from the extracted region, and judges the state of the biometric information using the state feature quantity of the extracted region.

Abstract: An authentication device includes an illumination device, a camera, and a processor configured to obtain, by capturing by the camera, an image including a subject illuminated with light of the illumination device, extract a target region from the obtained image, and perform determination that processing related to authentication is not allowed when the target region includes a first part of a first luminance value having a difference not less than a threshold value from a second luminance value of a second part of the target region.

Abstract: A biometric-image processing apparatus includes a touch panel, a memory, an image-capturing device configured to capture an image of a living body that is in contact with the touch panel to obtain a biometric image, and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to execute a process including: calculating a distance between the image-capturing device and the living body, and calculating a rotation angle of the living body to the image-capturing device based on the distance.

Abstract: A biometric authentication apparatus includes an imaging device, a display device, a memory, and a processor configured to display, on a screen of the display device, a guidance indicating a target area to be in contact with a part of a human body, detect whether the part of the human body is in contact with the target area, when the part of the human body is in contact with the target area, determine a distance between the imaging device and another part of the human body in accordance with an image captured by the imaging device, the image including the other part of the human body, and perform a change of a display position of the guidance in accordance with the determined distance.

Abstract: A biometric image processing apparatus includes a touch panel, an biometric sensor configured to capture an image of a living body, and a processor. The processor performs a process including first calculating an amount of movement of the living body that moves on the touch panel while coming into contact with the touch panel, second calculating an amount of movement of each region in images captured by the biometric sensor in a period in which the living body moves on the touch panel while coming into contact with the touch panel, and detecting image noise in the captured images based on the respective amounts of movement calculated by the first calculating and the second calculating.

Abstract: A biometric image processing apparatus includes an imaging device that captures a first image of a biometric part that is irradiated with light having a first wavelength, and a second image of the biometric part irradiated with light having a second wavelength shorter than the first wavelength, and a computing device that computes a third image by subtracting from the first image an image in which a luminance of the second image is attenuated.

Abstract: A biometric image processing apparatus including a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor obtains a Y value, a U value and a V value in a YUV space from each pixel of an image, determines, for each pixel, whether or not the U value and the V value are in a range that is in accordance with the Y value, and extracts a pixel having been determined to be in the range.

Abstract: A biometric capture device includes: a first light source configured to emit a light of a first wavelength to a biometric body; a second light source configured to emit a light of a second wavelength different from the first wavelength to the biometric body; a camera configured to capture a reflected light from the biometric body; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to execute a process, the process including: acquiring a biometric image based on a component of the first wavelength from an image captured by the camera; acquiring distance information between the biometric body and the camera based on a component of the second wavelength from the image captured by the camera; and correcting the biometric image based on the distance information.

Abstract: An illumination device includes a light source provided on a surface of a substrate and configured to emit light, and a diffraction optical element having a plurality of diffraction gratings with different pitch and rotating direction, and configured to diffract the light into illumination light that illuminates an illumination region of an illuminating target. The illuminating region is larger than an area occupied by the diffraction optical element and the light source provided on the surface of the substrate.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to acquire an image in which a subject is captured by a camera, calculate a plurality of spatial frequency characteristics on the basis of each of a plurality of regions included in the image, and perform determination of a tilt of the subject with respect to the camera in accordance with the plurality of spatial frequency characteristics.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for image processing, the method includes: acquiring an image of a body part captured by an imaging circuit; and determining, in a case where there is a region where luminance is saturated in the acquired image, a cause of the saturation of the luminance based on a distribution of the luminance in the acquired image. The cause is either the distance between the imaging circuit and the body part being shorter than a predetermined distance or an influence of external light.

Abstract: An image capture device includes a casing, an image sensor provided to a surface of the casing, and a processor configured to: detect a location with which a subject is in contact on the surface, and cause the image sensor to perform image capture processing when a distance between a first portion of the subject and the image sensor meets a certain criterion, the first portion being different from a second portion of the subject, the second portion being in contact with the surface in the location, wherein the certain criterion is set based on first distance information indicating a first distance between the location and the image sensor and second distance information indicating a second distance between a certain location on the surface and the image sensor.

Abstract: A biometric information process device includes: an image device configured to capture an image of an object; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to execute a process, the process comprising: detecting a touch point of the object with respect to a touch panel; extracting a biometric feature from the image of the object that is acquired by the image device; and correcting biometric information acquired from the image of the object based on a movement amount of the object on the touch panel and a movement amount of the biometric feature in the image of the object when the touch point detected in the detecting moves.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes an information input device that detects a coordinate value of an input operation position touched by a user, a biometric sensor that captures a capture area of a palm of the user at a time of an input operation to the information input device, to generate biometric data, and a processor. The processor performs a process including matching the biometric data to a corresponding portion of registered biometric data registered in advance and read based on the coordinate value, to compute a similarity of the biometric data to the corresponding portion.

Abstract: A biometric imaging device includes a processor that outputs an instruction of an operation position on an input device, in response to detection of a first input to the input device, and a camera that captures a biometric image after the detection of the first input.

Abstract: A biometric authentication device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to execute a process, the process comprising: extracting a finger crotch from a palm image for comparison; extracting a finger root wrinkle from the palm image for comparison; adjusting at least one of a position of a biometric feature for comparison of the palm image for comparison and a position of an enrollment biometric feature of an enrolled palm image, based on position information of the finger crotch extracted in the extracting of the finger crotch and position information of the wrinkle extracted in the extracting of the finger root wrinkle; and comparing the biometric feature for comparison and the enrollment biometric feature after the adjusting.

Abstract: A biometric information process device includes: an image device configured to capture an image of an object; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to execute a process, the process comprising: detecting a touch point of the object with respect to a touch panel; extracting a biometric feature from the image of the object that is acquired by the image device; and correcting biometric information acquired from the image of the object based on a movement amount of the object on the touch panel and a movement amount of the biometric feature in the image of the object when the touch point detected in the detecting moves.

Abstract: A method performed by a computer for biometric authentication includes: obtaining, by a processor of the computer, a first image group including a plurality of images that are sequentially captured by a biometric sensor configured to capture at least a part of a region of a body of a user; obtaining, by the processor of the computer, a movement amount of the body and a distance between the body and the biometric sensor; and selecting, by the processor of the computer, a second image group from the first image group in accordance with the movement amount and the distance, the second image group including images to be used in authentication processing with respect to the body, wherein the size of a common region between images to be included in the second image group is adjusted according to the distance.