Abstract: The present invention aims to effectively prevent spoofing in authentication and maintain convenience of the user. In a face authentication unit of the portable telephone, the face image checking part checks the face image of the person to be authenticated, which is acquired by a face image acquiring part through a photographing unit, with face feature information contained in a face feature DB of the storage unit and calculates the matching degree. A threshold value determining section determines the threshold value by searching the evaluation DB based on the position information of the own device acquired by the position information acquiring section through the GPS receiver. An authenticating section compares the matching degree calculated by the face image checking section and the threshold value determined by the threshold value determining section, and determines success and failure of the face authentication.

Abstract: Equipment to prevent spoofing in an authentication technique that uses a portable terminal and the like, includes an authentication unit for performing personal authentication of the user, a communication unit for communicating with a register, and an authentication control unit for permitting the authentication unit to execute the personal authentication of the user when receiving authentication start instructing information from the register connected to the communication unit. Spoofing is difficult to carry out because the authentication start instructing information must be received from the register in order to perform the required personal authentication prior to the post-authentication communication.

Abstract: Spoofing is prevented in an authentication technique using a portable terminal and the like. A portable telephone includes an authentication unit for performing personal authentication of the user, a moving distance calculating unit for calculating a linear moving distance the portable telephone has moved from a position of the portable telephone at the time the authentication unit succeeds in the personal authentication of the user; and a post-authentication communication control unit for disabling the settlement process communication if the linear moving distance calculated by the moving distance calculating unit exceeds a predetermined distance.

Abstract: An authentication device having high resistance to spoofing is provided. The portable telephone includes a camera of imaging the face of the person to be authenticated, an imaging direction comparing unit of determining whether or not the face of the person to be authenticated is imaged from diagonally below, and a main control unit of determining that the person to be authenticated is not the person in question when the imaging direction comparing unit determines that the face of the person to be authenticated is not imaged from diagonally below.

Abstract: A image recognition device using pattern elements is disclosed. The device comprises an image recognition device, a recording medium, and an image processing device which is be capable of executing recognition processing accurately and evaluating an input image even when the input image data is a different size because the input image has been magnified or reduced. To achieve the objectives, the image recognition device of this invention has a pattern element recognizing means to recognize the pattern elements obtained by dividing the input image into a plurality of regions which are compared with corresponding target pattern elements, and a pattern detection means to detect the relative position of the pattern elements, which determines whether the pattern elements detected by the pattern element recognizing means are arranged properly with respect to each other.

Abstract: A receiving unit 101 repeatedly receives a transport stream, and a specifying unit 102 specifies a purchase state. A restoring unit 103 generates a first audio-digital (AV) signal and interactive data, and an AV reproducing unit 105 generates a second AV signal. A combining unit 106 generates a data-AV combined signal by combining the generated second AV signal and a data signal generated from the interactive data. A data presentation restricting unit 115 outputs the interactive data and a purchase state signal. A control unit 107 receives an operation signal from an inputting unit 110 and outputs it to a data operation restricting unit 116. A data analyzing unit 104 analyzes a presentation element contained in the interactive data and generates video data, which is the data signal. A data judging unit 117 judges whether a currently-presented presentation element is included in the same group as a presentation element that is a link destination of the presented presentation element.

Abstract: The object of this invention is to provide an image processing device and image input device which creates strong features, or enhanced pattern which could be recognized when the image was read and which would prove difficult to eliminate through subsequent image processing. When the image is generated at the later step, these features would be easily recognized by the processing according to this invention because the image is equipped with the enhanced pattern which is easy to detect. In order to achieve this object, the image processing device according to this invention is equipped with a data synthesizing unit to synthesize the clear target pattern on the candidate target pattern which is not fully clear when the recognition unit has detected a pattern similar to the target pattern.

Abstract: An object identifying device has a shooting unit for shooting an object to be shot to identify the object on the basis of elements of the face of the object shot by the shooting unit. The object identifying device includes a camouflage deciding unit for deciding whether or not the object is a camouflage on the basis of a reflected image, which is reflected on the eye of the object, of the shot image obtained by shooting the object by the shooting unit.

Abstract: A receiving unit 101 repeatedly receives a transport stream, and a specifying unit 102 specifies a purchase state. A restoring unit 103 generates a first audio-digital (AV) signal and interactive data, and an AV reproducing unit 105 generates a second AV signal. A combining unit 106 generates a data-AV combined signal by combining the generated second AV signal and a data signal generated from the interactive data. A data presentation restricting unit 115 outputs the interactive data and a purchase state signal. A control unit 107 receives an operation signal from an inputting unit 110 and outputs it to a data operation restricting unit 116. A data analyzing unit 104 analyzes a presentation element contained in the interactive data and generates video data, which is the data signal. A data judging unit 117 judges whether a currently-presented presentation element is included in the same group as a presentation element that is a link destination of the presented presentation element.

Abstract: A photographed body authenticating device, a face authenticating device, a portable telephone, a photographed body authenticating unit, a photographed body authenticating method and a photographed body authenticating program are able to exclude disguise using a photograph without causing any obstacle in performing authentication by the person in question.

Abstract: An ATM has a display section of a touch panel and a security camera that takes an image of at least an area from which display information on the display section is viewable. After a predetermined waiting time, the security camera takes an image. From the taken image, human faces are detected, and how many human faces are detected is counted. If the number of human faces is one, the display is carried out as peeping is not underway according to the judgment. Meanwhile, if a plurality of human faces are detected, the display is stopped as peeping is underway according to the judgment.

Abstract: By adopting a construction in which a first balance weight is provided at the side end portion of the eccentric shaft portion of the auxiliary shaft portion and a second balance weight is provided at the side end portion of the eccentric shaft portion the main shaft portion, it becomes possible to provide sufficient first balance weight and second balance weight, without spoiling compact size of the compressor, enabling to reduce noise and vibrations.

Abstract: A hermetically sealed compressor includes a sealed vessel filled with a coolant and a freezer oil, an electromotive element including a rotor and a stator and accommodated within the sealed vessel, and a compressing element accommodated within an upper region of the sealed vessel and adapted to be driven by the electromotive element. This compressing element is provided with a shaft, arranged so as to extend vertically and having the rotor mounted thereon, and a bearing for supporting the shaft. A first oil pump is provided in a lower portion of the shaft and opening into the freezer oil, a second oil pump is provided above the first oil pump and formed by a spiral groove, provided on an outer periphery of the shaft, and an inner peripheral wall surface of the rotor, and a third oil pump is provided above the second oil pump and formed by a spiral groove, provided on the outer periphery of the shaft, and an inner peripheral surface of the bearing.

Abstract: A data transmission apparatus has a multiplexing unit that cyclically multiplexes presentation information and navigation information stored in a transmission data storage unit according to control by a multiplexing control unit and a transmission unit that transmits the multiplexed stream. The reception control unit of a data reception apparatus sets filter conditions in a filter condition storage unit of a TS decoder unit in accordance with user operation indications. The presentation information and navigation information separated by the TS decoder unit are outputted via a reproduction unit to a display unit and an audio output unit.

Abstract: Fluctuation information produced by a fluctuation producing portion (36) is superimposed on given image data by a fluctuation superimposing portion (35). The superimposed image data where the fluctuation information is superimposed is subjected to an image recognition process by an image recognition portion (37). The results of the image recognition are sent to a printer body through a recognition result outputting portion (39). Even if the given image data is the same, fluctuation is superimposed, and therefore the image data on an object to be recognized is altered. As a result, the possibility of a recognition error is suppressed as much as possible.

Abstract: A first conductive transistor having a high threshold value and a second conductive transistor having a low threshold value are connected in series between a first actual power supply line supplying a power supply voltage and a virtual power supply line connected to a power supply pin of a circuit block constituted of transistors having a low threshold value. The first and second conductive transistors have polarities which are opposite to each other. A power control circuit turns on the first and second conductive transistors while the circuit block is in operation and turning off the first and second conductive transistors while the circuit block is not in operation. Therefore, subthreshold currents of the first and second conductive transistors can be suppressed. As a result of this, it is possible to reduce power consumption of the semiconductor integrated circuit during its standby period.

Abstract: A printer (30) prints image data received from a personal computer (20). The printer stores a recognition program, which is installed for the printer driver of the personal computer. The personal computer executes the received recognition program to carry out recognition. Upon detecting a specific image, the personal computer instructs the printer to discontinue the printing operation. An image processing system is thus provided which prohibits the printer from producing printout if the personal computer connected with the printer detects a prohibited image.

Abstract: Outer circumferential shape of a balance weight is composed so that the distance between the outer circumference of the balance weight and the piston is substantially constant in the closely approaching interval of the balance weight and piston.

Abstract: Relating to oil feed to a piston portion in a dual support bearing of a hermetic compressor, and a structure for improving efficiency and reliability and accomplishing reduction of noise is disclosed. In this structure, since an auxiliary bearing 119 is provided with an oil feed passage 129 for conducting lubricating oil 108 discharged from an upper end of an oil feed mechanism 114, to a sliding surface of a piston 120, the lubricating oil 108 is fed to the piston 120 and a piston pin 122 from the oil feed passage 129 to make the sealing performance excellent, so that the amount of leakage of refrigerant gas from a compression chamber 117 is reduced to improve the freezing capability or efficiency. Further, lubrication of sliding portions of the piston 120 and the piston pin 122 becomes excellent so that noise caused by sliding is reduced and the reliability is improved.

Abstract: When a program transmission apparatus divides a program into a plurality of partial programs before transmission, a program reception execution apparatus executes a partial program when the partial program has already been received, and, when the execution needs to proceed to from a present partial program to a next partial program, executes the other partial program when the next partial program has been received.