Abstract: A plurality of processes executed on an operating system of a computer are monitored, the correspondence relations between each process and pieces of information processed by each process are registered in a process management table. Then, the relations between the pieces of information are extracted by analyzing what processes have been executed between the pieces of information of each process by referring to the result of the monitoring of the processes and to the process management table. The extracted relations between the pieces of information are registered into an attribute information table created for each piece of information of each process. A plural pieces of related information are displayed in a related information list based on the attribute information table of certain information being processed and pieces of related information selected in the list are accessed.

Abstract: In order to cause effective function when a system adopting a conventional settlement card is shifted to a system adopting a settlement card of IC card type and to enable a significant contribution to proliferation of the settlement card of IC card type, when a person who has input authentication data is authenticated as a user of a card by an authentication section, transaction data read by a magnetic stripe reader and transaction authentication data read by a memory reader are transmitted to a host server from transaction terminal equipment. The host server conducts a transaction through use of the transaction data and the transaction authentication data, both being output from the transaction terminal equipment. When the transaction is conducted, a memory writer writes data into memory of the card or rewrites data recorded in the memory.

Abstract: ID information and organic information based on authentication demand which a service providing system received from a user terminal are inputted and stored into a use information storing unit. The ID information and organic information stored in an organic information input storing unit and an ID information input storing unit and the ID information and organic information which were inputted in the past in the use information storing unit are compared and collated by a comparing unit and a collating unit. A control unit discriminates an authentication demand by an illegal access person on the basis of results of the comparison and collation, notifies the service providing system of a discrimination result, and logs identity information of the illegal access person.

Abstract: When predetermined information is input into an input field and an OK button is pressed on a user authentication screen displayed on a monitor screen by a browser at entry time, the input predetermined information, the input predetermined information, the positional information about the input field and the OK button, and the identification information on the user authentication screen are obtained by the input unit and entered in an external storage device through a storage unit. When the authentication screen detection unit detects the user authentication screen by the authentication screen detection unit at input time, the input/press unit automatically inputs the predetermined information read from the external storage device into the position of the input field obtained according to the positional information read from the external storage device through the storage unit, and the position of the OK button is automatically pressed.

Abstract: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method comprises, storing information corresponding to a plurality of users in association with first reference biometric data and second reference biometric data, the users being divided into first and second groups, the quality of the first reference biometric data of each of the users in the first group being not less than a predetermined level, the quality of the first reference biometric data of each of the users in the second group being less than the predetermined level, obtaining first biometric data of a user by inputting first biometric information of the user, providing first authentication, obtaining second biometric data of a user by inputting second biometric information of the user when the first authentication indicates presumed matching of the first biometric data with the first biometric reference data of one of the users in the second group and providing second authentication.

Abstract: A mobile electronic apparatus in which various functions can be easily added without impairing the mobility and without making any change in the hardware. The mobile electronic apparatus is carried by its authorized user to perform various types of electrical information processing, and has an attachment part detachably attached to a main body of the apparatus for performing a predetermined function, which attachment part has an input/output section for inputting/outputting information. The apparatus also has an interface section for transferring input/output signals relating to the information between the attachment part and the main body. The invention is applicable in mobile electronic apparatus having an attachment part detachably attached thereto, internet appliances such as cell phones, mobile electronic information terminals, and PDAs.

Abstract: In a method for fingerprint identification, fingerprint images of parts of one finger of a person to be registered are registered as registered fingerprint images, and a relative position is calculated. A fingerprint image of a person to be identified is acquired as a read fingerprint image. Based on the relative position, a registered fingerprint image from among the registered fingerprint images is specified, and a matching degree between the registered fingerprint image specified and the read fingerprint image is calculated. The specifying and the calculating are executed until the matching degree is greater than a predetermined value.

Abstract: A mobile electronic apparatus in which various functions can be easily added without impairing the mobility and without making any change in the hardware. The mobile electronic apparatus is carried by its authorized user to perform various types of electrical information processing, and has an attachment part detachably attached to a main body of the apparatus for performing a predetermined function, which attachment part has an input/output section for inputting/outputting information. The apparatus also has an interface section for transferring input/output signals relating to the information between the attachment part and the main body. The invention is applicable in mobile electronic apparatus having an attachment part detachably attached thereto, internet appliances such as cell phones, mobile electronic information terminals, and PDAs.

Abstract: A fingerprint authentication device includes a sweep fingerprint sensor that acquires images of a fingerprint on a finger at at least two different sensitivity levels in a single scan, and a counterfeit-finger determining unit that determines whether the finger is counterfeit based on the images acquired by the sweep fingerprint sensor.

Abstract: A further object of the present invention is to provide a biological detection device and the like capable of performing processing promptly. An input voltage with a predetermined frequency is output from an oscillating portion. By performing switching using an analog switch, the input voltage is output to an electrode via a first resistance portion. A first comparator detects an output voltage, compares the voltage with a first reference threshold stored in a storage portion, and outputs an output. Furthermore, by performing switching using the analog switch, an input voltage is output to the electrode via a second resistance portion. A second comparator detects an output voltage, compares the voltage with a second reference threshold, and outputs an output. A determination portion determines whether a test body is a living finger or a gummy finger in accordance with a combination of the values of the outputs.

Abstract: A fingerprint sensor acquires fingerprint information of an object being in contact. A light source irradiates a light to the object from a lateral side of the fingerprint sensor. A measuring unit measures a diffusion pattern of the light passing through the object. A determining unit determines whether the object is a live finger or an artificial finger based on the diffusion pattern measured by the measuring unit.

Abstract: The biometric information input apparatus comprises a fingerprint sensor which detects biometric information, and moisture absorbing units and which are arranged adjacent to the fingerprint sensor and absorb moisture. The moisture absorbing units and have a groove structure which generates a capillary phenomenon. The fingerprint sensor is of the sweep type which scans biometric information through relative displacement with the finger, and is formed in parallel with the direction of relative displacement between the groove structure and the finger. The groove structure has a width smaller than the pitch of the ridges of an average fingerprint.

Abstract: An authentication apparatus includes a measuring unit measuring biometric information of an individual, a converting unit carrying out a predetermined conversion process with respect to the biometric information so as to obtain converted biometric information, an extracting unit extracting feature information from the converted biometric information so as to obtain extracted feature information, and a verifying unit verifying the extracted feature information with respect to the registered information which is registered in advance, so as to authenticate the individual.

Abstract: A cryptographic method and equipment decrypting a cryptographic key by generating an auxiliary code based on a randomly determined numeric key and including a result of encryption into a cryptogram. Upon decryption, the cryptographic key is restored using the numeric key restored according to the entire cryptogram. A cryptographic method and equipment scrambles and encrypts physical characteristic information, and descrambles a result of a decryption, thereby enabling any alteration to a cryptogram to be detected because even a minor alteration thereto changes the result of the decryption. A remote identification system encrypts physical characteristic information using a password as a cryptographic key, and fluctuation of the physical characteristic information, authenticating information represented as a different bit pattern at each identifying processing is generated and sent to a transmission medium.

Abstract: A mobile electronic apparatus in which various functions can be easily added without impairing the mobility and without making any change in the hardware. The mobile electronic apparatus is carried by its authorized user to perform various types of electrical information processing, and has an attachment part detachably attached to a main body of the apparatus for performing a predetermined function, which attachment part has an input/output section for inputting/outputting information. The apparatus also has an interface section for transferring input/output signals relating to the information between the attachment part and the main body. The invention is applicable in mobile electronic apparatus having an attachment part detachably attached thereto, internet appliances such as cell phones, mobile electronic information terminals, and PDAs.

Abstract: The present invention provides a confidential information management system which allows users to securely obtain confidential information files containing various confidential information, which files are securely stored in the present system, anywhere and anytime, using a minimum of confidential information. A confidential information file and encoding/decoding software are downloaded to an information terminal from a confidential information managing server and an encoding/decoding software managing server, respectively, so that the confidential information file is decoded on the information terminal by using the encoding/decoding software. The present system is applicable to various (computer) systems which store and manage confidential information (ID numbers, passwords, encryption keys, digital certificates, etc.) for use in user verification.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a personal authentication system which facilitates the updating of version without making a request for biometrics information re-registration work to a user even if a change of biometrics information acquiring device, biometrics information acquisition mode or biometrics characteristic data to be used at verification takes place. Accordingly, the invention comprises a biometrics information inputting section having a function to acquire biometrics information, a biometrics information converting section for converting the biometrics information acquired through the biometrics information inputting section into a state to be acquired on a predetermined acquisition condition, and an biometrics characteristic data extracting section for extracting biometrics characteristic data from the biometrics information obtained by the conversion in the biometrics information converting section.

Abstract: For personal authentication using biometric information, to allow for unfailing authentication without increasing verification time even for an authentication object that is not supported only by a minutia matching method, the present invention provides a biometric information authentication device comprising: a first verifying section for verifying first to-be-verified data against first registration data registered preliminarily using a minutia matching method; a second verifying section for verifying second to-be-verified data against second registration data registered preliminarily using a pattern matching method; and a determining section for comparing match degree, which is obtained as a result of verification by the first verifying section, with a first threshold value and a second threshold value to allow the second verifying section to perform verification in the case where the match degree is equal to or smaller than the first threshold value and equal to or larger than the second threshold value.

Abstract: The invention is a biometric information input device including biometric information collection means for reading a relatively-moving living body site and successively collecting a plurality of partial images of the living body site as biometric information, movement direction detection means for detecting a movement direction of the living body site with respect to the biometric information collection means based on the biometric information collected by the biometric information collection means, and coordinate conversion means for performing a coordinate conversion on the biometric information collected by the biometric information collection means using the movement direction detected by the movement direction detection means, thereby allowing the device to be used irrespective of a direction in which a living body is swept when biometric information is entered.

Abstract: A personal authentication system using biometrics information, which identifies or authenticates an individual by verifying to-be-verified biometrics characteristic data against previously registered biometrics characteristic data. The system includes a biometrics information inputting section having a function to acquire the to-be-verified biometrics information; a biometrics information converting section converting said to-be-verified biometrics information, acquired through said biometrics information inputting section, into a state to be acquired on a predetermined acquisition condition, said predetermined acquisition condition being a same condition under which the registered biometric information was acquired; and a biometrics characteristic data extracting section extracting to-be-verified biometrics characteristic data from the to-be-verified biometrics information obtained by the conversion in said biometrics information converting section.