Patent ID: 9239919
Filing Date: 2016-01-19
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. An authentication processing device in which a plurality of divided input areas are displayed and which performs authentication processing in response to information inputted in each of the plurality of divided input areas, the device comprising: a memory including a setting section which stores and sets in advance, in association with each of a predetermined number of a plurality of specified input areas designated in advance as target areas for partial authentication in the plurality of divided input areas, an individual piece of information to be inputted in each of the plurality of specified input areas, where the predetermined number of the plurality of specified input areas are smaller than the plurality of divided input areas; a detecting section of a touch panel which detects inputs by a user and obtains, as target areas for partial authentication, only information inputted in the plurality of specified input areas without obtaining information inputted in areas other than the plurality of specified input areas in the plurality of divided input areas when information is sequentially inputted in the each of the plurality of divided input areas; and a processor configured to receive the individual pieces of information to be inputted in each of the plurality of specified input areas from the setting section of the memory and information inputted in the plurality of specified input areas from the detecting section of the touch panel and operate as a partial authenticating section which performs, as authentication processing of partial authentication, processing of matching a piece of the information inputted in each of the plurality of specified input areas detected by the detecting section of the touch panel and the individual piece of information stored in association with each of the plurality of specified input areas set in advance by a user and stored in the setting section of the memory and authenticating in response to determining that the piece of the information inputted in each of the plurality of specified input areas matches the individual piece of information stored in association with each of the plurality of specified input areas.