Patent ID: 9514375
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G06K

Claim Text:
1. An authentication apparatus for authenticating using biometric information including vein information related to a palm input into a vein information inputting area and fingerprint information related to fingers input into a fingerprint information inputting area, the authentication apparatus comprising: a computer that executes a process including detecting that a lack of the biometric information exist, when it is determined, based on the fingerprint information, that a predetermined number of fingerprints used for an authentication is not input; acquiring information for lack determination pertinent to the finger from the vein information input into the vein information inputting; detecting a number of the fingers by using the information for the lack determination, when it is determined that a region detected as the palm represents a same palm by tracking the region by using the vein information and the information of the lack determination; and suppressing the authentication using the vein information and the fingerprint information when there is no lack of the finger based on the detected number of the fingers.