Patent ID: 9619635
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A biometric authentication apparatus comprising: a plurality of processors that are allocated with biometric data to be matched to an input biometric data by a parallel processing; a first management processor configured to distribute a 1:N matching process to the plurality of processors and return an authentication result to a request source of the 1:N matching process by integrating results of the parallel processing of the 1:N matching process performed by the plurality of processors, where N is a natural number greater than or equal to two; a storage configured to store a distribution of the biometric data amongst the plurality of processors for each of a plurality of quality levels that are categorized into a plurality of duality types and indicates a quality of the biometric data for one of the plurality of quality types, and an authentication processing time required by each of the plurality of processors to perform an authentication process on the input biometric data for each of the plurality of quality levels of the one of the plurality of quality types; and a second management processor configured to perform a process including