Patent ID: 9083834
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: G06K,G07C,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a first authentication portion, executed by a processor, that shifts a state of the information processing apparatus to a login state in accordance with a first login operation in which login information including an ID and a password of a user is input; a human body detecting portion that detects a human body within a predetermined range from the information processing apparatus; a de-authentication portion, executed by the processor, that when a human body is not being detected by the human body detecting portion during the login state and an error has occurred in the information processing apparatus, stores the login information and cancels the login state, and that when a human body is not being detected by the human body detecting portion during the login state and no error has occurred in the information processing apparatus, cancels the login state without storing the login information; and a second authentication portion that, when a second login operation, the second login operation involving fewer operation steps than the first login operation and involving only an input of the password, is performed during a period after the login state is canceled by the de-authentication portion while an error has occurred in the information processing apparatus and subsequently been eliminated, and before a next first login operation is started, authenticates the user in accordance with the password input in the second login operation and the login information stored by the de-authentication portion, and shifts the state of the information processing apparatus to the login state.