Patent ID: 7174032
Filing Date: 2007-02-06
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for personal identification comprising: a storage unit for storing an image of a wrist blood vessel pattern of a certain person as a registered image; an image pickup section for picking up an image of a wrist blood vessel pattern of a human body; an identification section for computing a degree of similarity according to a data difference between the image of the wrist blood vessel pattern picked up by the image pickup section and the registered image to carry out identification according to the relationship between the degree of similarity and a predetermined threshold; a positioning section enabling positioning of a wrist thereon; and a recessed section formed in a recessed shape on a top surface of the positioning section, wherein the image pickup section is located on a bottom surface of the recessed section, such that the wrist blood vessel pattern is not distorted at the location of the image pickup station when the wrist is positioned in contact with the positioning section.