Patent ID: 8332933
Filing Date: 2012-12-11
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A processing apparatus, comprising: a touch panel which has a display panel displaying an operable screen image and an operation panel accepting an operation; a processing unit which performs a process in accordance with the operation accepted by the touch panel; a fingerprint storage unit which stores fingerprint information; a timer which measures a predetermined period since the fingerprint storage unit has stored the fingerprint information; a reading unit which reads, from the touch panel, fingerprint information of a finger touching the touch panel, each time the touch panel is touched; an identity judgment unit which judges each time the reading unit reads fingerprint information whether the fingerprint information read by the reading unit and the fingerprint information stored in the fingerprint storage unit are identical; a registering unit which registers fingerprint information; a registering judgment unit which judges whether the fingerprint information read by the reading unit and the fingerprint information registered in the registering unit are identical, wherein the registering judgment unit is allowed to judge when the identity judgment unit judges the fingerprints not to be identical; a storing control unit which exclusively stores one fingerprint information, that is identical to the fingerprint information read by the reading unit and is registered in the registering unit, in the fingerprint storage unit, when the registering judgment unit has judged the fingerprints to be identical; and a condition determination unit which determines whether the predetermined period on the timer is expired, wherein the processing unit executes the process in accordance with the operation accepted by the touch panel when the identity judgment unit judges the fingerprints to be identical during the predetermined period, the processing unit does not execute the process in accordance with the operation accepted by the touch panel when the identity judgment unit judges the fingerprints not to be identical during the predetermined period, the registering judgment unit is allowed to judge when the condition determination unit determines the predetermined period on the timer is expired, and the registering judgment unit is not allowed to judge when the condition determination unit determines the predetermined period on the timer is not expired.