Patent ID: 8209752
Filing Date: 2012-06-26
Classification: G06K,G07C,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging system that performs authentication of a user and that is configured to perform a copying operation and a scanning operation, the system comprising: an operation input unit for the user to set conditions for at least one of the copying operation and the scanning operation; an automatic document feeder unit; a plurality of manipulation detecting parts including a first sensor that detects one or more manipulations by the user of the operation input unit to set the conditions for said at least one of the copying operation and the scanning operation, and a second sensor that detects a recording medium being placed in the automatic document feeder unit; a plurality of biometric information acquiring parts that acquire biometric information of the user when the manipulation detecting parts detect the manipulations by the user, the biometric information acquiring parts include an authentication determining part that determines an authentication result of the authentication based on the biometric information acquired by the biometric information acquiring parts; a biometric information storing part that stores pre-acquired biometric information; and a matching part that compares and matches the biometric information acquired by the biometric information acquiring part with the pre-acquired biometric information stored in the biometric information storing part, wherein the authentication determining part determines the authentication result based on one or more matching results obtained by the matching part, wherein in a case that the authentication result determined by the authentication determining part corresponds to authentication success, the authentication result corresponding to authentication success becomes invalid after an imaging process that is related to the detected manipulations by the user is completed.