Patent ID: 7460692
Filing Date: 2008-12-02
Classification: G06K,G07C

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: a camera which photographs an operator; an authentication unit to authenticate whether or not facial data indicating an operator's face photographed by the camera indicates a registered person based on a result of searching for the facial data registered in a facial data storage unit in which the facial data indicating the operator's face is registered beforehand; a control unit to control an only predetermined function executable by a person other than the registered person in a case where that it is judged that the operator is not the registered person by an authentication result of the authentication unit; a motion capture unit which captures a motion of the photographed operator by photographing the motion of the operator in a moving image; and a motion data storage unit which stores moving images indicating a preset motion, wherein the control unit comprises a process to start warming-up, when judging that the motion of the operator captured by the motion capture unit in a standby state is the same as a motion of the moving image stored in the motion data storage unit.