Patent ID: 8254641

Claim:
A biometrics authentication system comprising: a detection section where a living organism is placed; a light source section including a plurality of laterally-spaced unit light sources capable of illuminating independently of one another, the light source section adapted to illuminate the living organism on the detection section; an image pickup device arranged on a same side as a side where the light source section is arranged with respect to the detection section, the image pickup device adapted to obtain image pickup data of the living organism by a plurality of laterally-spaced image pickup cells on a basis of light from the living organism; a driving section to drive the light source section so that the unit light sources periodically illuminate by time division, and to drive the image pickup device so that while an image pickup operation by a first image pickup cell group laterally positioned near each of the illuminating unit light sources is suspended, an image pickup operation by a second image pickup cell group laterally positioned farther from each of the illuminating unit light sources than the first image pickup cell group is performed; an image processing section to synthesize a plurality of image pickup data obtained by the image pickup device on a basis of illumination light from each unit light source so as to obtain synthesized data representative of an image; and an authentication section to perform an authentication of the living organism on a basis of the synthesized image pickup data obtained by the image processing section.