Patent ID: 7215799

Claim:
An electronic device apparatus for reading content data from a recording medium to which content data containing at least any one of a program, character data, sound data, video data and image data is written, and for processing the content data, the electronic device apparatus comprising: an authentication image data generator for acquiring an authentication image containing an image of a fingerprint of an owner of the electronic device apparatus and/or an image of a possession of the owner, and for generating first authentication image data based on the acquired authentication image; a writer for writing the first authentication image data which is generated by the authentication image generator, to the recording medium which the owner has purchased; a reader for reading given authentication image data from the recording medium to which the given authentication image data and given content data are written; an outputter for outputting an input request for an authentication image; a determiner for comparing the given authentication image data with second authentication image data, and for determining whether or not the given authentication image data matches the second authentication image data in the case where the authentication image data generator has acquired the authentication image inputted based on an output result by the outputter and has generated the second authentication image data based on the acquired authentication image; and a processor for processing the given content data based on a determination result by the determiner.