Patent ID: 7284698

Claim:
A gate system comprising: a user identification apparatus which identifies a registered user who is matched with a user who wants to pass through a gate from registered users; and a gate apparatus which forms the gate, wherein the user identification apparatus comprises: image pickup means which takes an image of the face of the passing user before the user reaches the gate; identification and verifying means which identifies a registered user from the taken image; and medium information sending means which sends medium information about a storage medium carried by the registered user to the gate apparatus, the information being stored in association with the identified registered user, and wherein the gate apparatus comprises: medium information receiving means which receives the medium information from the user identification apparatus; medium reading means which reads the medium information from the storage medium carried by the user to pass; and validating and verifying means which verifies the read medium information based on the storage medium carried by the registered user against the medium information received by the medium information receiving means based on the taken image.