Patent ID: 7076087

Claim:
An individual identifying apparatus comprising: an image pick up unit for photographing one of irides and retinas of a one eye of a person to be identified; a position fixing unit for fixing a position of said image pick up unit, while extraneous light is shielded, under such a condition that the one eye of the person to be identified is directed opposite to said image pick up unit; a first lighting unit for emitting photograph-purpose illumination light with respect to the one eye of the person to be photographed inside said position fixing unit; an individual identifying unit for identifying an individual based upon a picture of the one eye which is photographed by said image pick up unit; and a state output unit for outputting information corresponding to a pupil diameter of the one eye which is photographed by said image pick up unit, wherein said individual identifying unit identifies the individual based upon the picture of the one eye photographed by said image pick up unit when the output of said state output unit is reached to a predetermined value, wherein the image pick up unit is provided within a casing and photographs through a hole on a keypad provided on said casing, and wherein the position fixing unit surrounds said keypad and protrudes from said casing.