Patent ID: 7330570

Claim:
A biometrics data collation apparatus comprising: a biometrics data acquiring unit for acquiring biometrics data of a person to be identified; a storage unit in which a plurality of biometrics data for each person of a plurality of persons who are collation targets are stored in advance in such a manner as to be associated with an identity of each person of said plurality of persons; a calculating unit for calculating collation degree data obtained by comparing the acquired biometrics data of said person to be identified with the stored biometrics data; an extracting unit for extracting a predetermined number of the highest collation degree data from the stored calculated collation degree data; and an identifying unit responsive to said extracting unit for matching the acquired biometrics data of said person to be identified with an identity based on a predetermined condition relating to the quantity of biometric data of the person to be identified which are contained in results extracted by the extracting unit.