Patent ID: 7471810

Claim:
A renewal apparatus for an IC card having biometrics authentication functions, which performs renewal of an IC card in which biometrics characteristic data detected from a human body is registered and which has functions for verifying biometrics characteristic data detected for said body against said registered biometrics characteristic data and performing biometrics authentication, comprising: a detection device, which detects data from said body; an IC card reader/writer, which reads and writes an old IC card for renewal and a new IC card; and a control unit, which extracts said biometrics characteristic data from the output of said detection device and transmits the characteristic data to said old IC card, and wherein said control unit uses said biometrics authentication functions of said old IC card to verify said registered biometrics characteristic data against said transmitted biometrics characteristic data, and according to whether biometrics authentication is satisfactory based on the verification result, registers said extracted biometrics characteristic data in said new IC card.