Patent ID: 8065528

Claim:
An authentication device for performing identity verification by imaging a person to be authenticated, the authentication device comprising: an imaging device, switched between a close up mode enabling photographing at close up and a non-close up mode other than the close up mode, for imaging the person to be authenticated; a detecting unit for detecting whether or not the imaging device is in the close up mode; a determining unit for determining that the person to be authenticated is not the person in question in any situation when the detecting unit detects that the mode of the imaging device of when imaging the person to be authenticated is the close up mode; an authentication unit for determining whether or not the person to be authenticated is the person in question when the detecting unit detects that the mode of the imaging device when imaging the person to be authenticated is the non-close up mode; and a notifying unit for notifying the determination result of the determining unit after a predetermined time after the determining unit determines that the person to be authenticated is not the person in question, wherein the predetermined time is substantially the same as a time required for a determination process in the authentication unit.