Patent ID: 7689013

Claim:
An identifying device by biometrics information comprising: a biometrics information input section to sample biometrics information for verification, which is used for comparison/verification with registered biometrics information at personal identification, from a living body portion of a person to be identified and to input the sampled biometrics information for verification; and a living-body detector to detect if the living body portion, for which the biometrics information for verification is being sampled/inputted by the biometrics information input section, is a living body or not, wherein the biometrics information input section is to sample/input the biometrics information for verification as image information from the living body portion moving relatively with respect to the biometrics information input section, a living-body detection surface in the living-body detector is arranged in contact with or in the proximity to the living body portion being moved with respect to the biometrics information input section so as to input the biometrics information for verification, the living body portion is a finger of the person to be identified, the biometrics information input section is to sample/input a fingerprint image of the finger as the biometrics information for verification, and the living-body detector is to detect a forged fingerprint, and the living-body detector samples a blood vessel pattern in the finger by irradiating light to the finger and discriminates a living body from a forged fingerprint based on an absence or presence of the sampled blood vessel pattern.