Patent Document ID: 4653097
Application ID: 06870309

Base Claim:
1. An individual verification apparatus comprising: a verification data file in which key codes set by customers, speech reference data file in which key codes set by customers, speech reference data for the key codes spoken by the customers and name speech reference data for names of the customers spoken by themselves are registered; speech input means for providing speech data including key code data in response to an input speech from a customer; memory means coupled to said speech input means for storing key code data spoken by the customer and provided by said speed input means; key code recognition means coupled to said memory means for recognizing the key code of the customer on the basis of the key code data spoken by the customer and stored in said memory means through said speech input means; and speaker verifying means coupled to said verification data file, said speech input means and said memory means for verifying the customer by comparing the key-code speech data stored in said memory means wth the key-code speech reference data of customers hvaing the key code recognized by said speech recognition means and previously registered in said verification data file, said speaker verifying means being arranged to, when the key code of the customer is recognized by said speech recognition means but the customer cannot be verified by the key-code speech data, verify the customer by comparing name speech data spoken by the customer and stored in said memory means through said speech input means with the name speech reference data of the customers having the key code which has been recognized by said speech recognition means and previously registered in said verification data file.

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Claim 2:
2. An apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising: speech responding means coupled to said speech recognition means and said speaker verfification means for audibly indicating to the customer the key code recognized by said speech recognition means and a result of the speaker verification performed by said speaker verification means.