JP2006187387A - Biological information-updating management system, biological information-updating management method, and biological information-updating management program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To excellently maintain the reliability of master biological information by coping with the change of biological information. <P>SOLUTION: A biological information-updating management system is constituted of: an authentication time biological information acquisition part 110 for acquiring the biological information at biometrics read for an object person by an anmate certified apparatus 120 which reads the biological information from the object person of the biometrics as the biological information at authentication; a master biological information acquisition part 111 for acquiring the master biological information of the object person read by a biological information extraction device from the biological information extraction device; and an updating alert part 112 for executing the collating processing of the biological information at authentication and the master biological information and outputting alert information urging the updating of the master biological information to an output interface in the case of deciding that a matching degree is a prescribed threshold or higher in the collating processing and they match with each other and also deciding that the matching degree is within a prescribed range. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a biometric information update management system, a biometric information update management method, and a biometric information update management program.

Authentication techniques based on biometric information have been proposed. For example, a portable storage device that stores registered biometric information of a user, means for reading registered biometric information from the portable storage device, a portable terminal that transmits the registered biometric information and a service request by data communication, A monitoring device that determines whether the registered biometric information transmitted from the mobile terminal is valid, an acquisition unit that acquires biometric information input by a user, the determination result and the registered biometric information from the monitoring device And means for receiving the service request, means for collating input biometric information by the user with the received registered biometric information when the determination result indicates that the determination result is valid, and the input biometric information A user authentication system comprising a means for providing the requested service to the user when it is legitimate. Reference 1), and the like have been proposed.
JP 2004-137553 A

  In the prior art, there has not been proposed a technique for prompting the update of the master biometric information serving as the authentication standard in response to an event that the biometric information of the biometric authentication subject changes or a change in the tendency of the reading posture at the time of authentication. .

  Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and is a biometric information update management system, a biometric information update management method, and a biometric information update management method that can maintain the reliability of master biometric information in a favorable manner in response to changes in biometric information. The main purpose is to provide a biometric information update management program.

  The biometric information update management system of the present invention that solves the above problems is a system that performs update management related to biometric information for biometric authentication stored in a storage device, and is a biometric authentication device that reads biometric information from a subject of biometric authentication From the biometric information acquisition unit that acquires biometric information at the time of biometric authentication read by the biometric authentication device for the subject person as biometric information at the time of authentication and the biometric information extraction device that reads the biometric information from the storage device, A master biometric information acquisition unit that acquires the master biometric information of the subject read by the biometric information extraction device, a verification process between the biometric information during authentication and the master biometric information is executed, and the authentication is performed in the verification process. The degree of coincidence between the time biometric information and the master biometric information is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, and can be determined to be coincident with each other. If is can be judged as falling within the predetermined range, and outputs warning information to prompt an update of the master biological information output interface, and updating the alert section, characterized in that it comprises a (first invention).

  In a second aspect based on the first aspect, when the update alert unit determines that the degree of coincidence between the biometric information at the time of authentication and the master biometric information is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value and matches each other, Of biometric information stored in a storage device, the oldest biometric information other than the master biometric information stored for the same part as the biometric information at the time of authentication is discarded and replaced with the biometric information at the time of authentication. To do.

  According to a third invention, in the first or second invention, the update alert unit executes a collation process between the master biometric information and a plurality of biometric information at the time of authentication. The degree of coincidence with all of the plurality of biometric information at the time of authentication is not less than a predetermined threshold and can be determined to match each other, and the degree of coincidence with respect to all or at least a predetermined number of biometric information at the time of authentication is within a predetermined range. If it can be determined that it is included, warning information that prompts the master biometric information to be updated is output to an output interface.

  A fourth invention is a method of performing update management related to biometric information for biometric authentication stored in a storage device by a computer, wherein the biometric authentication device reads biometric information from a subject of biometric authentication. The biometric information read by the biometric information extraction device is acquired from the biometric information extraction device that acquires the biometric information at the time of biometric authentication read about the subject as biometric information at the time of authentication and reads the biometric information from the storage device. The authentication biometric information and the master biometric information are collated, and in the collation process, the degree of coincidence between the authentication biometric information and the master biometric information is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, and they match each other. If it is possible to determine that the degree of coincidence is within a predetermined range, a warning that prompts the master biometric information to be updated. And it outputs the information to the output interface, characterized in that.

  5th invention is a program for making a computer perform the update management method regarding the biometric information for biometric authentication stored in the memory | storage device, Comprising: From the biometric authentication apparatus which reads biometric information from the subject of biometric authentication, the said The biometric information reading device reads the biometric information read by the biometric authentication device as biometric information at the time of authentication, and the biometric information extraction device that reads the biometric information from the storage device reads the biometric information. The step of acquiring the subject's master biometric information and the verification process of the biometric information at the time of authentication and the master biometric information are executed, and the matching degree between the biometric information at the time of authentication and the master biometric information is predetermined in the verification process It can be determined that they are equal to or higher than the threshold value and match each other, and that the matching degree is included in a predetermined range. When, characterized in that it comprises the steps of: outputting the warning information to prompt an update of the master biological information to the output interface.

  In addition, the problems disclosed by the present application and the solutions thereof will be clarified by the embodiments of the present invention and the drawings.

  According to the present invention, the reliability of master biometric information can be favorably maintained in response to changes in biometric information.

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Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a network configuration diagram including a biometric information update management system in the present embodiment. In the present embodiment, for example, a situation is assumed in which the biometric information update management system of the present invention prompts the user to update the master biometric information at an ATM or a counter of a financial institution where biometric authentication of the user is performed. Of course, the application range of the present invention is not limited to this assumption example, and can be applied to any situation where biometric authentication is performed.

  In addition, biometric authentication is to authenticate the person by using different parts of the body and behavioral features of the individual human, and this system is embodied and systemized as a biometric authentication (human crypto authentication) system. is called. Examples of biometric authentication technologies that have been put into practical use and researched include biometric information such as fingerprints, signs, veins, palm prints, retinas, irises, facial expressions, and voices. In the present embodiment, for example, biometric authentication using finger vein verification technology is taken as an example.

  The biometric information update management system 100 (hereinafter, system 100) of the present invention stores a program 102 stored in a program database 101 such as a rewritable memory in order to realize a function for executing the biometric information update management method of the present invention. And executed by the CPU 104 which is an arithmetic unit.

  Further, the system 100 includes various keyboards and buttons generally provided in a computer device, an input / output interface 105 such as a display, a server 130 as a storage device storing master biometric information and the like in the biometric information storage unit 131, and the like. The communication means 106 responsible for exchanging data between and the like.

  The system 100 is connected to the server 130 by the communication means 106 via a network 140 such as the Internet, a LAN, or a serial interface communication line, and data such as authentication biometric information other than master biometric information and master biometric information. Perform the transfer. Between the various functional units of the system 100 and the communication means 106, the I / O unit 107 executes data buffering and various mediation processes.

  In addition, the system 100 includes a biometric authentication device 120 that reads biometric information from a subject of biometric authentication. In the biometric authentication device 120, the finger vein sensor 121 is controlled by the finger vein sensor control unit 122, and the IC card read / writer device 124 is controlled by the card reader control unit 123. The IC card reader / writer device 124 is a biometric information extracting device for reading biometric information from the biometric information storage unit 51 in the IC card 50 as another storage device. The biometric authentication device 120 uses the verification program 125 to obtain master biometric information read from the server 130 or the IC card 50 serving as a storage device and biometric information at the time of authentication acquired by sensing the user at the time of authentication. It is assumed that the process of matching can be executed.

  The biometric authentication device 120 reads the programs 122 to 125 in the program database 11 to the memory 13 and executes them by the arithmetic device 14, as in the system 100. The biometric authentication device 120 includes an input / output interface 105 such as various keyboards, buttons, and a display, and is connected to an external device such as the system 100 via a network 140 such as a LAN or the Internet to exchange data. The communication means 16 to perform is provided. Furthermore, the biometric authentication device 120 is connected to the system 100 via the network 140 such as the Internet, a LAN, or a serial interface communication line by the communication unit 16, and prompts to update the result of biometric authentication and master biometric information. Data exchange such as warning information is executed. Between the various functional units of the biometric authentication device 120 and the communication unit 16, the I / O unit 17 performs data buffering and various mediation processes.

  Further, the server 130 reads the server program 132 in the program database 11 to the memory 13 and executes it by the arithmetic unit 14 as in the system 100 and the like. The server 130 includes an input / output interface 15 such as various keyboards, buttons, and a display, and connects to external devices such as the system 100 via the network 140 such as a LAN or the Internet to execute data exchange. Communication means 16 is provided. Further, the server 130 is connected to the system 100 via the network 140 such as the Internet, a LAN, or a serial interface communication line by the communication unit 16 and executes data exchange such as biometric information. Between the various functional units of the server 130 and the communication means 16, the I / O unit 17 executes data buffering and various mediation processes.

  Further, various terminals 210 such as ATMs and window terminals shown in FIG. 1 are computers used when a user receives biometric authentication. Similar to the system 100, various input / output processes required as the terminal 210 are used. The business program 220 realizing the function and the like is read from the program database 11 to the memory 13 and executed by the arithmetic device 14. In addition, the terminal 210 includes a communication unit 16 that is connected to an external device such as the system 100 via a network 140 such as a LAN or the Internet to exchange data. Further, the terminal 210 is connected to the system 100 by the communication means 16 via the network 140 such as the Internet, LAN, serial interface communication line, etc., and warning information that prompts the user to update the result of biometric authentication or master biometric information. Data exchange such as is executed. Between the various function units of the terminal 210 and the communication means 16, the I / O unit 17 performs data buffering and various mediation processes.

  Further, the terminal 210 may include an IC card read / writer device 215 that performs a read / write process on the biological information storage unit 51 of the IC card 50. The terminal 210 also includes a display device such as a display that outputs biometric authentication results and the like, and an input / output interface 15 such as a touch panel, a keyboard, and a mouse that accept input from the user.

  Next, functional units that are configured and held by the system 100 based on the program 102 will be described. The system 100 obtains biometric information at the time of biometric authentication read by the biometric authentication device 120 for the subject from the biometric authentication device 120 that reads biometric information from the subject of biometric authentication as biometric information at the time of authentication. An information acquisition unit 110 is provided.

  In addition, the system 100 receives the biometric information from the biometric information extraction device (the biometric authentication device 120 including the server itself or the IC card reader / writer device 124) that reads biometric information from the storage device (the server 130 or the IC card 50). A master biometric information acquisition unit 111 that acquires the master biometric information of the subject read by the extraction device is provided.

  Further, the system 100 executes a verification process between the authentication biometric information and the master biometric information, and in the verification process, the degree of coincidence between the authentication biometric information and the master biometric information is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold. An update alert unit 112 is provided that outputs warning information for prompting the update of the master biometric information to an output interface when it can be determined that they match and the degree of match is within a predetermined range.

  The update alert unit 112 stores biometric information stored in the storage device when the degree of coincidence between the biometric information at the time of authentication and the master biometric information is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value and can be determined to match each other. Among them, it is preferable that the oldest biometric information other than the master biometric information stored for the same part as the biometric information at the time of authentication is discarded and replaced with the biometric information at the time of authentication.

  Further, the update alert unit 112 executes a matching process between the master biometric information and the plurality of authentication biometric information, and the matching degree of the master biometric information and the plurality of authentication biometric information in the matching process. Is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, and it can be determined that they match each other, and the master biometric information can be determined that all or a predetermined number or more of the biometric information at the time of authentication is included within a predetermined range. It is preferable to output warning information for prompting the update to the output interface.

  Note that each of the functional units 110 to 112 in the system 100 described so far may be realized as hardware, or may be realized as a program stored in an appropriate storage device such as a memory or an HDD (Hard Disk Drive). Good. In this case, the CPU 104 reads the corresponding program from the storage device into the memory 103 and executes it in accordance with the execution of the program.

  The network 140 is not limited to the Internet, LAN, ATM line, dedicated line, WAN (Wide Area Network), power line network, wireless network, public line network, mobile phone network, serial interface communication line, etc. A network can also be adopted. If a virtual private network technology such as VPN (Virtual Private Network) is used, communication with improved security is established when the Internet is adopted. The serial interface is a serial transmission that sends data one bit at a time using a single signal line, and refers to an interface for connecting to external devices. Communication methods include RS-232C, RS-422, IrDA, USB, IEEE1394, fiber channel, etc. can be assumed.

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Next, the structure of the biological information storage units 51 and 131 used by the system 100 in this embodiment will be described. The biometric information storage units 51 and 131 are provided in the server 130 or the IC card 50. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of the data structure of the biological information storage unit in the present embodiment.

  The biometric information storage unit is a database that stores biometric information other than the master biometric information and the master biometric information of the subject of biometric authentication. This biometric information storage unit is a record that associates data such as a pattern indicating biometric information other than the master biometric information, biometric information coincidence, threshold value, update alert value, stored date, using, for example, a biometric reading part as a key It is an aggregate of.

  Here, since the master biometric information is a reference value, the numerical value of the degree of coincidence in this biometric information storage unit is “100”. The degree of coincidence of the biometric information represents how much the master biometric information matches the biometric information at the time of authentication. For example, if the degree of coincidence associated with the biometric information at the time of authentication in the biometric information storage unit is “90”, this indicates that the biometric information at the time of authentication is 90% similar to the master biometric information. The threshold value is a numerical value indicating that there is no problem in the personal authentication if the degree of coincidence between the master biometric information and the biometric information at the time of authentication is equal to or greater than this value. The update alert value is a numerical value within a predetermined range exceeding the threshold value, and can be said to be a value relatively close to the threshold value. That is, when the degree of coincidence is included in the range of the updated alert value, the result of the personal authentication is OK, but it cannot be said that the degree of coincidence is good.

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Hereinafter, the actual procedure of the biometric information update management method according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings. Various operations corresponding to the biometric information update management method described below are realized by the program 102 that the system 100 reads out to the memory 103 and executes. And this program 102 is comprised from the code | cord | chord for performing the various operation | movement demonstrated below.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an actual procedure example 1 of the biometric information update management method in the present embodiment.

  First, taking the IC card 50 as an example of the storage device according to the present invention, a process for registering biometric information in the IC card 50 will be described. The biometric authentication device 120 included in the system 100 uses the finger vein sensor device 121 to provide biometric information for a predetermined part (eg, a plurality of places) of the user's body of the IC card 50 a plurality of times (or once for each part). The biometric information is acquired by reading (s1000). The acquired biometric information is transmitted to the read writer device 124 of the IC card 50 (s1001).

  The read writer device 124 receives it (s1002), and stores the received biometric information in the biometric information storage unit 51 of the IC card 50 (s1003). It is assumed that the IC card 50 is set in advance in the lead writer device 124 prior to biometric information registration processing. Further, at least one of the biological information is stored in the biological information storage unit 51 as master biological information.

  The IC card 50 notifies the terminal 210 such as an ATM via the reader / writer device 124 that the biometric information is stored in the IC card 50 (s1004). On the other hand, the terminal 200 receives this notification (s1005), and executes a request for recording that the biometric information has been stored in the IC card 50 for the user to a business system such as a financial institution (s1006). . In this business system, the recording request is received (s1007), the user's biometric information storage event is recorded (s1008), and the process is completed.

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FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an actual procedure example 2 of the biometric information update management method in the present embodiment. When the user performs a transaction using the IC card 50 in the terminal 210 such as the ATM, a situation is assumed in which the system 100 executes biometric authentication for the user. The IC card 50 outputs master biometric information from its biometric information storage unit 51 (s1100), and transmits it to the terminal 210 (s1101). The terminal 210 receives this (s1102) and transmits it to the biometric authentication device 120 of the system 100 (s1103).

  The biometric authentication device 120 of the system 100 receives this (s1104) and temporarily stores it in the memory 13. In addition, the finger vein sensor device 121 reads biometric information a plurality of times (or once for each location) for a predetermined portion (eg, a plurality of locations) of the user's body of the IC card 50, and Acquisition is executed (s1105).

  Then, the biometric authentication device 120 collates the acquired biometric information at the time of authentication with the master biometric information derived from the IC card 50 temporarily stored in the memory 13 (s1106). Whether or not the degree of coincidence between the master biometric information and all of the plurality of biometric information at the time of authentication stored in the biometric information storage unit 51 is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold (“80” in the example of FIG. 2) It is determined whether or not, and a biometric authentication result is generated. If the degree of coincidence with the master biometric information is equal to or greater than the threshold value for all authentication biometric information, the master biometric information and the authentication biometric information match and result in authentication OK.

  If the authentication biometric information and the master biometric information derived from the IC card 50 do not match in the process of step s1106 (s1106: NG), a mismatch notification is generated and transmitted to the terminal 210 such as an ATM (s1107). . On the other hand, the terminal 210 receives and outputs it (s1108), and ends the process.

  On the other hand, in the verification process, if the biometric information at the time of authentication and the biometric information derived from the IC card 50 match (s1106: OK), the biometric information stored in the biometric information storage unit 51 of the IC card 50 is stored. Among them, the oldest biometric information other than the master biometric information stored for the same part as the biometric information at the time of authentication is discarded and replaced with the biometric information at the time of authentication (s1109).

  Further, the system 100 determines whether or not the degree of coincidence related to the biometric information at the time of authentication among a plurality of the plurality is included within a predetermined range (“80 to 84” in the example of FIG. 2) (s1110). In this process, when the degree of coincidence regarding the biometric information at the time of authentication of a predetermined number or more among the plurality is not included in the predetermined range (s1110: NO), the process ends. On the other hand, when the degree of coincidence regarding the biometric information at the time of authentication of a predetermined number or more among the plurality is included in the predetermined range (s1110: YES), the biometric authentication results in the master biometric information and the biometric information at the time of authentication matching. Although it is OK, it means that it is difficult to say that the degree of coincidence between the master biometric information and the biometric information at the time of authentication is high. That is, it is conceivable that there is a change in the biometric information, or there is a change in the tendency of the living body's arrangement posture and position with respect to the finger vein sensor device 121 when the biometric information is acquired at the time of authentication.

  Therefore, the system 100 generates warning information for prompting the update of the master biometric information and outputs it to the terminal 210 (or the IC card 50) (s1111). The terminal 210 receives and outputs this (s1112 and s1113), and the process is terminated.

  According to the present invention, the reliability of master biometric information can be favorably maintained in response to changes in biometric information.

  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described concretely based on the embodiment, it is not limited to this and can be variously changed in the range which does not deviate from the summary. The present invention can be applied to other than the financial system described in this embodiment. For example, the present invention can also be applied to authentication for database access restrictions, Internet shopping, and the like.

It is a network block diagram including the system in this embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of a data structure of the biometric information storage part in this embodiment in this embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the actual procedure example 1 of the biometric information update management method in this embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the actual procedure example 2 of the biometric information update management method in this embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

50 IC Card 51 Biometric Information Storage Unit 100 Biometric Information Update Management System, System 101, 11, 21 Program Database 102, 12, 22 Program 103, 13, 23 Memory 104, 14, 24 CPU
105, 15, 25 Input / output interfaces 106, 16, 26 Communication means 107, 17, 27 I / O unit 110 Biometric information acquisition unit during authentication 111 Master biometric information acquisition unit 112 Update alert unit 120 Biometric authentication device 121 Finger vein sensor device 122 finger vein sensor control unit 123 card reader control unit 124 IC card read / writer device 125 verification program 130 server 131 biometric information storage unit 132 server program 140 network 150 member terminal 160 IC card 210 terminal (ATM, counter terminal)
215 IC card reader / writer 220 business program

Claims (5)

A system for performing update management related to biometric information for biometric authentication stored in a storage device,
A biometric information acquisition unit for authentication that acquires biometric information at the time of biometric authentication read by the biometric authentication device for the subject from the biometric authentication device that reads biometric information from the subject of biometric authentication;
A master biometric information acquisition unit that acquires the biometric information of the subject read by the biometric information extraction device from a biometric information extraction device that reads the biometric information from the storage device;
The verification biometric information and the master biometric information are collated, and in the collation processing, the degree of coincidence between the authentication biometric information and the master biometric information is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, and it can be determined that they match each other. In addition, if it can be determined that the degree of coincidence is included within a predetermined range, an update alert unit that outputs warning information that prompts the master biometric information to be updated to an output interface;
A biometric information update management system comprising: In claim 1,
When the update alert unit determines that the degree of coincidence between the biometric information at the time of authentication and the master biometric information is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold and matches each other, of the biometric information stored in the storage device, The biometric information update management system, wherein the oldest biometric information other than the master biometric information stored for the same part as the biometric information at the time of authentication is discarded and replaced with the biometric information at the time of authentication. In claim 1 or 2,
The update alert unit executes a matching process between the master biometric information and the plurality of authentication biometric information, and the matching degree between the master biometric information and all of the plurality of authentication biometric information is a predetermined threshold in the matching process. When it can be determined that they match each other, and it can be determined that all or a predetermined number or more of the plurality of authentication biometric information are included in a predetermined range, the master biometric information is updated. A biometric information update management system characterized in that warning information to be urged is output to an output interface. A method for performing update management on biometric information for biometric authentication stored in a storage device by a computer,
From the biometric authentication device that reads biometric information from the subject of biometric authentication, the biometric information at the time of biometric authentication that the biometric authentication device read about the subject is acquired as biometric information at the time of authentication,
From the biometric information extraction device that reads biometric information from the storage device, obtain the master biometric information of the subject read by the biometric information extraction device,
The verification biometric information and the master biometric information are collated, and in the collation processing, the degree of coincidence between the authentication biometric information and the master biometric information is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, and it can be determined that they match each other. In addition, when it can be determined that the degree of coincidence is included within a predetermined range, the biometric information update management method is characterized in that warning information that prompts the master biometric information to be updated is output to an output interface. A program for causing a computer to execute an update management method related to biometric information for biometric authentication stored in a storage device,
Acquiring biometric information at the time of biometric authentication read by the biometric authentication device from the biometric authentication device that reads biometric information from the subject of biometric authentication as biometric information at the time of authentication;
From the biometric information extraction device that reads biometric information from the storage device, obtaining the master biometric information of the subject read by the biometric information extraction device;
The verification biometric information and the master biometric information are collated, and in the collation processing, the degree of coincidence between the authentication biometric information and the master biometric information is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, and it can be determined that they match each other. And, when it can be determined that the degree of coincidence is included within a predetermined range, outputting warning information for prompting update of the master biometric information to an output interface;
A biometric information update management program comprising:

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