AUTHENTICATION DEVICE AND IMAGE OUTPUT DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for capturing a facial image for authentication by photographing the face in front with a simple configuration. SOLUTION: An imaging section 11 is disposed near an execution button 13a as a specific operating section. Operation for facial authentication is carried out by detecting the front-face image from the image captured by the imaging section 11 when a user operates the execution button 13a. With such a configuration, the user's habit of turning the face to the execution button 13a when operating the execution button 13a is utilized so that the facial image for authentication can be captured by photographing the face in front with the simple configuration. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT