AUTHENTICATION METHOD, AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, AUTHENTICATION PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING THE PROGRAM RECORDED THEREIN

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To precisely authenticate a person by using information relating to pores of his or her skin. SOLUTION: An authentication method for authenticating the person by using information relating to pores of his or her skin includes: an authentication area setting step in which a user sets an area of pores to be authenticated; a pore photographing step of photographing a picture including the authentication area set by the authentication area setting step; a pore extraction step of extracting information relating to pores from the pore picture photographed in the pore photographing step; and an authentication step of authenticating the person on the basis of arrangement information and/or feature information of pores extracted in the pore extraction step and arrangement information and/or feature information of pores of a plurality of preliminarily registered persons. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT