Biometric Camera Capture With Deferred Authentication Tagging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image capturing devices require significant time for biometric authentication, leading to missed shooting opportunities during the authentication process.
Innovation Solution
An image capturing apparatus with integrated biometric authentication that allows image capturing to proceed concurrently with temporary storage and subsequent addition of authentication results, reducing the influence of biometric authentication on image capturing by performing image data generation and biometric verification in parallel.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If biometric authentication is performed before image capturing, then authentication reliability is improved, but image capturing productivity deteriorates due to time loss
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs biometric authentication in advance before the image capturing operation, so that when the user presses the capture button, the authentication is already complete or in progress independently. This preliminary action ensures that authentication does not block the capture operation, resolving the contradiction between authentication reliability and capturing productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The biometric authentication process continues in the background independently of the image capturing operation. The authentication unit processes authentication requests continuously while the image capturing unit operates without interruption. This continuous parallel processing eliminates the stop-start nature of sequential operations, maintaining both authentication reliability and capturing productivity.
2Reliability
If image capturing is blocked during biometric authentication, then authentication security is improved, but operational convenience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the authentication and capturing operations into independent parallel processes. The authentication unit handles biometric verification separately from the image capturing unit, allowing each to operate independently. This segmentation enables the user to press the capture button immediately without waiting for authentication to complete, improving operational convenience while maintaining security through separate authentication processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The control unit acts as an intermediary that coordinates between the authentication unit and image capturing unit. It manages the interaction between these two units, allowing the capture operation to proceed while authentication runs in parallel. The intermediary ensures that both security requirements and operational convenience are satisfied by orchestrating the parallel processing.
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AI summary
An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing section that performs an image capturing process to generate image data, a system memory section that temporarily stores the image data, a biometric information acquisition section that acquires biometric information of an operator who performs an operation of instructing the image capturing process, and a controller that performs a biometric authentication process for authenticating the operator based on the acquired biometric information. When the image capturing process is started, the biometric authentication process is started. If the biometric authentication process is not terminated before terminating the image capturing process, the image data generated by the image capturing process is temporarily stored in the system memory section, and if the biometric authentication process is terminated after temporarily storing the image data, a result of the biometric authentication process is added to the temporarily stored image data.