Server Biometric Authentication False Detection Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Biometric authentication systems at airports face challenges with false authentication rates, leading to delays and incorrect passenger boarding, as existing technologies are not effective in detecting and correcting these errors in real-time.

Innovation Solution

A server device and system that acquires biometric information from terminals, performs authentication using registered user data, and transmits authentication results to staff terminals when specific conditions are met, allowing for immediate detection and correction of false authentication by displaying the acquired and registered biometric information for comparison.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If biometric authentication is used for automated passenger verification, then authentication speed and efficiency are improved, but false authentication errors may occur leading to incorrect passenger acceptance or rejection

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveauthentication speedVSAvoidauthentication accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system transmits authentication result information including both the acquired biometric information and the registered biometric information of the successful authentication person to a staff terminal. This feedback mechanism allows staff to verify authentication results and detect false authentication errors, thereby improving reliability while maintaining automated authentication speed

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a staff terminal as an intermediary between the automated authentication system and the final verification decision. The staff terminal receives and displays authentication result information, serving as a mediator to detect and correct false authentication errors, thus resolving the contradiction between automated speed and accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If biometric authentication results are transmitted to staff terminals for verification, then false authentication detection capability is improved, but system complexity and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefalse authentication detectionVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the necessary authentication result information (acquired biometric information and registered biometric information of successful authentication person) and transmits it to the staff terminal for verification. This selective extraction approach enables false authentication detection without requiring complex system changes or excessive data transmission

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a copy of the authentication result information including the acquired biometric information and registered biometric information, and transmits this copy to the staff terminal for verification. This copying approach enables verification without modifying the original authentication system, thus limiting the increase in system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS20240029494A1Server device, system, method for controlling server device, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2024.01.25 NEC CORP
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AI summary

Provided is a server device with which it is possible to detect the occurrence of false authentication in biometric authentication. The server device is provided with an acquisition unit and an authentication unit. The acquisition unit acquires biometric information regarding an authenticate from a terminal. The authentication unit performs biometric authentication using the biometric information regarding the authenticate and biometric information regarding each of a plurality of users registered in advance. When a prescribed condition is satisfied, the authentication unit transmits, to a staff terminal used by staff, authentication result information including the biometric information acquired from the terminal and registered biometric information of a successful authenticate who succeeded in biometric authentication.