| CPC G06F 21/32 (2013.01) | 7 Claims |
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1. A system for face authentication used for performing a face authentication process based on a face image of a person to be verified, the face image being acquired by imaging the person to be verified, the system comprising:
a plurality of face authentication machines;
a server device connected to the plurality of face authentication machines via a network; and
a face authentication administrating device connected to the server device via the network, and operated by an administrator,
wherein each of the plurality of face authentication machines comprises a camera for imaging persons to be verified,
wherein the server device comprises:
a face management server for registering or updating face image data of users, the face image data of each user being registered in association with a matching group corresponding to an organization to which the user belongs; and
a plurality of face matching servers, each face matching server being configured such that, when the face image data of each user is registered or updated, the face matching server acquires the face image data of the user, generates face feature amount data from the acquired face image data of the user, and stores the generated face feature amount data separately for respective matching groups for corresponding organizations, and that, when acquiring face image data of the person to be verified from one of the plurality of face authentication machines, each face matching server performs a matching operation between the face feature amount data stored separately for the respective matching groups and face feature amount data generated from the face image data of the person to be verified acquired from the one of the plurality of face authentication machines,
wherein the face authentication administrating device displays operation screens to be operated by the administrator for settings regarding association information required for operations performed by the face management server and the plurality of face matching servers, and
wherein the operation screens comprise:
a first screen that receives operations to register the respective matching groups;
a second screen that receives operations to set the association information regarding associations between the users and the respective matching groups registered by using the first screen, the second screen being used when the face image data of each user is registered; and
a third screen that receives operations to set an activation date and an invalidation date which determine a valid period during which the face feature amount data of each user is stored in one or more of the plurality of face matching servers,
wherein the server device manages and monitors accesses thereto, and records a status of access by the administrator, the administrator accessing the server device to perform first operations on first settings, the first settings being associated with the respective matching groups, and second operations on second settings, the second settings being associated with activation and invalidation dates which determine the valid period.
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