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Patent Inventor Names
Kazuhiro Ogura0
Akihiro Mizutani0
Date of Patent
December 2, 2008
Patent Application Number
10937413
Date Filed
September 10, 2004
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Patent abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a camera which photographs an operator, an authentication unit to authenticate whether or not facial data indicating an operator's face photographed by the camera indicates a registered person based on a result of searching for the facial data registered in a facial data storage unit in which the facial data indicating the operator's face is registered beforehand, and a control unit to control an only predetermined function executable by a person other than the registered person in a case where that it is judged that the operator is not the registered person by an authentication result of the authentication unit.
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