Information processing devices and methods facilitating face-ID-based user login

1. An information processing device implemented by a processor coupled with a memory that the information processing device comprises, and therein configured to function as:

an image acquirer configured to acquire a shot image of a user;

a registered user information holder configured to hold face identification data of a registered user;

a face authentication section configured to carry out authentication of a face image in the shot image by using the face identification data held in the registered user information holder;

an information processing section configured to execute information processing on a basis of an authentication result by the face authentication section;

a face identification data registration section configured to update the face identification data on a basis of a face image extracted from the shot image; and

a provisionally-registered data holder configured to temporarily hold data relating to the face image when the face image satisfies a predetermined condition; wherein

the face identification data registration section stores data relating to the face image extracted from the shot image in the provisionally-registered data holder when degree of match between the data relating to the face image extracted from the shot image and the face identification data of a specific registered user falls within a predetermined range, and determines whether or not to update the face identification data on the basis of the face image by evaluating the data that is held by the provisionally-registered data holder and relates to the face image at a subsequent predetermined timing, and

the face identification data registration section further directly updates the face identification data on the basis of the face image when the degree of match is higher than the predetermined range.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the face identification data registration section obtains reliability of being a face image of a specific registered user by acquiring degree of match between the data that is held by the provisionally-registered data holder and relates to the face image and the face identification data held by the registered user information holder at a plurality of timings, and updates face identification data of the specific registered user on the basis of the face image when the reliability reaches a predetermined value.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2 , wherein the face identification data registration section further obtains reliability of being a face image of a user other than the registered user on a basis of the degree of match acquired, and stores face identification data on the basis of the face image as data of a guest user in the registered user information holder when the reliability of being the face image of the user other than the registered user reaches a predetermined value.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3 , wherein the face authentication section executes authentication processing for a face image shot as a new registered user by using face identification data of a guest user held by the registered user information holder, and deletes registration as the guest user if it is determined that the face image is a face image of the guest user.

5. The information processing device according to claim 2 , wherein the face identification data registration section deletes data in which neither the reliability of being the face image of the specific registered user nor reliability of being the face image of the user other than the registered user reaches a predetermined value among pieces of data held by the provisionally-registered data holder according to a period for which the data is held in the provisionally-registered data holder.

6. An information processing method comprising, by an information processing device:

acquiring a shot image of a user from an imaging device;

reading out face identification data of a registered user stored in a storage device and carrying out authentication of a face image in the shot image by using the face identification data;

executing information processing on a basis of an authentication result; and

updating the face identification data stored in the storage device on a basis of a face image extracted from the shot image, wherein the updating the face identification data

includes temporarily storing data relating to the face image extracted from the shot image in a memory when degree of match between the data relating to the face image extracted from the shot image and the face identification data of a specific registered user falls within a predetermined range, and determining whether or not to update the face identification data on the basis of the face image by evaluating the data that is stored in the memory and relates to the face image at a subsequent predetermined timing, and

further includes directly updating the face identification data on the basis of the face image when the degree of match is higher than the predetermined range.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program causing a central processing unit to execute steps of:

acquiring a shot image of a user;

reading out face identification data of a registered user stored in a storage device and carrying out authentication of a face image in the shot image by using the face identification data;

executing information processing on a basis of an authentication result; and

updating the face identification data on a basis of a face image extracted from the shot image, wherein the updating the face identification data

includes temporarily storing data relating to the face image extracted from the shot image in a memory when degree of match between the data relating to the face image extracted from the shot image and the face identification data of a specific registered user falls within a predetermined range, and determining whether or not to update the face identification data on the basis of the face image by evaluating the data that is stored in the memory and relates to the face image at a subsequent predetermined timing, and

further includes directly updating the face identification data on the basis of the face image when the degree of match is higher than the predetermined range.