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Abstract

The invention provides a biometric authentication apparatus made compact and inexpensive while retaining convenience of use, and also a biometric authentication apparatus capable of preventing mutual interference of plural different authenticating methods thereby attaining a high authenticating precision. The invention provides a biometrics authentication apparatus for executing different plural biometric authentications including first image acquisition means; second image acquisition means; control means for controlling operations of the first and second image acquisition means, and an authentication part which executes an authentication utilizing image data obtained from the image acquisition parts. In at least a part of the authentication part, a common transfer path is provided for the image data obtained from the first image acquisition means and the image data obtained from the second image acquisition means.

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