PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a living body detection device which prevents occurrences of wrong detection caused by individual differences of tissue structures of the inside of a human body by using electromagnetic wave responses at a plurality of different positions in the same human body for increasing a degree of accuracy of living body detection, and a living body detection method.SOLUTION: A living body detection device 1 includes: a plurality of band-pass filters 2 with a split-ring resonator which is designed to have a prescribed center frequency in accordance with a detection target site of a subject a measurement part 3 which generates electromagnetic waves for measuring respective electromagnetic wave responses when the detection target site and a plurality of reference target sites are made to come close to the respective band-pass filters 2 an evaluation value calculating part 81 for calculating a relative evaluation value in the subject by using a measurement value of the electromagnetic wave response by the detection target site and a relative reference value obtained from respective measurement values of the electromagnetic wave responses by the plurality of the reference target sites and a living body determining part 82 for determining whether the detection target site is a living body or not based on the relative evaluation value.COPYRIGHT: (C)2016,JPO&INPIT【課題】 同一人体内の異なる複数の位置での電磁波応答特性を用いることにより、人体内部の組織構造の個人差による誤検知の発生を防止し、生体検知の精度を向上させることができる生体検知装置及び生体検知方法を提供する。【解決手段】 被検体の検知対象部位に応じて所定の中心周波数に設計されたスプリットリング共振器を有する複数の帯域通過フィルタ2と、電磁波を発生させ、検知対象部位及び複数の基準対象部位をそれぞれの帯域通過フィルタ2に近接させた際のそれぞれの電磁波応答特性を測定する測定部3と、検知対象部位による電磁波応答特性の測定値と、複数の基準対象部位によるそれぞれの電磁波応答特性の測定値から得られる相対基準値とを用いて、被検体内での相対評価値を算出する評価値算出部81と、相対評価値に基づいて、検知対象部位が生体であるか否かを判定する生体判定部82とを備える生体検知装置1。【選択図】図1
