Photographic, video, optical, measuring instruments and alarm apparatus, namely access control hardware and software, surveillance hardware and software for warehouses, shops and storehouses, monitoring equipment for guards, theft prevention systems, monitoring apparatus for plants, rooms and archives; hardware and software for facial recognition, equipment for biometric identification, amusement apparatus adapted for use with television receivers only; apparatus for recording, transmission and reproduction of images, namely image recording peripherals for computers comprising an electronic image recording device and software for recording control, surveillance equipment for recording, transmission and reproduction of images, equipment for telecommunication with integrated image recording, hardware and software for video conferencing; automatic distribution machines and mechanisms for coin-operated apparatus, namely amusement automats, portrait photo machines, parts of automatic teller machines and cash dispensers, namely video recording equipment and computer software for image processing; cash registers, data processing equipment and computers, namely computers with an image recording device comprising at least one camera and an electronic device used for capturing image data; cash registers and service terminals with optical authorization control, time recording apparatus, computer software for identification and pattern recognition, computer software and devices for recording and searching image data; computer vision software with an image processing system comprising at least one electronic camera and a processor or software for image processing