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7110093 Inspection apparatus and inspection method  
A banknote inspection apparatus has a conveyance path, and midway of this conveyance path there are conveyance rollers for conveying a banknote, and a fluorescence sensor for detecting a...
7103201 Methods for capturing fingerprint images using a moving platen  
A method and apparatus whereby a fingerprint verifier has a mechanism to slide a prism over an imaged area of a camera. The position of the prism being determined by a binary absolute linear code...
7103206 Method and apparatus for detecting doubled bills in a currency handling device  
A doubles detection system for detecting doubled documents. The system comprises one or more light sources disposed on a first side of a test document and one or more reflected light sensors...
7092556 Data reader for reading biological data from constrained human body region  
A data reader constrains a human body region of an examinee in a readout position upon inflation of balloon members. The data reader can safely and reliably constrains the human body region, which...
7081951 Palm print scanner and methods  
A live print scanner includes a transparent tray platen apparatus and a scanning system. The transparent tray platen apparatus includes a base region attached to two rounded side regions. The base...
7079230 Portable authentication device and method of authenticating products or product packaging  
A portable authentication device and method of authenticating products or packaging by analyzing key ingredients on products or on product packaging is disclosed. Light-sensitive compounds can be...
7079672 Fingerprint image evaluating method and fingerprint matching device  
The present invention determines whether fingerprint ridgeline information is contained within the fingerprint image using a simple method by considering the properties of the fingerprint...
7068356 Security imaging system  
Method and system for detecting authenticate products based upon alteration of emission characteristics due to interaction of the emissions with the product and the container.
7062065 Anti-counterfeiting method and system  
An anti-counterfeiting system and method modifies the data within a first data set having data in a first data arrangement to create a second data arrangement for the first data set, determines...
7057723 Optical sensor device and method for spectral analysis  
An optical detection device for validating bank notes has several input apertures, an imagine device ( 12 ), a diffraction grating ( 15.1, 15.2, 15.3 ) associated with each input aperture ( 11.1,...
7050158 Compact image pickup module  
An image pickup module made of clear polymer includes an imaging surface, a first mirror, and a second mirror. An object is placed on the imaging surface for imaging. Incident light reflects off...
7050159 Coin-type determining device  
The coin-type determining device, for determining the presence or absence of inclined notches formed on the circumferential surface of the coin transferred through a coin transfer path, comprises:...
7047419 Data security system  
A data security system comprises a host processor, and a plurality of remote computers. Each remote computer provides biometric authentication of a user prior to responding to the user request for...
7046346 Optoelectronic document reader for reading UV / IR visible indicia  
A document reader for optoelectronically illuminating, reading and interpreting (i.e. processing and analyzing) indicia appearing on a document in a machine readable zone thereof, wherein the...
7039223 Authentication method utilizing a sequence of linear partial fingerprint signatures selected by a personal code  
A method and system for personal authentication using sequences of partial fingerprint signatures provides a high security capability to various processes requiring positive identification of...
7038766 Identification particles and system and method for retrospective identification using spectral codes  
A system and method using reporter elements provides retrospective identification of articles. An article is marked with reporter elements such that the mark has a characteristic spectral response...
7034324 Apparatus for sensing optical characteristics of a banknote  
The optical characteristics of a banknote are measured by using first and second sets of optical devices positioned on respective sides of the banknote path. Each device includes a transmitter and...
7034927 System and method for identifying an object using invisible light  
An object is identified with a camera that is sensitive to both visible and invisible light. An invisible light illuminator attached to the object may project a target of invisible light, which may...
7034928 Reading apparatus  
A reading apparatus comprises a plurality of sensor modules having different resolutions. The sensor modules are arranged in a main scanning direction on a read surface to be used for different...
7030972 System and method for identifying objects  
Method and system for detecting the presence and determining characteristics of objects such as ink cartridges in printing systems. The system includes a signal transceiver capable of transmitting...
7013030 Personal choice biometric signature  
A biometric method and system for personal authentication using sequences of partial fingerprint signatures provides a high security capability to various processes requiring positive...
7006204 Automated verification systems and methods for use with optical interference devices  
An automated verification system for authenticating an object having an optical security feature includes an optical system, a transport staging apparatus, and an analyzing device. The optical...
7003142 Method and arrangement for registering and verifying fingerprint information  
The invention relates to a method for registering fingerprint information via a sensing surface A. The method comprises scanning part surfaces A′ 1 in the sensing surface A, checking whether the...
7003141 Method of and device for identification of fingermarks  
Identification of a fingermark is performed by obtaining for a fingermark a fingermark image, storing reference fingermarks in a databank, comparing the obtained fingermark image with the reference...
6995839 Automated Raman scanner for documents and materials  
A scanner employs Raman spectroscopy for on site automated materials authenticity verification and identification. A technology developed so that operators with little or no technical expertise can...
6996259 System and method for counting ridges in a captured print image  
A system and method for counting ridges in a captured print image frame is described. A pixel path through the captured print image frame is traversed. A hysteresis band for the pixel path is...
6980286 Ultra-thin optical fingerprint sensor with anamorphic optics  
Disclosed is an ultra-thin optical imaging sensor with anamorphic optics comprising of an image capturing panel an anamorphic optical lens of at least two optical magnification powers, and an...
6977719 Bill validator  
The compact bill validator including a bill accommodating section comprises: a bill sending mechanism sending the bill inward from an inlet via a sending path; a bill identification section being...
6973206 Method and system for quality based fingerprint matching  
A method including the steps of:) receiving ( 202 ) a search record; generating ( 206 ) at least one hierarchical cluster, each having a different minimum quality level; for each cluster,...
6970235 Document monitoring method  
A method of inspecting documents of value, the method comprises: a) obtaining images of one or more parts of the document from radiation received from that part or those parts of the document ( 14...
6970236 Methods and systems for verification of interference devices  
An automated verification system for authenticating an object having an interference security device or feature includes an electromagnetic radiation source capable of generating one or more...
6966998 Security printing  
A method of providing covert security features for documents such as vouchers, packaged goods and banknotes in which the document is provided with a dopant. The dopant consisting of a material...
6961451 Fingerprint/palmprint image processor and processing method  
The region feature judging part judges whether local regions are regions including ridges only or regions including a mixture of creases and ridges, and the suitable ridge image selecting part...
6954261 System and method for illuminating a platen in a live scanner and producing high-contrast print images  
Light from an illumination source is injected into a prism of a print scanner through an illumination injection surface that is not directly imaged by an optical system and an image sensor of the...
6947146 Optical object identification device and printing apparatus using the same  
An optical object identification device has a light emission element, an optical system condensing light from the light emission element, a photodetector integrated with a mask provided with a...
6936834 Method and apparatus for determining stone cells in paper or pulp  
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for determining stone cells within a sample of wood pulp or paper. According to the instant invention a portion of the sample is irradiated with light at a...
6937322 Methods and devices for testing the color fastness of imprinted objects  
Methods and apparatuses for testing the authenticity of objects printed with security link are provided which measure light emanating from, in particular reflected or transmitted by, an object to...
6937752 Automatic currency processing system  
There is provided an automatic processing apparatus which can protect the secret items of the validator, easily provide a measure for change of bank note and reduce the manufacturing cost. A...
6926201 Bank note processing machine  
There is provided a bank note processing machine in which a discrimination sensor can be formed compactly even when bank notes are discriminated using a light source having a plurality of...
6920236 Dual band biometric identification system  
A biometric identification system directed toward use of dual-band visual-infrared imaging with appropriate techniques for integrating the analysis of both images to distinguish less reliable from...
6914679 Side light apparatus and method  
An apparatus for directing uniform intensity light onto a surface where the light is provided at an acute angle with respect to the surface including a light source that generates initial light...
6914668 Personal identification verification and controlled substance detection and identification system  
A personal identification and security system including a personal identification verification system, a controlled substance detection and identification system and an alarm indicator responsive...
6898301 Authentication system based on fingerprint and electronic device employed for the system  
Image pickup window is provided at main body of cellular phone. Image pickup element is moved in accordance with switching between an ordinary imaging mode and a fingerprint imaging mode. Infinite...
6894262 Cluster-weighted modeling for media classification  
A probabilistic input-output system is used to classify media in printer applications. The probabilistic input-output system uses at least two input parameters to generate an output that has a...
6891962 Fingerprint sensor and fingerprint recognition system  
A fingerprint sensor used for a fingerprint recognition system comprises a first prism or prism array including a first surface which a human finger is placed and a second surface; a lamp for...
6891180 Camera system for editing documents  
A camera system ( 2 ) for strip-shaped exposure of a bank note (BN) having good optical properties as well as a compact construction has, symmetrically to an optical axis (OA), mirror assemblies (...
6885439 Fingerprint input devices and electronic devices provided with the same  
To provide a fingerprint input device including a collected fiber member that is brought into intimate contact with a fingerprint surface of a finger, a planar light source for illuminating said...
6879385 Nondestructive reading method for isotopic label  
A nondestructive reading method for an isotopic label, capable of easily and quickly reading information on an isotopic label imparted to an article in advance without destroying the label, and a...
6867850 Light wedge for illuminating a platen in a print scanner  
Light wedges that reflect light internally and produce diffuse light for uniformly illuminating a platen in a print scanner are presented. In one example, a light wedge has a first surface that...
6858323 Valuable document  
The invention relates to a document of value, such as a paper of value, ID card or the like, having at least one authenticity feature in the form of a luminescent substance. The luminescent...