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6219439 |
Biometric authentication system
A biometric authentication system is provided which includes a dual input reader, the inputs consisting of stored physiological data of a user on a chip disposed on a smart card, and a fingerprint...
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6208997 |
Rapid production of optimal-quality reduced-resolution representations of very large databases
View space representation data is produced in real time from a world space database representing terrain features. The world space database is first preprocessed. A database is formed having one...
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6201886 |
Image collation device
The present invention provides an image collation device having a simple whole structure which is applied, for example, as a fingerprint collation device. Linear images cut from the one image is...
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6195447 |
System and method for fingerprint data verification
A system and method for authenticating fingerprints includes a remote site having a scanner for generating fingerprint data and an access mechanism. A local site connects to the remote site via...
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6191410 |
Fingerprint sensing apparatus and method
A device for sensing and digitizing a fingerprint from a subject finger comprising a prism, a pixilated illuminating radiation source such as a surface-emitting laser or a radiation source and a...
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6188781 |
Method and apparatus for illuminating a fingerprint through side illumination of a platen
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for illuminating a fingerprint. A finger is placed on a transparent platen which has a microprism array on one surface. A light source directs...
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6185318 |
System and method for matching (fingerprint) images an aligned string-based representation
The invention is a system and method for matching a two dimensional pattern of lines, e.g. a fingerprint, by creating a one dimensional representation of one or more points (e.g., minutiae) on the...
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6181807 |
Methods and related apparatus for fingerprint indexing and searching
A method for indexing and searching a plurality of reference fingerprints to determine if a sample fingerprint matches one of the reference fingerprints includes the steps of: determining...
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6175641 |
Detector for recognizing the living character of a finger in a fingerprint recognizing apparatus
Detector for recognizing the living character of a finger which is arranged in a fingerprint recognizing apparatus and the detector is in contact with a print area (2) of the living finger...
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6175407 |
Apparatus and method for optically imaging features on the surface of a hand
Apparatus and methods for optically imaging features on the surface of a hand are described. An apparatus in accordance with one implementation includes a fixed light source for illuminating an...
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6175640 |
Fingerprint comparing apparatus
An image collating apparatus, e.g. a fingerprint comparing apparatus, is enabled to obtain reliable collation results with a simple configuration. A plurality of areas cut out of 1 image to be...
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6160904 |
Apparatus for inputting information on the irregularity of a finger, individual-identifying apparatus and identifying method
This invention relates to an individual-identifying apparatus in which a plurality of output electrodes are arranged at regular intervals in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of...
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6148270 |
Fast target distance measuring device and high-speed moving image measuring device
A distance measuring device includes first and second cameras, first and second Fourier pattern data generating sections, a pattern processing section, and a distance measuring section. The two...
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6148091 |
Apparatus for controlling the rental and sale of age-controlled merchandise and for controlling access to age-controlled services
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling the distribution of age controlled merchandise or services based upon inputting personal information data encoded on an...
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6144757 |
System and method for identifying an organism
An organism identification system that can identify whether or not a fingerprint image input object is a living body at a fingerprint collating time. A finger collator slides his finger at the time...
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6144756 |
Finger verification system
Two grooves are provided on a rear face of the remote control transmission apparatus and a plurality of electrodes are arranged in the grooves in substantially the same direction as an extension...
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6141436 |
Portable communication device having a fingerprint identification system
A portable communication device (100, 300, 400, 500) comprises a fingerprint identification system (709) including a scanner (115) for scanning a fingerprint (123) of a finger (121) to generate an...
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6134340 |
Fingerprint feature correlator
A device, and a method for its operation, for verifying a person's identity by comparing in a correlator (18) selected features of a reference fingerprint image, generated in a sensor (10) from the...
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6128399 |
Fingerprint sensor device
The fingerprint sensor device comprises a thin flat transparent support (10) having an outside face for receiving the end of a finger and carrying on an inside face a two-dimensional matrix of...
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6122394 |
Compact, simple, 2D raster, image-building fingerprint scanner
A beam (38) of electromagnetic radiation deflected by a moving mirror plate (56) of a micromachined scanner (54) produces a two dimensional ("2D") raster (132) on a scanned surface (28) of a block...
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6111977 |
Hand-held fingerprint recognition and transmission device
A portable fingerprint recognition transmitter that is compact, being less than the size of a cigarette pack, allowing the fingerprint recognition transmitter to be carried by an individual in a...
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6108438 |
Fingerprint sensing devices and systems incorporating such
A fingerprint sensing device comprises an array of sense elements (12) which each include a sense electrode (33), providing in combination with an overlying fingerprint part a capacitance (35), and...
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6100811 |
Fingerprint actuation of customized vehicle features
Apparatus, and a corresponding method for its use, for gaining access to and operating a vehicle, such as a car (10), by means of at least one fingerprint sensor (16) installed inside the vehicle...
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6097035 |
Fingerprint detection apparatus with partial fingerprint images
A fingerprint detection apparatus which includes a detection array having a detection surface, and a fingerprint platform configured to supply a plurality of partial fingerprint images of a...
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6094507 |
Figure location detecting system
A figure location detecting system is designed to detect a location of a first figure (e.g., search fingerprint) within a second figure (e.g., file fingerprint). Particularly, the system is...
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6094499 |
Pattern collation apparatus
A pattern collation apparatus is designed to identify a registration pattern and a collation pattern as identical patterns or not even with a rotation offset between the registration pattern and...
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6091838 |
Irradiated images described by electrical contact
A device generating images described by contact, in which the contact itself closes an open circuit to generate radiation in a pattern in register with the contact. The resulting irradiated image...
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6091837 |
Sensor for acquiring a fingerprint image based on heat transfer
A method and apparatus is provided for measuring patterns in an at least partially heat conducting surface. The method includes the steps of bringing a plurality of surface sensor elements into...
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6088585 |
Portable telecommunication device including a fingerprint sensor and related methods
A portable telecommunication device includes a radio transceiver within a portable housing, a fingerprint sensor carried by the housing, and an authorizing feature for permitting use of the radio...
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6088471 |
Fingerprint sensor including an anisotropic dielectric coating and associated methods
A fingerprint sensor includes an integrated circuit die and a protective covering of a z-axis anisotropic dielectric material. The die includes a conductive layer defining an array of electric...
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6084977 |
Method of protecting a computer system from record-playback breaches of security
A record-playback attack on a security system involves recording authorisation information such as passwords and playing them back to the server at a later time to unlawfully access a system. A...
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6078265 |
Fingerprint identification security system
A key-lock operated security system utilizing a fingerprint of an authorized user to control access to the security system, such as the ignition system of an automobile. An intelligent key has a...
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6078679 |
Manufacturing method and reading device of individual information protecting card by multiple image frequency transformation
An individual information protecting card is formed by multiple image frequency transformation of the invention is a system utilizing a simplicity of bar cade and an image property of hologram in...
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6075455 |
Biometric time and attendance system with epidermal topographical updating capability
A biometric time and attendance device for scanning an epidermal portion of a human body, generating an epidermal topographical pattern and transmitting the epidermal topographical pattern to a...
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6075876 |
Sliding yardsticks fingerprint enrollment and verification system and method
A fast position tolerant and economical fingerprint verification algorithm and software implementation is disclosed. The algorithm has very important advantages in comparison to existing...
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6072891 |
Method of gathering biometric information
In the past, user authorization based on biometric information was conducted by correlating a single instance of biometric information against a template. By using this method, a percentage of the...
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6069970 |
Fingerprint sensor and token reader and associated methods
A fingerprint and token sensor system includes an array of fingerprint sensing elements for generating signals related to a fingerprint based upon a finger being positioned adjacent the sensing...
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6067368 |
Fingerprint sensor having filtering and power conserving features and related methods
A fingerprint sensor includes an array of fingerprint sensing elements and associated active circuits and an impedance matrix filter connected to the active circuits for filtering the signals. The...
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6061463 |
Holographic fingerprint device
A method and ultra-compact system has been developed for illuminating and detecting the surface topography of an object such as the finger (4) of an individual. The system (8) is capable of...
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6060756 |
Surface shape recognition sensor and method of fabricating the same
A surface shape recognition sensor of this invention includes at least a plurality of capacitance detection elements having sensor electrodes arranged in the same plane on an interlevel dielectric...
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6061464 |
Fingerprint-reading system with integrated heating resistors
A fingerprint-reading system including a sensor on which a finger, whose imprint is to be read, is pressed. The sensor has an active surface of elements sensitive to variations in temperature and...
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6055324 |
Fingerprint image entry device of electrostatic capacitance sensing type
Fingerprint image entry device having no ground electrode provided in a position with which a finger is in a direct contact, wherein accurate fingerprint image can be entered independently of the...
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6052474 |
Method and apparatus for collating images
The present invention provides a method of collating images and an apparatus for collating images capable of collating an image for collation taken in as digital data with an image for reference...
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6047079 |
Method of and an apparatus for pre-selecting fingerprint cards
To provide an apparatus for pre-selecting fingerprint cards having certain similarity to an S-card to be identified, at a high-speed, among a plurality of F-cards, an apparatus of the invention...
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6041134 |
Ergonomic fingerprint reader housing
A housing in accordance with the invention includes a platen therein having a platen surface adapted to be contacted by a digit of a person's hand and first and second exterior surfaces. The first...
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6041133 |
Method and apparatus for fingerprint matching using transformation parameter clustering based on local feature correspondences
The method and apparatus of the present invention provide for automatic recognition of fingerprint images. In an acquisition mode, subsets of the feature points for a given fingerprint image are...
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6031942 |
Image collation method and apparatus for excluding combinations of coordinate values
A plurality of linear images are cut, the cut linear images are scanned successively on other images to detect positions where the degree of similarity is high, and these detected coordinate values...
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6028950 |
Fingerprint controlled set-top box
Disclosed is a method for commerce through a set-top box in which fingerprint data is employed. After prompting an operator to make a purchase through the set-top box, the operator provides...
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6023522 |
Inexpensive adaptive fingerprint image acquisition framegrabber
An advanced low cost adaptive frame grabber is described. Its main area of application is in fingerprint identification and verification systems, but it could successfully be used in other...
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6020988 |
Ultra high resolution wave focusing method and apparatus and systems employing such method and apparatus
An ultra high resolution wave focusing method and apparatus is disclosed. The invention provides a focusing system having an effective numerical aperture greater than that possible using known...
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