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7606399 Surface shape recognizing sensor device  
A sensor cell includes a sensor electrode ( 101 ) formed on a substrate ( 100 ), a signal output unit ( 16 ) which outputs a signal corresponding to a capacitance (Cf) formed between the sensor...
7596248 Method for identification of person by recognition of a digital fingerprint  
The invention relates to a method for identification of a person by recognition of a digital fingerprint, whereby the characteristic points on a digitized image of a digital fingerprint (E) are...
7593551 Face meta-data generation and face similarity calculation  
A face feature is extracted by a face feature extracting unit, a confidence index is extracted by a confidence index extracting unit, and then, they are outputted as a face meta-data. At a time of...
7583877 Optical fiber, optical fiber connection structure and optical connector  
An optical fiber includes a core, a clad having a plurality of air holes at a periphery of the core, and a hardening resin filled in a sealed portion at an end of the plurality of air holes. The...
7583826 Image reading apparatus and its driving method  
An image reading apparatus for reading an image pattern of a detecting object comprises a detecting surface on which a detecting object is placed, a sensor array having a plurality of sensors...
7577276 Fingerprint matching device and method, recording medium, and program  
The present invention relates to a fingerprint collation apparatus and method, a recording medium and a program, which can increase the throughput of fingerprint collation and decrease a data...
7576738 Method for constructing surface parameterizations  
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to construct an optimal parameterization for a discrete surface patch. A three-dimensional image having a surface is selected. An...
7565548 Biometric print quality assurance  
Quality of biometric prints is enhanced by any one of several different methods. In one embodiment, if a biometric print does not have a high enough quality, the biometric print is discarded. In...
7564997 System and method of hash string extraction  
A method of hash string extraction from biometric information is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of providing a biometric information sample in the form of a fingerprint for example,...
7555150 Fingerprint input apparatus  
This invention provides a fingerprint input apparatus which detects that a finger is put on a sensor element, which can reduce power consumption, which requires fewer components, and which is...
7551757 Method for determining the bearing surface in skin print images  
In a method for determining the bearing surface in images of skin prints, the skin having ridges and furrows and the images existing in the form of image data, the image is filtered with a...
7539329 Method and apparatus for enhancing the usability of an electronic device having an integrated fingerprint sensor  
The usability of an electronic device that includes an integrated fingerprint sensor is enhanced by mounting the fingerprint sensor rotatably and pivotably. The fingerprint sensor is prevented from...
7526111 Personal identification device and method  
A personal identification device and method prevent the reduction in the finger vein recognition rate which otherwise occur due to erroneous insertion of a finger by a user not accustomed to...
7526110 Biometric information authentication device, biometric information authentication method, and computer-readable recording medium with biometric information authentication program recorded thereon  
For personal authentication using biometric information, to allow for unfailing authentication without increasing verification time even for an authentication object that is not supported only by a...
7522753 Electrostatic discharge protection of a capacitive type fingerprint sensing array  
A planar fingerprint pattern detecting array includes a large number of individual skin-distance sensing cells that are arranged in a row/column configuration. Each sensing cell includes an...
7519205 Biometrics method based on a thermal image of a finger  
A biometrics method based on a thermal image of a finger includes the steps of: acquiring the thermal image of the finger; and extracting a finger-print image or a finger-vein image from the...
7512257 Coding system and method of a fingerprint image  
A binary coding method of a fingerprint image, the method comprises detecting a ridge range direction and a ridge curvature of the fingerprint image; and binary coding the fingerprint image using a...
7508965 System and method for robust fingerprint acquisition  
Combined multispectral and total-internal-reflectance biometric imaging systems are disclosed. A platen has multiple facets, at least one of which has a surface adapted for placement of a purported...
7508964 Biometric imaging device compensating for non-biometric parameters  
Provided is a biometric imaging device for imaging a biological feature, which includes a sensor for detecting an environmental parameter other than relating to surface topology of the biological...
7508963 Surface shape recognition sensor device  
A detection element ( 1 A) having a detection electrode ( 11 A) connected to a surface shape detection unit ( 2 ) and a detection electrode ( 12 A) connected to a common potential, and a detection...
7505613 System for and method of securing fingerprint biometric systems against fake-finger spoofing  
A biometric secured system grants a user access to a host system by classifying a fingerprint used to verify or authorize the user to the system as real or fake. The classification is based on a...
7496216 Fingerprint capture  
A system and method of capturing a skin print from skin having ridges and valleys. A skin print sensor having a return/supply contact and a plurality of contact pads is provided. A finger is...
7486809 Capacitance detection device, fingerprint sensor, biometric authentication device, and method for searching capacitance detection condition  
Aspects of the invention can provide a fingerprint sensor for searching for a detection condition in a short period of time in order to read information of ridges and valleys of a fingerprint as...
7471812 Fingerprint symmetry axis extraction method and fingerprint recognition method using fingerprint symmetry axis  
A fingerprint symmetry axis extraction method is provided. The method includes detecting a core point of a fingerprint, setting imaginary symmetry axes intersecting the core point, and extracting...
7450741 Gray scale matcher  
A method for comparing a first print image having a first set of minutiae to a second print image having a second set of minutiae, wherein at least a second subset of minutiae from the second set...
7447339 Unique code generating apparatus, method, program and recording medium  
A unique code generating apparatus for generating, according to biometric information representing a physical or behavioral feature of a user, a unique code as a unique value for the biometric...
7433501 Biometric identification method and device adapted to verification on chip cards  
A method and associated device for checking a biometric signature by a simple and secure calculation adapted to personal objects of the chip card type. The method is based on the storage within the...
7424618 Biometric access control and time and attendance network including configurable system-on-chip (CSOC) processors with embedded programmable logic  
A biometric access control and time and attendance system comprises an integrated network including one or more remote access devices in electronic communication with a computer database. Each...
7421099 Use of papilla mapping to determine a friction-ridge surface  
A method of creating a friction-ridge image is disclosed. An energy transducer is aimed at a body part having skin. The transducer is used to obtain information about the papillae beneath an outer...
7415139 Living-tissue pattern detecting method, living-tissue pattern detecting device, biometric authentication method, and biometric authentication device  
The present invention enables permanent biometric authentication without the risk of forgery or the like. The present invention enables living-tissue discrimination as well as biometric...
7412083 Fingerprint reading method and fingerprint reading system  
A memory region for fingerprint images acquired from a sweep type fingerprint sensor is saved. A fingerprint reading system including a sweep type fingerprint sensor and a memory to store a partial...
7400751 Imaging device and method having a pivotable transducer  
A finger imaging system having a linear actuator, a pivot arm mounted to the linear actuator and an energy transducer mounted to the pivot arm is disclosed. The system may include an arcuate platen...
7382906 Method of determining the region of interest in images of skin prints  
In a method of determining the region of interest in images of skin impressions, the skin having ridges and valleys and the images taking the form of image data, values within a first value range...
7379571 Method of encoding lines  
In a method of encoding lines in a print from the skin and particularly a fingerprint, one line at a time is encoded by means of vertices, which include the starting point and the end point, that...
7369700 Identifier comparison  
A method of comparing a first representation of an identifier with a second representation of an identifier is provided. The method includes providing an expression of the first representation,...
7366332 Surface shape recognition sensor  
A detection element ( 1 A) having a detection electrode ( 11 A) connected to a surface shape detection unit ( 2 ) and a detection electrode ( 12 A) connected to a common potential, and a detection...
7359532 Fingerprint minutiae matching using scoring techniques  
Disclosed is a method and apparatus to provide for fingerprint minutiae matching using scoring techniques. A plurality of minutiae in a fingerprint image is defined. A score associated with each...
7349560 Fingerprint verification device and method for the same  
A fingerprint verification process system comprises analysis means for analyzing fingerprint data to determine a verification scheme for verifying fingerprint, and execution means for verifying...
7349559 Fingerprint verification method and fingerprint verification device  
A fingerprint verification method includes extracting N D sample feature points from a fingerprint image that has been sampled, assigning sample numerical values to each of the sample feature...
7340080 Fingerprint verification method and apparatus based on global ridgeline  
This invention refers to a fingerprint verification method and apparatus based on global ridgeline. Firstly, the invention search base point pair between the stored fingerprint template and the...
7336390 Method and apparatus for reducing multi-bit image data  
Input pixels are input to a thinning processing circuit. When thinning is performed at the thinning processing circuit, minimum values are selected in order to reduce the pixel data, whereby loss...
7333641 Method and apparatus for analyzing streaked pattern image  
A streaked pattern image analyzing apparatus for use in an analysis of a fingerprint and the like for aiding in the identification as to whether or not an applied first streaked pattern image...
7333640 Extraction of minutiae from a fingerprint image  
A method and a system for extracting a minutia mapping from a digital image, including dividing the image into regions; defining an orientation of each region based on the general direction of...
7333638 Minutiae fingerprint transactions  
Minutiae based fingerprint transactions are validated and authenticated over wireless based communications systems, such as over a Bluetooth wireless based communication system. Minutiae points are...
7327861 Organism authenticating apparatus  
The organism authenticating apparatus 71 of this invention comprises a means that fixes the position of a hand or a finger of a hand, an infrared ray radiating means 97 that radiates infrared...
7315634 Method for comparing fingerprints  
A method and a system for comparing a set of minutiae of a current image with a set of minutiae of a reference image, according to which the minutiae are sorted by their Cartesian coordinates in...
7315070 Fingerprint sensor package  
A fingerprint sensor package includes an LSI chip for reading a fingerprint, a substrate having an external connection terminal and to which the LSI chip is fixed, and a chip fixing mechanism for...
7310434 Image processing apparatus and method  
An image processing apparatus for processing a subject image signal obtained from a sensor has a first shading data generator, a second shading data generator, and a removal unit. The first shading...
7308123 System and method for collecting DNA and fingerprints  
A system and method is provided that simultaneously or consecutively collects DNA samples and ridge and valley signatures from the same subject during the same collection window that adds value to...
7299360 Method and system for fingerprint template matching  
A method for matching templates and a system thereof. Each template includes a plurality of data chunks, each data chunk representing a minutia and comprising a location, a minutia angle and a...
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