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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120082349 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMAGE GENERATION Method and apparatus for image generation from biometric data is disclosed herein. In a described embodiment, the biometric data is in the form of IrisCode and the method comprises constructing a graph of filter responses and bits which define the biometric data at 4... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120045102 | USER SETTINGS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME A user settings system includes a trigger module, an image acquisition module, a microprocessor and a database. The trigger module implements the image acquisition module to capture a pupil image of a driver. The database is coupled with the microprocessor, and stores a... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120033860 | MOBILE PHONE SECURITY SYSTEM AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF A mobile phone security system includes a trigger module, an image acquisition module, a microprocessor and a database. The trigger module is capable of triggering the image acquisition module to capture at least one pupil image of a proximal party. The database is coup... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120027266 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSOR-ASSISTED IRIS CAPTURE SYSTEM AND METHOD A method of identifying a living being includes using a time-of-flight sensor to determine a location of a face of the living being. An image of an iris of the living being is produced dependent upon the location of the face as determined by the time-of-flight sensor. T... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120027265 | 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 data access. The remote computers are handheld when in operational mode. ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120020534 | EXPEDIENT ENCODING SYSTEM An encoding system for an iris recognition system. In particular, it presents a robust encoding method of the iris textures to compress the iris pixel information into few bits that constitute the iris barcode to be stored or matched against database templates of same f... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20110317883 | TECHNIQUES AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING ACCURACY OF IRIS AUTHENTICATION BY UTILIZING A PLURALITY OF IRIS IMAGES HAVING DIFFERENT PUPIL DIAMETER/IRIS DIAMETER RATIOS A plurality of iris images are acquired (SA0), and aggregation of iris images of which distribution of pupil openings is uniform is acquired from the plurality of iris images by duplication and/or deletion (SA1). Features are generated from the respective ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110320352 | BIOMETRICALLY SECURED USER INPUT FOR FORMS Systems and methods for collecting biometrically secured financial form data from a user are described. A user input device may receive biometric data from the user. The user may be presented with a visual medium. The visual medium may contain a plurality of fields for ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317882 | BIOMETRIC MATCHING METHOD AND APPARATUS A biometric matching apparatus comprising, an output, an input for acquiring items of biometric data, a memory and a processor, the memory comprises, a template database in which is stored a plurality of templates of items of biometric data, each template comprising a t... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110299741 | Distinguishing Live Faces from Flat Surfaces Multiple images including a face presented by a user are accessed. One or more determinations are made based on the multiple images, such as a determination of whether the face included in the multiple images is a 3-dimensional structure or a flat surface and/or a deter... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110299742 | METHOD FOR CORRECTING THE POSITION OF THE EYES IN AN IMAGE A method for determining the position of the eyes includes: a step for determining approximate positions of the eyes in the digital image; a step for determining adjacent positions; a step of geometric transformation of the digital image into normalized images in such a... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110280454 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM A region of an iris image where eyelash and other part images are mixed is identified with accuracy. The noise region of an iris image contained in a digital eye image (P1) where, for example, eyelash and eyelid parts are mixed is identified with accuracy based o... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110274319 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS, BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM A plurality of pieces of information related to the iris pattern of an eye can be checked against each other in a short time. Characteristic curves (S(1)-S(8)), which are in accordance with eight ring areas (A1-A8) formed by dividing an image... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110267447 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM An image of the iris contained in an image of an eye is accurately specified. An image of the iris contained in a digital image (P) of an eye is accurately specified. In view of low-intensity pixels of the digital image (P) of the eye, and high-intensity pixels having a... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110249872 | IMAGE TEMPLATE MASKING A method of identifying images as matching comprises comparing two image templates using a master mask to select corresponding codes from the templates. The master mask excludes blocks from the matching process and/or weights blocks according to their known or expected ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110222745 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BIOMETRIC DATA CAPTURE A method and apparatus for biometric data capture are provided. The apparatus includes in interactive head-mounted eyepiece worn by a user that includes an optical assembly through which a user views a surrounding environment and displayed content. The optical assembly ... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110206243 | MULTI-BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM An identification system for authenticating individuals may include enrolling an individual's iris images into a database for late comparison during an identification process. A security attendant may enroll the individual with a mobile device having an iris camera, whi... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110200235 | Iris Data Extraction A process for extracting iris data for biometric identification includes a thresholding method where the thresholds are selected according to a nonparametric approach that considers the grey scale and does not require classifying pixels as edge or non-edge pixels. An ey... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110194738 | METHOD FOR ACQUIRING REGION-OF-INTEREST AND/OR COGNITIVE INFORMATION FROM EYE IMAGE The present invention provides a method for acquiring region-of-interest and/or cognitive information from an eye image, comprising the steps of: preprocessing, standardizing, and coding the group of eye images for region-of-interest information or cognitive information... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110182483 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CANCELABLE IRIS RECOGNITION A method of generating a biometric feature descriptor has been developed that includes acquiring an image of an anatomical feature having a biometric feature, isolating a region of the image having the biometric feature, extracting image data from the image of the regio... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110157347 | UNINTRUSIVE BIOMETRIC CAPTURE DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOGICAL ACCESS CONTROL An unintrusive and unobtrusive biometric capture device, system and method is described for providing logical access to users via biometric identification or authentication. When a user positions himself/herself in front of a computing device the biometric capture devic... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110150293 | Methods, Systems and Computer Program Products for Biometric Identification by Tissue Imaging Using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging systems for imaging uniquely identifiable structure are provided including a source having an associated source arm path and having an associated reference arm path coupled to the source path, the reference arm path having an a... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110141259 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING,IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM A brightness information generation unit 13 generates brightness profiles, serving as brightness information, from each Sobel image formed by an image transformation unit. A feature point detection unit 14 extracts feature points from the generated brightn... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110142297 | Camera Angle Compensation in Iris Identification An iris biometric image is analyzed to determine the apparent angle of the eye in the image, relative to an arbitrarily selected reference axis. The angle information is stored for use by the matching engine and/or the image data is modified to normalize the angle relat... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110128365 | TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSOR-ASSISTED IRIS CAPTURE SYSTEM AND METHOD A method of identifying a living being includes using a time-of-flight sensor to determine a location of a face of the living being. An image of an iris of the living being is produced dependent upon the location of the face as determined by the time-of-flight sensor. T... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110096960 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EYE-SCAN AUTHENTICATION USING A LIQUID LENS A method and apparatus for providing eye-scan authentication using an adaptive liquid lens are disclosed. For example, in one embodiment, the method receives a request for eye-scan authentication from a mobile endpoint device of a user, wherein the request comprises a f... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110075892 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND EMPLOYING SHORT LENGTH IRIS CODES A system and method for generating compact iris representations based on a database of iris images includes providing full-length iris codes for iris images in a database, where the full-length iris code includes a plurality of portions corresponding to circumferential ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110075893 | IRIS RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD A system and method for performing an identity search in a database of iris images for a probe iris image includes generating a full-length iris code and a compact iris code for iris images in a database, and generating a full-length iris code and a compact iris code fo... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110058712 | BIOMETRIC RECOGNITION THROUGH EXAMINATION OF THE SURFACE MAP OF THE SECOND OCULAR DIOPTRIC The object of the invention is a method and the corresponding device thereof for recognition of persons incorporating, as biometric constant and determinant for each individual, the irregularities of the map of the posterior surface of the cornea, being different in eac... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110033090 | REFLEXIVE IRIS TEMPLATE A system, method and program product for providing a reflexive data collection system and a reflexive data verification system. A system is provided that includes: a system for defining a set of environmental conditions; a device for automatically implementing the set o... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110033091 | METHOD OF AUTHENTICATING INDIVIDUAL AND APPARATUS OF AUTHENTICATING INDIVIDUAL USED FOR THE SAME Individual authentication method and apparatus therefor, wherein at least one information out of an eyeground blood vessel image information obtained by an optical means, eyeground blood flow distribution image information obtained by using a laser, and information rela... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110015945 | BIOMETRIC MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD A method of accurately administering medication to a patient includes enrolling the patient including capturing an enrollment iris image, converting the enrollment iris image into an enrollment iris code, and associating the enrollment iris code with the patient, associ... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110002510 | OPERATOR INTERFACE FOR FACE AND IRIS RECOGNITION DEVICES A primarily hand-held or adjustable-mount iris recognition device wherein feedback to the operator is provided by visible illumination or imagery projected onto the face of the subject, as well as an audio signal, while infra-red illumination is projected onto the face ... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100316263 | IRIS AND OCULAR RECOGNITION SYSTEM USING TRACE TRANSFORMS An iris and ocular recognition system using trace transforms. The system may acquire an eye image and provide it to an image quality metrics determination module for a quality evaluation to indicate whether the image goes to an iris recognition module and/or a trace tra... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100315500 | ADAPTIVE IRIS MATCHING USING DATABASE INDEXING An adaptive iris matching approach for processing images of irises having a quality not sufficient for conventional non-adaptive matching approaches. Visible regions in a radial direction on an iris, without segmenting a circumferential of the iris, may be processed. A ... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100316264 | IMAGING METHOD AND DEVICE USING BIOMETRIC INFORMATION FOR OPERATOR AUTHENTICATION Essentially coincident with the capture of an image by the imaging device, biometric information indicating the identity of the operator of the device is obtained from at least one biometric sensor. The biometric information and captured image are then stored in a manne... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100309303 | PERSON RECOGNITION METHOD AND DEVICE INCORPORATING THE ANATOMIC LOCATION OF THE RETINA AS A BIOMETRIC CONSTANT, CORRESPONDING TO THE PHYSIOLOGICAL LOCATION OF THE PROJECTION OF THE VISUAL AXIS. The invention relates to a person recognition method and device incorporating the anatomic location of the retina as a biometric constant, corresponding to the physiological location of the projection of the visual axis. More specifically, the invention relates to a per... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100310133 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION USING THE EYE This invention concerns apparatus and a method for authenticating a subject using their eye as an identifying biometric, in particular the shape of their cornea. The apparatus comprises an image projection device to generate and project an image of a pattern, made up of... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100303308 | Method for Selecting Images A method for selecting an image is presented.... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100299530 | USER AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD A high security computer system and method that authenticates a user using iris recognition and liveliness detection. The method for authenticating the user to the secure system includes capturing an image of the user's face and generating an iris template from the imag... | 11/25/2010 |
