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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8150108 | Systems and methods of identification based on biometric parameters Systems and methods for authenticating a user are disclosed. In some embodiments, information regarding multiple biometric parameters is gathered from a test subject and compared with a validation template. The validation template can be augmented with some or all o... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8090159 | Apparatus and method for identifying a name corresponding to a face or voice using a database The basic invention uses biometric signals to help identify the name of a family member, acquaintance or newly met individual. The biometric signals include facial and voice recognition. In addition, the invention can interactively produce the name of an individual ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085993 | Modular biometrics collection system architecture A modular biometrics collection system with an architecture having application to a combined features recognition system. The system may be a self-organizing mesh of collaborative independent components. Each component may have inputs, outputs, and local prioritizat... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8064646 | Technique for authenticating an object on basis of features extracted from the object The present invention discourages effective illegal use of compromised biometric information in biometric authentication and allows biometric authentication to be securely continued even when some biometric information is compromised. A user authentication system co... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8031913 | Preemptive change verification via electronic signatures in industrial automation systems The subject invention relates to a system and methodology facilitating automated manufacturing processes in a regulated industrial controller environment. In one aspect, a system for automated industrial processing is provided. The system includes an interface compo... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8023700 | Apparatus, method, computer program and user interface for enabling access to functions An apparatus including a memory for storing information associating a fingerprint input with a function of the apparatus; a user input device including a device for detecting a multi-fingerprint input, the multi-fingerprint input including a plurality of fingerprint... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7965874 | Biological information detecting device When an image representing biological information is input from a biological information input unit 10, such as a fingerprint sensor or the like, for obtaining an image representing biological information, such as a fingerprint or the like, statistical quanti... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7929733 | Biometric identification and analysis A system and method for identifying an unknown individual from a plurality of enrolled individuals is provided. In an embodiment, the method comprises comparing at least two parameters of the unknown individual to at least two enrolled parameters of the enrolled ind... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7907754 | Biological detection device, fingerprint authentication device, and biological detection method A further object of the present invention is to provide a biological detection device and the like capable of performing processing promptly. An input voltage with a predetermined frequency is output from an oscillating portion. By performing switching using an anal... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7876930 | Fingerprint reader combination The combination of an electronic fingerprint reader and a second electronic transmission device includes a first portion with a top surface and an electronic transmission device disposed therein and a second portion having a top surface with a width between about 2 ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7864989 | Method and apparatus for adaptive context-aided human classification A method and an apparatus process digital images. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital data representing a plurality of digital images including a plurality of persons; performs face recognition to determine first scores relating to similarity bet... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7853047 | System for recognizing fingerprint image, method and program for the same A fingerprint recognition system for extracting minutiae from a fingerprint image. The fingerprint recognition system generates a corrected image from the input fingerprint image by: eliminating incipient ridges/pores from the fingerprint image by using the density ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7840034 | Method, system and program for authenticating a user by biometric information Upon registration, a client extracts plural feature points and information (identification information) by which each of the feature points can be identified, from a user's fingerprint, and randomly generates a transformation parameter for each feature point to tran... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7835548 | Method and system for conducting identity matching A method of managing large scale biometric data identity matching includes identifying a plurality of biometric modalities to be used in conducting identity matches, determining one of the biometric modalities to be a primary biometric modality and determining wheth... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7822232 | 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 mo... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7813532 | Apparatus and method for recognizing fingerprint dually Provided are an apparatus and a method for recognizing a fingerprint dually. In the method, an optical sensor unit and a semiconductor sensor unit are prepared such that they are adjacent to each other. The optical sensor unit is driven to obtain a first fingerprint... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7809747 | Fuzzy database matching A method of improving the speed with which a sample such as a biometric sample can be fuzzily matched against records in a database, comprises extracting characteristics from the sample, and using those extracted characteristics as indexes (70) to address a l... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7773780 | Augmented biometric authorization system and method Systems and methods of authorizing an activity, such as a financial transaction, are disclosed. Authorizing the activity may be accomplished by comparing a biometric sample to a biometric specimen. The sample is stored in a database and includes biometric informatio... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7751597 | Apparatus and method for identifying a name corresponding to a face or voice using a database The basic invention uses biometric signals to help identify the name of a family member, acquaintance or newly met individual. The biometric signals include facial and voice recognition. In addition, the invention can interactively produce the name of an individual ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7747044 | Fusing multimodal biometrics with quality estimates via a bayesian belief network A Bayesian belief network-based architecture for multimodal biometric fusion is disclosed. Bayesian networks are a theoretically sound, probabilistic framework for information fusion. The architecture incorporates prior knowledge of each modality's capabilities, qua... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7729519 | Electronic apparatus According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a housing, a pad button section and a switch board. The housing includes a cover member including an opening part. One of a first switch board on which a fingerprint authentication unit is mounted, and a ... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7606396 | Multimodal biometric platform A multimodal biometric identification or authentication system includes a plurality of biometric clients. Each of the biometric clients may include devices for capturing biometric images of a plurality of types. The system includes a router in communication with the... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7602947 | Facial-recognition vehicle security system A movable-vehicle security system includes a facial-recognition system including a scanner such as a television or infrared camera directed at the face of a person in the driver's seat, which system produces output control signals that are applied to enable or disab... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7587067 | Method and system for monitoring individuals A portable device for monitoring a user's geographic location, substantially a time of the geographic location measurement, verification status of the user's identity is provided. The portable device includes, a biometric verification module (“BVM”) that verifie... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7526106 | Method of tracking images captured with a digital camera A method of tracking images captured by a digital camera includes inputting a profile marker to a profile information database in the digital camera, establishing a profile ratio for captured images. The profile ratio sets a number of captured images required to con... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7505610 | Integrated portable identification and verification device An portable integrated identification and verification system is disclosed. The station includes multiple devices integrated for identifying or verifying the identity of a person. The multiple devices, which may include a camera, a document scanner, and a fingerprin... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7492925 | Biometric identification data protection Embodiments of the present invention can combine biometric identification data with additional information, or knowledge, to form a new type of security measure. One embodiment of the present invention obtains biometric identification data for accessing a particular... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7483552 | Preventing signature repudiation in paper documents using smart pens The present disclosure is directed to a method for preventing signature repudiation. This method receives the user's fingerprint and embeds special markings on the document being signed. The method then transmits the information regarding the signing of the document... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7444007 | Iris-based biometric identification A method includes forming a feature vector associated with an iris of an individual using a transform operation including converting an iris image into a log-polar image, scaling one or more samples in the log-polar image according to a Fourier-Mellin transform, and... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444159 | Data input device, systems using the device, and methods for operating such systems A data storage device 5 having a storage capacity of at least 8 Mbyte is surrounded by a housing including a stylus portion 23, having a tip 25 for indicating a position. The stylus permits the data storage device 5 to be used for data en... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440929 | Multimodal authorization method, system and device The invention includes methods, systems and devices for authenticating transactions. A method may begin by enrolling at least two biometric specimens to a database. A false acceptance ratio (“FAR”) is determined for each of the specimens, and authorization optio... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7421096 | Input mechanism for fingerprint-based internet search A targeted search in the form of a fingerprint is generated utilizing audio-visual representations of the search parameters in a master plan so as to present the user with hypothetical vision parameters arrayed in a cascaded manner corresponding to the process indiv... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418160 | Method and device for processing of information Device for processing of information, which device comprises a processor and, connected to the processor, a reading unit for electronic reading of information on a surface, which is provided with a position code which codes a plurality of positions on the surface. T... | 08/26/2008 |
| 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 authentication. The roughness distribution pattern of deep-layer tissue o... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7398549 | Biometric authentication with security against eavesdropping The invention relates to systems and methods for using a template in the authentication process using biometric data. In one embodiment, a module modifies a template of the reference set of biometric data with the candidate set of biometric data when the user is aut... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7391886 | Digital camera with image tracking system A digital camera system includes an input member for selecting at least one of an individual profile and a group profile and a memory operatively coupled to the input member. The memory includes digital images captured by the digital camera system and a profile info... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7386151 | System and method for assessing suspicious behaviors Identity and biometric data are collected from individuals. The collected data is used to form biometric data packages, each of which contains information about one biometric feature and identity data associated with the corresponding individual. Each biometric data... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7373511 | Identification device, identification system, and card issuing device and system needing identification The device and system of present invention identify the person to be identified according to a result given from certification bureau. These device or system mainly comprises a condition inputting section to input identification condition, a certification inputting ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372979 | Method and system for adaptively varying templates to accommodate changes in biometric information A method and apparatus for authenticating a user In dependence upon biometric Input information is disclosed. According to the method when a user is identified, their biometric information or data derived therefrom is automatically stored. The data is then used in s... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372980 | Information terminal apparatus with collation function According to this invention, a fingerprint sensor is mounted for fingerprint collation, and a movable protection unit which coverts the fingerprint sensor is arranged. In fingerprint authentication, the protection unit moves to expose the fingerprint sensor. Along w... | 05/13/2008 |
