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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4541113 | Apparatus and method of line pattern analysis The disclosure herein describes an apparatus and a method of analysis of line patterns such as fingerprints, ideograms, or the like, which comprises the steps of superimposing a centrosymmetric reference pattern of lines over the line pattern to be analyz... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4532508 | Personal authentication system A method and apparatus for storing, in scrambled form, information relating to the personal features of a person. This information can be stored on a portable storage medium which can be carried by the person and used to gain access to a secured area by o... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4429413 | Fingerprint sensor A fingerprint sensor for transforming the topological pattern of a finger into an electric output signal. The sensor includes an array of cells arranged beneath a contact surface for sensing the pressure and/or temperature variations existing at the surfa... | 01/31/1984 |
| 4394773 | Fingerprint sensor The fingerprint sensor transforms the fingerprint information of a finger under investigation into an electric output signal. The sensor incorporates a contact device or sensor plate of a piezoelectric material. This sensor plate has a contact surface. Th... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4358677 | Transducer for fingerprints and apparatus for analyzing fingerprints The fingerprint transducer contains a sensing member having a sensing surface for receiving a fingerprint. The sensing member is made of a material which has a transition or softening temperature that is higher than ambient temperature and close to the te... | 11/09/1982 |
| 4353056 | Capacitive fingerprint sensor The sensor incorporates a sensing member which has a sensing surface for receiving a fingerprint and sensing means for sensing the ridges and valleys of the skin of the finger under investigation. The sensing member contains a multitude of small capacitor... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4336998 | Fingerprint transducer and reading apparatus The fingerprint transducer contains a sensing member having a sensing surface for receiving a fingerprint, a device for generating an electrostatic charge on the sensing surface and a heating device for heating the sensing surface up to a temperature whic... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4225850 | Non-fingerprint region indicator Signalling means for enhancing the performance of automatic fingerprint identification systems by reducing system response to non-fingerprint-like regions within an image field pattern of interest. A two dimensional generalized sequency analyzer, such as ... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4202120 | Identification card, sensor, and system The invention is an identification card that displays a finger or thumbprint pattern to confirm the user's identity. The card contains a sliding transparent window that slides from a concealed, non-use position to a visible position where the user can pla... | 05/13/1980 |
| 4160237 | Optical reader for multiline image processing The polarization of a scanning laser beam is made to oscillate at a relatively high frequency between orthogonal polarization states while being raster scanned across a multiple line pattern at a lower rate. A birefringent element in the optical path caus... | 07/03/1979 |
| 4156230 | Method and apparatus for automatic extraction of fingerprint cores and tri-radii A method and apparatus for the smoothing and singularity detection of the ridge contour data of a fingerprint image for classification in an automatic fingerprint identification system. A template scanning window is passed electronically over a digital ma... | 05/22/1979 |
| 4048618 | Method of identifying a check signer A method of identifying a check signer comprises the application of a fingerprint of a person to an identification card in invisible ink. The same fingerprint of the person is applied to the check in invisible ink in the presence of a person requested to ... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4025898 | Recording representations of disrupted space patterns A method records the representations of disrupted space patterns such as fingerprints by generating phase frequency differences or moire representations of the image of the patterns or fingerprints which are converted to a waveform of electrical signals w... | 05/24/1977 |
| 4003024 | Two-dimensional binary data enhancement system A system for enhancing a binary data bit stream derived from a two-dimensional pattern image wherein, in a preferred embodiment, each data bit in the bit stream and a preselected group of bits associated therewith are sequentially stored in a first locati... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3993888 | Scanning line filter An image processing device for enhancing and digitizing images made up primarily of continuous parallel lines such as contour maps and fingerprints. An image is focused on a photodiode detector array and a digital logic signal is produced which is the bin... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3968475 | Digital processor for extracting data from a binary image A digital processor for extracting data from a binary image in which the image is divided into an array of sample areas, each sample area containing an array of binary data spaces. Patterns formed by adjacent data spaces within the sample sample represent... | 07/06/1976 |
