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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7424134 | Card-type biometric identification device and method therefor A card-type biometric identification device includes a biometric sensor, an operating/processing module, a remote transceiver, and a rechargeable battery. The biometric sensor reads the biometric data of a holder. The operating/processing module stores a pseudorando... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424135 | Security check provision Security check method and apparatus reduces problems that can arise if the user security data set becomes known by unauthorized persons. To address this problem only part of the user data set is recorded in insecure sections of the system. For example, a security ch... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421097 | Face identification verification using 3 dimensional modeling A checkpoint screening system uses multiple cameras to provide images at different angles of a person to be screened. Different features extracted from the images at different angles are compared to a profile associated with the person to be screened. In one embodim... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415138 | Biometric authorization method and system A method and a system of authorizing a transaction without using a man-made token is disclosed. In a method according to the invention, a biometric sample is registered, biometric information is provided, the biometric information is compared to the biometric sample... | 08/19/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7409352 | System and method for managing sponsorships A system and method for managing sponsorships by a sponsor, in which the party requesting the sponsorship requests to use content owned and protected by the sponsor, such as trademarks, logos, and copyrighted material. An embodiment of the method involves receiving,... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7362884 | Multimodal biometric analysis A biometric system that uses readings from a plurality of biometrics of a user is disclosed. The biometric system includes a first and second biometric readers, a first and second biometric matching engines and a processor. The first biometric reader producing a fir... | 04/22/2008 |
| 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 grooves in this region; and for each region: unidirectionally filtering t... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328276 | Computer oriented record administration system A portable memory element containing encrypted data is operatively connected to a first client, and the person associated with the portable memory element provides passcode information necessary to access the encrypted data, wherein the passcode information can be e... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7319987 | Tokenless financial access system The present invention shows a method and a device system for tokenless authorization of commercial transactions between a user and a seller. The user registers at least one registration biometric sample, and at least one user financial account. The seller registers ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7305563 | Biometric security assembly A biometric key (10) having a body or housing (11) incorporating a biometric sensor (17) uses a plurality of contacts (19, 20, 21) enabling the key to gain access to a facility. There is also provided a receptor (25) for receiving ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7298872 | Electronic identification system for form location, organization, and endorsment Disclosed is a secure system of authentication including a means for retrieving information about an authenticated individual (i.e., citizens, customers, employees, patients, and subjects). More specifically, the system allows a person to execute forms (i.e., agreem... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7297062 | Modular entertainment and gaming systems configured to consume and provide network services A secure and modular architecture for monitoring and controlling clusters of pay entertainment and gaming devices. The architecture allows flexible and secure use of state-of-the-art multimedia and Internet technologies to attract the younger player generation used ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298873 | 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... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7280994 | Enhanced air travel security method and apparatus A method of screening passengers for a passenger aircraft flight includes a step of obtaining voluntary consent from a plurality of passengers to perform background check. The method further includes formulating a data record associated with each of the plurality of... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278027 | Biomedical recognizing system comprising image diagnosis workstation and method therefor A biomedical recognition system includes diagnostic image information obtained by taking an image of a patient, a workstation storing the diagnostic image information, and a display device for displaying the diagnostic image information. A sensor is provided for cap... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274804 | Method and apparatus for hashing data A method of hashing biometric data for generation of a public template is disclosed. According to the method, a hash function is provided for hashing of feature data the hash function a function of data within the biometric information and determinable therefrom but... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7274807 | Method and apparatus for supporting a biometric registration performed on a card A method for matching biometric data on a smart card is disclosed. A smart card is provided having biometric template data stored thereon. A host processor in communication with the smart card is also provided. A sensed biometric image is provided to the host proces... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7272245 | Method of biometric authentication The present invention is a method of biometric authentication. The first step is taking a series of measurements of the biometric. The second step is averaging those measurements to create a valid iris model. The third step is generating a random number. The fourth ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7263211 | Information processing apparatus and method, computer-readable memory, and program An information processing apparatus detects the sampling rate of a coordinate input device, and standardizes the writing data which is input from the coordinate input device based on the detected sampling rate. The standardized writing data is further used for signa... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260246 | Pattern-center determination apparatus and method as well as medium on which pattern-center determination program is recorded, and pattern-orientation determination apparatus and method as well as medium on which pattern-orientation determination program is recorded, as well as pattern alignment apparatus and pattern verification apparatus The invention provides an apparatus for determining a reference orientation (pattern orientation) to a fingerprint-like pattern, formed with a number of curves, accurately in a short time. The apparatus includes a pattern-center determination section for determining... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7215796 | Method and apparatus for registering palm pattern impression A method detecting a rectangle enclosed by a pair of parallel horizontal lines that are demarcation lines between the palm pattern impression and the background in wrist-side and fingertip-side, and a pair of parallel vertical lines are orthogonal to the horizontal ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215798 | Method for forgery recognition in fingerprint recognition by using a texture classification of gray scale differential images In a method for forgery recognition in the fingerprint recognition, at first an image sequence is captured, which comprises a plurality of images of the fingerprint to be recognized. From at least two images capturing a texture captures a differential image. The tex... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212655 | Fingerprint verification system A biometric verification system for controlling access is provided that does not rely on a non-biometric discriminator, such as a PIN or magnetic card, to convert a one-to-many verification task to a one-to-one verification task. The system enrolls authorized users ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7203345 | Apparatus and method for identification of individuals by near-infrared spectrum Methods and apparatus for non-invasively verifying human identities using near-infrared spectroscopy. Near-infrared tissue spectra can be obtained by projecting near-infrared radiation into skin on the underside of human forearms and capturing the light reflected ba... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7203347 | Method and system for extracting an area of interest from within a swipe image of a biological surface Disclosed is a biometric imaging device a method of processing images of biometric surfaces that are captured using said imaging device. According to the instant invention, an image of a biometric surface presented by an individual is captured by a sensor of the ima... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7184579 | Fingerprint identification system The fingerprint identification system includes a fingerprint identification terminal having a function of receiving input of a plurality of fingerprint images taken from one target finger to select a fingerprint image suited for identification processing based on im... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181053 | USB drive mass storage device with optical fingerprint identification system A USB drive mass storage device mainly includes a housing having a predetermined size, in which an optical fingerprint identification system is mounted for use with the USB drive. A printed circuit board (PCB) is located on an inner bottom of the housing with a univ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177450 | Face recognition method, recording medium thereof and face recognition device An enquiry face image shot by a video camera and the like is collated with face image data converted into database. The data converted into the database are three-dimensional shape data of surfaces of faces and color image data. Shooting conditions (an angle and lig... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174318 | Method and system for an online-like account processing and management The present invention is embodied in an online-like transaction processing method and system for processing account information contained in batch process files. The method includes the steps of reading at least one batch file containing a plurality of records, each... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7155035 | Personal authentication method, personal authentication apparatus and image capturing device A plurality of iris images of a person to be authenticated in which the positions of extraneous light reflection are respectively different are captured by using an image capturing device. Iris codes, that is, features for authentication, are respectively extracted ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7142697 | Pose-invariant face recognition system and process A face recognition system and process for identifying a person depicted in an input image and their face pose. This system and process entails locating and extracting face regions belonging to known people from a set of model images, and determining the face pose fo... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7136514 | Method for authenticating an individual by use of fingerprint data A method for authenticating an individual by use of fingerprint data that involves two different broad steps. The first step is to obtain a biometrics fingerprint signature template (“BFST”) for an individual in an enrollment process by selecting a plurality of ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7127087 | Pose-invariant face recognition system and process A face recognition system and process for identifying a person depicted in an input image and their face pose. This system and process entails locating and extracting face regions belonging to known people from a set of model images, and determining the face pose fo... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7127086 | Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus. A camera inputs an image of a face of a person to be recognized. A recognition area detection section generates a difference image between the input image and a predetermined pattern, and detects a recognition area whose value is above... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7050608 | Face image recognition apparatus A face image recognition apparatus includes a registration information holding section in which a reference feature amount of the face of at least one to-be-recognized person is previously registered, the feature amount of the face is extracted from a face image inp... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7048183 | RFID rag and method of user verification An identification tag (100) facilitates use of a secure computer system (300). The tag (100) is adapted to be worn on a user's wrist and includes an identification and registration circuit (102) that includes an identification component (... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7039223 | Authentication method utilizing a sequence of linear partial fingerprint signatures selected by a personal code A method and system for personal authentication using sequences of partial fingerprint signatures provides a high security capability to various processes requiring positive identification of individuals. In a baseline usage, the sequential partial fingerprint seque... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7035443 | Personal choice biometric signature A biometric method and system for personal authentication using sequences of partial fingerprint signatures provides a high security capability to various processes requiring positive identification of individuals. This approach is further enhanced by employing a fr... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7027626 | System and method for processing fingerprint/palmprint image In a fingerprint/palmprint image processing system and method, for local regions other than a highly reliable region, a ridge line image which can be estimated to represent a ridge line is selected from ridge line candidate images, and whether or not each of the sel... | 04/11/2006 |
