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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189878 | Multifactor multimedia biometric authentication A device may receive a request to authenticate a user, automatically establish a multimedia session with the user in response to receiving the request, and capture a group of biometric identifiers for the user from the multimedia session. The device may further perf... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8184866 | Living body guidance control method for a biometrics authentication device, and biometrics authentication device A biometrics authentication device identifies characteristics of the body from captured images of the body and performs individual authentication. The device guides a user, at the time of verification, to the image capture state at the time of registration of biomet... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8170292 | Imaging apparatus, control method, and recording medium thereof An imaging apparatus is provided including an imaging unit configured to obtain image data, a display unit, and a communication unit configured to communicate with a plurality of external apparatuses. The imaging apparatus further includes a storing unit configured ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165352 | Reconstruction of biometric image templates using match scores A method of reconstructing biometric face image templates of a face recognition system (FRS) using the match scores or distances provided by the FRS. The match scores represent the distance between a image introduced to the FRS and the unknown image template stored ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160307 | Recoverable biometric identity system and method A method for identifying persons based on biometric data achieves enhanced security and increased accuracy compared with other systems by distorting one or more biometrics prior to detection and recognition. The method includes detecting a distorted biometric for in... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155392 | Security system The present invention is directed to a security system and method for child safety. Advantageously, the present invention includes displaying an image of a child, and for departure, the child recognizing the image of himself/herself, and being informed upon seeing h... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155393 | Smart identity system Biographic data associated with a user is received. Biometric data associated with the user is also received. External data associated with the biographic data and the biometric data is received and a determination is made as to a level of access to grant the user b... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155394 | Wireless location and facial/speaker recognition system An integrated wireless location and facial/speaker-recognition system that provides distinct advantages over facial-recognition systems and speaker-recognition systems of the prior art is disclosed. The integrated system is capable of using information from a wirele... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156152 | Content oriented index and search method and system This present invention describes an innovative solution in the area of indexing and searching binary files including various binary files such as multimedia files, including image files, mp3 files and other audio/video files from the public Internet. The invention i... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144940 | System and method for authentication of data Systems and methods for detecting forged magnetic stripe data through relative variations in flux transition location are provided. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for detecting forged magnetic stripe data. The method provides for reading a magnet... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144942 | Compact biometric authentication device and associated methodology of imaging and detecting living-tissue patterns 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 of the s... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144939 | Automatic identifying A method includes storing a picture or video that includes a first person. The method also includes automatically identifying the first person using speaker recognition or image recognition and tagging the picture or video with information indicating that the first ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144938 | Biological information acquisition device, method for acquiring biological information, and biometrics device A biological information acquisition device that acquires information from a biological body by irradiating the biological body with light, the device comprises: a light source irradiating the biological body with light; a plurality of light receiving elements recei... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144941 | Method and system for creating and operating biometrically enabled multi-purpose credential management devices A method and system used to integrate and control multiple secure credentialing approaches including magnetic stripes, bar codes, contact and contactless SmartCard chips, Short Message Systems (SMS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), vicinity type Radio Frequency Id... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8139825 | Authentication apparatus and authentication method An authentication apparatus includes: a first determination section that determines whether a condition for determining that there is a possibility of an erroneous determination is satisfied based on information indicating the similarity between the shape of a biolo... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135181 | Method of multi-modal biometric recognition using hand-shape and palmprint The present invention relates to a method and system for a multimodal biometric system utilizing a single image to generate hand shape and palmprint features. The invention utilizes a digital camera, and incorporates feature subset selection algorithms to eliminate ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135180 | User authentication method based on the utilization of biometric identification techniques and related architecture A user authentication method based on the use of identification biometric techniques, including the steps of generating a reference biometric template from a first biometric image of a user to be authenticated; splitting the reference biometric template into a first... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126216 | Personal identification device and method A personal identification apparatus includes a finger inlet into which a finger inserted; an interface where the finger is introduced through the finger inlet; a plurality of light sources provided inside the interface to irradiate light to the finger from a plurali... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126215 | Registration and collation of a rolled finger blood vessel image Apparatus, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for extracting biometric identification information useful for biometric authentication are disclosed. Biometric identification is accomplished by extracting binary biometric data from video signals of c... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121355 | Brain shape as a biometric The invention provides a method, system, and program product for identifying an individual using biometric data based on the individual's brain. In one embodiment, the invention includes constructing a biometric signature based on at least one of: features within a ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121354 | Personal authentication device A compact authentication device that prevents user from feeling pressure and is strong against external light, when capturing an image of a finger blood vessel pattern with transmitted light. The device includes a guidance part for determining the finger position, a... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121356 | Long distance multimodal biometric system and method A system for multimodal biometric identification has a first imaging system that detects one or more subjects in a first field of view, including a targeted subject having a first biometric characteristic and a second biometric characteristic; a second imaging syste... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8111878 | Vein authentication device and vein authentication method A vein authentication device according to the present invention includes an imaging part for continuously imaging a portion of venation present inside a finger by near-infrared light scattered inside the finger by irradiating a finger surface with the near-infrared ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103060 | Feature point reduction for blood vessel biometric system To suitably reduce data amount. For example, feature points from a branch point or an end point to the next branch point or an end point in a blood vessel line are set as a group. In the three feature points satisfying one of the condition that the absolute value of... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098900 | Skin detection sensor A device for detecting the presence of human skin including an illuminator source for providing an IR band at a predetermined frequency known as a blue LED. The IR band frequency ranges from about 400 nanometers (nm) to about 500 nm, and preferably from about 450 nm... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094890 | Biometric authentication apparatus, biometric authentication system, IC card and biometric authentication method A biometric authentication apparatus for identifying a subject person by using biometric information of a user has memories and a processing unit for performing biometric authentication. The memories and store a remaining trial number whose value is reduced each tim... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090157 | Approaches and apparatus for eye detection in a digital image A system for finding and providing images of eyes acceptable for review, recordation, analysis, segmentation, mapping, normalization, feature extraction, encoding, storage, enrollment, indexing, matching, and/or the like. The system may acquire images of the candida... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090158 | Image evaluation apparatus, method, and program An image evaluation apparatus and method capable of performing image evaluation more precisely using face information included in an image. An information obtaining unit obtains information with respect to at least one of the following face characteristics from an i... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085991 | Face normalization for recognition and enrollment The present invention is an iterative method for normalization of a probe image against the Eigenspace learned from a database of images. The invention is also an iterative method for normalizing the n images in a database, wherein the normalization is carried out w... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085992 | Methods and systems for capturing biometric data A method of capturing biometric data is provided that includes activating a security application in a device. The security application is activated by an operator of the device and is configured to cause the device to display an outline image. Moreover, the method i... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081803 | User authorization system containing a user image A user authorization system including printing a human cognizable digital image of a user onto an article. The article being a bracelet, a pass key, a placard, a legal citation, a vehicle rental agreement and a tag. The human cognizable image optionally being stored... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8077930 | Method for recognizing content in an image sequence A method for recognizing content in an image sequence is provided, the method includes the steps of: detecting at least one face appearing in at least one frame of an image sequence under test; recognizing characteristic features of the at least one face; comparing ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077929 | Ambient light rejection filter A fingerprint reader is described. The fingerprint reader includes an illumination source that produces light and a camera. An optical window is also part of the reader. The window is positioned so that light from the illumination source passes through the optical w... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073204 | Hybrid multi-sensor biometric identification device An improved fingerprint sensing device is provided with multiple sensing apparatus, two or more of which operating on different sensing principles. For example, a capacitive sensor may be integrally formed with an optical sensor on a single substrate. Ideally, the m... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8064645 | Methods and systems for authenticating users A method of authenticating users is provided that includes capturing biometric authentication data of a user and processing the captured biometric data into an image. Moreover, the method includes determining a region of interest of the image and a gray scale image ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055027 | Generation of directional field information in the context of image processing A computer-implemented method for directionally characterizing an image element within an image is disclosed. The method includes obtaining an image segment and determining a directional representation value that corresponds thereto. The directional representation v... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050463 | Iris recognition system having image quality metrics An iris recognition system implementing image quality metrics to assess the quality of an acquired eye image for reliable operation. Images with low image quality may be rejected or flagged based upon the application. The image quality may be determined with a prepr... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8036431 | Portable apparatus for identification verification A portable device for the live scanning of fingerprint, facial and crime scene images and the wireless transmission of said images to a central host system for identity verification. The portable device has the ability to allow the user to operate the device with a ... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031912 | Biometric sensor apparatus and method A biometric sensor apparatus uses an infra red light source and a CMOS image sensor. A platen receives a body part and the image sensor receives light transmitted through the body part. A processor determines from the detected through-transmitted light whether the b... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8027520 | Methods and arrangements employing digital content items Methods and arrangements for identifying content, and employing such identification, are detailed. One method embeds a plural-bit digital watermark into content, but first checks to see if the content is previously watermarked. Another method applies a digital water... | 09/27/2011 |
