Circumferential Contactless Line Scanning of a Fingerprint

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Intellectual Property

ID:		UML 06-25
IP Type:		Licensable Technology
Title:		Circumferential Contactless Line Scanning of a Fingerprint
Inventor:		Samson Mil'shtein
Summary:		The researchers have conceived of an invention and a method that takes a non-contact digital copy of a fingerprint with little to no distortion. The image is produced by capturing a series of narrow (“line”) digital images of the finger as the camera rotates about the finger, which is suspended loosely in place by a holder. The result is an image (acquired from a 180 degree view of the measured object) that is far more detailed and not subject to mechanical distortions imposed by traditional fingerprinting or other optical scanning methods. This image be stored as a full print or, using a 3rd party algorithm, as minutia. The invention contemplates the development of a new algorithm that might be superior to minutia. Further, recognition may be possible with just a single line, itself only a pixel wide (or a cluster of lines), rather than the full print. By using infrared light and an infrared detector, the invention is also capable of determining whether the finger is live tissue or a fake. The line-scanned image would likely be backwards compatible with existing fingerprint databases, however, the full benefit will only be achieved when the database is updated with the new images.
Tech Type:		Sensing/Imaging
URL:		http://www.uml.edu/cvip
Contact:		Susu Wong, 978 934 4722, susu_wong@uml.edu
Organization:		University of Massachusetts Lowell

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