David Sarnoff Research Center, Inc.

Jane Circle Asmuth

Keith James Hanna

Stephen Charles Hsu

James Regis Matey

Richard Patrick Wildes

Raymond Joseph Kolczynski

Sterling Eduard McBride

Sterling Edward McBride

Iris recognition is achieved by (1) iris acquisition that permits a user to self-position his or her eye into an imager's field of view without the need for any physical contact, (2) spatially locating the data defining that portion of a digitized video image of the user's eye that defines solely the iris thereof without any initial spatial condition of the iris being provided, and (3) pattern matching the spatially located data defining the iris of the user's eye with stored data defining a model iris by employing normalized spatial correlation for first comparing, at each of a plurality of spatial scales, each of distinctive spatial characteristics of the respective irises that are spatially registered with one another to quantitatively determine, at each of the plurality of spatial scales, a goodness value of match at that spatial scale, and then judging whether or not the pattern which manifests solely the iris of the user's eye matches the digital data which manifests solely the model iris in accordance with a certain combination of the quantitatively-determined goodness values of match at each of said plurality of spatial scales.

Automated, non-invasive iris recognition system and method

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Princeton, NJ, United States of America

Jane Circle Asmuth