Fujitsu Denso Ltd.

Masahiko Yamaguchi

Koichi Narasaki

Hiroyuki Souno

Mitsunobu Okazumi

Takayuki Soga

Atsushi Ogawa

Yasuo Ooka

Kiyohide Taniguchi

Naoya Uchida

The present invention can achieve the reliability and simplicity in registering a fingerprint by indicating the quality of a fingerprint image by the number of pseudo minutiae, improve the security of an entrance/exit control system to register a fingerprint, detect the direction of ridge lines of a fingerprint accurately as much as possible, improve the security in checking a fingerprint remarkably, collect renewed registered fingerprint data by a host device and hold the registered fingerprint data of each gate as the latest fingerprint data, improve the operability by enabling to use identification numbers having the less number of digits, and register a fingerprint having a high match rate by automatically applying spatial filtering in re-registering only. A fingerprint registering method according to the present invention detects normal minutiae and pseudo minutiae in a fingerprint pictured by a fingerprint image pickup unit, counts pseudo minutiae in registering windows with normal minutiae at almost the center, determines the average number of pseudo minutiae in registering windows from a total of pseudo minutiae in all registering windows, and registers a fingerprint when the average number of pseudo minutiae is equal to or below a threshold.

Fingerprint registering method and fingerprint checking device

The present invention relates to a method for renewing dictionary image data in a fingerprint identification device, and enables to shorten dictionary identification time and to always keep the dictionary images in the best condition. And, the invention also relates to a dictionary registration and identification method for a fingerprint identification device, by which an identification rate is improved by registering and identifying a plurality of dictionaries. Besides, the invention relates to a method for judging fingerprinting in a fingerprint identification device, by which continuous identification rejections can be prevented. The invention relates to a fingerprinting judging method in a fingerprint identification device, which can prevent misjudgment in fingerprint identification. In a dictionary image renewing method in a fingerprint identification device according to the present invention, match data is provided in respective minutia data to indicate the number of times of matching with an entered fingerprint image, and when pattern matching is performed between all minutia data and entered fingerprint images for a prescribed period, respective minutia data configuring the dictionary data can be arranged in the order from the greater match data.

Fingerprinting judging method

A dictionary image renewing method in a fingerprint identification device registers images into a dictionary memory as multiple dictionaries. The method includes extracting images from a plurality of fingerprint images determined as being acceptable identification by mutual identification and using the multiple dictionaries to perform identification processing of entered fingerprint images. This includes successively identifying by comparing entered fingerprint images with the dictionary images registered in the multiple dictionaries, and when identification acceptance results with any one of the multiple dictionaries the one dictionary determined as being identification accepted is renewed to the dictionary image registered in any one of the remaining dictionaries. The remaining multiple dictionaries are renewed to the dictionary image extracted from the entered fingerprint images.

Fingerprint dictionary image renewing method

Fingerprint identification device and method of using same

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Masahiko Yamaguchi