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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2017
Nxp B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Thomas Suwald, Hamburg, DE;
Arne Burghardt, Hamburg, DE;
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, a fingerprint authentication system is provided, comprising: a transformation unit configured to transform a first format of a captured fingerprint into a second format of the captured fingerprint, wherein the first format defines coordinates of minutia positions and the second format defines relative positions of minutiae; and an authentication unit configured to compare the relative positions with stored reference values. According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding fingerprint authentication method is conceived. According to a third aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding computer program product is provided.