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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Akihito Nakayama, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/80 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/80 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides an image collation device having a simple whole structure which is applied, for example, as a fingerprint collation device. Linear images cut from the one image is stored in a memory means, and the other image is collated with the stored liner images. Thereby the image data of the linear images can be recorded in a memory means having a small capacity.