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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2002
Teruyuki Higuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Takeo Sugawara, Hamamatsu, JP;
Teruyuki Higuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Takeo Sugawara, Hamamatsu, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
A fingerprint input apparatus includes a light sourcefor emitting light and a fiber optic platehaving a finger contact surface with which a fingeris brought into contact in order to pick up a fingerprint image of the finger. The light from the light sourceis at first introduced into an inside of the finger, is scattered within the inside of the finger, and comes out of the finger through the surface of the fingeras outgoing light. By the use of the outgoing light, the fingerprint image is formed. The light sourceis disposed so that the light from the light sourceenters into a substantial center of a part of the fingerincluding a first joint on a palm side and that the light sourceis contacted with the finger