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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. 18, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2003
Applicants:
Steffen Scholze, Hamburg, DE;
Alexander Schwarz, Hamburg, DE;
Inventors:
Steffen Scholze, Hamburg, DE;
Alexander Schwarz, Hamburg, DE;
Assignee:
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G05B 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a method of improving fingerprint images, wherein recorded images are processed on image areas of the fingerprint images by using Gabor filters, the Gabor filters are adapted to characteristic quantities of the image in the relevant image area to be processed.