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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2007
Applicant:
Christopher Thomas, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventor:
Christopher Thomas, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
SMSC Holdings S.à.r.l, Luxembourg, LU;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A fingerprint imager uses a non-rectangular image readout to reduce the bandwidth and data size of the read-out image. Narrow-width rows in the central portion of the image are used to align successive partial image frames of the fingerprint to reconstruct a full image of the fingerprint using full-width rows of the fingerprint frames.