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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:
Jan. 17, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2007
Applicants:
Stephanie Shuckers, Canton, NY (US);
Lawrence Hornak, Morgantown, WV (US);
Bozhao Tan, Potsdam, NY (US);
Inventors:
Stephanie Shuckers, Canton, NY (US);
Lawrence Hornak, Morgantown, WV (US);
Bozhao Tan, Potsdam, NY (US);
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Various systems, methods, and programs embodied in computer-readable mediums are provided for fingerprint liveness detection. In one embodiment, a method for determining fingerprint liveness is provided that comprises receiving a fingerprint image; extracting a region of interest from the fingerprint image; generating a histogram of the region of interest; determining a statistical feature of the histogram; and determining liveness of the fingerprint image based upon the statistical feature.