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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:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2007
Applicant:
Ken Iizuka, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Ken Iizuka, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Apparatus, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for extracting biometric identification information useful for biometric authentication are disclosed. Biometric identification is accomplished by extracting binary biometric data from video signals of characteristics images of a subject of biometric identification such as a finger at sequentially different image pickup positions in response to a relative movement of an image pickup element and the subject of biometric identification at a predetermined biological site.