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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. 11, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2011
Applicants:
Abhishek Nagar, Lansing, MI (US);
Kaushik Josiam, Dallas, TX (US);
Farooq Khan, Allen, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus and method for detecting a finger are provided. The method includes capturing an image of a finger, generating a likelihood image of the finger from the captured image, localizing the finger within the likelihood image, determining a boundary of the finger, determining a location of one or more creases of the finger, and comparing the determined location of the one or more creases with crease locations of a finger image stored in a database.