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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2013
Morpho, Issy-les-Moulineaux, FR;
William Ketchantang, Issy-les-Moulineaux, FR;
Sylvaine Picard, Issy-les-Moulineaux, FR;
MORPHO, Issy les Mouliveaux, FR;
Abstract
A method of detecting a venous network in a portion of a human body, the method comprising the steps of capturing an infrared image of said human body portion in order to reveal a venous network of said human body portion; analyzing contrast in the infrared image in order to determine contrast characteristics of the infrared image; and determining whether the human body portion is real on the basis of contrast characteristics determined in the infrared image and of contrast characteristics determined from reference human body portions. A method of biometric recognition with a prior stage of detecting whether a portion of a human body is real.