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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2014
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University, Seoul, KR;
Woon-Tahk Sung, Seoul, KR;
Jae-Hee Kim, Seoul, KR;
Byung-Jun Son, Seoul, KR;
Kang-Ryoung Park, Seoul, KR;
Taek-Seong Jeong, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Dong-Ik Kim, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A method and an electronic device are provided in association with iris recognition. The electronic device includes a camera module that obtains a Near-Infrared Ray (NIR) image, and a controller that converts the NIR image into an integral image, detects at least one candidate eye region from the integral image using at least one mask, detects a pupil region and an eyebrow region from the at least one candidate eye region, and to detect an eye region based on the pupil region.