Three dimensional minutiae extraction in three dimensional scans

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8965069-B2
Application number	US-201213631041-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 28, 2012
Priority date	Sep 30, 2011
Publication date	Feb 24, 2015
Grant date	Feb 24, 2015

Abstract

A system and method extract a plurality of three dimensional identification minutiae from a three dimensional image of a biometric identification feature. The extracted three dimensional identification minutiae from the three dimensional image may be compared to one or more sets of three dimensional identification minutiae to determine an identification and/or confirm an identification. In a preferred embodiment, the system and method extract three dimensional identification minutiae from a three dimensional image of a fingerprint, and compare the extracted three dimensional identification minutiae from the fingerprint to one or more sets of three dimensional identification minutiae associated with previously classified fingerprints to determine and/or confirm an identification.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of analyzing a three dimensional image of a biometric identification feature, the method comprising:
receiving the three dimensional image;
analyzing the three dimensional image in a three dimensional space with at least one hardware based processor to identify at least one identification minutiae of the biometric identification feature in the three dimensional image based at least in part on a three dimensional characteristic determined from anal…

Assignees

• Univ Louisville Res Found

Inventors

• Inanc Tamer
• Shafaei Sara

Classifications

• G06V10/993

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06K9/00073 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06V40/1353 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic