| US 7,583,822 B2 | ||
| Method for identifying persons and system for carrying out said method | ||
| Florence Guillemot, Triel sur Seine (France); and Bernard Didier, Vulaines sur Seine (France) | ||
| Assigned to Sagem SA, Paris (France) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/546,513 PCT Filed Feb. 19, 2004, PCT No. PCT/FR2004/000381 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date May 19, 2006, PCT Pub. No. WO2004/077200, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 10, 2004. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 03 02093 (FR), filed on Feb. 20, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0067639 A1, Mar. 22, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 382—115 [382/124; 340/5.82; 713/186] | 13 Claims |
| 1. A method of identifying a person, comprising:
(a) imaging creases in the skin of a person to be identified with an imaging device;
(b) processing images from the imaging device to extract contextual information and biometric characteristics from said images,
wherein said processing is accomplished with a processor;
(c) comparing the extracted contextual information with reference contextual information contained in a reference database;
and
(d) matching said extracted biometric characteristics with reference biometric characteristics contained in said reference
database;
wherein said compared information is used for a filter to constrain which of said reference biometric characteristics are
used to match said extracted biometric characteristics, and
wherein said creases are selected from the group consisting of creases of finger joints and creases on the forehead.
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