	US 7,596,245 B2
	Process of storage of biometric features
Karthik Kaleedhass, Selangor (Malaysia)
Assigned to Multimedia Glory SDN. BHD., Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
Filed on Aug. 02, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/902,833.
Claims priority of application No. P1 2003 2931 (MY), filed on Aug. 01, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0041876 A1, Feb. 24, 2005
Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 382—115 [382/173; 382/124; 382/117]

9 Claims

1. A process of recording biometric features in a computer recordable medium to reduce storage space required to store the biometric features, comprising the steps of:

extracting a raw biometrics feature of one or more biometric patterns comprising finger prints, palm prints, iris images, and retina images;

segmenting each one or more raw biometric patterns into at least two regions;

identifying anchor features and at least two other significant features in each of the at least two regions:

wherein the anchor feature consists of:

(a) a centre point in finger prints or palm prints,

(b) an optic disc in a retina image,

and wherein the significant features consist of:

(d) ridge join points or ridge line endings for finger prints or palm prints,

(e) macula and vessel density in a retina, and a lens and iris portion in an iris image;

computing positional relativity of each significant feature in relation to the anchor feature wherein the positional relativity includes one or more distance, direction or segment units;

computing the minimum and maximum value of the positional relativity of each feature;

concatenating the values obtained in the computing steps as a feature by compressing the values obtained in the computing steps by one byte per character; and

storing in the computer recordable medium of the feature obtained in the immediately preceding step,

wherein all of the steps are performed by a computer.