Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
382126000 | With a guiding mechanism for positioning finger | 19 |
20080205714 | Method and Apparatus for Fingerprint Image Reconstruction - Enhanced accuracy finger position and motion sensors devices, algorithms, and methods are disclosed that can be used in a variety of different applications. The sensors can be used in conjunction with partial fingerprint imagers to produce improved fingerprint scanners. Such improved scanners can use image analysis techniques, such as interpolation between partial fingerprint images to correct for missing data, or discarding redundant partial fingerprint image data, to produce adequate fingerprint images even when the finger has not been applied to the sensor using an optimum technique. | 08-28-2008 |
20080240523 | Method and Apparatus for Two-Dimensional Finger Motion Tracking and Control - Enhanced accuracy finger position and motion sensors devices, algorithms, and methods are disclosed that can be used in a variety of different applications. The sensors can be used in conjunction with partial fingerprint imagers to produce improved fingerprint scanners. The finger motion sensors may also be used (either with or without a partial fingerprint imager) to control electronic devices. When several of these finger motion and position sensors are aligned in different directions, finger motion over a two dimensional surface may be detected. This creates a finger controlled “mouse” computer input device. Motion of a finger along the surface of such sensors may allow a user to control the movement of an indicator on a display screen, and control a microprocessor device. Such techniques are particularly useful for small space constrained devices, such as cell phones, smart cards, music players, portable computers, personal digital accessories, and the like. | 10-02-2008 |
20080267465 | Operating Input Device and Operating Input Program - A finger placement detection unit | 10-30-2008 |
20090074263 | APPARATUS FOR INPUTTING BIOMETRICAL FEATURE - A biometrical feature inputting apparatus includes a 1-dimensional or quasi 1-dimensional image sensor. When a finger and the image sensor are relatively slid, a finger sliding guide keeps a finger and an effective pixel unit of the image sensor to a constant distance without any contact between them. An image processing section sequentially generates partial images by imaging emission light that is scattered inside the finger and then emitted from a skin surface of the finger by the image sensor during the relative motion of the finger and the image sensor and link the partial images to an image. | 03-19-2009 |
20090116706 | Device and procedure for the recording of lines of the fingers respectively the hand - The invention refers to a device for the recording of the lines of the fingers respectively the hand. The device has a support area for the hand respectively the fingers. In the support area a line sensor is provided which extends across the overall width of the hand. | 05-07-2009 |
20090123041 | GUIDE APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM, AND GUIDE METHOD - An image pickup apparatus has a placement portion having an opening portion, a finger guide, a wrist guide, and a photographing device provided in the opening portion. When a user's left or right hand is placed on the placement portion, the second joints of a plurality of fingers are placed on the planar surface of the placement section, and the middle finger is positioned by the finger guide. The wrist guide, which is provided on the opposite side of the finger guide on the upper surface of the image pickup apparatus with respect to the opening portion, has a pair of inclined surfaces and, when the palm is placed on the placement portion, the both end sides of the wrist contact the inclined surfaces to be positioned. Further, the wrist guide moves downward so as to keep the palm parallel to the opening plane of the opening portion. | 05-14-2009 |
20090257626 | THINNED FINGER SENSOR AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - An electronic device may include a housing with a connector member opening therein, electronic circuitry within the housing, and a finger sensor assembly carried by the housing. The finger assembly may include a thinned finger sensing integrated circuit (IC) secured to the housing that has a thickness less than 200 microns. The finger sensor assembly may also include a connector member extending through the connector member opening in the housing and coupling together the thinned finger sensing IC and the electronic circuitry. The thinned finger sensing IC may be adhesively secured to the housing, such as using a pressure sensitive adhesive, and the thinned finger sensing IC may conform to a non-planar surface. | 10-15-2009 |
20100027855 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE TAKING OF FINGERPRINTS | 02-04-2010 |
20100208954 | Fingerprint identifying system - A fingerprint identifying system includes a light source, a light-transmissive finger press plate, and an image-capturing unit. The light-transmissive finger press plate is disposed to receive light from the light source, and has a top face adapted to contact a finger, a bottom face, and at least one first microstructure layer formed on at least one of the top and bottom faces of the light-transmissive finger press plate for guiding the light received from the light source to uniformly scatter. The image-capturing unit is disposed below the light-transmissive finger press plate. | 08-19-2010 |
20120237092 | FINGER GUIDE DEVICE - A finger guide device that positions a finger (or minutiae containing digit) of a human subject on a fingerprint sensor in a manner optimal for the data capture operation of authentication or identification of said subject wherein a relevant portion of the finger is in alignment with a sensor or scanner. The finger guide device may also be used for enrollment of the initial fingerprint data into the system. The device may contain an outer surface ridge which feels somewhat uncomfortable due to application of a high pressure per square inch on small areas of the finger when the finger is incorrectly positioned to encourage correct placement of the finger. The finger guide device may have a curved inside surface to contour to a wide variety of fingertip shapes and sizes, wherein the sides and front have shorter radii of curvature than the rearward portion of the finger guide device. | 09-20-2012 |
20120281890 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION DEVICE, BIOMETRIC INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM, BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION SERVER, BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION CLIENT, AND BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION DEVICE CONTROLLING METHOD - A fingerprint image obtaining unit | 11-08-2012 |
20130182921 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION METHOD - A biometric authentication apparatus of the present invention comprises: a finger-tip placing detecting means for detecting placing of a finger-tip onto a finger-tip placing section; a finger-base-part placing detecting means for detecting placing of a finger-base part onto a finger-base-part placing section; and a guidance means for conducting guidance of whether or not the finger-tip or the finger-base part has been placed, on the basis of the results of the detections conducted by the finger-tip placing detecting means and the finger-base-part placing detecting means. | 07-18-2013 |
20140086460 | FINGER GUIDE DEVICE WITH CIRCUMSCRIBING RING - A finger guide device that positions a finger (or minutiae containing digit) of a human subject on a fingerprint sensor in a manner optimal for the data capture operation of authentication or identification of said subject wherein a relevant portion of the finger is in alignment with a sensor or scanner. The finger guide device may also be used for enrollment of the initial fingerprint data into the system. The device may contain an outer surface ridge which feels somewhat uncomfortable due to application of a high pressure per square inch on small areas of the finger where the finger is incorrectly positioned to encourage correct placement of the finger. The finger guide device may have a curved inside surface to contour to a wide variety of fingertip shapes and sizes, wherein the sides and front have shorter radii of curvature than the reward portion of the finger guide device. | 03-27-2014 |
20150036898 | STATION FOR ACQUIRING BIOMETRIC AND BIOGRAPHIC DATA - A system allowing the acquisition of biometric and biographical data of an individual includes a station into which at least one of the following elements are integrated: a sensor of biometric prints, a camera for taking a picture of said individual, a feedback screen and a gantry including lighting means adapted for ensuring lighting complying with given conditions of acquisition of the biometric data. The lighting means include a curved metallic reflector fixed to the rear and to the apex of the framework of a first upper light tube placed substantially horizontally, furnished with a protection which is lowered and oriented toward said reflector, and a second light tube disposed substantially horizontally in the lower part of the framework, where the power P | 02-05-2015 |
20150043792 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION DEVICE AND METHOD - A biometric authentication device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: determine, when authentication with first biometric information has been successful, whether second biometric information different from the first biometric information is from a user corresponding to the first biometric information using a determining method corresponding to one of a plurality of security levels, the determining method being selected from among a plurality of determining methods based on the one of the plurality of security levels, and register, when the second biometric information has been determined to be from the user, the second biometric information associated with the user. | 02-12-2015 |
20150302264 | BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION APPARATUS AND BIOMETRIC AUTHENTICATION METHOD - The present invention is a biometric authentication apparatus comprising, a fingertip sensor mounted on a tip placement surface of a tip placement section for placing a tip of a finger cushion said fingertip sensor detecting displacement of an arrangement position of a finger on the tip placement surface of the tip placement section, wherein the biometric authentication apparatus detects the displacement of a position of the tip of the finger cushion. | 10-22-2015 |
20160132736 | FINGER GUIDE DEVICE WITH SWITCH - A finger guide device that positions a finger (or minutiae containing digit) of a human subject on a fingerprint sensor in a manner optimal for the data capture operation of authentication of identification of said subject, wherein a relevant portion of the finger is in alignment with a sensor or scanner. The finger guide device may also be used for enrollment of the initial fingerprint data into the system. The device may contain an outer surface ridge which feels somewhat uncomfortable due to application of a high pressure per square inch on small areas of the finger when the finger is incorrectly positioned to encourage correct placement of the finger. The finger guide device may have a curved inside surface to contour to a wide variety of fingertip shapes and sizes, wherein the sides and front have shorter radii of curvature than the rearward portion of the finger guide device | 05-12-2016 |
20160132737 | FINGER GUIDE DEVICE WITH RECESS - A finger guide device that positions a finger (or minutiae containing digit) of a human subject on a fingerprint sensor in a manner optimal for the data capture operation of authentication of identification of said subject, wherein a relevant portion of the finger is in alignment with a sensor or scanner. The finger guide device may also be used for enrollment of the initial fingerprint data into the system. The device may contain an outer surface ridge which feels somewhat uncomfortable due to application of a high pressure per square inch on small areas of the finger when the finger is incorrectly positioned to encourage correct placement of the finger. The finger guide device may have a curved inside surface to contour to a wide variety of fingertip shapes and sizes, wherein the sides and front have shorter radii of curvature than the rearward portion of the finger guide device | 05-12-2016 |
20160253542 | BIOMETRIC RECOGNITION APPARATUS WITH CURVED SUBSTRATE | 09-01-2016 |