Automatic fingerprint identification system including processes and apparatus for matching fingerprints
CA 1317376 C · Owner: Vassy, Daniel · Inventors: Longepierre, Patrick; Larcher, Philippe; Vassy, Daniel
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The invention is an automatic method and related apparatus for identifying fingerprints by means of comparing the minutiae of each fingerprint in a data base of fingerprints with selected ones of precomputed vector images of search minutiae in a search print to be identified in order to, determine the existence or not of a fit between the minutiae of a file print and the preselected search minutiae images in, position and angle, a result of such comparison being a matching score indicating the probability of a match between the search print and one or more file prints the basis for, selection of such precomputed vector images being the identity between the angle of a file print minutiae and …
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- Granted May 4, 1993. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended May 4, 2010.
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