Fingerprint recognition method, and fingerprint control method and system

• US 20040042645A1
• Filed: 11/14/2002
• Published: 03/04/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Changchun Hongda Optoelectronic and Biostatistics Identification Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Biostatistics Identification Technology Company Limited, Changchun Hongda Optoelectronic
• Inventors: Wang, Li
• Application Number:
  US10/294,231
• Publication Number:
  US 20040042645A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/125
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/1347 Preprocessing; Feature extraction

Abstract

The present invention relates to a fingerprint recognition method, a fingerprint control method and a fingerprint control system. The fingerprint recognition method includes following steps: calculating a direction field and a quality field of the obtained fingerprint image, and judging whether the fingerprint quality is qualified or not; filtering and bianarizing the image of the qualified fingerprints, and extracting the characteristic data of the fingerprints on the binarized fingerprint image; comparing the extracted characteristic data of the fingerprints with the fingerprints in the fingerprint characteristic data memory, and obtaining the recognition result according to the comparison, wherein, the direction field of the fingerprint image is locally corrected by use of the local preponderance method. The fingerprint control system according to the present invention can be used conveniently, has a low rejection ratio or low mis-recognition ratio, and is of important application value.

Claims

1. A fingerprint recognition method, comprising steps:

a. calculating a direction field and a quality field of an obtained fingerprint image, and judging whether the fingerprint quality is qualified or not;

b. filtering and binarizing the image of the qualified fingerprints, and extracting the characteristic data of the fingerprints on the binarized fingerprint image;

c. comparing the extracted characteristic data of the fingerprints with the fingerprints in the fingerprint characteristic data memory, and obtaining the recognition result according to the comparison,

wherein the direction field of the fingerprint image is locally corrected by use of local preponderance method.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the direction field of the fingerprint image is integrally corrected by means of an integral template which is designed according to the fingerprint grain type of fingerprints.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein in step a, the gray gradient distribution on every fingerprint image sub-block is obtained, the cosine of an angle between the gradients is calculated, and when the cosine value is less than a given threshold value, an ambiguity is given to this sub-block area;

and the non-continuity of the direction field is calculated to obtain another ambiguity of that area, and the two ambiguities are combined to give the quality level of that sub-block area.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein when the number of the sub-blocks with low quality level is more than a given value, then that image is determined as unqualified.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein in step b, a directional filtration process is performed with respect to each block of the fingerprint image.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein in step b, the ridge density of the fingerprint grain lines of the fingerprint images is calculated by means of the Fourier analysis method.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein in step b, according to the ridge density and the direction field data, a Gabor filter is configured to filter the fingerprint image.

8. A method according to claim 1, wherein in step b, for the sub-blocks of the fingerprint image, on a straight line section in the direction perpendicular to the fingerprint grain lines, the image is binarized with the mean gray scale value as a threshold value.

9. A method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of:

sending and carrying out corresponding control commands according to the recognition result.

10. A fingerprint control system, including:

a fingerprint collecting subsystem, including a fingerprint image input device for inputting fingerprint images;

a fingerprint recognition subsystem, including a fingerprint image memory, a fingerprint characteristic data memory, and an image processor, said image processor having means for

a. calculating a direction field and a quality field of an obtained fingerprint image, and judge whether the fingerprint quality is qualified or not;

b. filtering and binarizing the image of the qualified fingerprints, and extracting the characteristic data of the fingerprints on the binarized fingerprint image;

c. comparing the extracted characteristic data of the fingerprints with the fingerprints in the fingerprint characteristic data memory, and obtaining the recognition result according to the comparison, and

a driving and executing subsystem for carrying out corresponding control commands according to the recognition results of the fingerprint recognition subsystem.