Hand-held personal identification analysis device and methods of use

• US 20060013447A1
• Filed: 04/04/2005
• Published: 01/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sonavation, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Cross Match Technologies Incorporated (Assa Abloy AB)
• Inventors: Liautaud, Christian, Siegel, William G., McDow, Timothy S., Leighty, Ronnie, Sorokin, Aleksandr A.
• Application Number:
  US11/097,124
• Publication Number:
  US 20060013447A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/115
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/13 Sensors therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/161 Detection; Localisation; Normalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/37 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition

Abstract

A hand-held personal identification analysis device is provided. The hand-held personal identification analysis device includes a scanning system for gathering biometric information from individuals, a profiler system for developing profiles of individuals based on biometric information gathered from the scanning system, and a personal data assistant or similar computing device with a screen for providing a user interface and overall system control A scanning system interface couples the scanning system to said computer module.

Claims

1. A hand-held personal identification analysis device, comprising:

a scanning system for gathering biometric information from individuals;

a profiler system for developing profiles of individuals based on biometric information gathered from said scanning system;

a personal data assistant (PDA) having a screen for providing a user interface and overall system control; and

a scanning system interface for coupling said scanning system to said PDA.

2. The personal identification analysis device of claim 1, further comprising a wireless transmitter coupled to said PDA.

3. The personal identification analysis device of claim 1, wherein said personal identification analysis device can be operated with a single hand.

4. The personal identification analysis device of claim 1, further comprising a hand-held enclosure for housing said scanning system, said profiler system, said computer module and said scanning system interface.

5. The personal identification analysis device of claim 4, further comprising:

a function toggle button on each side of said hand-held enclosure, wherein each of said function toggle buttons can be operated by a user'"'"'s thumb while holding said hand-held enclosure; and

a function toggle module for interfacing said function toggle buttons with said PDA.

6. The personal identification analysis device of claim 5, wherein said function toggle button is programmable.

7. The personal identification analysis device of claim 1, further comprising a docking station interface.

8. The personal identification analysis device of claim 1, wherein said scanning system comprises:

a controller for managing said scanning system;

a fingerprint camera coupled to said controller for taking print images of fingerprints; and

a fingerprint illuminator coupled to said controller for illuminating a finger for said fingerprint camera.

9. The personal identification analysis device of claim 8, wherein said fingerprint camera is arranged at an oblique angle relative to the screen on said PDA.

10. The personal identification analysis device of claim 8, further comprising a fingerprint capture surface, wherein said fingerprint capture surface is arranged at an oblique angle to the screen on said PDA.

11. The personal identification analysis device of claim 8, wherein said fingerprint illuminator emits short wave length light to reduce ambient light interference to enable usage in direct sunlight without a light shield over the fingerprint capture device.

12. The personal identification analysis device of claim 1, wherein said scanning system comprises:

a controller for managing said scanning system;

a two-dimensional mug shot camera coupled to said controller for taking two dimensional mug shot photos;

a mug shot illuminator coupled to said controller for illuminating an individual for said two-dimensional mug shot camera.

13. The personal identification analysis device of claim 12, wherein said scanning system comprises a three-dimensional mug shot camera coupled to said controller for taking three dimensional mug shot photos.

14. The personal identification analysis device of claim 1, wherein said scanning system comprises:

a controller for managing said scanning system;

a fingerprint camera coupled to said controller for taking print images of fingerprints; and

a fingerprint illuminator coupled to said controller for illuminating a finger for said fingerprint camera.

a two-dimensional mug shot camera coupled to said controller for taking two dimensional mug shot photos;

a three-dimensional mug shot camera coupled to said controller for taking three dimensional mug shot photos;

a mug shot illuminator coupled to said controller for illuminating an individual for said two-dimensional and three-dimensional mug shot camera.

15. The personal identification analysis device of claim 14, further comprising a magnetic strip reader coupled to said controller.

16. The personal identification analysis device of claim 14, further comprising a bar code scanner coupled to said controller.

17. The personal identification analysis device of claim 14, wherein said mug shot illuminator is an infra-red light source.

18. The personal identification analysis device of claim 14, wherein said mug shot illuminator is a flash light source.

19. The personal identification analysis device of claim 1, wherein said profiler system comprises a profile developer that creates an individual profile by combining a stored biometric image with supplementary data.

20. The personal identification analysis device of claim 19, wherein said supplementary data includes capture environment data.

21. The personal identification analysis device of claim 19, wherein said supplementary data includes individual history data.

22. The personal identification analysis device of claim 19, wherein said supplementary data includes user authentification data.

23. The personal identification analysis device of claim 19, wherein said supplementary data includes corroborating field identity data.

24. The personal identification analysis device of claim 1, wherein said profiler system comprises a profile compression system to reduce profile size and transmission times.

25. The personal identification analysis device of claim 1, wherein said profiler system comprises a biometric feature extraction module.

26. The personal identification analysis device of claim 1, wherein said profiler system comprises a biometric feature matching module.

27. The personal identification analysis device of claim 1, wherein said profiler system comprises an area of interest individual profile database.

28. The personal identification analysis device of claim 1, wherein said profiler system comprises an encryption module for ensuring that individual profiles are not corrupted.

29. The personal identification analysis device of claim 1, wherein said profiler system comprises a digital signature module for authenticating use of said personal identification analysis device.

30. The personal identification analysis device of claim 2, wherein said wireless transmitter transmits profiles of individuals.

31. A method to analyze personal identity information of an individual, comprising the steps of:

(a) presenting a user interface control screen on a user interface of a hand-held personal identification analysis device;

(b) receiving control instruction;

(c) capturing biometric information from the individual using a scanning system of a hand-held personal identification analysis device;

(d) developing a personal identification profile; and

(e) analyzing the personal identification profile.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein step (c) biometric information includes a fingerprint image.

33. The method of claim 31, wherein step (c) biometric information includes a mug shot image.

34. The method of claim 31, wherein step (c) biometric information includes an iris image.

35. The method of claim 31, wherein step (d) developing a personal identification profile comprises the steps of:

(i) receiving capture environment data;

(ii) combining capture environment data and biometric information to create the personal identification profile.

36. The method of claim 31, wherein step (d) developing a personal identification profile comprises the steps of:

(i) receiving individual history data;

(ii) combining individual history data and biometric information to create the personal identification profile.

37. The method of claim 31, wherein step (d) developing a personal identification profile comprises the steps of:

(i) receiving user authentification data;

(ii) combining user authentification data and biometric information to create the personal identification profile.

38. The method of claim 31, wherein step (d) developing a personal identification profile comprises the steps of:

(i) receiving corroborating field identity data;

(ii) combining corroborating field identity data and biometric information to create the personal identification profile.

39. The method of claim 31, wherein step (d) developing a personal identification profile comprises the steps of:

(i) receiving capture environment data;

(ii) receiving individual history data;

(iii) receiving user authentification data;

(iv) receiving corroborating field identity data;

(v) combining corroborating capture environment data, individual history data, user authentification data, corroborating field identity data and biometric information to create the personal identification profile.

40. A method to process personal identity information of an individual, comprising the steps of:

(a) presenting a user interface control screen on a user interface of a hand-held personal identification analysis device;

(b) receiving control instruction;

(c) capturing biometric information from the individual using a scanning system of a hand-held personal identification analysis device;

(d) developing a personal identification profile; and

(e) transmitting the personal identification profile.

41. The method of claim 40, wherein step (e) developing a personal identification profile comprises affixing a digital signature of a user to the personal identification profile.

42. The method of claim 40, wherein step (e) developing a personal identification profile comprises encrypting the personal identification profile.

43. The method of claim 40, wherein step (e) developing a personal identification profile comprises compressing the personal identification profile.