Access control system with RFID and biometric facial recognition
First Claim
13. A biometric identification method, comprising:
- a. activating a biometric identification card by digitally photographing a face of a person and transmitting the photographed facial digital data to a database while printing the photograph of the person on a identification card, and assigning identification information criteria relating to said person in an RFID tag secured to said identification card;
b. transmitting said identification information to a data base;
c. subsequently reading the information from the RFID tag on said identification card at a location remote from the said activation;
d. digitally photographing the facial feature of a person carrying said identification card as part of an access transaction to obtain a comparison set of biometric information; and
e. determining whether the set of RFID tag information and digital photograph biometric information is a match of said stored biometric information obtained during said biometric identification card activation.
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Abstract
A biometric identification system which uses a UHF radio frequency identification (RFID) tag storing a first set of specified biometric information on an identity card; which bears a facial picture of the card carrier. An identification system comprising an antenna using radio frequency signals and a reader is used to read the first set of specified biometric information from the tag when the identify card is within sensing range of the identification system. A camera captures and digitalizes the facial features of the card carrier when the card carrier approaches a designated area and transmits this digital data to a computer which compares the first set of specified biometric information obtained by the reader from the identity card and the second set of digital facial information obtained from the camera to the stored biometric information to determine if the two sets of biometric information are a match.
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20 Claims
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13. A biometric identification method, comprising:
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a. activating a biometric identification card by digitally photographing a face of a person and transmitting the photographed facial digital data to a database while printing the photograph of the person on a identification card, and assigning identification information criteria relating to said person in an RFID tag secured to said identification card;
b. transmitting said identification information to a data base;
c. subsequently reading the information from the RFID tag on said identification card at a location remote from the said activation;
d. digitally photographing the facial feature of a person carrying said identification card as part of an access transaction to obtain a comparison set of biometric information; and
e. determining whether the set of RFID tag information and digital photograph biometric information is a match of said stored biometric information obtained during said biometric identification card activation. - View Dependent Claims (14)
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15. An identity checking method for verifying the identity of an individual comprising the steps of:
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a. capturing an individual'"'"'s digital facial data at an initial time and storing it on a first database;
b. associating said initial digital facial data with a unique description stored in said first database and encoded in a RFID tag embedded on an identify card issued to the individual;
c. capturing contemporary facial data and said unique description by remote sensing means at a point of arrival of said individual;
d. interrogating said first database for said initial facial data corresponding to said captured unique description;
e. comparing said contemporary facial data with said corresponding initial biometric data; and
f. making a decision on the basis of the degree of correlation in step (e) to allow entry of said individual into a specific area. - View Dependent Claims (1, 17, 18)
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18-1. A method as claimed in claim 17 wherein said RFID tag is read by a RFID reader at said remote entry point.
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19. A security system comprising an identification card with an RFID tag secured thereto, a biometric database containing a digital facial image of an identification card carrier and RFID tag information of the identification card carrier, a remote RFID reader sensing and reading said identification card with said RFID tag and relaying said tag information to a computer, a remote digital video surveillance camera which records the facial digital image of the identification card holder and transmits the facial digital image to a computer which accesses said database and compares the facial digital image record taken by said digital video surveillance camera with said digital facial image in said biometric database identified in said database by the identification card RFID tag to determine if there is a match to verify the identification card carrier.
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20. A biometric identification system, comprising:
- a UHF radio frequency identification (RFID) tag secured on an identification card storing a first set of biometric information which corresponds to a specific identification card holder;
data storage means storing said first set of biometric information and a second set of biometric information representing the facial digital image of said holder of said identification card, a remote RFID reader using radio frequency signals to read the first set of biometric information from said RFID tag secured to said identification card and transmit the first set of biometric information to a computer, a remote camera which digitalizes the facial features of the identification card carrier sensed by the RFID reader and comparison means which compares the biometric information received from the identification card by said remote reader to said stored first set of biometric information in said data storage means and compare said digital facial image captured by said remote camera to the second set of digital facial information in said data storage means to determine if the two sets of biometric facial information are a match. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
- a UHF radio frequency identification (RFID) tag secured on an identification card storing a first set of biometric information which corresponds to a specific identification card holder;
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