EAR BIOMETRIC CAPTURE, AUTHENTICATION, AND IDENTIFICATION METHOD AND SYSTEM

• US 20160026781A1
• Filed: 07/16/2015
• Published: 01/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Descartes Biometrics, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Descartes Biometrics, Inc.
• Inventors: Boczek, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 9,613,200 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/10 Human or animal bodies, e.g. vehicle occupants or pedestrians; Body parts, e.g. hands

Abstract

The current document discloses an ear-biometrics-based authentication and identification system that includes an ear-image-capture subsystem that generates an image of a user'"'"'s ear, a template-generation subsystem that extracts features from the generated image to generate a template that is stored in an electronic memory, and a template-comparison subsystem that compares the generated template to previously generated and stored templates in order to identifier the user.

Claims

1. An ear-biometrics-based authentication and identification system comprising:

an ear-image-capture subsystem that generates an image of a user'"'"'s ear;

a template-generation subsystem that extracts features from the generated image to generate a template that is stored in an electronic memory; and

a template-comparison subsystem that compares the generated template to previously generated and stored templates in order to identifier the user.