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Organism collating method and apparatus

  • US 6,418,235 B1
  • Filed: 09/07/1999
  • Issued: 07/09/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/11/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An organism identification device comprising:

  • a storage device which stores respective face data of a plurality of individual organisms in predefined organism classes, the location of an individual organism'"'"'s face data within a particular class being defined by non-facial attribute data of the individual organism;

    a camera for taking a picture of an arriving organism and producing arrival organism face data;

    a device for determining non-facial attribute data of said arriving organism; and

    a collation device for determining which one of said predefined organism classes the arriving organism'"'"'s face data belongs to by evaluating the non-facial attribute data of said arriving organism and for comparing the face data of said arriving organism with stored face data within said determined class to identify the arriving organism.

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