Identification system displaying a user image at a remote location

• US 6,695,206 B2
• Filed: 11/18/2002
• Issued: 02/24/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Personal Biometric Encoders Limited
• Original Assignee: Personal Biometric Encoders Limited
• Inventors: Ross, William Leslie
• Primary Examiner(s): FUREMAN, JARED
• Application Number:
  US10/298,757
• Publication Number:
  US 20030066882A1
• Time in Patent Office: 463 Days
• Field of Search: 235/375, 235/380, 235/382, 235/441, 235/492, 382/115, 382/118, 382/124, 382/116, 340/5.1, 340/5.52, 340/5.53, 340/5.6, 340/5.82, 340/5.83, 379/93.03, 379/93.23, 379/142, 713/186, 705/18, 705/44
• US Class Current: 235/380
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/341 Active cards, i.e. cards including their own processing means, e.g. including an IC or chip
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/40145 Biometric identity checks
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/25 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/26 using a biometric sensor integrated in the pass
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system

Abstract

A method for remote verification in which a first party at a first telephone confirms their identity to a second person at a second telephone. The fingerprint of the first person is read and compared to a stored fingerprint pattern. If the stored and sensor fingerprint patterns match, the first telephone transmits a signal to the second telephone which controls a display on the second telephone to display an image of the first person.

Claims

1. An identification method for remote identity verification including the steps of:

at a first location, generating a signal representing a fingerprint pattern, after a line of communication to a second location remote from the first location has been opened;

at the first location comparing the generated signal to a fingerprint signal, stored at the first location, generating a coincidence signal when the stored and generated fingerprint signals match;

at the first location, using the coincidence signal to address a memory storing a facial image signal representing an image of a face of a pre-determined person;

transmitting the facial image signal along the already open line of communication to the second location remote from the first location where the fingerprint pattern is sensed; and

generating a display of the stored facial image at the second remote location.

2. An identification system for remote identity verification including:

at a first location, fingerprint sensing means for sensing a fingerprint pattern;

at the first location, data processing means for producing a signal representing a sensed fingerprint pattern;

at the first location, a first memory, for storing a signal representing a selected fingerprint pattern of a pre-determined person;

at the first location signal comparison means for comparing a signal generated by the data processing means from a sensed fingerprint pattern with the stored fingerprint pattern and generating a coincidence signal when the generated signal matches the stored fingerprint pattern;

at the first location, second memory for storing a facial image signal representing an image of a face of the pre-determined person;

at the first location, addressing means for retrieving the facial image signal from the second memory when a coincidence signal is generated by the comparison means; and

at a second location, display means connected to and remote from the addressing means, converting the facial image signal into a display of the stored facial image.

3. An identification system according to claim 2 wherein the fingerprint sensing means, data processing means, first memory, signal comparison means, second memory and addressing means are on a card.

4. An identification system according to claim 2 wherein the display means is connected to the addressing means via respective first and second communications terminals.

5. An identification system according to claim 4 wherein the first and second communications terminals are telephones.

6. A method for validating a transaction card comprising the steps of:

forming a digital image of a pre-determined authorized person or card user on a transaction card;

storing a signal representing a fingerprint pattern of the pre-determined authorized person or card user;

sensing a fingerprint pattern of a card user and generating a signal representing the sensed fingerprint pattern;

determining if a match exists between the stored fingerprint pattern signal and the generated fingerprint pattern signal;

sending the digital image to a location remote from a point of transaction;

displaying the digital image of the location remote from the point of transaction; and

validating the transaction at the location remote from the transaction if the displayed image is an approved image.