Display device of focal angle and focal distance in iris recognition system

• US 7,271,839 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2002
• Issued: 09/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Iris Id
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Won Hee, Chae, Jang Jin, Yang, Ae Kyung
• Primary Examiner(s): Ometz; David
• Assistant Examiner(s): Villecco; John M.
• Application Number:
  US10/096,967
• Publication Number:
  US 20020130961A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,014 Days
• Field of Search: 382/117, 348/14.16, 348/94, 348/95, 348/116, 348/78, 348/218, 348/333.03, 348/135, 348/340, 348/344, 348/51, 348/56, 348/333.02, 348/346, 396/51, 351/208
• US Class Current: 348/346
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/18 Eye characteristics, e.g. of the iris
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/37 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition

Abstract

The present invention relates to a display device of a focal angle and distance in an iris recognition system, in which the device includes: a distance measurer for measuring a distance between a user and an iris recognition camera, and an indicator for quantitatively indicating a forward-backward distance and a right and left or up and down direction the user should move, in accordance with the distance measured by the distance measurer.

Claims

1. A display device of a focal angle and distance in an iris recognition system, the device comprising:

a distance measurer for measuring a distance between a user and a camera;

an iris recognition camera for obtaining image information for iris recognition of the user;

a light emitter for optically indicating a moving direction and a moving distance to the user, in accordance with a measurement result of the distance measurer by transmitting the light through an iris recognition camera lens; and

a light optics for guiding the moving direction and the moving distance indication light by the light emitter to be distinguished from an optical path for iris recognition;

wherein the light of the light emitter illuminates and transmits at a first side of the light optics and iris recognition camera photographs the iris image reflected from a second side of the light optics.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the light optics is a hot mirror, which reflects infrared rays and transmits visible rays, enabling the light emitted from the light emitter to transmit to the iris recognition camera lens and to be projected to the user.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the light emitter further comprises:

a central light emitting diode (LED) formed at a center; and

at least one light emitting diode, being formed at an outside of the central LED, for displaying the distance between the user and the camera.

4. The display device of claim 3, wherein the at least one light emitting diode is positioned to contact the central LED at the periphery of the central LED.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the light emitter further comprises:

an angle displaying visible ray for adjusting a focal angle; and

at least one distance indication light emitting diode, which is formed at a central part of the angle displaying visible ray.

6. The device of claim 1, further comprising an infrared ray filter, which transmits the light emitted from the light emitter towards a camera lens direction, and plays a role as an iris diaphragm against a camera light for recognizing an iris of a user.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the infrared ray filter is mounted at a front or rear side on an optical path of the iris recognition camera lens.

8. The device of claim 6, wherein the infrared ray filter coats the front or rear side of the iris recognition camera lens.

9. The display device of claim 1, wherein the first and second surfaces are different surfaces of the light optics.

10. A display device of a focal angle and distance in an iris recognition system, the device comprising a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) for indicating a forward-backward distance and a right and left and up and down direction a user should move in accordance with a distance measured by a distance measurer, in order to adjust the focal angle of the camera, wherein at least one of the light emitting diodes is turned on at a different position according to the distance measured by the distance measurer.

11. The display device of claim 10, wherein a first of the plurality of light emitting diodes is a central light emitting diode to indicate the right and left and up and down direction a user should move.

12. The display device of claim 11, wherein a second of the plurality of light emitting diodes is a distance indicating light emitting diode to indicate the backward-forward distance a user should move.

13. The display device of claim 12, wherein the second light emitting diodes is positioned at a periphery of the first light emitting diode.

14. The display device of claim 12, wherein the second light emitting diode is within a concentric circle of the first light emitting diode.

15. The display device of claim 10, wherein the at least one light emitting diode is positioned to contact a central LED being formed at a center, and at the periphery of the central LED.

16. A display device of a focal angle and distance in an iris recognition system, the device comprising:

an illumination device;

an iris recognition camera for acquiring user images including an iris image of the user through an irradiation from the illumination device;

a light emitter for indicating a focal angle to the user; and

a light optics for guiding the user to the optimal focal angle sharpness of a visible ray that is dependent on the focal angle, wherein the light optics transmits the visible ray irradiated from the light emitter onto the user and reflects an image of the user.

17. The device of claim 16, wherein an infrared ray is used for the illumination device.

18. The device of claim 16, wherein the light optics is a hot mirror.

19. The device of claim 16, wherein the light emitter is located at a rear side of the light optics.

20. The device of claim 16, wherein the light emitter, being located at a lower part of the light optics, further comprises a medium for guiding a light that is outputted from the light emitter to transmit to the rear side of the light optics, and to be projected at the end.

21. The device of claim 20, wherein the medium is a prism.

22. The device of claim 16, wherein the light emitter is a light emitting diode.

23. The display device of claim 16, wherein the reflected image of the user is an infrared ray.