Method and device for collecting biometric data

• US 7,392,939 B2
• Filed: 02/08/2005
• Issued: 07/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TBS Holding AG
• Original Assignee: TBS Holding AG
• Inventors: Hauke, Rudolf, Parziale, Giuseppe
• Primary Examiner(s): Le; Thien Minh
• Application Number:
  US10/538,740
• Publication Number:
  US 20060243803A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,239 Days
• Field of Search: 235/380, 235/492, 235/382, 235/382.5, 382/127, 382/115, 382/210, 382/197, 382/124, 356/71
• US Class Current: 235/380
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/1312 direct reading, e.g. contactless acquisition

Abstract

A device for collecting biometric data, in particular fingerprints, the device having an optically active detector for recording the surfaces of body regions. In the beam path between the surface and the detector a mirror is provided.

Claims

1. A device for collecting biometric data, the device comprising

an optically active detector for recording a surface of a body area,

a light source for producing a beam path of light,

a mirror located in the beam path between the surface of the body area and the detector, the mirror being a conical ring-shaped mirror for data collection of approximately 180°

.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the mirror is either curved or bent in a U or a half-ring.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein a partial surface of the surface scanned by the mirror is small in relation to a complete surface of the body area to be recorded.

4. The device according to claim 3 wherein a path of rays between the mirror and the detector is either parallel to or acute with respect to a longitudinal extension of the body area to be recorded.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein the light source is a green light source.

6. The device according to claim 5 wherein the light source is arranged below the body area.

7. The device according to claim 6 wherein the light source is stripe-like, as an LED array.

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein the mirror is a semipermeable mirror designed as a partial mirror for introducing the light into the beam path.

9. The device according to claim 1, wherein in the beam path between the mirror and the detector, an objective is provided.

10. The device according to claim 9, wherein a magnification of the objective is chosen so that a local element on the surface of the body area is imaged at least on one (pixel) of the detector.

11. The device according to claim 9, wherein a front lens of the objective corresponds at least to a size of the body area.

12. The device according to claim 11, wherein the front lens is a rectangular front lens.

13. The device according to claim 9, wherein the detector and the mirror as well as, the objective are combined as a sensor head, and the sensor head is moved linearly.

14. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a telecentric imaging of the body area.

15. The device according to claim 1, wherein the mirror is movable with respect to the body area.

16. The device according to claim 15, wherein the mirror is movable essentially parallel to a longitudinal extension of the body area to be recorded.

17. A collection arrangement for collecting biometric data, the collection arrangement comprising

at least one optically active detector for recording a surface of a body area,

a light source for producing a beam path of light,

a mirror located in the beam path between the surface of the body area and the detector,

the at least one detector including a first device for recording a first body region and a second device for recording a second body region, and

a spreading device for spreading apart body areas in such a way that lateral recordings of the body areas are possible by the at least one detector.

18. A The collection arrangement according to claim 17, wherein the spreading device is cylindrical stoppers, arranged between fingers of a hand;

and mirrors are located below the fingers.

19. The collection arrangement according to claim 18 wherein the spreading device effects a spreading of the fingers about 15°

, between two adjacent fingers.

20. The collection device according to claim 17, further comprising a supporting surface in which slots or openings with optically transparent covers are provided, and the mirrors are each arranged in a region of the slot in an indentation.

21. The collection arrangement according to claim 20, wherein the supporting surface forms grooves for receiving fingers and an arrangement of the grooves effect the spreading device.

22. The collection arrangement according to claim 17, wherein two adjacent devices share an objective.

23. The collection arrangement according to claim 17, wherein for each finger an individual, movable sensor head is provided, and adjacent sensor heads move in an opposite direction with respect to each other.

24. The collection arrangement according to claim 17, wherein for each finger an individual, movable sensor head is provided, and each sensor head is movable longitudinally, in a direction of a longitudinal extension of the respective finger.

25. The collection arrangement according to claim 17, further comprising a locking arrangement of individual fingers by the spreading device.

26. A method for collecting biometric data, said method comprising

introducing a bent mirror in a light beam path between a surface of a body region and a detector,

recording at least one picture of a first cylinder-shaped partial surface of the surface of the body region by the detector

relatively moving the detector and the body region, and

recording at least one picture of a second cylinder-shaped partial surface of the surface of the body region.

27. The method according to claim 26, wherein the relative movement is carried out either parallel or essentially parallel to a longitudinal extension of the body region.

28. The method according to claim 26, wherein the detector files the picture recorded from the partial surfaces correlated in their order in a storage.

29. The method according to claim 28, wherein the picture of the first and the second partial surface overlap at least partly.

30. The method according to claim 28, wherein in a picture processing module the pictures filed in the storage are combined to a three-dimensional image of the recorded surfaces.

31. The method according to claim 30, wherein the picture processing module equalises at least one of the three-dimensional image and the pictures.