Minutia detection from measurement of a human skull and identifying and profiling individuals from the human skull detection

• US 7,616,797 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2005
• Issued: 11/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Secure Logistix
• Original Assignee: Secure Logistix
• Inventors: Barrera, Fernando A., Bailey, Kenneth S.
• Primary Examiner(s): PERUNGAVOOR, SATHYANARAYA V
• Application Number:
  US11/211,159
• Publication Number:
  US 20060104489A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,540 Days
• Field of Search: 382/128
• US Class Current: 382/128
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/10 Human or animal bodies, e.g. vehicle occupants or pedestrians; Body parts, e.g. hands

Abstract

Individual information about a person'"'"'s body part is obtained. The body part is defined to have reference points. A geometrical part is extended between those reference points, and characteristics of the geometrical part as so extended are determined. These characteristics are used as minutae to compare against other body parts.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

a scanner which projects extremely high frequency millimeter waves through a Gaussian lens; and

a computer performing the steps of;

obtaining an electronic representation of information, including at least the shape of an individual'"'"'s skull, or skull volume, utilizing said scanner; and

forming a template minutia from said electronic representation about the individual'"'"'s skull, based on geometrical constructs extending through reference points within said electronic representation.

2. A method as in claim 1, wherein said geometrical constructs comprise lines between specified reference points.

3. A method as in claim 2, wherein said geometrical constructs further comprise angles formed between those lines.

4. A method as in claim 2, wherein said specified reference points include a tip of the nose and an occipital part.

5. A method as in claim 1, wherein said obtaining comprises forming a profile of an individual, and storing the obtained profile in a computer database, in the form of said template minutia, for later retrieval.

6. A method as in claim 5, further comprising, comparing said template minutia with other template minutia, to determine a match.

7. A system comprising:

a scanner assembly which projects extremely high frequency millimeter waves through a Gaussian lens;

a memory storing electronic information representing a shape of an individual'"'"'s skull, derived from said scanner assembly; and

a processor, identifying reference points on said shape and forming geometrical constructs which extend through said reference points and using characteristics of said geometrical constructs to represent individual information about the individual formed by intersections between said geometrical constructs and said shape.

8. A system as in claim 7, wherein said geometrical constructs comprise lines between specified reference points.

9. A system as in claim 8, wherein said geometrical constructs comprise lines between specified reference points, and angles formed between those lines.

10. A system as in claim 8, wherein said specified reference points include a tip of the nose and the occipital part.

11. A system as in claim 7, wherein said scanner assembly directs said extremely high frequency millimeter waves towards the individual at an angle which is oblique relative to a reference line of the skull.