Integrated portable identification and verification device

• US 7,817,821 B2
• Filed: 02/06/2009
• Issued: 10/19/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2003
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: InteliTrac, Inc.
• Original Assignee: InteliTrac, Inc.
• Inventors: Milne, Donald A., Chen, Tianlong
• Primary Examiner(s): Chawan; Sheela C
• Application Number:
  US12/366,782
• Publication Number:
  US 20090141945A1
• Time in Patent Office: 620 Days
• Field of Search: 382/100, 382/116, 382/124, 382/126, 382/127, 382/312, 382/125, 365/201, 365/203, 365/222, 365/228, 365/205, 365/190, 365/189.09, 720/718, 713/186, 42/701.1, 235/380, 235/382, 235/487, 235/492
• US Class Current: 382/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/256 of results relating to different input data, e.g. multimodal recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00236 using an image reading or reproducing device, e.g. a facsimile reader or printer, as a local input to or local output from a computer image input to or image output from a computer via a network H04N1/00209
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32101 Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3205 of identification information, e.g. name or ID code H04N2201/3209 takes precedence

Abstract

An portable integrated identification and verification system is disclosed. The station includes multiple devices integrated for identifying or verifying the identity of a person. The multiple devices, which may include a camera, a document scanner, and a fingerprint scanner, are mounted in a housing along with a computing device.

Claims

1. An identification system comprising:

a portable housing,

a document scanner mounted in said portable housing and connected to a computing device;

a camera mounted in said portable housing and connected to said computing device; and

a fingerprint scanner mounted in said housing and connected to said computing device;

wherein said document scanner scans documents and supplies encoded information of said documents to said computing device, said camera supplies facial images to said computing device, and said fingerprint scanner scans a fingerprint and supplies a template of said fingerprint to said computing device; and

wherein said computing device performs a comparison of a facial image supplied by said camera to a facial image scanned from a document scanned by said document scanner and a comparison of said facial image supplied by said camera to a database of facial images.

2. An identification system according to claim 1 wherein said encoded information comprises a bar code.

3. An identification system according to claim 1, wherein said computing device is removably mounted in said portable housing.

4. An identification system according to claim 1, further comprising a rechargeable battery in said housing, where said rechargeable battery provides power to said document scanner and said fingerprint scanner.

5. An identification system according to claim 1 further comprising:

a physical identification device mounted in said housing and connected to said computing device.

6. An identification system according to claim 5 wherein said physical identification device comprises a fingerprint scanner.

7. An identification system according to claim 5 wherein said physical identification device comprises an eye scanner.

8. An identification system comprising:

a portable housing;

a passport scanner mounted in said housing and connected to a computing device; and

a camera mounted in said housing and connected to said computing device;

wherein said housing comprises;

an outer shell;

a first compartment for housing said passport scanner; and

a second compartment for housing said camera; and

wherein said passport scanner supplies information from said passport to said computing device and said camera supplies at least one facial image to said computing device.

9. An identification system according to claim 8 further comprising:

a physical identification device mounted in said housing and connected to said computing device.

10. An identification system according to claim 9 wherein said physical identification device comprises a fingerprint scanner;

wherein said housing further comprises a third compartment for housing said fingerprint scanner.

11. An identification system according to claim 10, wherein said computing device performs a comparison of a fingerprint template supplied by said fingerprint scanner to biometric data from a passport scanned by said passport scanner and a comparison of said fingerprint template to a database of fingerprint templates.

12. An identification system according to claim 9 wherein said physical identification device comprises an eye scanner.

13. An identification system according to claim 8 wherein said information from said passport comprises encoded information.

14. An identification system according to claim 8 wherein said information from said passport comprises a bar code.

15. An identification system according to claim 8, wherein said computing device performs a comparison of a facial image supplied by said camera to a facial image from a passport scanned by said passport scanner and a comparison of said facial image supplied by said camera to a database of facial images.

16. An identification system according to claim 8, further comprising a rechargeable battery in said housing, where said rechargeable battery provides power to said passport scanner and said camera.