Personal identification device and method

• US 7,995,803 B2
• Filed: 11/06/2009
• Issued: 08/09/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Nagasaka, Akio, Miyatake, Takafumi, Miura, Naoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Seth; Manav
• Application Number:
  US12/613,812
• Publication Number:
  US 20100053315A1
• Time in Patent Office: 641 Days
• Field of Search: 382115-116, 382124-127, 382/132, 382180-181, 382190-195, 382/199, 382/202, 382/206, 382/209, 382218-221, 382224-228, 340/5.53, 340/5.83
• US Class Current: 382/115
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/10 Image acquisition document image scanning and transmission H04N1/00; control of digital cameras H04N23/60
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/1312 direct reading, e.g. contactless acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/1341 Sensing with light passing through the finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/14 Vascular patterns

Abstract

The invention aims at providing personal identification in environments where non-contact is required, with high accuracy even though using a finger vein pattern images unclear and susceptible to positional deviations, wherein it has: a means for acquiring finger vein patterns without contact; a means for carrying out rotational correction using the outline of a finger as a method of taking out a vein pattern contained in the acquired image; a means for normalizing the position of the finger image with reference to the fingertip; a means for acquiring an overall vein pattern statistically by repetitively tracking regions of dark luminance intensities for a desired length from a desired position in the image; a matching means for comparing regions where vein patterns manifest vivid features; and a means for independent matching of subregions and evaluating positional deviations where matching is recognized.

Claims

1. A personal identification system for executing a personal identification based on information of an IC card, the system comprising:

an IC card reader for reading a registered feature information from the IC card without contacting the IC card; and

a personal identification device for executing the personal identification based on the registered feature information read from the IC card reader,

wherein the personal identification device has a light source for applying a light to a hand, an interface for providing an area of the hand irradiated by the light in a non-contacting manner, an imaging device for imaging the light applied to the hand, and a calculation unit for extracting a feature information including a vein pattern imaged by the imaging device, and

wherein the calculation unit executes the personal identification based on the registered feature information and the extracted feature information.

4. The personal identification system according to claim 1,

wherein the personal identification device further includes an extracting unit for extracting at least one of a fingerprint, iris, voice, handwriting and face as a second feature information, and

wherein the IC card stores a registered feature information corresponding to the second feature information.

2. A personal identification system for executing a personal identification, the system comprising:

an IC card recording a registered feature information;

an IC card reader for obtaining the registered feature information from the IC card without contacting the IC card; and

a personal identification device for executing the personal identification based on the registered feature information obtained from the IC card reader;

wherein the personal identification device has a light source for applying a light to a hand, an interface for providing an area of the hand irradiated by the light in a non-contacting manner, an imaging device for imaging the light applied to the hand, and a calculation unit for extracting a feature information including a vein pattern imaged by the imaging device, and

wherein the calculation unit executes the personal identification based on the registered feature information and the extracted feature information.

5. The personal identification system according to claim 2,

wherein the personal identification device further includes an extracting unit for extracting at least one of a fingerprint, iris, voice, handwriting and face as a second feature information, and

wherein the IC card stores a registered feature information corresponding to the second feature information.

3. A personal identification system for executing a personal identification based on information of an IC card, the system comprising:

an IC card reader for reading a registered information from the IC card without contacting the IC card;

a personal identification device for executing the personal identification based on the registered information read from the IC card reader; and

a storage device;

wherein the personal identification device has a light source for applying a light to a hand, an interface for providing an area of the hand irradiated by the light in a non-contacting manner, an imaging device for imaging the light applied to the hand, and a calculation unit for extracting a feature information including a vein pattern imaged by the imaging device, and

wherein the calculation unit reads out from the storage device a feature information corresponding to the registered information, and executes the personal identification based on the read out feature information and the extracted feature information.

6. The personal identification system according to claim 3,

wherein the personal identification device further includes an extracting unit for extracting at least one of a fingerprint, iris, voice, handwriting and face as a second feature information, and

wherein the storage device stores a registered feature information corresponding to the second feature information.