Biometric collection device

• US 9,870,499 B2
• Filed: 08/12/2015
• Issued: 01/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Subbarao, Shashidar, Cochran, Travis S., Lucas, Jonathan R., Kobayashi, Katsuhiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Do, Anh H
• Application Number:
  US14/824,238
• Publication Number:
  US 20170046554A1
• Time in Patent Office: 888 Days
• Field of Search: 382124, 382126, 382128, 340 553, 345168, 36167917, 455558, 713186, 726 9, 726 28
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/13 Sensors therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 5/36 using visible light sources

Abstract

A biometric collection device that includes a housing and a fingerprint sensor. The biometric collection device provides signals to a user by activating a first signal when the biometric collection device is ready to capture a fingerprint image from the fingerprint sensor, activates a second signal when the biometric collection device begins capturing the fingerprint image, and activates a third signal when the biometric collection device successfully captures the fingerprint image.

Claims

1. A method performed by a biometric collection device, comprising:

conveying a first signal to a user of the biometric collection device in response to the biometric collection device being ready to capture a fingerprint image;

conveying a second signal to the user in response to the biometric collection device beginning to capture the fingerprint image; and

conveying a third signal to the user in response to the biometric collection device successfully capturing the fingerprint image,

wherein the first signal, the second signal, or the third signal is intermittently provided with a slow rate, a medium rate, or a fast rate.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein at least the first signal, the second signal, or the third signal indicates a particular finger to be captured.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein

the first signal includes a light displaying a red color,

the second signal includes a light displaying a yellow color, and

the third signal includes a light displaying a green color.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first signal, the second signal, or the third signal is presented to the biometric collection device user via a visual display.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first signal, the second signal, and the third signal are audible signals which differ from each other in at least a pitch, a duration, an intensity, or a pulse rate.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first signal, the second signal, and the third signal are tactile signals which differ from each other in at least an intensity, a pulse rate or a length of vibration.

7. A method performed by a biometric collection device, the method comprising:

conveying a first signal to a user of the biometric collection device, the first signal identifying a particular finger to be captured;

conveying a second signal to the user in response to the biometric collection device being ready to capture a fingerprint image of the particular finger;

conveying a third signal to the user in response to a fingerprint scanner successfully capturing the fingerprint image of the particular finger; and

conveying the first signal to the user, the first signal identifying another particular finger to be captured,

wherein the first signal, the second signal, or the third signal is intermittently provided with a slow rate, a medium rate, or a fast rate.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein at least the first signal, the second signal, or the third signal are displayed by a finger indicator.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein

the first signal is conveyed to the user as a red color,

the second signal is conveyed to the user as a yellow color, and

the third signal is conveyed to the user as a green color.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the first signal, the second signal, and the third signal are audible signals which differ from each other in at least a pitch, a duration, an intensity, or a pulse rate.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the first signal, the second signal, and the third signal are tactile signals which differ from each other in at least an intensity, a pulse rate or a length of vibration.

12. A biometric collection device, comprising:

a housing; and

a fingerprint sensor, wherein the biometric collection device conveys signals which include a first signal, a second signal and a third signal to a user, the first signal being conveyed to the user in response to the biometric collection device being ready to capture a fingerprint image from the fingerprint sensor, the second signal being conveyed to the user in response to the biometric collection device beginning to capture the fingerprint image, the third signal being conveyed to the user in response to the biometric collection device successfully capturing the fingerprint image,

wherein the first signal, the second signal, or the third signal is intermittently provided with a slow rate, a medium rate, or a fast rate.

13. The biometric collection device of claim 12, further comprising a visual display including one or more lights that generate the signals.

14. The biometric collection device of claim 13, wherein the one or more lights display a red color, a yellow color or a green color.

15. The biometric collection device of claim 13, wherein the visual display further comprises a finger indicator that includes a plurality of lights each identifying a finger.

16. The biometric collection device of claim 12, wherein the first signal, the second signal, and the third signal are audible signals which differ from each other in at least a pitch, a duration, an intensity, or a pulse rate.

17. The biometric collection device of claim 12, wherein the first signal, the second signal, and the third signal are tactile signals which differ from each other in at least an intensity, a pulse rate or a length of vibration.