Method of validating a biometric capture, notably a body print

• US 8,508,337 B2
• Filed: 10/25/2007
• Issued: 08/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IDEMIA Identity and Security France SAS (Advent International Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Morpho (Advent International Corporation)
• Inventors: Thiebot, Alain, Lambert, Laurent, Fourre, Jol-Yann
• Primary Examiner(s): Zimmerman, Brian
• Assistant Examiner(s): SAMSON, SARA B
• Application Number:
  US12/446,725
• Publication Number:
  US 20100034433A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,119 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.52, 340/5.53, 340/1.1, 340/5.1, 340/5.2, 340/5.51, 340/5.82, 340/5.84, 382/124, 382/115, 348/77, 356/445
• US Class Current: 340/5.82
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/143 Sensing or illuminating at different wavelengths
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/1394 using acquisition arrangements

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for validating a biometrical acquisition, mainly the acquisition of a body imprint of a body area such as fingerprints or a face imprint, wherein the method involves together with the biometric acquisition: lighting the body area using at least one radiation having at least two respective different wavelengths between approximately 500 nm and 1150 nm; taking at least two reflectometry measurements concerning said and at least two wavelengths for measuring the reflection index of the tissues for these wavelengths; calculating the ratio for two measured indices; and comparing the ratio with a range of reference values characterizing a haemoglobin-containing living tissue in terms of proportions of oxygenated and non-oxygenated forms characteristic of the living states for the wavelengths in question; if the ratio is included in said range, the body area is considered as living and the biometrical acquisition is validated; and conversely, if the body area is considered as not living, the biometrical acquisition cannot be validated.

Claims

1. A method of validating biometric capture, in particular body print capture from an area of the body, in particular a fingerprint or face print, of an individual, wherein, in the area of the body provided with the biometric characteristic to be detected, the method comprising:

illuminating said area of the body using at least a radiation including at least two different respective wavelengths between about 500 nm and 1150 nm,

carrying out at least two reflectometry measurements in relation to said at least two different respective wavelengths between about 500 nm and 1150 nm, wherein it comprises the following steps

measuring a first reflection rate of the tissues of said body area at a first wavelength, said first reflection rate being the reflected power divided by the incident power,

measuring a second reflection rate of the tissues of said body area at a second wavelength, said second reflection rate being the reflected power divided by the incident power,

calculating the ratio of the first reflection rate and the second reflection rate, and

comparing the calculated ratio with an interval of reference values of the proportion of oxygenated hemoglobin relative to the deoxygenated hemoglobin, said interval of reference values characterizing a living tissue for the wavelengths of said radiation with which said area of the body has been illuminated,

whereby, if said calculated ratio is within said interval, said area of the body is considered to be living and the biometric capture can be validated, or, if said calculated ratio is not within said interval, said area of the body is considered not to be living and the biometric capture may not be validated.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said area of the body is illuminated using at least two radiations including said at least two different respective wavelengths, and wherein at least two reflectometry measurements are carried out in relation to said at least two different respective wavelengths to measure the reflection rate of the tissues of said body area for said at least two wavelengths.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said area of the body is illuminated using a radiation including said at least two different respective wavelengths, wherein from the reflected radiation, the at least two reflected radiations having said at least two wavelengths are filtered, and wherein at least two reflectometry measurements aligned on said at least two different respective wavelengths are carried out to measure the reflection rate of the tissues of said body area for said at least two wavelengths.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein two reflectometry measurements are carried out respectively on two substantially monochromatic reflected radiations of different respective wavelengths between about 600 nm and 1150 nm and are situated either side of a value of about 800 nm.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein a first wavelength of a first radiation is between about 620 nm and 750 nm.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein said first wavelength is about 650 nm.

7. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein a second wavelength of a second radiation is between about 850 nm and 1110 nm.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein said second wavelength is about 950 nm.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least two reflectometry measurements are carried out using at least two radiations of different respective wavelengths between about 510 nm and 620 nm.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein two reflectometry measurements are carried out using at least one first radiation covering a first range of wavelengths centered on a first wavelength between about 510 nm and 542 nm and a second radiation covering a second range of wavelengths centered on a second wavelength between about 576 nm and 620 nm.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the first radiation is centered on a first wavelength of about 520 nm.

12. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the first radiation is centered on a first wavelength of about 520 nm, and wherein the first radiation covers a range of about ±

33 nm either side of this first central wavelength.

13. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the second radiation is centered on a second wavelength of about 594 nm.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the second radiation is centered on a second wavelength of about 594 nm, and wherein the second radiation covers a range of about ±

15 nm either side of this second central wavelength.

15. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein a third measurement is carried out using a radiation having a third wavelength situated in the vicinity of 560 nm.

16. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

three measurements are carried out respectively using three radiations having different respective wavelengths, a first radiation having a first wavelength of about 542 nm, a second radiation having a second wavelength of about 560 nm and a third radiation having a third wavelength of about 576 nm,

three ratios of said three measurements taken in pairs are calculated, and

these three ratios are compared respectively with three reference value intervals.

17. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the radiations having different wavelengths are point radiations.

18. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the radiations having different wavelengths are surface radiations over the entire surface.

19. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the radiations having different wavelengths are surface radiations according to a predetermined pattern.

20. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the radiations having different wavelengths are emitted simultaneously.

21. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the radiations having different wavelengths are emitted being offset in time.

22. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the biometric capture and the measurements relating to the hemoglobin are carried out simultaneously, then the biometric capture is validated or invalidated depending on whether the body area is declared living or non-living respectively.

23. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the measurements relating to the hemoglobin on the body area having to be subjected to a biometric capture and the determination of the living or the non-living state of said area are carried out first of all, after which the biometric capture process is undertaken only if the body area is declared living.

24. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the measurements relating to the hemoglobin on the body area having to be subjected to a biometric capture and the determination of the living or non-living state of said area are carried out first of all, after which the following step is undertaken only if the body area is declared living,

then, a biometric capture and new measurements relating to the hemoglobin are carried out simultaneously,

after which the biometric capture can be validated or invalidated depending on whether said body area is once again declared living or non-living respectively.

25. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the biometric capture is carried out first of all, then, immediately after, the reflectometry measurements and the determination of the living or the non-living state of the body area subjected to the analysis are carried out;

then the biometric capture is validated or invalidated depending on whether the body area is declared living or non-living, respectively.

26. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

the reflectometry measurements on the body area having to be subjected to a biometric capture and the determination of the living or non-living state of said area are carried out first of all, after which the following step is undertaken only if the body area is declared living,

then, a biometric capture is carried out,

then, immediately after, new reflectometry measurements are carried out;

after which, the biometric capture can be validated or invalidated depending on whether said body area is once again declared living or non-living, respectively.