Patent ID: 9489560
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G06K

Claim Text:
1. An on-the-go fingerprint scanner, comprising: a scanning area; a beam break sensor disposed coincident to the scanning area such that the beam break sensor detects when an object passes through the scanning area; at least one hand camera configured to capture a video image of the scanning area such that when the beam break sensor detects that an object has passed through the scanning area, the hand camera: acquires an image of the object, detects whether the object is a human hand by determining a contour around the perimeter of the object, applying landmark points to the contour, and comparing the contour to a previously trained Active Shape Model of a hand, detects a location of any fingers on said detected hand by processing the location of the landmark points, and detects the presence or absence of any fingers using a neural network; and at least one fingerprint camera configured to receive the location of any fingers within the scanning area from the hand camera and capture a plurality of high-resolution images of at least a portion of any of said fingers passing through the scanning area.