Patent ID: 9646197
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K

Claim:
1. A method implemented on a computing device in a biometric system for one or more of biometric enabled access control, fingerprint search, facial recognition and iris identification to assist with match/no match decisions comprising: determining a first match score between a first biometric probe sample and a first gallery sample; determining a plurality of gallery match scores between the first gallery sample and a plurality of other samples in the gallery; determining a number of the plurality of gallery match scores that are greater than the determined first match score; determining a plurality of probe match scores between the first probe sample and the plurality of other samples in the gallery; determining a number of the plurality of probe match scores that are greater than the determined first match score; and, with one or more of the determined numbers one or more of: determining a false match probability for assessing a reliability of a match result, the match result indicating whether the first probe sample matches with the first gallery sample, and adjusting the first match score or determining a match threshold for the first match score, such that a tendency to match of the first gallery sample and/or of the first probe sample is taken into account for a decision whether the first probe sample matches with the first gallery sample.