Patent ID: 6219639
Filing Date: 2001-04-17
Classification: G06K,G10L

Abstract:
A method for recognizing an individual based on attributes associated with the individual, comprising the steps of:pre-storing at least two distinctive attributes of the individual during at least one enrollment session;contemporaneously extracting the at least two distinctive attributes from the individual during a common recognition session;segmenting the pre-stored attributes and the extracted attributes according to a sequence of segmentation units;indexing the segmented pre-stored and extracted attributes so that the segmented pre-stored and extracted attributes corresponding to an identical segmentation unit in the sequence of segmentation units are associated to an identical index; andrespectively comparing the segmented pre-stored and extracted attributes associated to the identical index to each other to recognize the individual wherein at least one of the at least two distinctive attributes is lip shape and the comparing step is performed by a lip reading system and a lip recognition system.