Patent ID: 8803963
Filing Date: 2014-08-12
Classification: G06F,G06K,H04L

Abstract:
1. A vein pattern recognition based biometric system comprising i. a hand placement unit and a detection unit being configured to inform a computing device about the presence of a hand for processing; said hand placement unit comprises ii. an illuminating and imaging unit that comprises a bright object placed in the field of view of the illuminating and imaging unit that illuminates a region of interest with uniformly diffused near-infrared light; iii. a feature extraction unit that extracts a vascular pattern from an image captured by the imaging device that represents the pattern as line-segment-hypothesis and binarized imagine; and iv. a recognition unit that compares the extracted line-segment-hypothesis and binarized image with a stored line-segment-hypothesis and binarized image to authenticate the vein pattern, by: