Patent ID: 7184579

Claim:
A fingerprint identification system, comprising: a fingerprint identification terminal which inputs a fingerprint image and transmits said fingerprint image, or feature vector data extracted from said fingerprint image, to a fingerprint identification device, said fingerprint identification device conducts fingerprint identification of said fingerprint image based on said feature vector data transmitted from said fingerprint identification terminal, wherein said fingerprint identification terminal inputs a plurality of first fingerprint images obtained more than once for one finger, calculates image quality of said plurality of first fingerprint images, and transmits information of said image quality to said fingerprint identification device, and wherein said fingerprint identification device: selects a plurality of fingerprint images from said plurality of first fingerprint images based on said information of said image quality, collates said feature vector data of a plurality of said selected first fingerprint images with feature vector data of one or more second fingerprint images stored in a fingerprint data base, obtains a plurality of collating results for said plurality of collated first fingerprint images, and conducts fingerprint identification determination based on said plurality of collating results for said plurality of collated first fingerprint images.