Patent ID: 8243131

Claim:
A contactless fingerprint image obtaining apparatus using a mirror, the apparatus comprising: a finger support supporting a single finger of a user to prevent the finger from shaking; a pair of mirrors installed at a slope angle above both lateral sides of the single finger supported by the finger support, one of the mirrors illuminating a region of a fingerprint of the single finger on a left side, the other of the mirrors illuminating a region of the fingerprint of the single finger on a right side; a single camera fixedly installed apart from the finger by a predetermined distance below the finger supported by the finger support, the single camera being disposed at a position obtaining directly from the single finger an image of a front region of the fingerprint coinciding with an optical axis of the camera and simultaneously obtaining from the mirrors images of left and right lateral sides of the fingerprint that do not coincide with the optical axis; a lighting unit installed between the finger supported by the finger support and the camera, and illuminating light on the fingerprint region of the user, the lighting unit including a plurality of short wavelength band emission layers circularly arranged around the single finger of the user to illuminate the fingerprint region; a scattering unit allowing light illuminated by the lighting unit to be uniformly spread and distributed over the finger; and an operating switch installed in front of the finger supported by the finger support, and on/off-operated by a pressing operation of the finger to on/off-control operations of the camera and the lighting unit.