Patent ID: 7769212

Claim:
A method to analyze a fingerprint image corresponding to a human fingerprint of a human subject, the fingerprint image including ridges and valleys, the method being performed by execution of computer readable program code by a processor of a computer system, the method comprising: receiving a first fingerprint image corresponding to the human fingerprint of the human subject; processing the first fingerprint image to segment the image into at least a plurality of subsets; for each of the subsets: determining a measure associated with fingerprint ridges and fingerprint valleys in the each of the subsets, and based on the measure, assigning the each of the subsets to at least one of a plurality of categories; assessing an overall acceptability of the first fingerprint image by analyzing at least one of the plurality of categories; and causing capture of a second fingerprint image from the human subject if the overall acceptability of the fingerprint image is at or below predetermined criteria to process the first captured image.