Patent ID: 8265352

Claim:
A portable photographic imaging system for capturing images of fingerprints, said system comprising: a lens to gather an image of a fingerprint, a sensor coupled to the lens to capture the gathered image, a first light source, comprising a plurality of lights and supplying ultra violet light, a second light source comprising a plurality of lights and supplying white light, and a third light source comprising a plurality of lights and supplying blue light, a light support structure comprising a cavity, a lens support structure comprising a battery housing, a three-way switch, and a lens aperture which receives the lens into the cavity of the light support structure, a structure having a closed top and an open bottom, an exterior surface, and an interior surface, said structure supporting the lens support structure and the light support structure, wherein the system is designed and configured so that when the open bottom of the structure is positioned on a surface having a fingerprint, one of the first, second and third light sources may be activated to illuminate the interior of the light support structure and the surface exposed with the opening of the open bottom, the lens can gather one or more images of the fingerprint, and the sensor can capture the one or more gathered images.