Patent ID: 7519205

Claim:
A biometrics method, comprising the steps of: acquiring a thermal image of a finger by a sensing member device; extracting one or both of a finger-print image and a finger-vein image from the thermal image; comparing the finger-print image with a finger-print template to obtain a first compared result; comparing the finger-vein image with a finger-vein template to obtain a second compared result; and verifying a user's identity according to one or both of the first compared result and the second compared result, wherein: the step of comparing the finger-print image with the finger-print template comprises: extracting a plurality of first minutia points from the finger-print image and comparing the first minutia points with the finger-print template; and the step of comparing the finger-vein image with the finger-vein template comprises: extracting a plurality of second minutia points from the finger-vein image and comparing the second minutia points with the finger-vein template.