Patent Document ID: 8379982
Application ID: 12578469
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method performed by a computing device for matching two biometric images comprising: electronically receiving an input biometric image including a plurality of minutiae; electronically generating a plurality of input patterns for each minutia of the input biometric image; electronically generating an index table from the input biometric image, wherein the index table includes rows and columns and each cell of the index table includes a matching quality of a row with respect to the patterns generated from a respective minutia that corresponds to a column index number; electronically receiving a second biometric image including a plurality of minutiae; electronically generating a number of patterns for a first minutia of the second biometric image; associatively accessing the index table by the generated number of patterns; electronically accumulating quality factors accessed from the index table for each minutia of the input biometric image for the number of patterns of the first minutia of the second biometric image; and electronically selecting at least one minutia candidate of the input biometric image responsive to the accumulated quality factors.