Mug shot acquisition system

A mug shot acquisition system for acquiring mug shot images of a subject posed in front of a background, including a processor and a storage device including instructions configured to run on the processor, comprising:

• means for receiving digital mug shot images from an imaging device that is positioned to acquire images of the subject posed in front of the background,
• user interface means presented on display means and responsive to a system user to cause the imaging device to acquire an image,
• means for displaying the received digital mug shot images,
• standards-based image adjustment means for providing feedback to the user about compliance of acquired images to at least one predetermined mug shot image uniformity standard and for allowing the user to adjust the digital mug shot image uniformity standard,
• means for preventing the user from exporting an acquired digital image that fails to meet the predetermined mug shot image uniformity standards by the mug shot acquisition system,
• means responsive to software requests to allow a transfer of control to the mug shot acquisition system from another application that runs on an operating system software program and also includes a user interface presented on the display means and also responsive to the system user input, and
• means for exporting digital mug shot images adjusted based on the standards-based image adjustment means.

A mug shot acquisition method for acquiring mug shot images of a subject posed in front of a background, including:

• providing an operating system software platform including instructions configured to run on a processor,
• running a law enforcement record management system on the operating system platform,
• responding to user input to launch a mug shot acquisition system on the same operating system platform from within the law enforcement record management system,
• acquiring a first digital mug shot image of the subject posed in front of the background by an image acquisition interface after the step of responding,
• providing feedback by the mug shot acquisition system to the user about compliance of the acquired image with one or more predetermined mug shot image uniformity standards,
• preventing the user from exporting an acquired digital image that fails to meet the predetermined mug shot image uniformity standards by the mug shot acquisition system,
• adjusting by the mug shot acquisition system attributes to improve the compliance to the mug shot uniformity standards for the digital image in response to user input after the step of providing feedback,
• exporting an acquired digital image for which one or more attributes has been adjusted and which meets the predetermined mug shot uniformity standards, and
• returning control to the law enforcement record management system running on the operating system platform after the step of exporting.