Fingerprint biometric lock

Abstract

A fingerprint biometric lock is provided which includes a locking mechanism that restricts the movement of an object that is to be unlocked, a movement restriction electronic circuit that restricts the unlocking of the object by the locking mechanism, a fingerprint sensor that detects a fingerprint pattern, a memory device that stores an enrolled fingerprint code data, a verifying unit that determines whether an offered fingerprint code, created from the fingerprint pattern sensed by the sensor, matches with any of the enrolled fingerprint codes stored in the memory device, a motor control unit that unlocks the locking mechanism through the movement restricting electronic circuit, when the offered and enrolled fingerprint codes match, and, a finger presence detector for powering a direct current to the sensor and the motor control unit.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.