Method and apparatus to combine biometric sensing and other functionality

A method comprising:

• illuminating a skin site of an individual using an illumination system;
• deriving a skin site image of the skin site of an individual from light scattered from the skin site of the individual using an imager;
• performing a biometric function with the skin site image;
• illuminating machine readable data using the illumination system;
• and
• deriving a data image from light scattered from the machine readable data using the imager.

A system comprising:

• an illumination source;
• an imaging system;
• and
• a controller interfaced with the illumination source and the imaging system, the controller including:
• instructions to illuminate an object comprising machine readable data under a plurality of distinct optical conditions during a single illumination session;
• and
• instructions to derive a multispectral image of the machine readable data from light received by the imaging system after scattering from the machine readable data for each of multiple of the plurality of distinct optical conditions.

A method comprising:

• illuminating machine readable data under a plurality of distinct optical conditions;
• receiving light scattered from the machine readable data separately for each of the plurality of distinct optical conditions;
• and
• determining whether the machine readable data is fraudulent.