Fingerprint Sensing and Enrollment
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsByron B. Han, Craig A. Marciniak, Wayne C. Westerman
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Abstract
A sequence of biometric data images is received, such as, for example, a sequence of fingerprint images, and a set of biometric data images is selected from the sequence of images. The set of images can include one or more segments of at least one image in the sequence of images. One or more portions of at least one image of biometric data in the set of images can be selected to be included in the unified image of biometric data. The unified image of biometric data can be constructed using the one or more portions of the at least one image of biometric data. If the unified image of biometric data is not complete, a user can be prompted for one or more additional images of biometric data.
Claims20
A method for constructing a unified image of biometric data, the method comprising:
- selecting one or more images of biometric data from a sequence of images of biometric data that is captured over a given period of time by a biometric recognition sensor;
- selecting one or more segments in at least one selected image of biometric data to be included in the unified image of biometric data;
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- including each selected segment in a portion of the unified image.
An electronic device, comprising:
- a biometric recognition sensor adapted to capture a sequence of images of biometric data over a given period of time;
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- a processor operatively connected to the biometric recognition sensor and adapted to select one or more segments in at least one image in the sequence of images of biometric data and construct a unified biometric image using the selected one or more segments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.