US 2016/0239703 A1Published application

Finger vein authentication system

AssigneeKorecen Co., Ltd.

InventorsBong-joon Park, Chul-joon Park

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Abstract

Provided is a finger vein authentication which recognizes, compares and distinguishes a user's finger vein at low capacity/high speed through a method for analyzing a level set curvature. In order to achieve the above object, there is provided a finger vein authentication system including a light source unit configured to emit near-infrared light; an optical filter unit configured to allow only light with a specific wavelength in light incident from the light source unit to penetrate therethrough; a CCD camera unit configured to capture an image including an user's finger and then to convert the captured image into an electrical signal; a memory unit configured to store a level set curvature program, the level set curvature program performing an operation for extracting a finger vein pattern from the image including the finger using a level set curvature; and a control unit configured to drive the level set curvature program.

A finger vein authentication system;

comprising;
a light source unit configured to emit near-infrared light;
an optical filter unit configured to allow only light with a specific wavelength in light incident from the light source unit to penetrate therethrough;
a CCD camera unit configured to capture an image including an user's finger and then to convert the captured image into an electrical signal;
a memory unit configured to store a level set curvature program, the level set curvature program performing an operation for extracting a finger vein pattern from the image including the finger using a level set curvature;
and
a control unit configured to drive the level set curvature program;
wherein the level set curvature program instructs the control unit to
(a) remove a noise from the image including the finger obtained from the CCD camera unit;
(b) remove a peripheral part of the finger from the image including the finger from which the noise is removed to separate the image of only the finger portion;
(c) extract the finger vein pattern from the image of only the finger portion using the level set curvature,
(d) binarize the extracted finger vein pattern, and
(e) make the binarized finger vein pattern become thin, wherein extracting of the finger vein pattern from the image of only the finger portion using the level set curvature is performed by
(c1) a first operation for defining a pixel intensity for each of all the pixels forming the image of only the finger,
(c2) a second operation for mutually connecting the pixels having the same pixel intensity in all the pixels to create one or more level sets which are a closed curve,
(c3) a third operation for defining one or more level sets as a set of level sets,
(c4) a fourth operation for creating one or more lines connecting points of the one or more level sets, at which a curvature is minimized based on an outside of the level sets set, and
(c5) a fifth operation for recognizing one or more lines as the finger vein pattern and extracting the lines.

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