Personal identification system and method

A method of automatically identifying a person comprising:

• (a) generating first electrical signals representing information derived from detecting a physical characteristic of a person automatically identify said person having said physical characteristic and distinguish said person to from other persons,
• (b) scrambling said first electrical signals to provide them in a cryptographic form,
• (c) recording said scrambled electrical signals in an identification recording area on a hard copy record card member which includes visually readable print indicia thereon and may be carried by said person as identification documentation of said person,
• (d) reproducing said scrambled recordings as scrambled electrical signals to identify the person represented by the scrambled recordings on said hard copy record card member,
• (d) receiving the reproduced scrambled recordings and unscrambling same to generate unscrambled electrical signals defining the physical characteristics of the person detected to generate said first electrical signals, and
• (f) applying said unscrambled electrical signals to produce a personal identification function.

A method of identifying a person comprising:

• (a) having a person who is to be automatically identified at a time in the future speak a selected word into a microphone to generate an output analog signal defining said selected word spoken in the voice of the person to be identified,
• (b) digitizing said output analog signal and generating scrambled digital signals which are representative of the word spoken and the voice pattern of the person speaking such selected word,
• (c) recording said scrambled digital signals in an identification recording area on a hard copy record card member which includes visually readable print indicia thereon and may be carried by said person whose voice pattern is recorded as identification documentation of said person, and
• (d) when it is desired to identify the person presenting said record member for identification, reproducing said scrambled digital signal records from the identification recording area on said hard copy record card member as electrical signals,
• (e) applying such electrical signals to first inputs of a comparator circuit,
• (f) having the person presenting the record member for identification speak the same word which was spoken to generate the signals recorded in the identification area on said record member into a microphone,
• (g) processing the electrical signal output of said latter microphone including digitizing same, also presenting the signals derived by such processing to said comparator circuit and generating an output signal when said comparator circuit detects coincidence between the signals received from said latter microphone and the signals generated in reproducing the recordings from said identification recording area as an indication that the signals reproduced from said identification recording area and generated on the output of said latter microphone were derived from transducings of speech of the same person.

A method of automatically identifying a person comprising the steps of:

• (a) generating a plurality of composite full-frame video signals representing information derived from detecting a physical characteristic of a person to automatically identify said person having said physical characteristic and distinguish said person from other persons,
• (b) scrambling said composite full-frame video signals to provide them in cryptographic form,
• (c) recording said scrambled composite full-frame video signals along respective parallel tracks of an identification recording area on a hard copy record card member carried by said person as identification documentation of said person,
• (d) reproducing said scrambled recordings as scrambled electrical signals to identify the person represented by the scrambled recordings in the identification area on said hard copy record member,
• (e) receiving the reproducing scrambled recordings and unscrambling same to generate unscrambled full-time video signals defining the physical characteristics of the person detected, and
• (f) presenting the reproduced full-frame video signals to a video monitor and using same to generate a viewable image representative of the recorded information in the identification recording area.