Method and apparatus for recognizing identity of individuals employing synchronized biometrics

A method for recognizing an individual based on attributes associated with the individual, comprising the steps of:

• pre-storing at least two distinctive attributes of the individual during at least one enrollment session;
• contemporaneously extracting the at least two distinctive attributes from the individual during a common recognition session;
• segmenting the pre-stored attributes and the extracted attributes according to a sequence of segmentation units;
• indexing the segmented pre-stored and extracted attributes so that the segmented pre-stored and extracted attributes corresponding to an identical segmentation unit in the sequence of segmentation units are associated to an identical index;
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• respectively comparing the segmented pre-stored and extracted attributes associated to the identical index to each other to recognize the individual wherein three of the at least two distinctive attributes are pen pressure, pen velocity, and hand geometry.

An apparatus for recognizing an individual based on attributes associated with the individual, comprising:

• a store for pre-storing at least two distinctive attributes of the individual during at least one enrollment session;
• contemporaneous extraction means for contemporaneously extracting the at least two distinctive attributes from the individual during a common recognition session;
• segmentation means for segmenting the pre-stored attributes and the extracted attributes according to a sequence of segmentation units;
• indexing means for indexing the segmented pre-stored and extracted attributes so that the segmented pre-stored and extracted attributes corresponding to an identical segmentation unit in the sequence of segmentation units are associated to an identical index;
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• comparing means for respectively comparing the segmented pre-stored and extracted attributes associated to the identical index to each other to recognize the individual, wherein at least one of the at least two distinctive attributes is lip shape and said comparing means comprises a lip reading system and a lip recognition system.

An apparatus employing synchronized speaker recognition, lip reading and lip recognition for recognizing an individual, comprising:

• a speaker recognition system for performing speaker recognition;
• a lip reading system for performing lip reading;
• a lip recognition system for performing lip recognition;
• a camera and pointing system for generating images of the individual for use by the lip reading and lip recognition systems, the speaker recognition system, the lip reading system, the lip recognition system, and the camera and pointing system contemporaneously extracting biometric attributes corresponding to speaker recognition, lip reading and lip recognition;
• a store operatively coupled to the speaker recognition system, the lip reading system, and the lip recognition system for pre-storing biometric attributes during at least one enrollment session, the pre-stored attributes respectively corresponding to speaker recognition, lip reading and lip recognition;
• segmentation means for segmenting the pre-stored attributes and the extracted attributes according to a sequence of segmentation units;
• indexing means for indexing the segmented pre-stored and extracted attributes so that the segmented pre-stored and extracted attributes corresponding to an identical segmentation unit in the sequence of segmentation units are associated to an identical index, the speaker recognition system, the lip reading system, and the lip recognition system respectively comparing the segmented pre-stored and extracted attributes associated to the identical index to each other to recognize the individual;
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• a controller for processing the results of the comparisons such that the individual is considered recognized if the segmented pre-stored attributes associated to the identical index substantially match the segmented extracted attributes associated to the identical index.