Method of verifying ID-papers and the like
AssigneesLeif Nyfelt, Jan Bengtsson
InventorLeif Nyfelt
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of verifying ID-papers and the like, particularly a document (1) that includes a photograph of a person that supports the identity of said person, wherein subsequent to having provided the document with all necessary information, including a photograph of the bearer of the document, the authority or organisation issuing the document scans the information carried by the document and stores the information in a data base so that upon presentation of the document (1) the scanned replica can be retrieved (5) and compared with the presented document.
Claims10
A method of verifying authenticity of an identification document that includes a photograph of a person that supports an identity of the person, the method comprising the steps of:
- an identification document issuing authority preparing an identification document by affixing thereto a photograph of a person whose identify is supported by the identification document and identification information for the person;
- after the preparing step, the identification document issuing authority scanning the prepared identification document and storing in a database a scanned image of the prepared identification document that is a replica of the prepared identification document;
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- when the prepared identification document is presented in support of an identity of a person, retrieving the scanned image of the prepared identification document from the database and comparing the identification document presented in support of identity with the retrieved scanned image to verify an authenticity of the identification document presented in support of identity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.