Apparatus and method for biometric database management system
OwnerYingbin Wang, Tianlong Cheninventors
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Abstract
A method and system for constructing a database management system for managing biometric data is disclosed. The disclosed system receives data from another database or from and enrollment process, encodes the data with an encoding plug-in, and stores the encoded data in a biometric data storage. The data may be enhanced before being stored. Incoming target data likewise is encoded using an encoding plug-in and may be pre-processed, and is sent to a matching algorithm that is either built-in or a plug-in algorithm. Further processing may occur after application of the matching algorithm. The disclosed database management system can be used not only for biometric database, but also for other similar types of data management.
Claims9
A method for implementing a biometric database management system, comprising the steps of:
- storing encoded biometric data in a biometric database on a biometric data storage;
- running an enrollment process on a server, said enrollment process comprising an encoding plug-in interface in said biometric database to convert a biometric data into an encoded biometric data;
- converting target biometric data into an encoded target biometric data with an encoding plug-in interface;
- searching said biometric database, using a plug-in interface, for customized one-to-one similarity comparing said encoded target biometric data to encoded biometric data in said biometric database;
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- providing a unique ID to said sewer for a set of related encoded biometric data in said biometric data storage
- using said unique ID to retrieve information other than biometric data from a second database, wherein said second database is separate from said biometric data storage.
A biometric database management system comprising:
- a plug-in interface for encoding biometric data by a customized encoding algorithm;
- a plug-in interface for enhancing said reference biometric data by a customized enhancing algorithm;
- a biometric data storage for storing said encoded reference biometric data and said enhanced encoded reference biometric data, said biometric data storage storing only biometric data;
- means for encoding target biometric data;
- a plug-in interface for pre-processing said encoded target biometric data before said encoding by to said customized encoding algorithm;
- a plug-in interface for comparing biometric data to reference biometric data using a customized matching algorithm;
- a plug-in interface for pro-processing a result of said matching algorithm after executing said comparison of biometric data;
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- a plug-in for providing a unique ID to said server for a set of related encoded biometric data in said biometric data storage, wherein using said unique ID to retrieve information other than biometric data from a second database, wherein said second database is separate from said biometric data storage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.