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Article: Japanese Inventors Develop Fingerprint Identification System
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 9, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 9 -- Masahiro Mimura and Yoichi Seto, both of Kawasaki, Japan, and Takuo Ishizuka of Hadano, Japan, have developed a fingerprint identification technique.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "fingerprint identification system comprising: an integrated circuit (IC) card having a tamper-resistance; and a reader/writer having a tamper-resistance for reading/writing information from/into the IC card. In the reader/writer, a fingerprint image, as read by a fingerprint input unit, is preprocessed in a preprocessing unit, and extracted intermediate information is transmitted to the IC card. This IC card compares the intermediate ...