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Article: Japanese Inventor Develops Fingerprint Identification Apparatus
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 25, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 25 -- Takuya Wada of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed a fingerprint identification apparatus.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "By employing template matching using a collation image which is obtained by using a proper technique to binarize an input digital image for fingerprint identification, and a plurality of templates which are recorded beforehand, a fingerprint identification apparatus and method determine whether identity is established between the collation image and each of the recorded images from which recorded templates are extracted."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "Instead of checking positional ...