Appeal No. 1997-2708
Application No. 08/337,204
method and system, a fingerprint is scanned by a video scanner
and digitized, different parts of the fingerprint are analyzed
on a
non-minutiae basis, and a digitized numerical identifier is
computed and compared with a digitized numerical identifier
stored in memory from a portable personal identification card.
Claim 72 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
72. A method for the automatic non-minutiae identification of
a fingerprint image comprising in combination:
a) video scanning an image of a fingerprint of a person
to be identified;
b) electronically storing, in digital form, in an
addressable memory, fingerprint image data produced from video
scanning said image of a fingerprint;
c) selectively analyzing, electronically, on a non-
minutiae basis, a plurality of different fingerprint image
parts of the stored fingerprint image data and computing a
count for each of said plurality of fingerprint image parts;
and
d) compiling a data matrix comprised of a plurality of
counts computed for the said plurality of different
fingerprint image parts to provide a non-minutiae digitized
numerical identifier indicative of said image of a fingerprint
of a person to be identified.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
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