Appeal No. 1998-3332 Page 2
Application No. 08/643,961
are illegally fabricated or stolen and altered for fraudulent
use.
The appellants’ invention creates and authenticates an ID
instrument that resists falsification. Such an instrument
carries a legitimate holder’s photograph or signature, his
personal data, and an encrypted machine readable security
code. The code comprises a combination of digitized forms of
the photograph or signature and biographical data.
Claim 11, which is representative for our purposes,
follows:
11. A method of creating a personal
identification instrument on which personal data and
at least one of a picture and signature of a
legitimate holder are retained, comprising the steps
of:
(a) acquiring a first digital representation of
at least one of a picture and signature of said
legitimate holder of said instrument,
(b) extracting first feature data from said
digital representation,
(c) combining said feature data with said
personal data into a single data sequence,
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