Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090154779 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO REMOVE ARTIFACTS FROM FINGERPRINT SENSOR SCANS - A method and device for removing common artifacts, such as stiction, from fingerprint scans created by partial fingerprint scanners. The partial fingerprint scanner data is assessed to determine if successive partial fingerprint images are overly similar to each other, which can occur during stiction. If this similarity exceeds a preset threshold, then at least some of the overly similar partial images will be removed (redacted) from the overall image dataset. The complete overall image is generated from the redacted data set. This method is particularly useful for creating “intelligent” low-cost, low power partial fingerprint scanners and scanner driver chips that can pre-process the partial fingerprint data that is generated during the course of a finger swipe, and remove stiction artifacts on a real-time or near-real time basis using relatively simple and low power on-chip processing circuits, and then send the corrected data to more sophisticated processors for subsequent fingerprint analysis. | 06-18-2009 |
20110082791 | Monitoring Secure Financial Transactions - A request for a secure financial transaction is received from a user, who is authenticated with a biometric device. If the user is authenticated, an authentication token is received from the biometric device and sent to a remote device, which initiates the secure financial transaction. Upon initiation of the secure financial transaction, details related to the secure financial transaction are displayed to the user and the those details are monitored until the secure financial transaction is completed. | 04-07-2011 |
20110082800 | Secure Transaction Systems and Methods - A user request to implement a secure transaction is received and communicated to a web server. Transaction details signed with a secret key are received from the web server and displayed to the user. The user is requested to confirm the secure transaction by providing biometric data. If the user's biometric data is validated, an authentication token is received from a biometric device and the authentication token is communicated to the web server. The web server processes the secure transaction if the authentication token is confirmed as a valid authentication token. | 04-07-2011 |
20110082801 | Secure Transaction Systems and Methods - A transaction request containing transaction details from a requesting device is generated by a web-enabled application executing on the requesting device. A secure signature associated with the transaction details is calculated using a secret key. The transaction details and the secure signature associated with the transaction details are communicated to the requesting device. Confirmation information is received from the requesting device and validated. If the confirmation information is valid, the requested transaction is implemented. | 04-07-2011 |
20110082802 | Secure Financial Transaction Systems and Methods - A user request to implement a secure financial transaction is received and communicated to a web server capable of implementing the transaction. Transaction details signed with a secret key are received from the web server and displayed to the user. The user is requested to confirm the secure financial transaction by providing biometric data. If the user's biometric data is validated, an authentication token is received from a biometric device and the authentication token is communicated to the web server. The web server processes the secure financial transaction if the authentication token is confirmed as a valid authentication token. | 04-07-2011 |
20110083016 | Secure User Authentication Using Biometric Information - An apparatus includes a biometric sensor capable of identifying biometric information associated with a user. A storage device coupled to the biometric sensor stores user information. A biometric service is coupled to the biometric sensor and capable of communicating with the biometric sensor. A web browser application having a biometric extension communicates with the biometric sensor via the biometric service. The web browser's biometric extension is capable of communicating with multiple web servers. | 04-07-2011 |
20110083018 | Secure User Authentication - Biometric information is authenticated by a web-enabled application that identifies a biometric sensor installed in a client device. The authentication procedure reads biometric information associated with a user and compares the biometric information with a biometric template associated with that user. If the biometric information matches the biometric template, the authentication procedure retrieves credentials associated with the user and communicates those credentials to a requesting process. | 04-07-2011 |
20110083170 | User Enrollment via Biometric Device - A web-enabled application identifies a biometric device installed in a client device. The system identifies biometric information associated with a user and creates a biometric template associated with the biometric information. The system then receives user credentials associated with the user and binds the user credentials with the biometric template. | 04-07-2011 |
20110083173 | Secure Transaction Systems and Methods - A user transaction request is received at a client device. A web browser plug-in communicates the user transaction request to a server that determines whether the user transaction request is a secure transaction. Transaction data is received from the server via the web browser plug-in. If the received transaction data indicates a secure transaction, the user is prompted to provide biometric data, which is received from the user. The web browser plug-in then communicates a transaction confirmation to the server. | 04-07-2011 |
20110138450 | Secure Transaction Systems and Methods using User Authenticating Biometric Information - A user transaction request is received at a client device. A web browser plug-in communicates the user transaction request to a server that determines whether the user transaction request is a secure transaction. Transaction data is received from the server via the web browser plug-in. If the received transaction data indicates a secure transaction, the user is prompted to provide biometric data from a user using a biometric device and related security protocols. The web browser plug-in then communicates a transaction confirmation to the server. | 06-09-2011 |
20130259330 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR ENROLLING AND MATCHING BIOMETRIC DATA - A system and method is disclosed for comparing biometric image data to a stored enrollment template that may comprise collecting a set of biometric image data for a biometric object image from a biometric object imaging sensor; storing the biometric object image data in a memory as an enrollment template for further comparison to find a match with subsequently imaged biometric object image data; collecting a subsequent set of biometric image data for a biometric object image from the biometric object imaging sensor; updating the enrollment template; determining if a limited enrollment window remains open; and repeating the collecting of a subsequent set of biometric data step if the enrollment window remains open. Determining if the enrollment window remains open may be by determining the existence of one of a stability indicator and an instability indicator. | 10-03-2013 |
20140093143 | Low Power Navigation Devices, Systems and Methods - A system and method are disclosed for conserving power during navigation, e.g., user device pointer/cursor navigation, using a fingerprint image sensor, that may comprise processing, via a computing device, fingerprint image sensor data indicative of finger position and movement with respect to a fingerprint image sensor surface in a finger navigation mode to determine if the finger is in a first finger navigation mode; processing, via the computing device, fingerprint image sensor data indicative of finger position and movement with respect to a fingerprint image sensor surface in a finger navigation mode to determine if the finger is in a second finger navigation mode; and transitioning, via the computing device, the fingerprint image sensor from a first power consumption mode to a second power consumption mode, based on detecting a transition from the first finger navigation mode to the second finger navigation mode. | 04-03-2014 |
20140198960 | TIERED WAKEUP STRATEGY - A biometric authentication apparatus and method is disclosed which may comprise a biometric authentication unit which may comprise: a biometric object sensor comprising sensor elements and a sensor computing device; a wake-on-event logic controller maintaining the sensor computing device in one of a powered-off or powered down mode, and including a bulk biometric object detector configured to detect a biometric object on or in the vicinity of the sensor elements and to power-on or power-up the sensor computing device responsive to the detection of the biometric object on or in the vicinity of the sensor elements; the sensor computing device configured to analyze one or more lines of biometric object image comprising a partial biometric object image and determine if the partial biometric image belongs to a biometric object desired to be imaged to obtain a complete biometric object image, and to provide a power-on or power-up signal to a host electronic device computing device when the partial biometric image is determined to belong to a biometric object desired to be imaged. | 07-17-2014 |