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Image construction method, fingerprint image construction apparatus, and program

US7542594B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateSep 28, 2005
Grant dateJun 2, 2009
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Expiry dateAug 2, 2027

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06V40/1335
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In construction processing of a fingerprint partial image, distortion occurs in the general image due to accumulation of coordinate errors at image joining positions. While a latest partial image read by a sweep type fingerprint sensor is being displaced relative to an already acquired partial image, a displacement quantity at each displacement position is found. By interpolation computation using the found values, a first vector component indicating a movement quantity of the latest partial image in the slide direction, and first and second candidates for a second vector component indicating a movement quantity in a direction perpendicular to the slide direction are calculated as values each having a resolution higher than the pixel pitch. The latest partial image is disposed so as to be joined to the already acquired partial image on the basis of a movement quantity vector including the first and second vector components.

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