Device and method for the direct optical recording of live skin areas

US9892306B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• JENETRIC GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Juergen Hillmann · Jena, DE
• Joerg Reinhold · Jena, DE
• Dirk Morgeneier · Jena, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 13, 2016
• Grant date: Feb 13, 2018
• Expiry date: Sep 13, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T2207/30196
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A device and method for direct optical recording of live skin areas, particularly of fingerprints or handprints, is disclosed. A novel possibility for direct optical recording of human skin prints with forensic quality where interference through ambient light is excluded is achieved in that, from a skin area to be recorded, image data of a calibration image generated under homogeneous illumination from an areal source and ambient light that may be present are read out from the sensor array, an adapted illumination pattern is calculated by means of the stored calibration image such that, through application of the adapted illumination pattern, a two-dimensionally structured illumination pattern is generated to minimize the influence of the ambient light and to homogenize the illumination at least of the deposited skin print, wherein an illumination array is controlled in individual light-emitting elements or in groups of light-emitting elements with the calculated illumination pattern.