Optics: measuring and testing – Document pattern analysis or verification
Patent
1987-01-29
1988-11-29
Rosenberger, R. A.
Optics: measuring and testing
Document pattern analysis or verification
G06K 920
Patent
active
047877421
ABSTRACT:
The technique for optically scanning a finger to produce a fingerprint image involves positioning the finger surface to be optically scanned so that it is exposed and, in particular, is not pressed against a platen. A slit light beam along the length of the forward part of the finger is circumferentially rotated about an axis about the nominal center of the finger. A reflected slit light beam carries modulation information which is focused on a linear array of photo-electric transducers to provide the fingerprint image. The interrogating light is coherent, substantially collimated, light. The plane of the interrogating slit light beam and the plane of the reflected modulated slit light beam are coplanar thereby establishing an illumination plane. The illumination plane is parallel to the axis of the finger and is rotated about that axis during the interrogating scan. The illumination plane is slightly offset from that rotational axis and the incident light in the illumination plane impinges on the finger surface at a slight off-normal axis. This offset and off-normal incidence creates two dimensional shadowing. The finger surface being interrogated is positioned slightly off of the object plane for the downstream focusing optics thereby creating a constructive and destructive interference effect at the image plane defined by the transducers.
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Marcus Daniel H.
Schiller Michael
Fingermatrix Inc.
Rosenberger R. A.
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