Magnetic fingerprint for secure document authentication

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283 82, B42D 1510

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ABSTRACT:
A magnetic fingerprint image is implemented by having the user coat his finger tip with a magnetic powder and transferring the powder particles to the document surface. The magnetic fingerprint image is then covered by a thin, non-removable, plastic film that is optically opaque but is magnetically transparent. The print is scannable by a magnetic head whose output signal consists of a sequence of electrical waveforms characteristic of the ridges and depressions that define the fingerprint. The fingerprint image may be angularly rotated about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the print prior to fixing the fingerprint image onto the document. Because the image is covered by the opaque film, the outside observer cannot determine the angular orientation of the image relative to the document edge. A magnetically encoded "address" readable by the scanning magnetic head before it reads the magnetic fingerprint itself, informs the scanning apparatus of the fingerprint angular orientation. By means of this information, the magnetic head is rotated through the proper angle so that it is correctly oriented relative to the image before scanning the image, or an angularly fixed magnetic head may scan the rotated image to obtain "scrambled" fingerprint data. This data is converted to digital values, the digital values are stored, and then a computation, taking into consideration the angular position of the read fingerprint image, is performed transforming the "scrambled" values back into to their normal values for comparison with the data derived from the user's actual fingerprint.

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