Patents Assigned to Idex Asa
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Publication number: 20200226412Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting a user's finger are provided. In some embodiments, a method may include applying a first electrical signal, applying a second signal, receiving a third electrical signal using a first electrode, receiving a fourth electrical signal using the first electrode, extracting the third and fourth electrical signals using a quadrature demodulator, and compensating for a phase delay between at least the first electrical signal and the third electrical signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2019Publication date: July 16, 2020Applicant: IDEX ASAInventors: Jeffrey A. SMALL, Kenneth Jeffrey STERN
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Patent number: 10691919Abstract: A system and method for selectively enrolling new pattern information in a way that reduces incorrect mapping or reduces overuse of previously mapped pattern information using a multi-match model. A method for dynamically enrolling a pattern-under-test into a pattern template, the pattern template including a set of template elements, may include a) determining a number N of template elements of the set of template elements matched by the pattern-under-test, wherein N is greater than one; b) establishing a multi-match mode for a dynamic enrollment of the pattern-under-test into the pattern template; and c) enrolling dynamically the pattern-under-test responsive to the multi-match mode.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: IDEX ASAInventor: Roger A. Bauchspies
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Publication number: 20200193665Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for efficiently mapping a pattern, such as a fingerprint, from a set of multiple impressions of portions of that pattern. The system may evaluate images of patterns taken from a series of multiple impressions and map the pattern from the image portions while providing the operator with realtime feedback of a status of the set of images. As each new image portion is evaluated, a display graphic or other indicator provides feedback when a new image portion is added to the reconstructed image, or when a new image portion is not added (such as it representing a duplicate). Other status indications may be provided, and when the indication is visual, a degraded resolution of the pattern map may be provided on the display graphic to improve security.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2020Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: IDEX ASAInventor: Roger A. Bauchspies
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Patent number: 10621765Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for efficiently reconstructing a pattern, such as a fingerprint, from a set of multiple impressions of portions of that pattern. The system may evaluate images of patterns taken from a series of multiple impressions and reconstruct the pattern from the image portions while providing the operator with realtime feedback of a status of the set of images. As each new image portion is evaluated, a display graphic or other indicator provides feedback when a new image portion is added to the reconstruction image, or when a new image portion is not added (such as it representing a duplicate). Other status indications may be provided, and when the indication is visual, a degraded resolution of the pattern map may be provided on the display graphic to improve security.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2016Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: IDEX ASAInventors: Roger A. Bauchspies, Sigmund Clausen, Arne Herman Falch
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Patent number: 10600219Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for efficiently mapping a pattern, such as a fingerprint, from a set of multiple impressions of portions of that pattern. The system may evaluate images of patterns taken from a series of multiple impressions and map the pattern from the image portions while providing the operator with realtime feedback of a status of the set of images. As each new image portion is evaluated, a display graphic or other indicator provides feedback when a new image portion is added to the reconstructed image, or when a new image portion is not added (such as it representing a duplicate). Other status indications may be provided, and when the indication is visual, a degraded resolution of the pattern map may be provided on the display graphic to improve security.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: IDEX ASAInventor: Roger A. Bauchspies
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Publication number: 20200065540Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting a user's finger or other elements may be provided. In some embodiments, the system may include a memory, a sensor area, and a processor. The sensor area may include a set of receiving electrodes which may be partitioned among a plurality of electrode groups. The system may be configured to process signals received by the electrode groups by modulating the signals received from each electrode of the respective electrode group according to a modulation pattern, and demodulating the signals, or values derived therefrom, received from each electrode of the respective electrode group according to a demodulation pattern. The electrode groups may be at least partially interleaved.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2018Publication date: February 27, 2020Applicant: IDEX ASAInventors: Jeffrey A SMALL, David Joseph GEOFFROY, Alma DELIC-IBUKIC
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Patent number: 10551931Abstract: A portable electronic system that includes a biometric imaging device, such as for a fingerprint verification against a trusted pattern template. Security is a factor of a matching process and a quality of the trusted pattern template. By employing a set of user-predictably-influenceable sensor parameters in cooperation with the biometric sensor, it is possible to simply and efficiently enhance security as compared to use of the biometric sensor alone.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: IDEX ASAInventor: Roger A. Bauchspies
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Patent number: 10534952Abstract: A system and method for providing a matching process that determines a conforming pattern match to a pattern-under-test from a set of matching patterns in a pattern storage. A matching process tests every template against the pattern-under-test and resolves a conforming match condition when multiple matches to the pattern-under-test are found. In some embodiments, a matcher engine using variable match thresholds may be used to differentiate among matching templates to identify a conforming-matching template with respect to the pattern-under-test.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: IDEX ASAInventor: Roger A. Bauchspies
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Patent number: 10528789Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for producing a consistent desired set of operational parameters during use of a patterning solution that would otherwise alter an initial set of operational parameters. A variable match process is adjusted dynamically to counter changes to the performance metric to tend to maintain the performance metric at a desired predetermined specification.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: IDEX ASAInventor: Roger A. Bauchspies
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Patent number: 10395129Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for efficiently and securely evolving a pattern, such as a fingerprint representation, from a dynamic set of impressions responsive to a pattern-under-test which may be the pattern. The system may include two modes: 1) a trusted registration mode, and 2) a dynamic, semi-trusted, registration mode. In this context, the dynamic mode is semi-trusted in that it automatically employs trusted information to evaluate new, non-trusted input received from the pattern collection system and, in an event certain criteria are satisfied, this dynamic mode may gain automatic access to the trusted memory/trusted template. That the automatic access to the trusted template is conditional makes this dynamic mode semi-trusted. The trusted registration mode may include definition/production of a trusted template of trusted template elements in a trusted memory, at least one of the trusted template elements includes at least one evolvable seed.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: IDEX ASAInventor: Roger A. Bauchspies
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Patent number: 10387707Abstract: A fingerprint sensor assembly includes a capacitive fingerprint sensor disposed beneath a thin layer of glass and a reinforcement layer of a material of relatively high dielectric constant bonded to the glass between the glass layer and the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: IDEX ASAInventors: David Rodney Baker, David N. Light
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Publication number: 20190251322Abstract: A fingerprint sensor for incorporation into a smart card includes sensor electrodes for detecting fingerprint features of a finger placed on a contact surface, the sensor electrodes being disposed above a substrate layer that comprises a first portion, a second portion, and a ledge where an edge of the first portion extends beyond an edge of the second portion. Contact points disposed on the ledge connect the fingerprint sensor to electrical conductors of an intermediate layer of a multi-layer smartcard. The fingerprint sensor is disposed within a cavity formed in a body of the smartcard, and the contact points disposed on the ledge are set at a depth corresponding to the thickness of an outer layer covering the electrical conductors of the intermediate layer of the smartcard.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Applicant: IDEX ASAInventors: Øyvind SLØGEDAL, Ralph W. Bernstein
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Publication number: 20190236320Abstract: A device for contactless communication with a terminal, the device comprising: an antenna for receiving a wireless signal emitted by the terminal; an embedded chip configured to generate data for communication to the terminal to perform a first function associated with the device; and a module separate from the chip configured to perform processes as part of a second function associated with the device, the module being connected to the antenna and comprising a power-harvesting unit configured to harvest power from the received wireless signal to power at least the module.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2018Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: IDEX ASAInventors: Keith AHLUWALIA, Peter Eckehard KOLLIG, Anthony Michael EATON, Tuck Weng POON, Fred G. BENKLEY, III
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Publication number: 20190236321Abstract: A biometric module implemented on a single integrated circuit chip is configured to perform processing as part of a function associated with a device that performs contactless communication with a terminal. The module comprises a power-harvesting unit to induce a voltage from a wireless signal received at an antenna of the device; one or more components configured to process functions in the digital domain; one or more components configured to process functions in the analogue domain; and first and second voltage regulators each having inputs for receiving an input voltage induced by the power-harvesting unit. The first voltage regulator outputs a first voltage to the components processing functions in the analogue domain and the second voltage regulator outputs a second voltage lower than the first voltage to the components processing functions in the digital domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: IDEX ASAInventors: Tuck Weng Poon, Peter Eckehard Kollig, Fred G. Benkley, III
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Publication number: 20190220141Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing noise in sensors are described. In some embodiments, measurement values for selected pixels may be processed to remove signals that are common to groups of pixels. In some embodiments, offset values between pixel groups may be determined. In some embodiments, the determined offset values may be used to remove or suppress artificial discontinuities.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2018Publication date: July 18, 2019Applicant: IDEX ASAInventors: Jeffrey A. Small, Kenneth Jeffrey Stern, Imre Knausz
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Patent number: 10331936Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for multiplicating pattern images used as a trusted resource while reducing user participation, such as, for example, a producing N number (N>1) of reconstructed pattern images using shared images common to at least two constructed pattern images.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: IDEX ASAInventor: Roger A. Bauchspies
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Patent number: 10331934Abstract: A sensor assembly comprises a rigid substrate with a circuit subassembly wrapped therearound. The circuit subassembly includes a flexible substrate with conductive traces and interconnects formed thereon, and when wrapped around the rigid substrate, the conductive traces may overlap one another so as to form capacitive sensor elements. The interconnects connect the conductive traces to one or more components, such as a printed circuit board attached to a portion of the flexible substrate. The sensor assembly maybe installed in an opening formed in a host device panel of a host device, such as a smart phone, with the sensor assembly optionally peripherally surrounded by a spacer frame, and covered by a cover element. The circuit subassembly may include a host connector tab for electrically connecting the sensor assembly to electrical components of a host device.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: IDEX ASAInventors: Fred G. Benkley, III, David N. Light, David Rodney Baker, Thomas Gaudette
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Patent number: 10325141Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product for automatic machine-implemented pattern registration, particularly suited to small sensor systems which include a reduced image capture area size relative to the pattern being sensed.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: IDEX ASAInventor: Roger A. Bauchspies
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Patent number: 10282651Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods facilitate enrollment of authenticating biometric data for authenticating an authorized user via a biometric sensor. Included devices transmit power to a sensor-enabled device that does not have an independent power source without transmitting data to or from the device. Data input devices coupled to the biometric sensor enable user input of non-biometric data, such as an activation code, via the biometric sensor. For biometric sensors comprising fingerprint sensors, finger guides position a finger to contact the sensor at a desired orientation. Systems and methods allow for enrollment of one or more authenticating biometric data templates with or without requiring input of non-biometric authentication data, such as an activation code.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: IDEX ASAInventors: Fred G. Benkley, III, Peter Joseph Commerford, Jeffrey Joseph Buxton, Anne L. McAleer
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Publication number: 20190122089Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods facilitate enrollment of authenticating biometric data for authenticating an authorized user via a biometric sensor. Included devices transmit power to a sensor-enabled device that does not have an independent power source without transmitting data to or from the device. Data input devices coupled to the biometric sensor enable user input of non-biometric data, such as an activation code, via the biometric sensor. For biometric sensors comprising fingerprint sensors, finger guides position a finger to contact the sensor at a desired orientation. Systems and methods allow for enrollment of one or more authenticating biometric data templates with or without requiring input of non-biometric authentication data, such as an activation code.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: IDEX ASAInventors: Fred G. Benkley, III, Peter Joseph Commerford, Jeffrey Joseph Buxton, Anne L. McAleer