Patents Assigned to WVU Office of Technology Transfer & WVU Business Incubator
  • Regional fingerprint liveness detection systems and methods
    Patent number: 8098906
    Abstract: Various systems, methods, and programs embodied in computer-readable mediums are provided for fingerprint liveness detection. In one embodiment, a method for determining fingerprint liveness is provided that comprises receiving a fingerprint image; extracting a region of interest from the fingerprint image; generating a histogram of the region of interest; determining a statistical feature of the histogram; and determining liveness of the fingerprint image based upon the statistical feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: West Virginia University Research Corp., WVU Office of Technology Transfer & WVU Business Incubator
    Inventors: Stephanie Shuckers, Lawrence Hornak, Bozhao Tan
  • Multi-resolutional texture analysis fingerprint liveness systems and methods
    Patent number: 8090163
    Abstract: Various systems, methods, and programs embodied in computer-readable mediums are provided for fingerprint liveness detection. In one embodiment, a method for determining fingerprint liveness is provided that comprises receiving a plurality of image analysis data of a fingerprint image; condensing the plurality of image analysis data; and determining liveness of the fingerprint image based upon the condensed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignees: West Virginia University Research Corp., WVU Office of Technology Transfer & WVU Business Incubator
    Inventors: Stephanie Schuckers, Aditya Abhyankar, Lawrence Hornak