Abstract: A device for capturing a biometric print of a user, the user compartment including a frontal opening designed for the passage of part of a hand into said user compartment and a lateral opening allowing the passage of the thumb of the user's hand, the lateral opening extending as far as the frontal opening to form a continuous open space, the lateral opening being delimited in a direction of insertion of the user's hand into the user compartment by a user hand positioning stop.

Abstract: The invention relates to a contactless device (1) for capturing a biometric print, said device comprising a user region (10) and an electronic compartment (20), the user region (10) being suitable for receiving a hand portion of a user according to an orientation vector (V), the electronic compartment (20) comprising lighting means and an image-acquiring device (40), the image-acquiring device (40) being oriented along an optical axis (A1) making a first angle (B1) to the orientation vector (V), the lighting means comprising a light source (31) oriented along a lighting axis (A31) such that the projection (PA31) of said lighting axis (A31) in the plane defined by the orientation vector (V) and the optical axis (A1) makes a second angle (B31) to the orientation vector (V), the first angle (B1) being smaller than or equal to eighty degrees, the second angle (B31) being smaller than or equal to eighty degrees.

Abstract: Method for acquiring a fingerprint, performed by a device comprising an active thermal sensor when it is electrically supplied at a distance by a terminal, said sensor comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel comprising a pyroelectric capacitor which, when it is subjected to a variation in temperature, generates electrical charges, each pixel being associated with a heating element adapted for heating said pixel and being connected to a reading circuit able to measure the electrical charges generated by said capacitor. The method relies on a taking into account of the heating element received by each pixel of said sensor (33, 34) in order to determine when said pixel is able to provide (36) a signal that can be used for generating information representing a part of a fingerprint.

Abstract: A device for capturing a biometric print of a user, the user compartment including a frontal opening designed for the passage of part of a hand into said user compartment and a lateral opening allowing the passage of the thumb of the user's hand, the lateral opening extending as far as the frontal opening to form a continuous open space, the lateral opening being delimited in a direction of insertion of the user's hand into the user compartment by a user hand positioning stop.

Abstract: A method for biometric identification or authentication is described. An image of a body region is obtained. A truth map for said body region is obtained, said truth map associating, with each portion of a set of portions of said image of a body region, a probability that said portion belongs to a true body region. The image of the body region is then compared with a group of reference biometric data using the truth map. Finally, the identification or authentication of said body region is validated or invalidated in response to said comparison.

Abstract: Method for capturing a thermal pattern by a sensor comprising a plurality of pixels each comprising a heat-sensitive measuring element, the method comprising, for each pixel: heating the measuring element; first reading of the electrical charges outputted by the pixel during a first measurement duration and giving a first measurement value x1; second reading of the electrical charges outputted by the pixel during a second measurement duration and giving a second measurement value x2; calculating a difference x1??·x2, where ? is a positive real number, and wherein more than half of the heating duration is implemented during the first measurement duration and less than half of the heating duration is implemented during the second measurement duration.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fraud detection method to authenticate that an object is formed of human skin. The method includes an object being placed on a home location on the surface of a propagation medium of a sensor, lighting the home location of the surface by a light source emitting light rays illuminating the home location forming with said surface a plurality of incidence angles encompassing a critical angle defined by the refraction index of the propagation medium and by a refraction index expected for authentic human skin, receipt by an imager of light rays from the surface, and acquisition of an image, and determining whether the object matches an authentic human finger based on the refraction index of said object, as a function of the spatial light distribution on the acquired image.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pixel matrix of a thermal pattern sensor comprising several rows and several columns of pixels, said matrix comprising: an active thermal element formed by a thermosensitive material disposed between a lower layer and an upper layer, the lower layer being constituted by a plurality of first tracks made of electrically conductive material and extending along a first direction, said first tracks forming pixel columns; a heating element, disposed on the active thermal element and forming a serpentine path, said heating element being constituted by a plurality of second tracks (L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6) made of electrically conductive material and connecting segments (w1, w2, w3, w4, w5, w6) made of electrically conductive material connected to the ends of the second tracks (L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6), said second tracks (L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6) extending in a second direction different from the first direction and forming lines of pixels, the second tracks being connected except for the

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the biometric acquisition and processing of an image of a part of the human body with dermatoglyphs, comprising a contact surface (3) configured so that the part of the human body is affixed to this contact surface (3), a light source (4) configured to project onto the part of the human body a light pattern having a sinusoidal modulation of light intensity in a main direction with a target frequency, an imager (2) configured to acquire an image, and an automated data processing system (7) configured to implement a fraud detection method and a biometric identity recognition method using a periodic component parameter representative of an amplitude of a sinusoidal oscillation of light intensity in the acquired image in accordance with the main direction at the target frequency.

Abstract: Method for acquiring a fingerprint, performed by a device comprising an active thermal sensor when it is electrically supplied at a distance by a terminal, said sensor comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel comprising a pyroelectric capacitor which, when it is subjected to a variation in temperature, generates electrical charges, each pixel being associated with a heating element adapted for heating said pixel and being connected to a reading circuit able to measure the electrical charges generated by said capacitor. The method relies on a taking into account of the heating element received by each pixel of said sensor (33, 34) in order to determine when said pixel is able to provide (36) a signal that can be used for generating information representing a part of a fingerprint.

Abstract: Disclosed is a semi-rigid enrolment case for a smart card, formed by folding and gluing an envelope-like cardboard blank of the dimensions of the card. The case includes an electrical circuit printed directly on the cardboard of an inner surface. The circuit includes contact studs connected to a power supply interface and arranged to connect electrical contacts of the card to the power supply interface when the card is inserted into the case. A biometric sensor of the card remains accessible to the user when it is out of the case for making the enrolment. Through-openings are made in the cardboard on either side of contact stud lines and allow forming independent flexible areas, providing better contact between the studs and the electrical contacts of the card.

Abstract: The invention relates to a manufacturing process of a pixel array of a thermal pattern sensor comprising the steps of: providing a substrate; depositing a first layer of electrically conductive material, including depositing electrically conductive tracks, depositing of connector pins and depositing a ground strip; depositing of second layer of pyroelectric material covering the tracks and leaving at least part of the connector pins free; depositing of third layer of electrically conductive material; depositing of fourth layer of dielectric material in contact with the third layer; depositing of a fifth layer including electrically conductive heating tracks; depositing of a sixth protective layer, wherein the step of depositing the second and/or third and/or fourth and/or sixth layer is carried out by slot-die coating.

Abstract: Method for capturing a heat pattern with a sensor including a plurality of pixels each comprising a heat-sensitive measuring element, the sensor comprising an element for heating the measuring element, the method including carrying out the following steps for each pixel: a first heating step in which a first amount of heating power is dissipated in the measuring element; a first step of measuring the heat pattern, comprising a first read-out of the heat-sensitive measuring element, after a first delay time; a second heating step in which a second amount of heating power is dissipated in the measuring element; a second step of measuring the heat pattern, comprising a second read-out after a second delay time; and wherein the first amount of power is different from the second amount of power and/or the length of the first delay time is different from that of the second delay time.

Abstract: Method for capturing a thermal pattern by a sensor comprising a plurality of pixels each comprising a heat-sensitive measuring element, the method comprising, for each pixel: heating the measuring element; first reading of the electrical charges outputted by the pixel during a first measurement duration and giving a first measurement value x1; second reading of the electrical charges outputted by the pixel during a second measurement duration and giving a second measurement value x2; calculating a difference x1??·x2, where ? is a positive real number, and wherein more than half of the heating duration is implemented during the first measurement duration and less than half of the heating duration is implemented during the second measurement duration.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pixel matrix of a thermal pattern sensor comprising several rows and several columns of pixels, said matrix comprising: an active thermal element formed by a thermosensitive material disposed between a lower layer and an upper layer, the lower layer being constituted by a plurality of first tracks made of electrically conductive material and extending along a first direction, said first tracks forming pixel columns; a heating element, disposed on the active thermal element and forming a serpentine path, said heating element being constituted by a plurality of second tracks (L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6) made of electrically conductive material and connecting segments (w1, w2, w3, w4, w5, w6) made of electrically conductive material connected to the ends of the second tracks (L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6), said second tracks (L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6) extending in a second direction different from the first direction and forming lines of pixels, the second tracks being connected except for the

Abstract: Thermal pattern sensor including a matrix of multiple rows and columns of pixels, each pixel comprising: - a pyroelectric capacitor comprising a pyroelectric portion positioned between lower and upper electrodes, in which a first of these electrodes forms a readout electrode; and —a heating element that is capable of heating the pyroelectric portion of said pixel; and in which: - for each row of pixels, the heating elements are capable of heating the pyroelectric portion of the pixels of the row independently of the heating elements of the pixels of the other rows; and —for each column of pixels, the readout electrodes of each pixel are electrically linked to one another and are formed by a first electrically conductive portion that makes contact with the pyroelectric portions of the pixels of the column, and that is separate from the first portions of the other columns.

Abstract: Disclosed is a semi-rigid enrolment case for a smart card, formed by folding and gluing an envelope-like cardboard blank of the dimensions of the card. The case includes an electrical circuit printed directly on the cardboard of an inner surface. The circuit includes contact studs connected to a power supply interface and arranged to connect electrical contacts of the card to the power supply interface when the card is inserted into the case. A biometric sensor of the card remains accessible to the user when it is out of the case for making the enrolment. Through-openings are made in the cardboard on either side of contact stud lines and allow forming independent flexible areas, providing better contact between the studs and the electrical contacts of the card.

Abstract: A method for determining if a papillary print is comprised of living human tissue or not, using a papillary print sensor comprising in superposition, a contact surface, an array optical sensor, and a plurality of illuminating devices parallel between them. The method comprises illumination of the papillary print by the illuminating devices forming together, on the contact surface, a light pattern which is uniform along an axis that extends from one side to the other of a detecting surface of the array optical sensor, and acquisition of an image by the array optical sensor, with these steps being implemented at least once; in each image, selection of the pixels corresponding to the valleys or ridges of the print; and using the pixels selected, extraction of an optical characteristic defining the response to illumination, of the material comprising the papillary print.

Abstract: Method for capturing a heat pattern with a sensor including a plurality of pixels each comprising a heat-sensitive measuring element, the sensor comprising an element for heating the measuring element, the method including carrying out the following steps for each pixel: a first heating step in which a first amount of heating power is dissipated in the measuring element; a first step of measuring the heat pattern, comprising a first read-out of the heat-sensitive measuring element, after a first delay time; a second heating step in which a second amount of heating power is dissipated in the measuring element; a second step of measuring the heat pattern, comprising a second read-out after a second delay time; and wherein the first amount of power is different from the second amount of power and/or the length of the first delay time is different from that of the second delay time.

Abstract: A method of recognizing individuals by means of at least one processor executing a recognition algorithm comprising the steps of: detecting biometric characteristics of a finger of a candidate for recognition while writing a signature by pressing the finger against a signature surface; encoding both the written signature and also the biometric characteristics in order to form signature data and biometric data of the candidate; and using the algorithm to compare the signature data and the biometric data of the candidate with signature data and fingerprint biometric data belonging to at least one individual and stored on a data medium.