Patents by Inventor William Garreth James Howells

William Garreth James Howells has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for the generation of code from pattern features
    Patent number: 8165289
    Abstract: A method is provided for deriving a single code from a biometric sample in a way which enables different samples of a user to provide the same code whilst also distinguishing between samples of different users. Different features are analysed to obtain mean and variance values, and these are used to control how the different feature values are interpreted. In addition, features are combined and a sub-set of bits of the combination is used as the code. This enables bits which are common to all user samples to be dropped as well as bits which may differ between different samples of the same user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: University of Kent
    Inventors: William Garreth James Howells, Michael Christopher Fairhurst, Farzin Deravi
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE GENERATION OF CODE FROM PATTERN FEATURES
    Publication number: 20100074439
    Abstract: A method is provided for deriving a single code from a biometric sample in a way which enables different samples of a user to provide the same code whilst also distinguishing between samples of different users. Different features are analysed to obtain mean and variance values, and these are used to control how the different feature values are interpreted. In addition, features are combined and a sub-set of bits of the combination is used as the code. This enables bits which are common to all user samples to be dropped as well as bits which may differ between different samples of the same user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: William Garreth James Howells, Michael Christopher Fairhurst, Farzin Deravi