Abstract: A latent fingerprint lifting and recordation device of the type which provides a permanent and official fingerprint document. The device includes a flexible transparent latent fingerprint lifting sheet having one adhesive surface and a flat opaque somewhat thicker, less flexible sheet defining a perimeter frame and a removable central area which defines a protective cover, the perimeter frame being substantially similar in size and shape to that of, and adhered in generally coextensive fashion on one surface thereof against the adhesive side of the fingerprint lifting sheet. When the transparent fingerprint lifting sheet, with the perimeter frame adhesively attached thereto, is separated from the protective cover, an imaged latent fingerprint may be lifted and recorded on the adhesive surface. The latent fingerprint thereafter is protectively sandwiched for viewing through the transparent sheet when the protective cover is adhesively reattached to the adhesive surface to form a permanent fingerprint document.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for rolled fingerprint capture is described. The start of a fingerprint roll is detected. A plurality of fingerprint image frames are captured. A centroid window corresponding to each of the plurality of captured fingerprint image frames is determined. Pixels of each determined centroid window are knitted into a composite fingerprint image. The end of the fingerprint roll is detected.

Abstract: In a method of preventing false acceptance in a system for checking fingerprints, a latent fingerprint on the sensor (1) is detected by the location of a currently recorded fingerprint being compared with the location of a previously recorded fingerprint. If the location essentially corresponds, the recorded fingerprint is considered as originating from a latent fingerprint, and the fingerprint is rejected. Otherwise, the fingerprint is considered as originating from an actual finger on the sensor.

Abstract: A fingerprint identification/verification system using bitmaps of a stored fingerprint to correlate with a bitmap of an input fingerprint, wherein an accurate reference point is located and selected two-dimensional areas in the vicinity of the reference point of the input image of the fingerprint are correlated with stored fingerprint recognition information to determine if the input fingerprint image and the stored fingerprint recognition information are sufficiently similar to identify/verify the input fingerprint.

Abstract: A latent fingerprint lifting and recordation device of the type which provides a permanent and official fingerprint document. The device includes a flexible transparent latent fingerprint lifting sheet having one adhesive surface and a flat opaque somewhat thicker, less flexible sheet defining a perimeter frame and a removable central area which defines a protective cover, the perimeter frame being substantially similar in size and shape to that of, and adhered in generally coextensive fashion on one surface thereof against the adhesive side of the fingerprint lifting sheet. When the transparent fingerprint-lifting sheet, with the perimeter frame adhesively attached thereto, is separated from the protective cover, an imaged latent fingerprint may be lifted and recorded on the adhesive surface. The latent fingerprint thereafter is protectively sandwiched for viewing through the transparent sheet when the protective cover is adhesively reattached to the adhesive surface to form a permanent fingerprint document.

Abstract: A latent fingerprint lifting and recordation device of the type which provides a permanent and official fingerprint document. The device includes a flexible transparent latent fingerprint lifting sheet having one adhesive surface thereof and a flat opaque flexible frame having an open central area and being substantially similar in size and shape to that of, and adhered in generally coextensive fashion on one surface thereof against the fingerprint lifting sheet. A majority of the adhesive surface is exposable and unattached over said open central area for lifting a latent fingerprint. A flat protective cover is positioned against, and similar in size and shape to, that of the frame and releasably adhered against the adhesive surface through the open central area.

Abstract: To provide an apparatus for pre-selecting fingerprint cards having certain similarity to an S-card to be identified, at a high-speed, among a plurality of F-cards, an apparatus of the invention comprises: an F-side cluster index determination section (2) for designating a cluster wherein feature data of the plurality of F-cards are to be classified according to features extracted from the plurality of F-cards; an F-card feature storing section (3) for storing the feature data of the plurality of F-cards in the cluster designated by the F-side cluster index determination section (2); an S-card feature storing section (5) for temporarily storing feature data of the S-card; an S-side cluster index determination section (6) for designating clusters to be retrieved according to a combination of features extracted from the S-card; and a fingerprint card matching discrimination unit (8) for pre-selecting the fingerprint cards by comparing the feature data of the S-card with the feature data of the plurality of F-car

Abstract: A fingerprint detection apparatus includes a plurality of first electrodes having linear shapes and arranged in parallel to one another, a plurality of second electrodes arranged between said plurality of first electrodes and arranged in the longitudinal direction of each of said plurality of first electrodes, keeping apart from one another, and detecting section for obtaining a fingerprint image in accordance with resistance value groups each of which is generated between the adjacent first and second electrodes when the finger of a person required to be identified has been brought into contact with said plurality of first and second electrodes. Therefore, the fingerprint of a person required to be identified can be detected without a complicated optical system.

Abstract: A system or network for assembling, filing and processing health care data transactions and insurance claims made by patients pursuant to health care policies issued to the patients by insurance companies or other carriers for service provided to the patients at health care facilities. The network comprises a multitude of participating patients, a multitude of health care facilities, and a plurality of insurance companies or other carriers. Each of the patients has a personal data file including a set of patient related data encoded in a machine readable format, and each of the health care facilities has a telecommunications unit and a file reader to read the data on the personal data files and to transmit the patient related data to the telecommunications unit at the facility. The network further includes a central claims processing unit connected to the telecommunications units of the health care facilities to receive the electronic claim forms from those facilities and to adjudicate those claims.

Abstract: A system and corresponding method for obtaining fingerprint samples of a person completing an application form and using those samples to verify that person's identity. The system employs an application form, such as a life insurance application, job application, banking or checking account application, and so on, comprising a first substrate having a fingerprint information receiving area adaptable to receive a fingerprint image of a finger of the person completing the application. The system further employs a second form, such as a chain of custody form, comprising a second substrate having an area adaptable to receive thereon a fingerprint image of the finger of the person. Preferably, an inkless fingerprint kit is used to provide the fingerprint samples on both forms. The fingerprint samples can be compared either manually or through the use of a computer to verify whether the same person provided the samples on both forms.

Abstract: A system for controlling access to a computer and for verifying informed consent in medical procedures includes a finger anatomy analyzer for verifying identity of a person. The analyzer generates a pattern of finger width vs length along the surface of the finger. The pattern generated is compared to a stored pattern to verify identity. To verify that the identified person is giving informed consent or denial to a medical procedure, the person is provided with the appropriate information and test questions given and answers recorded as evidence of comprehension to serve as evidence of informed consent or denial in combination with verified person identification.

Abstract: A fingerprint matcher links together minutiae from a search print and minutiae from a file print in a chain to determine if the two prints match. Minutiae are extracted from the images of the search and file prints. Geometric and other relationships between close minutiae in each print are calculated. A table of candidate "steps" is formed. Each step consists of four minutiae, two close search minutiae and two close file minutiae. Each "rung" of the step is a search-file pair, the candidate mating of presumed identical minutiae in the two images. Each "riser" of the step is formed by two close minutiae, search minutiae on the one side and file minutiae on the other. A candidate step is entered into the table if and only if the relationships between search minutiae are similar to those between file minutiae. The number of candidate steps is reduced by requiring that each step adhere to various rules regarding the presence of other steps in the table and the identity of minutiae therein.

Abstract: A personal identifier greeting card selected by a sender includes a treated paper-like sheet construction having a greeting printed thereon and a colorless developing solution adapted to be coated on an object such that when the treated sheet construction is placed in temporary contact with the coated object, the card will immediately develop a visible personal identifier image related to the sender of the card.

Abstract: The invention relates to a patient and healthcare provider identification system which includes a database of patient and healthcare provider information including the identity of each patient and provider and some identification criteria (such as fingerprint data); a print scanner for reading the print information from a patient or provider; a control system for matching the print data read by the scanner with the print data stored in memory; and a printer for printing labels or generating stamps or other visually perceptible medium for positively identifying the patient or provider and creating a record of the identification.

Abstract: A system and method for taking and developing a fingerprint wherein the subject's fingers are not dirtied or exposed to chemicals. The fingerprint is recorded on a layer of adhesive adhered to a sheet of transparent material. The print is developed by making a copy of it on a sensitized surface by back reflecting radiant energy through the adhesive whereby the print is imaged.

Abstract: A quick and clean method of recording fingerprints without inks, chemicals, or powders is disclosed. The invention is especially suited for incorporation into mass produced legal and financial documents, wherein a portion of a document is fabricated to include a protected area for the recording and preservation of a latent fingerprint. The fingerprint receptive area of the document is protected by a cover which removably adheres to the document. If the identity by a cover which removably adheres to the documents.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of confirming the identity of a patient with an individual to receive a treatment intended for said patient, by (a) obtaining a print identification characteristic of said patient; (b) obtaining a print identification characteristic of said individual to whom said treatment is intended to be administered; (c) confirming the identity of the print identification characteristic obtained from the patient with the print identification characteristic obtained from the individual. Also disclosed are an associated device and system. The device can have information identifying one or more than one patient.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for recording prints of digital extremities, and the like, utilizes a transparent print indicia recording medium to record images corresponding to the digits of an individual wherein the record, thus obtained, on the adhesive coated surface of the transparent medium may be sealed to a transparent base and then utilized to generate a plurality of image displaying records which may be easily disseminated and used by others in various postures and manners, e.g., front or back observation of a digit indicia as well as transporation or communication of reproductions of the original records to remote locations and/or storage in typical memory devices such as magnetic tape or the like.

Abstract: The improved fingerprinting system utilizes a conventional fingerprint card having a fingerprint portion on its top surface. A multi-layered sheet having dimensions approximating that of the fingerprint portion has a layer of adhesive material sandwiched between a front liner sheet and a rear liner sheet. The rear liner sheet is removed thereby allowing the layer of adhesive material to be pressed into contact with the fingerprint portion of the fingerprint card. The front liner sheet is transversely scored to form a plurality of strips. One strip at a time is removed to allow fingerprint impressions to be pressed into the respective frames of the particular row of the fingerprint portion. After all of the rows have received their fingerprint impressions, a transparent sheet of plastic material is applied to the top surface of the layer of adhesive material.

Abstract: A fingerprint sensitive pad is disclosed for affixing a fingerprint to a document. The pad includes a base sheet adhesively attached to the document. The base sheet, which may be reflective, has an adhesive-like coating which receives the fingerprint image when a finger is pressed upon it. The pad has a hinged cover, which removably adheres to the adhesive-like coating to protect the fingerprint image.

Abstract: A plastic identity card is provided with an ink absorbent coating over a preassigned space thereon. The ink absorbent coating includes a chemical reagent capable of chemically reacting with a substantially colorless developer solution applied by a finger thereto to provide a perceivable colorant product representative of the fingerprint ridge pattern.

Abstract: A fingerprint, and the like, image-data records keeping system and apparatus provides for image-data review from each side of a transparent carrier base to allow an X-ray type of examination as by viewing an image-data record from the front and back. A method and apparatus for obtaining individual image-data records includes a soft, resilient working surface having low friction surface and a flexible base material coated with adhesive on one side for placement on the portion of a body of which fingerprints, or the like, are to be recorded.

Abstract: A reliable, precise, inexpensive, portable digitizer is provided for receiving an identification medium having a fingerprint thereon, including at least one fingerprint discontinuity associated therewith. The exact position of the discontinuity with respect to the edges of the medium is then encoded by the digitizer by rotating an elongated scale coupled to the base of the digitizer until the fiducial line on the scale is coincident with the discontinuity. A reading is thereafter recorded proportional to the position of the discontinuity along the elongated scale and a reading is also recorded indicative of the angle of the elongated scale, with respect to the base member. These readings are recorded upon the medium, and since the medium has an exact position with respect to the base member, the recorded data is proportional to the position of the discontinuity relative to the dimensions of the card.