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Nam-Deuk Kim0
Kyungtae Hwang0
Date of Patent
August 3, 2010
0Patent Application Number
123492050
Date Filed
January 6, 2009
0Patent Primary Examiner
Patent abstract
The present invention relates generally to human fingerprints. More specifically the present invention relates to assessing the quality of a fingerprint image. An assessment is made by analyzing characteristics of image sub-regions. For example, the characteristics may include statistics that are associated with a sub-region. If a sub-region is found to have unacceptable characteristics, it can be modified through a morphological operation to compensate for the unacceptable characteristics.
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