ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,064, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NEC Corporation Of America (Herzlia, Israel).
"Detection of an artificial iris for spoofing an iris recognition system" was invented by Tsvi Lev (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Yaacov Hoch (Ramat-Gan, Israel) and Hagai Har-Gil (Ramat Gan, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a computer implemented method of detecting an attempt to breach security of an iris recognition system by an artificial iris, comprising: analyzing at least a portion of a limbal ring depicted in an image of an iris of an individual captured by an imaging sensor at a wavelength range within at least one of near infra...