ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,145, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Fingerprint image processing method and device" was invented by Xiaochun Yan (Xi'an, China), Chunmiao Jiang (Xi'an, China), Hanhui Li (Xi'an, China), Huaiwen Bai (Xi'an, China), Jiangbo Chen (Xi'an, China) and Yanjun Chen (Xi'an, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fingerprint image processing method includes: receiving a plurality of blocks of a block matrix representing a fingerprint image; and processing a first set of blocks of the plurality of blocks, the processing comprising: obtaining a plurality of candidate directions of a curr...