Method for identifying person among a population, comprises a first stage of identifying geometric hand properties such as finger length followed by a second stage of identifying fingerprints

摘要

Geometric hand data such as finger length and correlated fingerprint data are maintained in a file (1) for a whole population. For a particular person fingerprints (2) and geometric hand data (3) are taken and in a first stage (5) a group of persons with compatible hand data is selected (6). The fingerprints of the compatible group are then compared in a second stage with those of the particular person (8) to identify a match (9)