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Iris Recognition To Take Off

Posted by timothy on from the not-the-cute-iris-I-know dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like iris recognition is about to explode. Turns out, a major patent held by iris recognition leader Iridian is expiring, and that's leading a stampede of start-ups and VCs into this space."

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  1. Patents and innovation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A patent exipry causing a boom in company startups and innovation - say it ain't so. Are there any legislators out there paying attention to stories like this?

    1. Re:Patents and innovation by sonamchauhan · · Score: 4, Interesting

      You're welcome and your civitility is appreciate. My answers/added comments are:

      1) Because it is unfair. And because it deals with "handheld scanners -- the type security patrolmen might use at a stadium or airport."

      2) A monopolist (not evil in itself) convicted of unfair trade practises

      3) No, you support the USPTO granting unfair patents, and gave Bush a bad name by dragging his name into the conversation.

      4)
      4.1) Granting a patent on current and future embodiments of automating an existing manual process is ridiculous.

      4.2) Their first patent does not restrict itself and has absurdly limitless boundaries - it says their "invention be limited not by the specific disclosure herein, but only by the appended claims" - claims like claim 10 below, which are so broad as to cover all current and future embodiments:

      This is CLAIM 10:
      "10. The method of claim 1 in which comparing the obtained image with stored image information comprises deriving a set of descriptors of at least the iris portion of the obtained image and comparing the derived descriptors with stored reference descriptors derived from a previous image for identifying the person."
      This is CLAIM 1:
      "1. A method of identification of a person, comprising:
      storing image information of at least a portion of the iris and pupil of the person's eye;
      illuminating an eye, of an unidentified person having an iris and a pupil;
      obtaining at least one image of at least the same portion of the iris and pupil of the eye of the unidentified person; and
      comparing at least the iris portion of the obtained image with the stored image information to identify the unidentified person."

      4.3) I don't know which ellipsis you speak of

  2. Iris vs Retina by vossman77 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Are we talking Iris or Retina here?

    Because I've never heard of using the Iris and don't know anything about its uniqueness. Where the retina is easily scanned and heavily researched.

    Anybody know more? or is this a typo?