Owner Microsoft Corporation

Inventors Zielinski, Tobiasz; Dodge, Steve; Szilagyi, Zoltan C.; Rhoten, Matthew Paul; Dresevic, Bodin; Gounares, Alexander; Raghupathy, Sashi; Goldberg, Arin J.; Turner, Jerome J.; Chambers, Robert L.; Kannapel, Timothy H.

Agent Davies Collison Cave

Pub. Number AU-B-2003266779

Priority 10347331 21.01.03 US

Filing date 8 December 2003

Wipo publication date 5 August 2004

Acceptance publication date 28 January 2010

G06K 9/20 (2006.01) Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints - Image acquisition

G06F 3/00 (2006.01) Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer

G06F 3/033 (2006.01) Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer - Pointing devices displaced or positioned by the user, e.g. mice, trackballs, pens or joysticks

G06F 3/048 (2006.01) Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer - Interaction techniques for graphical user interfaces, e.g. interaction with windows, icons or menus

G06F 15/00 (2006.01) Digital computers in general

G06K 9/22 (2006.01) Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints - using hand-held instruments

G06K 9/62 (2006.01) Methods or arrangements for reading or recognising printed or written characters or for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints - Methods or arrangements for recognition using electronic means