US Patent 11157759 Biometric acquisition and processing device and method

The invention relates to a device for the biometric acquisition and processing of an image of a part of the human body with dermatoglyphs, comprising a contact surface (3) configured so that the part of the human body is affixed to this contact surface (3), a light source (4) configured to project onto the part of the human body a light pattern having a sinusoidal modulation of light intensity in a main direction with a target frequency, an imager (2) configured to acquire an image, and an automated data processing system (7) configured to implement a fraud detection method and a biometric identity recognition method using a periodic component parameter representative of an amplitude of a sinusoidal oscillation of light intensity in the acquired image in accordance with the main direction at the target frequency.