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Animetrics awarded new patent

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Animetrics, a developer of biometric technology and products, has been awarded a set of patents for facial recognition system and methods. The patents includes generation of image databases for multi-featured objects, and viewpoint-invariant image matching and generation of 3D models from 2D imagery.

Additionally, Animetrics CEO Paul Schuepp is expecting the technology patents to be particularly useful for in-the-field military operations citing the fixes they create to the shortcomings of previously tested face matching biometric systems in those situations.

Projects that Animetrics is working on that will use the patents include face matching surveillance for the U.S. Army, technology for Animetrics Forensica systems in sue by U.S. government intelligence agencies and local law enforcement forensics. [end] 

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