AVANTE BIOMETRIC REGISTRATION SOLUTION FOR NATIONAL ID, VOTING, Driving AND OTHER APPLICATIONS

Incorporating biometrics of an individual is now critical aspect whenever security, safety and privileges are involved. Driver license besides identifying individual having specific privilege to drive, is also one form of identification commonly used for identify individuals like a form of national ID card. As such, they must be secured against counterfeiting and tampering. Voter registration application may be a sub-set of any national ID solution requiring additional efforts of the voters in qualifications.

The traditional counterfeit prevention uses optical hologram and special printing inks and features similar to that of printed money. Still one can find many websites representing “services” to provide fake driver license of related identification. With additional efforts in enhancing national and international security, ICAO is now promoting passport system that uses RFID smart card chip embedded within the pages of passport book to improve the security against tampering and counterfeiting.

AVANTE has extensive experience and patented technologies in providing identification registration system and badge and card issuing for variety applications from driver licensing, national identification, voter registration, and commercial applications such as access control system and visitor and show attendee registration and badging applications. Besides using traditional specialty printing and holographic digital images for anti-counterfeiting and tampering prevention, AVANTE uses RFID and data encryption for additional security.

AVANTE Driver License Management System (DLMS) and optional National Identification System (NIDS) use web-based technology or centralized and controlled database solution address the business, user acceptance and technical components required. AVANTE has experience and staff that have successfully developed, installed and operated all facets of Driver License and National Identification Management System.

AVANTE Biometric Registration Systems and Solutions include the following components:

• Digital facial image capture
• Fingerprints digital image capture and minutia templates formation
• Dynamic digitized signature capturing with AVANTE patented “movie” of signing for full biometric authentication (US 6,694,045)
• RFID smart card driver license cards with photo-image, fingerprint image and/or digitized signature and personal data encloded AVANTE patented relational check codes to prevent tampering and counterfeiting (US 6,961,000)
• RFID smart card national ID and/or voter cards with photo-image, fingerprint image and/or digitized signature and personal data encloded with AVANTE patented relational check codes to prevent tampering and counterfeiting (US 6,961,000)
• Online and onsite driver license, national identification, voter registration form design, print and distribution
• Handheld RFID smart card reader system for stationary and mobile authentication of RFID smart cards
• Activities based track-and-trace using patented RFID smart card dtechnology (US 6,883,710)
• Implementation logistical and project management
• System integration including procurement and delivery of all components
• .NET web-based automated data capture technology for both onsite and online application

OVERVIEW AND APPLICATION SPECIFICATIONS
Original voter filled registration form image scanning and data capturing:

• AVANTE's Biometric Voter Registration Solution creates and prints voter registration with OMR automatic data capturing format with unique form identifiers.
• Voters complete the forms by filling in the ovals of the OMR forms. Voter registration staff may assist those that need help in filling out the registration form.
• The form is scanned and the personal and demographic data is automatically captured.
• Staff checks for accuracy and completeness of data before capturing voter biometrics.

Image capturing:

• AVANTE's Biometric Voter Registration Solution captures facial images in conformance to the quality requirement of ICAO and in compliance to ISO standard 19794-5.
• Programmed to automatically capture multiple sequential facial images over a period of seconds to ensure that choices are available with both eyes open.
• Automatically checks for brightness to ensure acceptable image quality.
• Optional manual cropping to ensure facial image quality.

Fingerprint Capture and Verification:

• Captures and stores finger images into templates of minutia in compliance with ISO 19794-2 for use in automatic finger identification (AFIS). (1:1 matching)
• Finger image data are stored in BMP and compressed file formats. These images may be converted with current or future generation software fingerprint templates for processing (primarily used for identification or 1:N matching)
• AVANTE's Biometric Voter Registration Solution has been engineered to capture multiple fingerprint image samples from each finger and ensure all samples have sufficient image quality and is convertible into template minutia.
• Automatically detects and ensures that fingerprint images are captured with acceptable contrast ratios, sufficient ridge quality and includes the detection and prevention of partial finger prints on the sensor.
• Supports a variety of fingerprint sensor technologies including interoperability between many sensor types and manufacturers.
• Support for multiple database platforms as well as flat file data structures.
• Live feedback to operator instructing on placement and movement of fingers

Signature collection:

• Direct digital signature capturing using electronic signature pad. Optional dynamic biometric signature may be captured and used for additional biometric authentication.
• Alternatively, digital image of the signature can be captured using document imaging scanner with at least 300 dpi resolution from the original voter registration form.

While physical biometrics are more definitive in identifying an individual whenever applicable. In some cases when physical biometrics cannot be used based on privacy objections, dynamic signature biometrics may be a good option for such identification applications. AVANTE patented D-Sign dynamic signature technology represents one of the advanced solution that captures the "movie" of how the signature is made and authenticate by comparing the same.

BIOMETRIC SIGNATURE AUTHENTICATION - Digitized Signature With Full Signature Biometrics Using Less Than 300 Bytes

• The first digitized biometric signature capturing how the signature is signed with full "movie" rather than traditional template data.
• Patented most efficient biometric capturing method using less than 300 bytes (US 6,694,045, "Generation and verification of a digitized signatrue) for signing process with replayable "movie".
• Compatible with standard signature pads and Pocket-PC, Windows and Palm operationg systems.