Upon input, it receives set q of fingerprint bits from the first step of the fingerprint reduction algorithm, set A of atoms that are in the query, and mapping M from the query fingerprint bits to corresponding covered atoms.
A bank would presumably notice quickly if an unfamiliar set of fingerprints started showing up at cash registers with its Visa, or if one set of fingerprints was detected shopping simultaneously in two different cities.
In his more than three decades as an examiner, he had never seen a set of fingerprints like this.
With enough raw data and computing power, a trail of words might betray its author as reliably as a set of fingerprints identifies an individual.
She contacted immigration officials, who arranged for him to submit a new set of fingerprints on Oct. 19, 2005, near his base in Tikrit.
Cogent makes fingerprint and palm print identification systems that allow customers to electronically capture print images, encode prints into files and compare a set of fingerprints and palm prints to a database containing potentially millions of prints.
The study asked examiners to match the two actual latent prints taken from the car in the Mitchell case with the known set of fingerprints of the man on trial.
"What we are trying to do in this field is reduce, reduce, reduce the population so that there is only a single individual that can possess a set of fingerprints...
STEP FOUR: Wait for a warden to key in the exit code and, voilà, you now have a set of fingerprints telling you precisely what the exit code is.
