US5029219A
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Personal handwriting verification
Assignee: Rolls Royce PLC
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Filing: 1985-04-23
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Granted: 1991-07-02
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Expires: 2005-04-23
Abstract
Abstract The stress-wave activity produced by the interaction between a writing instrument and a surface during the generation of a given piece of handwriting on the surface is detected and stored. The stress-wave activity produced by a subsequent generation of the given piece of handwriting is then compared with that produced by the initial piece of handwriting in order to determine whether the initial and subsequent handwriting pieces have a common author.
Inventors
- 👤 Peter E. Cox
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-29 23:16
CPC Classifications
G; G07; G07C; G07C9/00; G07C9/30; G07C9/32; G07C9/35; G06; G06V; G06V40/00; G06V40/30
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 4
Claim 1
Independent Claim
169 words
A device for verifying personal handwriting comprising: a given body, a given writing instrument, means for monitoring the stress-wave activity in said body produced by the motion of said given writing instrument on a given planar surface of said given body during the generation of a given piece of handwriting and generating an output signal representative of the stress-wave activity, storage means for storing said signal representative of the stress-wave activity and comparison means for comparing said signal representative of the stored stress-wave activity with the signal representative of the stress-wave activity produced by the motion of a like writing instrument on a like surface of a like body during the generation of a subsequent like piece of handwriting to provide an indication of whether the generation of such handwriting pieces produce substantially common stress-activity and thus whether the pieces have been generated by a common author, said means for monitoring comprising a resonant acoustic emission transducer having means for detecting only frequencies in the vicinity of 100 KHz.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
169 words
A device for verifying personal handwriting comprising: a given body, a given writing instrument, means for monitoring the stress-wave activity in said body produced by the motion of said given writing instrument on a given planar surface of said given body during the generation of a given piece of handwriting and generating an output signal representative of the stress-wave activity, storage means for storing said signal representative of the stress-wave activity and comparison means for comparing said signal representative of the stored stress-wave activity with the signal representative of the stress-wave activity produced by the motion of a like writing instrument on a like surface of a like body during the generation of a subsequent like piece of handwriting to provide an indication of whether the generation of such handwriting pieces produce substantially common stress-activity and thus whether the pieces have been generated by a common author, said means for monitoring comprising a resonant acoustic emission transducer having means for detecting only frequencies in the vicinity of 100 KHz.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
27 words
A device as claimed in claim 1 wherein said writing instrument and said surface are selected such that said generated handwriting pieces are a visual representation thereof.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
61 words
A device as claimed in claim 1 wherein said means are provided to vary over a restricted range, the duration of the stress-wave activity produced by the generation of said subsequent like piece of handwriting to facilitate the matching of the duration thereof with the duration of the stress-wave activity produced by the generation of said first piece of said handwriting.
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