Granted Patent B2

US 12,354,395 · App. 17/104,340 · Granted Jul 8, 2025

Inventor: Richard Austin Huber, Jr. (Weehawken, NJ)

Assignee: ID Metrics Group Incorporated

G06V30/413G06V10/82G06V30/194G06V40/168

Abstract

Claims (98)

1. A data processing system for counterfeit document detection, the data processing system comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more storage devices, wherein the one or more storage devices includes instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:

obtaining, by the data processing system, first data representing a first image;

providing, by the data processing system, the obtained first data as an input to a machine learning model that has been trained to determine whether data representing an input image deviates from data representing one or more images of a physical document that have been printed in accordance with a particular anticounterfeiting architecture, wherein the anticounterfeiting architecture includes two or more security features, wherein the two or more security features includes two or more of (i) presence of a predetermined facial aspect ratio, (ii) presence of a predetermined head orientation, (iii) presence of a drop shadow, (iv) presence of guilloche lines over a facial image, or (v) presence of a predetermined graphic;

obtaining, by the data processing system, second data that represents output data generated, by the machine learning model, based on the machine learning model processing the obtained first data as an input;

determining, by the data processing system and based on the obtained second data, whether the first image deviates from data representing one or more images of a physical document that have been printed in accordance with a particular anticounterfeiting architecture, comprising:

evaluating the obtained second data against a predetermined threshold; and

based on a determination that the obtained second data satisfies a predetermined threshold, storing third data indicating that a document, from which the first image was obtained, is a counterfeit document.

2. The data processing system of claim 1 , wherein obtaining, by the data processing system, first data representing a first image comprises:

capturing, using a camera, second data representing an image of a document;

extracting, from the second data representing an image of the document, the first data representing a first image, wherein the first image is an image of at least a portion of a person.

3. The data processing system of claim 1 , wherein obtaining, by the data processing system, first data representing a first image comprises:

receiving, from a device that used a camera to capture second data representing an image of a document, the second data representing an image of the document; and

extracting, from the second data representing an image of the document, the first data representing the first image.

4. The data processing system of claim 1 , wherein obtaining, by the data processing system, first data representing a first image comprises:

receiving, from a device, the first data representing the first image.

5. The data processing system of claim 1 , wherein the machine learning model that has been trained to determine whether data representing an input image deviates from data representing one or more images of a physical document that have been printed in accordance with a particular anticounterfeiting architecture comprises:

one or more security feature discriminator layers that have been trained to detect the (i) presence of a security feature or (ii) absence of a security feature.

6. The data processing system of claim 1 , the operations further comprising:

obtaining, by the data processing system, fourth data representing a second image;

providing, by the data processing system, the obtained fourth data as an input to a machine learning model that has been trained to determine whether data representing an input image deviates from data representing one or more images of a physical document that have been printed in accordance with a particular anticounterfeiting architecture;

obtaining, by the data processing system, fifth data that represents output data generated, by the machine learning model, based on the machine learning model processing the obtained fourth data as an input;

determining, by the data processing system and based on the obtained fifth data, whether the second image deviates from data representing one or more images of a physical document that have been printed in accordance with a particular anticounterfeiting architecture, comprising: evaluating the obtained fifth data against a predetermined threshold; and

based on a determination that the obtained fifth data does not satisfy a predetermined threshold, storing sixth data indicating that a document, from which the second image was obtained, is a legitimate document.

7. The data processing system of claim 1 , wherein training the machine learning model comprise:

accessing, by the machine learning model, a plurality of training images of respective physical documents, wherein each training image of the plurality of training images have been labeled as (i) an image of a legitimate physical document or (ii) an image of a counterfeit physical document; and

for each particular image of the plurality of training images:

extracting a particular portion of the particular image of a physical document;

generating an input vector for the extracted particular portion of the particular image of a physical document;

processing, by the machine learning model, the generated input vector through one or more hidden layers of the machine learning model;

obtaining output data, generated by the machine learning model based on the machine learning model's processing of the generated input vector representing the extracted particular portion of the particular image of the physical document;

determining an amount of error that exists between the obtained output data and a label for the particular image; and

adjusting one or more parameters of the machine learning model based on the determined amount of error.

8. A method for counterfeit document detection, the method comprising:

obtaining, by the data processing system, first data representing a first image;

providing, by the data processing system, the obtained first data as an input to a machine learning model that has been trained to determine whether data representing an input image deviates from data representing one or more images of a physical document that have been printed in accordance with a particular anticounterfeiting architecture, wherein the anticounterfeiting architecture includes two or more security features, wherein the two or more security features includes two or more of (i) presence of a predetermined facial aspect ratio, (ii) presence of a predetermined head orientation, (iii) presence of a drop shadow, (iv) presence of guilloche lines over a facial image, or (v) presence of a predetermined graphic;

obtaining, by the data processing system, second data that represents output data generated, by the machine learning model, based on the machine learning model processing the obtained first data as an input;

determining, by the data processing system and based on the obtained second data, whether the first image deviates from data representing one or more images of a physical document that have been printed in accordance with a particular anticounterfeiting architecture, comprising:

evaluating the obtained second data against a predetermined threshold; and

based on a determination that the obtained second data satisfies a predetermined threshold, storing third data indicating that a document, from which the first image was obtained, is a counterfeit document.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein obtaining, by the data processing system, first data representing a first image comprises:

capturing, using a camera, second data representing an image of a document;

extracting, from the second data representing an image of the document, the first data representing a first image, wherein the first image is an image of at least a portion of a person.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein obtaining, by the data processing system, first data representing a first image comprises:

receiving, from a device that used a camera to capture second data representing an image of a document, the second data representing an image of the document; and

extracting, from the second data representing an image of the document, the first data representing the first image.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein obtaining, by the data processing system, first data representing a first image comprises:

receiving, from a device, the first data representing the first image.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein the machine learning model that has been trained to determine whether data representing an input image deviates from data representing one or more images of a physical document that have been printed in accordance with a particular anticounterfeiting architecture comprises:

one or more security feature discriminator layers that have been trained to detect the (i) presence of a security feature or (ii) absence of a security feature.

13. The method of claim 8 , the method further comprising:

obtaining, by the data processing system, fourth data representing a second image;

providing, by the data processing system, the obtained fourth data as an input to a machine learning model that has been trained to determine whether data representing an input image deviates from data representing one or more images of a physical document that have been printed in accordance with a particular anticounterfeiting architecture;

obtaining, by the data processing system, fifth data that represents output data generated, by the machine learning model, based on the machine learning model processing the obtained fourth data as an input;

determining, by the data processing system and based on the obtained fifth data, whether the second image deviates from data representing one or more images of a physical document that have been printed in accordance with a particular anticounterfeiting architecture, comprising: evaluating the obtained fifth data against a predetermined threshold; and

based on a determination that the obtained fifth data does not satisfy a predetermined threshold, storing sixth data indicating that a document, from which the second image was obtained, is a legitimate document.

14. The method of claim 8 , wherein training the machine learning model comprise:

accessing, by the machine learning model, a plurality of training images of respective physical documents, wherein each training image of the plurality of training images have been labeled as (i) an image of a legitimate physical document or (ii) an image of a counterfeit physical document; and

for each particular image of the plurality of training images:

extracting a particular portion of the particular image of a physical document;

generating an input vector for the extracted particular portion of the particular image of a physical document;

processing, by the machine learning model, the generated input vector through one or more hidden layers of the machine learning model;

obtaining output data, generated by the machine learning model based on the machine learning model's processing of the generated input vector representing the extracted particular portion of the particular image of the physical document;

determining an amount of error that exists between the obtained output data and a label for the particular image; and

adjusting one or more parameters of the machine learning model based on the determined amount of error.

15. A computer-readable storage device having stored thereon instructions, which, when executed by data processing apparatus, cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

obtaining, by the data processing system, first data representing a first image;

providing, by the data processing system, the obtained first data as an input to a machine learning model that has been trained to determine whether data representing an input image deviates from data representing one or more images of a physical document that have been printed in accordance with a particular anticounterfeiting architecture, wherein the anticounterfeiting architecture includes two or more security features, wherein the two or more security features includes two or more of (i) presence of a predetermined facial aspect ratio, (ii) presence of a predetermined head orientation, (iii) presence of a drop shadow, (iv) presence of guilloche lines over a facial image, or (v) presence of a predetermined graphic;

obtaining, by the data processing system, second data that represents output data generated, by the machine learning model, based on the machine learning model processing the obtained first data as an input;

determining, by the data processing system and based on the obtained second data, whether the first image deviates from data representing one or more images of a physical document that have been printed in accordance with a particular anticounterfeiting architecture, comprising:

evaluating the obtained second data against a predetermined threshold; and

based on a determination that the obtained second data satisfies a predetermined threshold, storing third data indicating that a document, from which the first image was obtained, is a counterfeit document.

16. The computer-readable storage device of claim 15 , wherein obtaining, by the data processing system, first data representing a first image comprises:

capturing, using a camera, second data representing an image of a document;

extracting, from the second data representing an image of the document, the first data representing a first image, wherein the first image is an image of at least a portion of a person.

17. The computer-readable storage device of claim 15 , wherein obtaining, by the data processing system, first data representing a first image comprises:

receiving, from a device that used a camera to capture second data representing an image of a document, the second data representing an image of the document; and

extracting, from the second data representing an image of the document, the first data representing the first image.

18. The computer-readable storage device of claim 15 , wherein obtaining, by the data processing system, first data representing a first image comprises:

receiving, from a device, the first data representing the first image.

19. The computer-readable storage device of claim 15 , wherein the machine learning model that has been trained to determine whether data representing an input image deviates from data representing one or more images of a physical document that have been printed in accordance with a particular anticounterfeiting architecture comprises:

one or more security feature discriminator layers that have been trained to detect the (i) presence of a security feature or (ii) absence of a security feature.

20. The computer-readable storage device of claim 15 , the operations further comprising:

obtaining, by the data processing system, fourth data representing a second image;

providing, by the data processing system, the obtained fourth data as an input to a machine learning model that has been trained to determine whether data representing an input image deviates from data representing one or more images of a physical document that have been printed in accordance with a particular anticounterfeiting architecture;

obtaining, by the data processing system, fifth data that represents output data generated, by the machine learning model, based on the machine learning model processing the obtained fourth data as an input;

determining, by the data processing system and based on the obtained fifth data, whether the second image deviates from data representing one or more images of a physical document that have been printed in accordance with a particular anticounterfeiting architecture, comprising: evaluating the obtained fifth data against a predetermined threshold; and

based on a determination that the obtained fifth data does not satisfy a predetermined threshold, storing sixth data indicating that a document, from which the second image was obtained, is a legitimate document.

21. The computer-readable storage device of claim 15 , wherein training the machine learning model comprise:

accessing, by the machine learning model, a plurality of training images of respective physical documents, wherein each training image of the plurality of training images have been labeled as (i) an image of a legitimate physical document or (ii) an image of a counterfeit physical document; and

for each particular image of the plurality of training images:

extracting a particular portion of the particular image of a physical document;

generating an input vector for the extracted particular portion of the particular image of a physical document;

processing, by the machine learning model, the generated input vector through one or more hidden layers of the machine learning model;

obtaining output data, generated by the machine learning model based on the machine learning model's processing of the generated input vector representing the extracted particular portion of the particular image of the physical document;

determining an amount of error that exists between the obtained output data and a label for the particular image; and

adjusting one or more parameters of the machine learning model based on the determined amount of error.

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