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Photographic Image

A standard two-dimensional image illuminated and captured in the visible wave lengths (380 to 780 nm). This definition is specific to this standard other references may refer to images captured using non-visible wavelengths converted to visible wavelengths as photographic images, but they are not so classified for purposes of this standard. A photographic image is conveyed in a Type-10 record (unless it is an iris image conveyed in Type-17, or a friction ridge image conveyed in one of Types 4, 13, 14, 15, or 19). A non-photographic image is conveyed in a Type-22 record. Original source images are conveyed in Type-20 records and non-biometric associated context images are conveyed in Type-21 records, regardless of the format or source of the image.

Committee
Interdisciplinary
Date Added to Lexicon
Standard Source (Designation Number Title of Standard. Publisher, Place, Year.)
ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2011 Update:2015 Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Facial & Other Biometric Information. ANSI/National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2011. Source link