Camera Tower

Ensure fast service, great pictures, keeping customers happy and lines moving

The Digimarc Camera Tower is designed specifically for the high volume and image quality demands of driver license and identification card issuers.

With rugged, professional-grade construction, combined with decades of image capture experience, Digimarc delivers the lowest total cost of ownership and the longest life expectancy of any camera available today. In addition to photo quality that is sure to please customers, the Camera Tower ensures the image clarity needed for reliable facial recognition applications that help defend against Identity theft and fraud.

Used in combination, Digimarc Capture Software, Camera Tower and Image Server, offer a streamlined, integrated solution for capturing and storing high quality portraits, signatures, fingerprints, and applicant demographics for card production, renewals, fraud investigation and more. With over a billion photos taken to date, count on Digimarc to provide the ease-of-use and portrait quality to ensure efficient operators and happy customers.

Digimarc Camera Tower Expertise in Driver License Photography
When it comes to IDs, the portrait is paramount-especially in the mind of the applicant. That photo represents the cardholder's proof of identity for access to a range of services and privileges, including applying for a passport, boarding a plane, opening a bank account, and purchasing age-restricted products, in addition to operating a motor vehicle. For issuing agencies, it represents a critical identity proof point for both future verification and biometric analysis.

With the typical driver license issuing agency taking thousands of photos on a daily basis, portrait capture must be fast, easy, and reliable. Digimarc built the Camera Tower to last, support your chosen workflow — photo first or photo anywhere — and integrate seamlessly into your enrollment process.

Make Your Operators Shine
The Camera Tower includes live video, allowing the operator to see what the camera sees and confirm the applicant's position. Single key operation snaps the picture and automatically focuses, captures, crops and color corrects each portrait. This means fewer retakes and lines that keep moving. Setup and training is accomplished in minutes. The Camera Tower's simplicity allows operators to focus on serving the customer, not worrying about operating the equipment.

Immediate confirmation of compliance
After the portrait is taken, operators are immediately given a "pass or no pass" confirming whether or not the image quality complies with the ISO 19794-5 standard. In the rare instance a portrait receives a "no pass," operators are shown the specific parameter that failed.

High-Quality Output Increases Utility of Images
While consistent, quality images are important for the applicant, they are equally critical for law enforcement and others that are required to validate the credential after it is issued, as well as biometric solutions used for facial recognition screening. Digimarc designed the Camera Tower with an integrated flash strobe to ensure ideal lighting regardless of the physical environment. The flash bulb itself lasts an average of 20 times longer than those found in standard cameras to ensure reliable, uninterrupted service that is nearly maintenance free.