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Xiaomi has propelled its Mi 6 cell phone highlighting Goodix's Invisible Fingerprint Scanner (IFS) innovation.
Goodix's IFS is an incorporated unique finger impression sensor and touch board arrangement that validates a client's finger impression through the glass board of cell phones.
Not long ago, Goodix was named a CES 2017 Best of Innovation Awards Winner for its live unique finger impression validation arrangement.
Secugen declared that it will discharge the Hamster Pro 45 fingerprint reader and the U45 sensor in the second 50% of 2017.
The U45 is the OEM sensor that is inside the Hamster Pro 45. The U45 is planned for engineers who might want to make their own particular two finger perusers or who expect to imbed the FAP 45 sensor into gadgets with extra usefulness. The Hamster Pro 45 is a FAP 45 guaranteed, Appendix F agreeable two finger and moved unique finger impression peruser and reasonable for AFIS and other law authorization and government applications.
"With the Hamster Pro 45, we are giving accomplices the way to enter developing new markets," commetened Won Lee, CEO of SecuGen. "We have constantly centered around being receptive to our accomplices' needs. The Hamster Pro 45 is the most recent outcome."
SecuGen will exhibit the Hamster Pro 45 at one week from now's connect:ID meeting.
South Korean biometrics firm Suprema received a patent in the country on April 10, related to the outer structure of fingerprint recognition modules.
There is limited information about the Korean-language patent, which is numbered 10-2015-0062473.
“This patent is a technology to simplify the structure of the terminal cover and to strengthen the waterproof structure,” writes a translation of the patent.
“The technology of this patent is applied to the fixed structure of our fingerprint recognition module and it will be utilized for future fingerprint recognition terminal.”
A research team has found that so-called “masterprints” can successfully defeat fingerprint sensors on certain smartphones.
Departments at the New York University and Michigan State University created fingerprints digitally composed of many common features found in human prints, reported the New York Times.
Called masterprints, these were then used for presentation attackes on phones, with the team saying it could match real prints similar to those used by phones as much as 65 percent of the time.
“It’s almost certainly not as worrisome as presented, but it’s almost certainly pretty darn bad,” said Andy Adler, a professor of systems and computer engineering at Carleton University in Canada, who studies biometric security systems, told the newspaper. “If all I want to do is take your phone and use your Apple Pay to buy stuff, if I can get into 1 in 10 phones, that’s not bad odds.”
“It’s as if you have 30 passwords and the attacker only has to match one,” said Nasir Memon, a professor of computer science and engineering at N.Y.U.’s Tandon School of Engineering, who is one of three authors of the study, which was published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. The other authors are Aditi Roy, a postdoctoral fellow at N.Y.U.’s Tandon School, and Arun Ross, a professor of computer science and engineering at Michigan State.
Stephanie Schuckers, a professor at Clarkson University and director of the Center for Identification Technology Research, noted that the researchers used a midrange, commercially available software program that was designed to match full fingerprints, limiting the broader applicability of their findings.“To really know what the impact would be on a cellphone, you’d have to try it on the cellphone,” she said.
She also noted that cellphone makers and others who use fingerprint security systems are studying anti-spoofing techniques to detect the presence of a real finger, such as looking for perspiration or examining patterns in deeper layers of skin. A new fingerprint sensor from Qualcomm, for example, uses ultrasound.
A new report by financial services tech firm Deloitte has shown a rise in use of fingerprint identification.
The company's closely-watched 'Technology, Media and Telecommunications' report stated that biometric device security was identified as one key trend to watch out for, with the active base of fingerprint reader-equipped devices in the field set to grow.
In the report, the firm predicts that the active base of fingerprint sensor equipped devices will top one billion in early 2017.
It also predicts that about 40 percent of all smartphones in developed countries will incorporate a fingerprint reader as of end-2017. This compares to 30 percent as of mid-2016.
“We expect that at least 80 percent of users with a fngerprint reader-equipped smartphone will use this sensor regularly: this compares to 69 percent of users in mid-2016.”
Paul Lee, head of technology, media and telecommunications research at Deloitte, said at the at the launch of the report in Belfast.
Lee said: “Billions of smartphones and tablets are expected to be capable of processing and collecting multiple types of biometric inputs, including face recognition, voice pattern and iris scan in 2017, but usage of fingerprints will lead the way.”
But the Deloitte research also corroborated the findings of others in forecasting that global sales of tablet devices would fall by about 10 per cent this year, suggesting that demand was reaching a plateau, and that household adoption would end up being substantially lower than for other devices.
Source: Planet Biometrics
The Samsung Galaxy S8’s fingerprint scanner will be positioned right next to its camera, suggest new images of the device tweeted last night by mobile reporter Evan Blass.
The images show three different color models of the smartphone, each from the front, side, and back. As many had anticipated, almost the entire front side of the device is dedicated to the screen. On the back, the camera sits in the upper middle of the device, just above the Samsung logo. The fingerprint sensor appears to be situated next to it, less than a centimeter away.
As The Verge’s Chris Welch writes, the positioning could lead to “a fair number of index finger smudges on the camera lens.” And that could lead to an obvious comparison – and not to the S8’s advantage – to Apple’s next flagship iPhone if that device features an in-display fingerprint sensor, as many now speculate it will.
Still, the Galaxy S8 is expected to have at least one feature that is not widely anticipated for the next iPhone – iris scanning. Paired with facial recognition, the technology could offer users an exceptionally quick, accurate, and convenient means of authentication. That in turn, could mean less frequent use of the fingerprint sensor anyway, and fewer smudges on the camera lens.
Source: The Verge
A new Chromebook chipset developed by MediaTek called the Rowan features a fingerprint scanner.
The website chromeunboxed.com revealed the implementation of Fingerprint Cards’ FPC1020 to the ‘Rowan’ board.
This fingerprint scanner is the same one you would find in mobile devices like the Xioami Redmi Note 3 and various Huawei phones.
Other new on the laptop revealed that it will feature the LG lp120up1 display.
Earlier this week, Dell revealed that it new XPS 13 and XPS 15 laptops can have a biometric upgrade in the form of a fingerprint scanner embedded in the keyboard. The sensor can be added for just an additional cost of US$25 and is compatible with Windows Hello, the software giant’s biometric login option. The option is available on all versions of the XPS 13 and XPS 15, including the entry level spec models, which is nice. Both the XPS 13 and XPS 15 are available for purchase with the new sensor today from Dell’s website.
Source: Planet Biometrics
