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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...

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: “...

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 scanni...

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.  >>   Fingerprint Scanner   << 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...

SecuGen has unveiled the UN20 Bluetooth, a Bluetooth enabled OEM fingerprint sensor that is FAP 20 certified. According to the company, the UN20 Bluetooth uses a Bluetooth interface with a simple set of commands that allows the developer to capture fingerprint images, extract templates, and to enrol, search and match fingerprint templates all within the UN20 device. The UN20 Bluetooth hardware is FBI certified for use in the FIPS 201 PIV programme under the FAP 20 category. Additionally, the template extraction and matching algorithms running on the device are NIST MINEX certified. UN20 Bluetooth, is the second of SecuGen new Unity BDP line of fingerprint products that provide a Biometric Development Platform. At the heart of the UN20 Bluetooth, and all Unity BDP products, is SecuGen’s FAP 20 certified U20 sensor combined with a fully programmable Linux system and integrated into one compact package almost identical in size to the U20 itself. The Unity BDP provides the tools and tec...

Japan's Fujitsu has revealed a new palm vein authentication solution for use with SAP systems. Called PalmSecure BioLock, the company says it is the "industry’s most secure access control technology for SAP systems". The solution provides access control for SAP ERP and HANA systems. Fujitsu said the implementation means it is now the only SAP Global Partner able to offer the biometric security capability as an SAP-certified, natively-embedded solution either directly or via it’s sales partners.  Martin Lum, Vice President Marketing at realtime AG North America, said: “Just like the customers they serve, Fujitsu has the global reach and capability to offer security solutions to their international customers. We are very pleased to work with them to help their SAP and HANA customers overcome current security business challenges.” Thomas Bengs, Director and Head of PalmSecure Products and Solutions of Fujitsu EMEIA comments: “Current statistics show that most large organ...

Organic electronics firm Flexenable plans to showcase a 500 dpi flexible fingerprint sensor in a smart card form factor at an upcoming trade show.  The firm says that with biometric authentication becoming increasingly important for the smartcard industry, flexible fingerprint sensors open up new opportunities. Particularly in banking, using the cardholder’s fingerprint instead of or in addition to an entry pin is one of the emerging trends to improve security . This requires the integration of ultra-thin, robust and flexible sensors into payment cards. The 500 dpi flexible optical fingerprint sensor uses high performance organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) on low cost plastics. The firm says it is the only flexible sensor technology that has achieved such high resolution. The sensor has been developed in collaboration with Grenoble-based ISORG who supplies the organic photodiodes able to capture the fingerprint, and has provided all the reading electronics and the related algo...

Norway’s NEXT Biometrics will showcase its new flexible smartcard fingerprint sensor at an upcoming trade show. The flexible fingerprint sensor technology, which uses the firm’s NEXT Active Thermal principle, will be on show at Trustech in the form of polysilicon sheets and individual sensors. Tore Etholm-Idsoe, CEO of NEXT Biometrics , said, “Opposite to present market implementation of fingerprint sensors in smartphones, the major SmartCard markets are all quality critical. This means that neither security nor level of convenience may be compromised.  Furthermore, a SmartCard needs to work every day, everywhere, indoors and outdoors for close to 100% of the targeted population.   Having already secured the first two volume smartcard orders within the fingerprint sensor industry, we remain confident that NEXT is uniquely positioned within this massive opportunity space.” Radek Matyasek, VP Sales EMEA and SmartCard segment sales at NEXT, said, “At Cartes we will be show...

Maryland has become the latest battleground between ride-sharing firms Uber and Lyft and local politicians seeking biometrics checks for their drivers. The companies will tell Maryland Public Service Commission that they should not be required to fingerprint drivers, reports the Baltimore Sun. Under a state law passed in 2015, the companies are required to begin background checking drivers 15 December using the fingerprint database maintained by the state and the FBI, unless they prove their approach is equally effective. Both companies filed separate petitions with the state Public Service Commission, which regulates ridesharing companies, for permission to continue doing background checks their way. Uber has said it will pull out of Maryland if fingerprinting is enforced. Lyft has not said it would withdraw, but pointed out that it does not operate in any market where fingerprinting is required except New York City. In September, Uber revealed a new facial recognition-based securi...

Sweden’s Fingerprint Cards has noted that the new Huawei Mate 9 features its FPC1025 sensor. The Mate 9 handsets are among the first to be powered by Android 7 and come in two designs: a model with a 1080p "full HD" display, and a Porsche-branded edition with nearly twice the resolution. Huawei’s Mate 9 Porsche Design is the first smartphone featuring the FPC1268 and it is also Fingerprint Cards’ first market implementation of a capacitive fingerprint touch sensor under glass. As previously announced and demonstrated by Fingerprint Cards in February 2016, the FPC1268 is Fingerprint Cards’ first solution optimized for thick materials like cover glass. This enables device manufacturers to integrate fingerprint sensors in new design languages, for example completely invisible under the cover glass or used as a home button covered by glass. “This is an important milestone for us and also an acknowledgement of our team’s strong technology know-how and drive. We’ve been working h...