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Another limitiation is that only works with one finger per person. [7] The fourth product is the most advanced of the group, and while it is not touchless, there is no contact with the scanner, just with an "optical scanning area." A list of nine "contactless fingerprint technologies that are worth noting" is part of the report.
An electronic fingerprint makes it possible to identify a wireless device by its radio transmission characteristics. Radio fingerprinting is commonly used by cellular operators to prevent cloning of cell phones — a cloned device will have the same numeric equipment identity but a different radio fingerprint.
The acquisition led commentators to expect a fingerprint reading feature. [1] [2] Following leaks and speculation in early September the next year, [3] [4] the iPhone 5s was unveiled on September 10, 2013, and was the first phone on a major US carrier to feature the technology. [5] [6]
The fingerprint ID technology was long rumored as heading to 2013's iPhone following Apple's acquisition of Authentec last summer. A render of the iPhone 5s outed the new functionality's name just ...
Apple does not plan to add a fingerprint scanner to its iPhone X lineup. Well-connected TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is out with new predictions about the smartphone market in ...
There are four types of fingerprint scanners: [7] optical scanners, capacitance scanners, ultrasonic scanners, and thermal scanners. The basic function of every type of scanner is to obtain an image of a person's fingerprint and find a match for it in its database. The measure of the fingerprint image quality is in dots per inch (DPI). [8]
In-display fingerprint readers -- biometric sensors embedded within the screens of many new phones -- are garbage. They must be purged from all future devices unless they get significantly better ...
Automated fingerprint identification is the process of using a computer to match fingerprints against a database of known and unknown prints in the fingerprint identification system. Automated fingerprint identification systems (AFIS) are primarily used by law enforcement agencies for criminal identification purposes, the most important of ...