Goodix is celebrating a win at the 2017 Edison Awards, which took place recently in New York. The company won a Gold Edison Award in the category of Applied Technology for its Live Finger Detection fingerprint sensor technology.
The technology combines fingerprint recognition with cardiac biometrics, sensing whether a heartbeat can be detected in a given user’s finger. In this way, the system ensures liveness detection, verifying that a real finger is being scanned and that it isn’t a spoofing attack.
The award win comes soon after Goodix proclaimed that it had developed the world’s first in-display fingerprint sensor at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Acknowledging the award in a statement, Goodix CTO Dr. Bo Pi said the company “strives to deliver disruptive technologies that make human interface technology in devices more secure and even easier to use and enjoy”.
This is not the first time the Edison Awards have recognized biometric technology: At last year’s event, EyeLock LLC won a Silver Award in the Consumer Electronics & Information Technology – Security Solution category, for its iris-based authentication technology.
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April 28, 2017 – by Alex Perala
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