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Apple is trying to patent a system that would prevent screen burn in mobile devices with in-display fingerprint sensors. The application arrives shortly after Samsung filed a patent for a similar system that automatically adjusts pixel brightness during a fingerprint scan. The Apple solution relies on temperature compensation rather than pixel brightness. To that end, […]
ImageWare is creating a new IP licensing program in an effort to meet the growing demand for biometric identity solutions. To do so, the company will rely on the expertise of Vermont’s ipCapital Group, which will help establish the new business unit and oversee its first two years of operations. The ipCapital Group will help […]
A new Samsung patent application is seeking to prevent screen burn in OLED displays. The system is geared towards OLED displays with in-display fingerprint sensors, and specifically those that use light to gather fingerprint information for authentication. To that end, the patent describes a system with two printed circuit boards. The first sits underneath the […]
Apple is continuing to explore different possibilities for in-display fingerprint recognition. The latest rumors come courtesy of a patent application that was filed with the European Patent Office, which details an “under-display optical fingerprint sensor with narrow field-of-view (NFV) collimator and a thin-film transistor (TFT)-based organic imager.” In plainer terms, the system combines a collimator […]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has officially granted ImageWare a patent for “Conditional and Situational Biometric Authentication and Enrollment.” The patent concerns the capture of biometric credentials in different situations and environments and covers any biometric capture device, including kiosks, cameras, and fingerprint and iris scanners. According to ImageWare, the patent will allow […]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published an Apple patent application that would essentially turn the Apple Watch’s digital crown into a Touch ID sensor. The crown would stick out from the main body of the watch, and use light-transmission technology to guide an image of the user’s finger to a sensor located within […]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has officially granted five new patents to Acceptto. The patents are all related to the company’s Continuous Behavioral Authentication platform, and will be deployed to bolster the company’s identity and access management capabilities. “Cybercriminals are not slowing down which means we cannot either,” said Acceptto CEO Shahrokh Shahidzadeh. “We are […]
Apple has filed a patent application for an improved version of Face ID that would be able to recognize partial faces and overcome poor lighting conditions. The newly published application was filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent specifically concerns a neural network module for a device equipped with a TrueDepth camera. […]
IDEX Biometrics has been granted another important patent pertaining to its on-card enrollment solution for biometric cards, this time from the UK Intellectual Property Office. In announcing the latest patent approval, IDEX indicated that the filing concerned is “in the same patent family” as on-card enrollment patents approved by the Australian patent authority and by […]
Biometrics News – Facial Recognition California-based defense contractor and facial recognition specialist StereoVision Imaging (“SVI”) has announced the issuance of eight continuation patents for its technological portfolio. In a statement, the company said it is “significantly growing its U.S. and international patent portfolio” pertaining to Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) LiDAR technology. This is SVI’s […]
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