The Sony labs guys at head office in Tokyo, Japan have come up with another great piece of tech for masses.
Not content with giving the world a multitude of great sturdy reliable consumer electronics they have now come up with a unique way of protecting them. The technology is called "mofiria" and is basically a finger vein authenticator for securing your devices.
“Why?” you ask do we need this when we already have retina scans, finger print scanners etc etc, well the answer lies in its size. Because it uses a CMOS (aka intelligent light) sensor to capture scattered light inside the finger veins it means the device can be fitted to small devises such as mobile phones.
Sony says to expect it on devices by the end of the year so keep a look out for new Sony Ericsson phones.
Tech babble details:
“The vein pattern is extracted from the captured finger vein image, and data from the pattern is compressed into the size of one-tenth to store in memory, which makes it possible for the data to be stored on a mobile device.
Sony’s unique algorithm achieves fast and easy operation. The vein pattern is quickly and accurately extracted from the captured finger vein image without a fixed finger position, as the position of a placed finger is automatically and simultaneously corrected. As a result, the authentication accuracy is less than 0.1% for the FRR (False Rejection Rate), less than 0.0001% for the FAR (False Acceptance Rate), and processing time for identification takes only about 0.015 sec*1 using a personal computer CPU and about 0.25 sec*2 when using a mobile phone CPU.”
The full Sony press release can be found by clicking here