Hitachi Develops World's Smallest Finger Vein Authentication Device.Tokyo, Japan, Oct 6, 2005 - (JCNN JCNN Japan Corporate News Network ) - Hitachi has prototyped the world's smallest device that has been able to authenticate (1) To verify (guarantee) the identity of a person or company. To ensure that the individual or organization is really who it says it is. See authentication and digital certificate. (2) To verify (guarantee) that data has not been altered. an individual's ID based on his/her finger vein patterns. Applicable to notebook PCs and PDAs, the prototype measures 39x34x15mm, 1/20 the size of conventional devices. The company has applied its proprietary biometrics technologies that it has worked on since 1997, to develop the flat optical authentication system The combination of authentication server and authenticator, which may be separate devices or both reside in the same unit such as an access point or network access server. The authentication server contains a database of user names, passwords and policies, and the authenticator physically that sheds light from the back of a finger and monitors vein patterns by measuring light transmitting through the finger. Source: JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) http://www.japancorp.net Copyright [c] 2005 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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