Crean's first touch screen that recognizes fingerprints - CNN (blog)

MADRID, 24 (Portaltic / EP) A group of German scientists working on the creation of the first desktop touch screen that gives a quantum leap in safety thanks to fingerprint recognition. FibeRio, named for the touchscreen, is designed to recognize the fingerprints of each person in order that each user can have access to your private content.

The researchers created the prototype with a glass screen comprised entirely of millions of optical fibers 3 mm long vertically grouped in a single flat plate. All fibers of the visible light rays are projected under the glass. Meanwhile, the infrared light bounces off the projector with fingerprints and back to an infrared camera according to reports New Scientist.

Thanks to this invention prepared by Christian Holz of the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany to scan fingerprints and display images. “Nobody has done this before,” he justified. However, this group of scientists is working to develop a touch screen that does not need a projector.

The announcement of this group of scientific researchers adds to the rumor that the next iPhone could have a sensor fingerprint recognition to unlock the device. This development would have caused the delay in this smart phone market.

As if this were not enough, the CEO of Amscreen, Simon Sugar , is developing a similar technology to the touch screen with face recognition on screens. The Scientist collects this screen face recognition recognizes gender and age. However, Sugar admits the dangers associated storage of fingerprint data by the issue of privacy and security of user information.

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device access systems has become an obsession for manufacturers, developers ‘software’, Internet service providers and security companies. Some, like Google, are working on alternative systems as objects that allow the unlocking by contact and eliminate the need for PIN codes, access patterns or words.