FingerChi p

The thermal silicon chip fingerprint sensor

January 2000
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Outline
 What is biometrics?  What is the FingerChip?  How does the FingerChip work?  FingerChip advantages  Product Roadmap  Available Products  Applications  Information
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What is Biometrics? Definition

Recognition of an individual through the analysis of physical or behavioral characteristics
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What is Biometrics? Types

Physiological
retina, iris (EyeDentify, Iriscan, Sensar) hand or finger geometry (Recognition Systems) ear face [visible, IR] (Miros, Visionics) fingerprints

Behavioral
voice signature [static / dynamic] keystroke dynamics

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Biometric Types in the Market

 Product availability  Market partition for 1999
Signat. Voice Hand Eye
Voice Signature Retine Iris Hand Finger Face

Finger Face

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Biometric Comparison
Human Characteristics
Voice Iris / retina Highly secured Face Hand Fingerprints Only soft if camera exists Easy to use Unique, highly secured, user-friendly

Advantages
Hardware cost

Drawbacks
Hoarse, background noise, tape recording Cost, size, badly accepted, affected by eyes illness. Recognition without approval Cost, size, low level of security booking Stigma

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What is Biometrics? The Process.

 Enrollment Feature Extraction Template Storage  Match / Authentication Feature Extraction Template comparison to reference image  Verification (1:1) vs. Identification (1:many)

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What is Biometrics? Error Rates

 Biometrics is not 100% certainits all about probability  Thresholds are used and must be balanced against required security  False Accept Rate (FAR) - User not enrolled, but matching anyway  False Reject Rate (FRR) - User enrolled, but not matching  Crossover Error
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What is the FingerChip?

 CMOS silicon chip fingerprint sensor  Thermal imaging  1.5mm x 14mm sensing area  Unique Finger Sweeping interface
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 Thermal Imaging

How does the FingerChip work?

Direct finger contact with protected imaging silicon Contact produces signal proportional to temperature differential ( T) FingerChip actually measures the differences in temperature between the ridges and the air caught in the valleys Column
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What do we mean by sweeping & reconstruction?

Reconstruction software is provided free of charge Minimal CPU overhead

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Why are fingerprints unique?

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How Does Fingerprint Matching Software Work?

Enrollment Process

Authentication Process

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Authentication Software Example

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The Competition: Why Choose Silicon Vs. Optical?

Optical System Design
Software Algorithms for Fingerprint Image Enhancement, Analysis & Matching
OPTICS LIGHT SOURCE CCD VIDEO SIGNAL

FRAME GRABBER

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Why Choose Silicon Vs. Optical? Optical  Lenses, prisms Disadvantages

 Susceptible to shock, extreme light conditions  Distortion introduced by lenses  Minimum size and cost restricted by optics and sensor  Frame grabber requirement  Susceptible to grease and oils: imaging quality degrades over time, latent prints
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The Competition: Silicon Sensors

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Competition Comparison
Optical Size Capture poor fingerprint ESD Surface protection Cost Latent print Ext. conditions
(extreme temperature, humidity, oil)

Capacitive

Thermal FingerChip

-+ ++ + -

+ + -

++ ++ + + ++
(sweeping method)

+ +
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Why Choose Thermal Vs. Capacitive? FingerChip Advantages

 Resistant to ESD Chip protected by multiple layers of non-conductive and grounded material Protected >9 kV contact and >16.5 kV air discharge  Resistant to Water, Humidity While image can be blurred by water on finger, successive sweeps move water away from imaging surface  No latent prints due to sweeping motion, no booking stigma  Better image quality on larger user population Slide 19
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Why Choose Thermal Vs. Capacitive? More FingerChip Advantages

 PROCESS, AREA & YIELD

Inexpensive 0.8 micron process FingerChip area is 3-5 times less than competition Yield improves with lower surface area

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FingerChip Roadmap
FCPU (on chip processing)
USB Chipset 3rd party

FCU(on chip USB)

ecno tar get nI i ve D i

FCD4A14CCB (on chip ADC - COB) FCD4A14CC (on chip ADC - DIL) FC15A140CC

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FingerChip Products : FC15A140CC FC15A140CC

1.5mmx14mm (0.06x0.55) sensing area Low power consumption (50mw @ 5V) Max data rate : 700fps 500 dpi, non interpolated Analog output Package : DIL Availability : now
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FingerChip Products: FCD4A14C

FCD4A14CC / FCD4A14CCB
0.4mmx14mm (0.02x0.55) sensing area Chip-on-board (COB) Low power consumption (20mw @ 3.3V) Custom DIL20 Max data rate : 1800fps 500 dpi, non interpolated Digital output (on-chip Steps added to ADC) ease integration. Package : DIL and Chip-OnBoard (COB) Availability : 2Q2000
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FingerChip Products: Demonstration/Developers Kit

FCDEMO3BS
Parallel Port interface Windows 98 / NT compatible FingerChip thermal sensor : FC15A140CC Acquisition / Reconstruction Software Development Kit Authentication software available from FingerChip Partners Available : now
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FingerChip Products: The Sweepee USB fingerprint reader FCSweep01

USB interface Plug and play; Windows 98 compatible FingerChip thermal sensor : FC15A140CC Acquisition / Reconstruction Software Development Kit Authentication Software available from FingerChip Partners Availability : 1Q2000

FCSweep02
FingerChip thermal sensor : FCD4A14C Availability : 2Q2000

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Applications
 Banking / Credit  Computer / Network Security  Law Enforcement  Business & Residential Access Control  Automobile Security / Access Control  Cellular Phone Security  Interactive TV  Benefits Identification  Time and Attendance/Child Care Security  Large-scale National ID Projects/Voter Registration  Military ID and Access Control  Hotel Access Control & Personalization
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 HARDWARE Biometric Identification, Inc. (BII) (stand-alone  SOFTWARE module*) AST GEZ Microsystems BergData (also stand(stand-alone module) alone module) SCM Microsystems, Inc. Cogent Systems (USB-based FingerChip I/O Software reader*) Salt Lake Digital Imaging NEC Technologies, Inc. (PC/104, ISA interface) Neurodynamics Ltd. CEZAM (FingerChip The Phoenix Group For more information mouse) on our Partners, please visit:
www.tcs.thomson-csf.com
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FingerChip Documentation
 FingerChip FAQ  FC15A140 Datasheet  FCD4A14 Datasheet  FCDEMO3BS11/22 Datasheet  FCSweep01 Datasheet  Application Notes
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For more information...

 North America
John Harris, FingerChip Product Manager (973)812-4354 (v) / (973)812-4191 (f) john.harris@tcs.thomson-csf.com

 Europe/ROW
Maya Robert, Standard Products Marketing 33 (0)4 76.58.30.98 / 33 (0) 4 76 58 31 25 maya.robert@tcs.thomson-csf.com  Visit the web for updates, datasheets, etc. http://www.fingerchip.com
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