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September 15, 2013 11:05 pm GMT
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Could SilentSense Rival iPhone 5S' Touch ID Fingerprint Scanner?
The iPhone 5S' Touch ID sensor, which takes a photo of a user's fingerprint and then stores the information for identification purposes later on, may have a new rival.
Industry experts predict that other manufacturers will soon follow in Apple's footsteps by creating their own fingerprint scanners. And now, researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology have developed their own variation of the sensor called SilentSense.
Cheng Bo and his colleagues at the institute invented the system, which learns to pick up a person's specific cellphone habits, including fingertip size, the amount of pressure a user puts on the phone and even the way a user walks with the phone in-hand Read more...
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