Biometrics: fingerprint sensor products

Authentec [FingerLoc, EntrePad]
(manufacturer: TSMC, packaging: Signetics)
Formerly Harris, merged with Upek in 2010. Bought by Apple in July 2012. Production no more available as of May 2013.

RF modulation sensing

AFS2

AFS8500 / AFS 8600 / AES4000

AES3400 / AES3500

Swipe sensors

AES2500 / 2510

1510

EntréPad 1610
1610

1710 / 1711

Swipe sensors

AES2550 / 2810

AES1660 / 2660

AES2665
AES2665

AES1750

Upek

Upek TouchChip
Spin-off from ST Microelectronics / March 2004) Merged with Authentec in 2010, which has been bought by Apple in 2012. Note that some Upek products are now available through Digital Persona.

Capacitive sensing.

TCS1CD
TCS1CD

TCS2CF
TCS2CF

TouchStrip swipe sensor TCS3

TCS3B / ST

TCS3B

TouchStrip swipe sensor TCS4

TCS4

TCS4 module

(2008 Jun) TouchStrip swipe sensor TCS5

(2009 Jun) The TCS5 + LED = TouchLight

TCS5

First prototype made by Unibo (University of Bologna) in 1996.

Fujitsu

Fujitsu (was the Veridicom sensor manufacturer).

Capacitive sensing.

MBF110

MBF200

Swipe sensors

MBF300

MBF310

MBF320

LighTuning

LighTuning (acquired by Egistec in 2008)

Capacitive sensing
Manufacturer: UMC

LTT C300

LTT C500 (A / B with ADC, USB)

swipe sensors / capacitive

LTT S500

LTT SS500

swipe sensors / RF (E-field)

LTT SS501

EgisTec

(2008 Jul) LighTuning is now EgisTec SS801U.

SS801U

(2008) EgisTec SS901.

SS901

(2009 Dec) EgisTec ES603-AF is unveiled (All-Flat Design, black coating).

The ES603-WB is also released.

ES603-AF

Sony

Sony fingerprint sensors

Capacitive sensing.

CXA3271AGE

CXA3621GE

FIU900

CXA3271AGE

CXA3621GE

FIU900
FIU900

Veridicom

(1997 May) Veridicom spin-off from Lucent

Veridicom 5thsense FPS 200 (same sensor as Fujitsu)

Capacitive sensing.

(2001 Dec) publication of a paper describing a swipe sensor: Innovations in fingerprint capture devices Xiongwu Xia., Lawrence O'Gorman.

Infineon (formerly Siemens)

Infineon FingerTip (2004: discontinued)

Capacitive sensing.

Infineon FingerTip
FingerTip

FingerTip chip

BMF - Hitachi

BMF BLP-100 pressure sensor

Hitachi High-Technologies also proposed the BLP-60, same technology.

BLP 100

BLP 60

Hitachi

(2003 Jul) Hitachi unveils the Finger Attestor swipe capacitance sensor.

Finger Attestor

NEC

Homepage: NEC SecureFinger

(2002 Nov) NEC SecureFinger FingerThroughII SA301
also called PU800-30 (2006).

(2007 Jun) PU800-40 is a 1000dpi sensor, 18x15mm

(2009 Jul) Updates with the PU900-10 18x15 mm.

SA301

(2004) NEC sweep optical transmission fingerprint proto

(2006 Jun) PU700-20 reader is unveiled. Seems not to be exactly the same as the previous prototype.

sweep prototype

sweep PU700-20

(2007) Updates with the SA401 and the SA701.

SA401

SA701

Ethentica

Security First formerly Who?Vision, Ethentica, Tality

electro-optical sensing

Fingerprint Cards

Homepage: Fingerprint Cards

FPC1010 (square sensor)

(2004) FPC1011C (similar to FPC1010)

(2008 Sep) FPC1011F

(2012 Jun) FPC1011F3

FPC1010

(2001 Sep) FPC1030 sweep RF modulation sensing

(2004 Mar) FPC1031B sweep RF modulation sensing

FPC1030

FPC1031B

(2010 Dec) FPC1080A sweep RF modulation sensing

FPC1080A

Originally developped by Xensor

TesTech / Integrated Biometrics

TesTech (Korea)

electro-optical sensing

(2009) Integrated Biometrics acquired TesTech.

NTT

NTT product page (japan)

(2004 Jun) NTT launches the FingerQuick FQB-10 with the NTT sensor.

(2005) NTT Innovative Technology Site P229

(2005 Sep) µFP 128x128 pixels 508dpi, SPI interface.

Dakty, formerly Delsy

Delsy www.delsy.de (May 2004: broken link? discontinued!)

Delsy www.delsy.com (short info here, May 2004)

(2009) Dakty Naos-1 fiber-optic fingerprint sensor (+fake finger detection)

Idex

Homepage: Idex

(1998) IFF120: first sweep active AC capacitance sensing prototype, started with Sintef.

IFF 120

(2001) SmartFinger©: development with ST.

SmartFinger©

(2007 Dec) SmartFinger© IX 10-4.

SmartFinger© IX 10-4

(2010 Mar) SmartFinger© Film.

BTW, I successfully tried the device at the 2010 Biometric Consortium Conference.

SmartFinger© Film

Atrua

(2009 July) Authentec buys Atrua $4.9M.

Homepage: Atrua (formerly I-Control)

Sweep capacitive sensing.

(2002) I-Control unveiled the PDS3000 (also called ICS3000).

(Feb 2004) I-Control becomes Atrua, and launches the Atrua Wings, product name ATW100

(2005 Mar) ATW200 is released.

I-Control PCS3000
ICS3000
ATW100
ATW200

(2007 Feb) ATW310 is unveiled (and used in Toshiba Portégé cellphones G500).
Referenced as the ATW300 by Darling Industrial.

(2007 May) Another device appears, ATW300?
Called ATW310 by Murata (2007 Oct).

Atrua ATW310
ATW310? or ATW2xx?

Atrua ATW
ATW300

Merged with Authentec in 2009

Fidelica

(2004 Feb) Fidelica announced the availability of the FIS-3002, an area fingerprint sensor made on TFT.

Pressure sensing

(2006 Jun) Fidelica moves from TFT to a flexible substrate with a 256x256pixels, 508dpi pressure sensor.
Note the flip-chip silicon chip connected to the array. 1 bit per pixel.

As a summary, here is the sequence:

MR based sensor

silicon cantilever MEMS

glass MEMS with a membrane element

silicon MEMS with a membrane element

Validity

Validity VFS101, VFS131 (2005 Jul), VFS161 (2006 May).

Sweep RF resistive sensing.

(2006 Aug) The SecurePad with Synaptics is using the LiveFlex™ technology from Validity.

(2007 Jan) VFS201 (USB) and VFS202 (SPI) using Dual Line Imaging is announced.

(2008 May) VFS201 modules.

(2009 Jul) VFS301 modules are shipped to notebook PC OEMs.

(2009 Aug) Customizable LED fingerprint sensor

(2010 Jun) The VFS5111 fingerprint sensor provides tri-color LED support and enhanced performance...

(2012 Jun) VFS495: encryption, match-on-chip...

(2010 Jun) VFS5131

(2010 Jun) VFS5302

(2012 Jun) VFS6101

(2012 Jun) VFS6102

Melfas

Melfas MFCS1000 sweep sensor

Sweep capacitive sensing.

Sannaedle / Cecrop / Kinetic Sciences

Homepage: Cecrop/Sannaedle

Homepage: Kinetic Sciences (KSI).

In 1999, Sannaedle (now Cecrop) offered a device called MyFin. At the same time, KSI offered the KC-901, which was probably the same device.

In 2002, Cecrop was offering the CFS2000, while KSI offered the K-1000.

In 2004, KSI is still displaying the device on their web site, while there is no more information about an optical roller sweep sensor on the Cecrop website.

Alps Electric

(2004) Alps Electric unveiled two prototypes.

Pressure sensor prototype

Flat panel capacitive prototype

Casio + Alps Electric

Casio (.com website)

Casio (.jp website)

Alps Electric website

(Feb 2003) Unveiled the "rolling-tube head" scanner, and showed a cellphone prototype.

Casio

(2004) Casio made a optical TFT sensor prototype 368x368 pixels
Prototype 200x240 pixels

The sensor can go over a regular display.

Offered by TechnoImagia as LS-120

(2008) Casio 256x300 pixels @ 508 dpi.

Digital Persona

Homepage: Digital Persona

(May 2003) Released the Firefly, a sweep optical roller.

TST

TST Touchless technology, using an optical sensor.

Ultrascan

Ultrascan ultrasound fingerprint sensors.

(2003) UltraTouch model 203.

(2007 Sep) Backed by a new $5 million investment from L-1 Identity Solutions, Ultra-Scan is working to develop and make a new fingerprint reader that is much smaller than current scanners and is able to scan four fingers, instead of just one.

NanoIdent

(2005 Jul) NanoIdent (Austria) flexible photo-organic fingerprint sensor prototype.

(2009) RIP

Symwave

(2004 Jun) Symwave (USA & China) announces a capacitive fingerprint sensor.

(2005 Aug) more information about the fingerprint sensor SW6888.

(2010 Nov) SMSC acquires Symwave

(2012 Aug) Microchip acquires SMSC

Mitsumi

(2004 May) Mitsumi demonstrates an optical sweep fingerprint sensor.
EDN: the fingerprint sensor has a built-in linear image sensor and light-source LED in a resin-packaged unit.

(2005 Jun) Mitsumi (japan) announces an optical sweep fingerprint sensor, the SEF-A1

Likely processed by Denken semiconductors.

ElecVision

(2005) ElecVision released the EVS060A an optical sweep fingerprint sensor. The fingerprint sensor has a built-in linear image sensor and light-source LED in a resin-packaged unit.
(photo seems not a real photo?)
It is used in the EVM620M module and Trilobyte Tech MB8108-EVS060 module.

Elecvision is acquired by Mediatek end of 2006.

Silicon Display Technology

(2005 Oct) Silicon Display Technology (Korea) unveils a serie of TFT fingerprint sensors:
SD0250N, SD0360N, SD0360FP, SD0360FA, SD0500N (=SDF500C ?)

LiteOn Semiconductor

(2006) Lite-On releases the FLB6100.
Also distributed by Bellus

Seiko Epson

(2006 Jul) First photo of the Seiko-Epson fingerprint sensor technology.

Sharp

(2007 Feb) Sharp unveils a LCD / TFT fingerprint sensor at the ISSCC 2007.

AU Optronics

(2008 Oct) AU Optronics Corp. reveals a 2.8-inch, 640x480 panel that can recognize images and is detailed enough to capture fingerprints, turning the panel into both a security tool and a scanner. The LCD panel is mounted with optical sensors and a detection circuit. Each pixel is equipped with four sensors. The pixel count of the panel is 320 × 240, and the resolution of the sensor is 640 × 480, according to the company.

New Imaging Technologies

(2008) NIT New Imaging Technologies unveils the FingerShadow technology / NFP1 product (Alibaba link).

Sonavation

(2009 Mar) Sonavation unveils the SonicSlide STS3000, an ultrasonic sensor

Sonavation is a spin-off from Cross-Match launched in July 2006. Technology is derived from what they called surface impedance impediography.

(2013 May) a new sensor is unveiled (no name).

(2013 May) ISO 7816 smart card announced (Biocryption) with the sensor.

Institute of Microengineering and Nanoelectronics (IMEN)

(2009 Jun) The Institute of Microengineering and Nanoelectronics (IMEN) (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) published a paper Novel Design and Fabrication of High Sensitivity MEMS Capacitive Sensor Array for Fingerprint Imaging which is defined as a capacitance pressure sensor (but is not using the electrical capacitance between the pixel and the skin, the transmission is purely mechanical).
They started the design in 2006 (see the paper at ICSE2006 from Damghanian & als).

FlashScan3D

(2009 Sep) FlashScan3D and TBS Holding unveils a new touchless fingerprint sensor technology using Structured Light Illumination (SLI) developped by two universities (University of Kentucky and Carnegie Mellon).

ASD

(2010) ASD has developped the FPTS-22 capacitance based fingerprint sensor used in their Auth.OnCard smart card.

This is a 8x8mm / 160x160 pixels sensor, existing in Chip on Film (COF) or Chip on Board (COB).
Datasheet

Picofield

(2011) Picofield is developping a new sensor, using a technology more or less derived from Validity (the R&D responsible was formerly Validity) but not swipe-based. It looks like a regular capacitive touchpad, but with a higher resolution (images from patents).