FB pixel

Synaptics shows off new under glass fingerprint sensor solution

| Rawlson King
Categories Biometrics News  |  Fingerprint Recognition
 

Synaptics, a leading developer of human interface solutions, recently demonstrated its Natural ID fingerprint authentication technology under greater than 200μm cover glass, illustrating the potential of button-free industrial designs for smartphones.

The versatile new fingerprint sensor solution is designed to operate through glass buttons as well as thicker cover glass. Synaptics’ under glass fingerprint solution is deemed a significant advancement and a critical next step to putting capacitive fingerprint sensors under the smartphone cover glass.

In a statement, Ritu Favre, Senior Vice President and General Manager at Synaptics’ Biometrics Product Division said: “We are very pleased to demonstrate our new under cover glass biometric solution and showcase our leadership. Our solution eliminates the cutout, which allows smartphone OEMs to improve yields and offer creative new industrial designs. End users will benefit from an improved user experience and a more durable, scratch-resistant smartphone.”

Synaptics showed its under glass technology to BiometricUpdate.com earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show.

The technology is Synaptics’ second generation under glass fingerprint authentication product, which can reputedly sense under thicker glass better than any other solution currently on the market.

The technology is fully architected in-house and highlights the firm’s strategic acquisition of Validity. The company’s first generation under glass button (up to 100μm thick glass) solution is available today for mass production, while this new 200μm generation product will be made available by the end of first quarter 2016.

Synaptics develops human interface solutions based on touch, display and biometrics technologies for a large range of mobile computing, PC, entertainment and other consumer electronic devices.

The firm’s customers include companies such as Acer, Amazon, Asus, Dell, Google, HP, HTC, Lenovo, LG, Microsoft, Nokia, Samsung, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Huawei, ZTE, BlackBerry and Toshiba.

Article Topics

 |   |   |   |   |   |   | 

Latest Biometrics News

 

Karachi launches safe city project with live vehicle, facial recognition

Karachi has launched the first phase of its Safe City Project, with five poles equipped with 25 surveillance cameras. A…

 

Biometric payments project launched in Kazan, Russia

The authorities of the city of Kazan, a center of Russian petrochemical production, has officially launched biometric face payment via…

 

DPI is taking stage as India’s digital model is shaping global governance

Governments worldwide are increasingly prioritizing the development of robust Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), in a shift that comes in response…

 

Comoros to implement digital govt program with $10M AfDB grant

The Union of the Comoros is set to execute a digital public infrastructure (DPI) project thanks to €9.51 million (US$10.4…

 

Malaysia pushes for stronger DPI governance

Malaysia has ambitions to become a digital hub for Southeast Asia but the country still has some way to go,…

 

Biometrics race for the borders

Biometrics to ease border crossings are a major theme of the week among Biometric Update’s most-read articles of the week….

Comments

17 Replies to “Synaptics shows off new under glass fingerprint sensor solution”

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Continue Reading

Most Read This Week

Featured Company

Learn More

Biometrics Insight, Opinion

Digital ID In-Depth

Biometrics White Papers

Biometrics Events