Rumors about Samsung's iris recognition have never stopped. According to previous reports, the iris recognition system will appear on Galaxy Note 7. Samsung has been working with Yonsei University in South Korea to develop a new generation of iris scanning technology, At present, Samsung has submitted a new patent application to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent is about providing accurate iris recognition through an image capture system composed of three cameras.
The iris recognition system captures different images through three different cameras, including a wide-angle lens and a narrow angle lens. They not only recognize the iris, but also include facial features, etc. At the same time, they also have the Lighting Device (infrared device) to improve the success rate of iris recognition in weak light through red extraneous. The submitted patent shows that the iris recognition system can be used for PC, smart phone, tablet, camera PDA、 Portable multimedia players, mobile Internet devices, wearable devices, etc., have many applications.
In addition, Samsung also submitted a patent application for fingerprint identification. The patent application shows that they may use the round Home key as the fingerprint identification area on Galaxy mobile phones, and also provide a back fingerprint identification scheme.