Synaptics is teasing that a major player in the smartphone industry will feature an under the display fingerprint scanner next year at CES in Las Vegas.
Synaptics announced optical fingerprint sensor back at the end of 2016. An updated version was unveiled today that in theory reads the fingerprint when placed under an OLED display.
Synaptics is a maker of laptop touchpads and fingerprint sensors, but now the company has agreed to buy Conexant Systems, the company responsible for far-field voice processing used in devices like the Amazon Echo.
Synaptics discusses how easy it is to "hack" modern fingerprint sensors on any device and why it's important for end-to-end encryption for device security.
It's being reported that Samsung had invested money for Synaptics to develop a transparent fingerprint sensor for use under the Galaxy S8's display, however development hasn't gone smooth and Samsung had to make the last-minute decision to put the Galaxy S8's fingerprint sensor on the rear.
Synaptics is constantly working on fingerprint scanners and just announced a new one back in January that was rumored to be used in the Galaxy S8. Today the company announced a new module that combines force sensing technology with swipe recognition.
Synaptics recently announced an optical fingerprint sensor that is rumored to be used in the Galaxy S8, but today the company says they want to make biometric authentication more secure. To do this, they're combining fingerprint data with facial recognition to make it harder for someone to break...
The Samsung Galaxy S8 has long been rumored to have an optical fingerprint sensor which allows fingerprints to be read from a sensor beneath a sheet of glass. Synaptics has just announced their version of the technology, and because Samsung has a long history of working with Synaptics this may...
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