Basics Of Fingerprint Recognition - Bosch ARD-FPBEPPR-OC Installation Manual

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Basics of fingerprint recognition

What is fingerprint recognition?
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Process of fingerprint recognition
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Secure way to protect personal information
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| V 1.1 | 2010.10
Fingerprint is an individual's own biometric information
and does not change throughout his/her life. Fingerprint
recognition is a technology that verifies or identifies an
individual using such fingerprint information.
Free from the risk of theft or loss, fingerprint recognition
technology is being widely used in security systems
replacing PIN or cards.
Fingerprint consists of ridges and valleys. Ridge is a flow of
protruding skin in a fingerprint while valley is a hollow
between two ridges. Each individual has different pattern
of ridges and valleys and finger recognition makes use of
such originality and uniqueness of these patterns.
Fingerprint sensor generates 2-dimentional fingerprint
image using different technology. According to the sensing
technology, fingerprint sensors are classified into optical,
capacitive, or thermal.
Fingerprint template is a collection of numeric data
representing the features of a fingerprint. Fingerprint
templates are saved inside the memory of BioStation and
used for identification.
To avoid privacy concern, the fingerprints are not save
itself. It is impossible to reconstruct a fingerprint image
from a fingerprint template which is just numeric data of
the features of a fingerprint.
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