How finger print scanner works
How finger print scanner works
Some scanners rely on light other electricity and still other on sound to map the ridge and valleys of your fingers
Capacitive “electronic sensor” are popular in smartphone because they are small, accurate and fast, but optical and ultrasonic techonologies have the advantage of enabling in display scanning
Optical fingerprint scanner
These work as digital camera
It take picture of your finger and sends that picture for processing
The following is general idea
1. The scanner shines light onto your finger using LED and take picture
2. If pixel value of the photo is too dark or light it adjust exposure and tries again
3. If picture is clear, the image can be processed
These scanner used in police station, airplane and secure trace
Smartphones use this technology in in display fingerprint scanner (some use optical or ultrasonic sensor) under screen to get image
Capacitive fingerprint scanner
When you put yourfinger on capacitive scanner
It using tiny amount of electricity to measure the distance between different parts of your finger and the scanner
Inside scanner are row of capacitors, each of which carries electrical charge
If the capacitor is below one of ridge it can hold more charge since its coming into contact with your skin
If its below valley capacitor will remain in contact with air, which does not allow it to store much extra charge
You can think of capacitor as pixel in camera if one holding more of charge , that can be interpreted as a ridge area, while other are read as valley
Taken as a whole, this get you an image of fingerprint that is just as accurate as one from optical sensor and even more secure
Ultrasonic fingerprint scanner
Ultrasonic scanner fire out a high frequency pulse of sound that then bounce off the user’s fingerprint back to receiver a sensor that can measure mechanical stress
Sensor is looking at intensity of returning pulse at different point on the finger and can use that data to calculate where the ridge and valleys are
Wave masure depth of valleys in a fingerprint ,the resulting map is 3D
These scanner are slower
Can work as under display finger print scanner
Analyzing storing and using fingerprint
After image is captured
Software will check if fingerprint matches authorized user
Based in “minutiae” points of finger where some ridge line terminate or split
Each feature assigned position relative ot other detected minuatiae and scanner software make a map tat can be represented as number
Number is essentially the encoded fingerprint
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