SF Movie Became Reality! ‘Fingerprint Reader’ That Distinguishes People

Some of the situations that once appeared in science fiction movies such as holograms smart watches and 3D printers have become reality. Among them the most commercialized one is face recognition technology. These recognition of human information began with the recognition of fingerprints. In todays IP Encyclopedia lets take a look at the history origins and related patents of the fingerprint reader the intellectual property that made a film a reality.

Fingerprints are located at all human fingertips and usually peoples fingerprints are all different and do not change for a lifetime. The probability that different two peoples fingerprints to be same is only about one in 87 billion and even identical twins have different fingerprints.

With these characteristics fingerprints were first used as a means of personal authentication as science developed and social systems advanced. In 1823 British surgeon Henry Faulds published a paper on the regularity of fingerprints in the science journal Nature inspired by the Japanese culture using thumbprint as a means of identification when he visited Japan as a missionary. This is the first time that the difference in fingerprints was suggested.

Since then interest in fingerprints has become active. In 1892 British genetic statistician Francis Galton published his book Fingerprint which deals with details of the pattern and form of fingerprints. In the book he proved that people have different fingerprints from each other by statistics and divided human fingerprints into three categories which are a whirl a loop and a arcus.

In the same year Croatian police officer Juan Vucetich who studied Galtons book in depth succeeded in arresting the criminal who killed his two sons using fingerprints making it the worlds first criminal investigation arrested criminals using fingerprints. Since then fingerprints were actively used in criminal investigation in British Calcutta India. In addition Fingerprints have been recorded for citizen identification since the 1900s in various countries and cities including Scotland and New York City.

In Korea it was mandatory for collecting peoples fingerprints in the wake of Kim Shin-jos attack on Blue House in 1968 when President Park Chung-hee had taken office. It was from then that fingerprints were recognized when issuing identification cards in district offices or city halls today. It is a system that makes a fingerprint a database and stores them according to a set fingerprint classification method after scanning fingerprints and sending the data to a computer. Typically there are Roscher Vucetich and Henry method.

Until then fingerprint recognition technology was an unfamiliar area only used by state agencies. But in the late 1960s when a rather simple Fingerprint live scanner was developed by foreign companies it was deployed and commercialized at the airport and began to be used in the private sector.

After the fingerprint recognizer using the method of dividing fingerprints into three categories the advanced one emerged. A human fingerprint has a center delta and junction and end points and a more delicate algorithm was used to identify the mentioned points whenever scanning different persons fingerprint.

According to the patent information in 2003 HID Global Corporation a US fingerprint recognizer company applied for a patent of fingerprint reader and related mechanism (US7203344B2) under the title of Biometric Imaging System and Method. It is the same model that we use to input fingerprints at the district office.

Apple which was on a fast track with its mobile phone and computer business in July 2012 began to plan a fingerprint recognition service in earnest by undertaking AuthenTec a semiconductor and security company. In the following year launching iPhone 5s it launched a service to unlock it with a fingerprint recognition sensor called Touch ID.

Since then several mobile phone companies have jumped into biometric ID technology using the human body including fingerprints and most mobile phones we use today are equipped with technologies such as fingerprint iris and facial recognition. Apple founder Steve Jobs planned the iPhone 5s and passed away. In fact it is the legacy of Steve Jobs.

Modern society where things like science fiction become a reality. Hundreds of years ago did people think fingerprints could recognize people? In other words an unimaginable future for us living in the present era may unfold in the future. It is attracting attentions on how far the technology of recognizing people can develop.

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