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Article: Japanese Tech Firm Leads World in Fingerprint Identification.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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By Clint Swett, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 1--When police in San Francisco or sheriff's deputies in Los Angeles or the Virginia State Police want to match up fingerprints with a suspect, they turn to NEC.
A company best known for making laptops, color monitors and memory chips, NEC Technologies also is a leader in the esoteric world of fingerprint identification -- at an operation headquartered in Gold River.
Using modified microprocessors, special software and massive databases, NEC's automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS) can help law enforcement officers match prints from crime scenes ...