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Article: Japanese Inventor Develops Fingerprint Identification Device
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 28, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 28 -- Kazunori Kita of Tokyo has developed a fingerprint identification apparatus.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card type device is mounted on a card slot of an electronic appliance. A transparent cylindrical-shaped roller is provided at an edge portion of a housing such that an outer peripheral plane of the roller is projected from the edge portion."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "A one-dimensional image sensor is provided inside the roller, which acquires one-dimensional fingerprint data of a finger of a user, and this fingerabuts against the outer peripheral plane of the roller. Since the finger ...