Sony has announced finger vein authentication technology called "Mofiria." Sony says it offers higher accuracy on personal identification and forgery resistance because it uses the veins inside the human body. Finger vein patterns differ from person to person and do not change over the years. The user-friendly technology can be mounted on mobile devices such as a personal computer or mobile phone.
Mofiria uses a unique method where a CMOS sensor diagonally captures scattered light inside the finger veins. The captured finger vein image, and data from the pattern is compressed into the size of one-tenth to store in memory. The position of a placed finger is automatically and simultaneously corrected. Sony claims authentication accuracy of less than 0.1% for the FRR (False Rejection Rate) and less than 0.0001% for the FAR (False Acceptance Rate). Identification takes only about 0.015 sec using a personal computer CPU and about 0.25 sec when using a mobile phone CPU.
Sony says it plans to commercialize mofiria in the 2009 fiscal year, incorporating it into mobile devices, gateway security systems and solution services.
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