Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

LG Electronics licenses proprietary iris recognition software from Iridian Technologies

Thursday, May 1, 2008

LG Electronics has entered into a license agreement with Iridian Technologies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of L-1 Identity Solutions, to license proprietary iris recognition software. The companies also settled all historical issues and disputes among LGE and L-1, Iridian and Securimetrics Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of L-1 and have dismissed the pending litigation in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, in Newark. [end] 

Biometrics firms Morpho and AOptix have formed a partnership to deploy advanced biometric systems targeted to border management and aviation security industries.

Under the terms of the partnership, AOptix products will be integrated into Morpho’s border management product line. This includes InSight Duo, AOptix’s combined face capture and iris recognition system.

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Three University of California, Riverside scholars have received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to launch a program that will use facial recognition software to identify unknown subjects in portrait art.

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The introduction of biometric multimodal fusion has helped lead to greater accuracy in biometric authentication, but its adoption rate is still overall fairly low, reports ZDNet Asia.

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Biometric identification and object recognition technology provider Neurotechnology has released updates to its line of Software Development Kits (SDKs) for single and multi-biometric recognition of fingerprint, face, iris and voice identification and object recognition.

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology released a report detailing the evaluation of iris recognition software from 11 different organizations, finding that this method of identification is getting easier and faster, albeit with less accurate results.

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Iris ID Systems Inc., formerly LG Electronics’ Iris Technology Division, and HID Global announced that the IrisAccess platform iCAM7000 can be used with select near field communications-enabled BlackBerry 7 smart phones.

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