Biometric Identification

Iris Scan, Facial recognition and handveins with OSRAM Opto Semiconductor´s components

Biometric Identifcation by OSRAM Opto Semiconductors

Be your key

In the world of tomorrow, the key to your identity could quite literally be in the palm of your hand. With personal authentication becoming an essential requirement for a wide variety of purposes, such as mobile electronics, many systems now rely on biometric features to identify authorized users.

Osram Opto Semiconductors is helping to ensure these systems reach the highest level of reliability and security, to make sure the most important things in your life are as safe as they can be.

Biometric identification makes use of unique human characteristics, including facial features, the pattern of the iris, or the network of veins in the palm. The technology offers a safe and convenient alternative to managing complex passwords.

Osram Opto Semiconductors supplies special infrared LEDs for biometric recognition systems. These LEDs are used to illuminate the target area, enabling the systems to achieve high quality images, and ensuring reliable identification.

Iris scan

With a marginal error rate, the iris scan is one of the most reliable biometric identification methods. The possibility to now use it in mobile technology makes your mobile device even more secure.

Facial recognition

Facial recognition systems identify a person by illuminating the face’s characteristics. Providing bright and even illumination, OSRAM’s products ensure reliable facial recognition at all times.

Handveins

Palm vein recognition is a highly secure technology which uses unique vein patterns in human palms to confirm a person’s identity. OSRAM’s infrared LED lights help detect and analyze them precisely.

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Recognizing new opportunities

Mobile phones and tablet computers are used more and more for sensitive applications such as online banking and online shopping. As a result, biometric identification methods are the latest trend for unlocking mobile devices, since they offer a strong and specific protection against abuse.

Fingerprint scans are subject to falsifications to a certain extent as fingerprints change in the course of life or can be exposed to external influences. Therefore, many manufacturers now consider the iris scan as the new biometric unlocking method. The eye is illuminated with infrared light and the camera on the device takes a picture of the iris so that its characteristic features, which are unique for every person, can be identified. The result is then compared with the stored iris pattern. With an error rate of less than one percent, the iris scan is not only fast, but also a very safe method of identification.

Products

IRIS Scan

NEW: IR OSLUX SFH 4787S

Dimensions (mm): 3.5 x 3.5 x 1.6
Half-angle: 16°
Tilt angle: 8°
le@1 A (mW/Sr): typ. 1270
Φe@1 A (mW): typ. 680
Max. pulse current: 2 A
Forward voltage @ 1 A: typ. 3.3. V
Low thermal resistance (K/W): max. 25
Centroid wavelength: 810 nm

IR OSLUX SFH 4780S

Dimensions (mm): 3.5 x 3.5 x 2.4
Half-angle: 10°
Tilt angle: -
le@1 A (mW/Sr): typ. 2900
Φe@1 A (mW): typ. 660
Max. pulse current: 2 A
Forward voltage @ 1 A: typ. 3.3. V
Low thermal resistance (K/W): max. 25
Centroid wavelength: 810 nm

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IR OSLUX SFH 4786S

Dimensions (mm): 3.5 x 3.5 x 1.6
Half-angle: 13°
Tilt angle: 8°
le@1 A (mW/Sr): typ. 1750
Φe@1 A (mW): typ. 680
Max. pulse current: 2 A
Forward voltage @ 1 A: typ. 3.3. V
Low thermal resistance (K/W): max. 25
Centroid wavelength: 810 nm

Facial Recognition

NEW: IR OSLUX SFH 4796S

Dimensions (mm): 3.5 x 3.5 x 1.4
Half-angle: 40°
Tilt angle: -
le@1 A (mW/Sr): typ. 550 (est.)
Φe@1 A (mW): typ. 800 (est.)
Max. pulse current: 3 A
Forward voltage @ 1 A: typ. 3.3. V
Low thermal resistance (K/W): max. 9
Centroid wavelength: 850 nm

OSLON Black 150° SFH 4716AS

Dimensions (mm): 3.9 x 3.9 x 1.5
Half-angle: 75°
Tilt angle: -
le@1 A (mW/Sr): typ. 275
Φe@1 A (mW): typ. 1300
Max. pulse current: 3 A
Forward voltage @ 1 A: typ. 3.3. V
Low thermal resistance (K/W): max. 9
Centroid wavelength: 850 nm

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IR SYNIOS P2720 SFH 4770S

Dimensions (mm): 2.8 x 2.0 x 0.6
Half-angle: 60°
Tilt angle: -
le@1 A (mW/Sr): typ. 375 (est.)
Φe@1 A (mW): typ. 1200 (est.)
Max. pulse current: 3 A
Forward voltage @ 1 A: typ. 3.3. V
Low thermal resistance (K/W): max. 9
Centroid wavelength: 850 nm

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Press releases

Press release: "Infrared LED protects mobile computers from unauthorized access"

28.02.2017: Infrared LED protects mobile computers from unauthorized access

Osram Opto Semiconductors is expanding its Oslux product family for biometric security solutions with a specially designed variant for facial recognition. [...] Osram is set to present the SFH 4796S at the upcoming Mobile World Congress [...]

Press release: "Safety in focus: infrared LED for iris scanners protects against intruders"

23.02.2017 Safety in focus: infrared LED for iris scanners protects against intruders

Osram Opto Semiconductors is set to present a new infrared LED (IRED) for iris scanners at the upcoming Mobile World Congress. The SFH 4787S illuminates the eyes so evenly that the software identifying the iris pattern now hardly needs to [...]