NEC Develops Biometric Device to Identify People with Face Masks –
Tokyo, May 14 (Jiji Press)–
NEC Corp. <6701> said Thursday
that it has developed a biometric authentication device that can recognize people even when they are wearing a face mask.
The Japanese electronics company
aims to put the device on sale at full scale by fiscal 2021.
JIJI PRESS
https://jen.jiji.com/jc/i?g=ind&k=2020051400840
NEC develops touchless, multimodal biometric terminal with world’s highest precision:
Tokyo, May 14, 2020 –
NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced the development of a multimodal biometric authentication terminal incorporating face and iris recognition technologies
that have been recognized as the world’s No.1 (*1) in benchmark tests for identification
technologies conducted by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and are core technologies of NEC’s multimodal biometric authentication brand, “Bio-IDiom”(*2).
This reinforces NEC’s ability to provide high levels of authentication accuracy and convenience for users throughout a wide range of environments.
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