Iris / face recognition to accelerate the import of consumer electronic products, IR LED become the new blue ocean

With Samsung, apple and other manufacturers introduced in the mobile phone unlocking technology just unfolding biometric technology, display skills to the full, in addition to the intelligent mobile phone, is also expected to be widely used in tablet and wearable device. Among them, due to the application of iris and face recognition using infrared (IR) LED component, LED niche market driven growth, become the main battlefield Taiwan factory sprint transformation.

At a glance to unlock! Iris recognition technology and application analysis

Iris recognition is the identification of human iris based on past in the military system highly confidential in demand. Iris recognition has many advantages, first of all, the security of iris recognition is high, everyone is the one and only the iris texture, even the same person's left and right eyes or monozygotic twins, the iris texture has significant difference; secondly, the iris texture formed in the 8 months of embryonic development to third, and maintained for life constant, high stability; in addition, the acquisition of iris image without contact, easy to operate.

Iris recognition is from 2016 into the mobile phone, the Samsung Note 7 after fame. With the application of intelligent and rapid development of mobile payment, mobile phone authentication with a convenient and fast, but the relative safety must also accelerate the upgrading of. Although the iris recognition has not been equipped with mobile phone standard, but considering the technical scheme of iris recognition is the most secure, and the price soon will be reduced to acceptable level, the future application in the mobile phone market can be expected.

But at the present stage of iris recognition still exist technical problems, such as image acquisition, acquisition of equipment to high demand, eyelash and eyelid, pupil elastic deformation, and the influence of reflective glasses.

Global manufacturers to expand the layout, a new wave of explosive growth of IR LED

Talking about the technology, focus back to iris recognition for the LED industry. At present, IR LED is mainly applied in the safety monitoring and sensor field, and with the wavelength of 850nm and 940nm LED for the bulk products. For the applications of face recognition, iris rise, LED factory to develop the IR wavelength of 810nm LED products to gain market opportunities. At present, the global IR LED market by OSRAM as a leader, Taiwan factory EPISTAR led by three land plant to take the lead, have expanded the layout.

According to dramexchange LED Consulting Research Center (LEDinside) "2018 infrared sensing applications market report", infrared LED in iris and face recognition applications to market size in 2021 will reach $301 million.

Iris and face recognition from the industry chain, the upstream is mainly composed of IR LED, algorithm and software, and the infrared camera is composed of three parts, IR and LED as the core recognition technology, in the past only a few manufacturers, now with the market expanding, LED has become the new blue ocean market manufacturers Gao Mao lee.

But because of the current IR LED needs four yuan grain manufacturing equipment, difficult technology. In addition, different from LED lighting using two optical suite to reach the light shape of the product need, infrared applications directly to the product safety LED components make light shape, how to make products with high power small angle there are still some technical bottlenecks. Furthermore, calculation software and authentication system requires a complex development operation, and end customers are still at the exploratory research and application stage, are the key to the development of a breakthrough.

However, with the development of biometric technology demand is also growing, the future application of IR LED will be more diverse, it is no wonder that manufacturers should actively layout, grasp the market opportunity.

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