Apple improves Touch Id security recently. As for majority of users Touch ID fingerprints security is more than enough. Although there are a lot of individuals that need to be under high security level.
Fingerprint matching is widely used technique for personal verification and identification. In particular, fingerprint identification involves scanning a sample of users fingerprint and storing fingerprint image unique characteristics. All these personal data may be compared to information of existing fingerprints in a database to determine proper identification of a user, such as for verification purposes.
AuthenTec’s co-founder Dale Setlak has just introduced and published a patent of improved level of security. It means that Apple is looking for increasing security measure level with one’s finger and Touch ID.
The Setlak’s patent application introduces detailed instructions of Touch ID sensor combination lock samples on iPhones and iPads screen and other form of additional protection measure. It might then drive the user for unlocking the iOS device to move their finger in a specific way.
There exists one way to do it. But there are some different methods in the patent, that Dale Setlak described in clear and understandable way, introduced for users a digital combination lock on the display to unlock it by rotating their finger over it.
The technology that is shown in the patent application was created in June 2013 and publicized on December 2014 by AuthenTec. It will be a logical step for the Touch ID sensor of iOS devices to use this type of extra security variant. Many users will appreciate this effort of Apple’s improve Touch Id security. It will be interesting to see if this method ever gets implemented in use.