{"id":163615,"date":"2016-05-03T09:30:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T07:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=163615"},"modified":"2016-05-03T09:31:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T07:31:58","slug":"lg-develops-fingerprint-sensor-under-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/163615-lg-develops-fingerprint-sensor-under-glass.html","title":{"rendered":"LG develops fingerprint sensor under glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LG Innotek has developed an under-glass fingerprint sensor module, which allows users to\u00a0place their\u00a0finger on the glass cover of a\u00a0phone to unlock it.<\/p>\n<p>Previous &#8220;button-type&#8221; modules required you to press a finger on a raised square or circular button for your fingerprint to be read.<\/p>\n<p>The design required the sensor to be mounted on the front, rear, or side buttons of a smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>LG Innotek can\u00a0now cut a 0.3mm-thick furrow on the lower backside of a\u00a0glass cover and install the fingerprint sensor inside of it.<\/p>\n<p>The sensor is not exposed to the outside of the device, so manufacturers can produce a sleek smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>The new module also ensures\u00a0fingerprint recognition accuracy, with\u00a0a false acceptance rate of 0.002%.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on fingerprints<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/161158-buy-things-using-only-your-fingerprints.html\"><strong>Buy things using only your fingerprints<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/154536-1password-android-app-gets-fingerprint-unlock.html\">1Password Android app gets fingerprint unlock<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/146901-fingerprint-atms-will-not-kill-the-pin.html\">Fingerprint ATMs will not kill the PIN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LG Innotek has developed an under-glass fingerprint sensor module.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":163617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,36945,36943],"class_list":["post-163615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-fingerprint-sensor","tag-lg-innotek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163641,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163615\/revisions\/163641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}