Your own palm might unlock upcoming Samsung smartphones: Here’s how it will work
In addition to iris scanning, facial recognition, fingerprint scanning, PIN protection and pattern lock, the future of phone security may eventually be in the palm of your hand.
The South Korean tech company has recently filed a patent for a technology that uses palm scanning as a means of verifying a user’s identity on future Galaxy smartphones. Samsung wants to ensure that the user requesting for the password hint is the owner of the device itself.
The patent suggests that the company will use the camera of the device to take a picture of the palm and the combination of lines on a user’s palm will be matched with the one stored on the smartphone. The technology will then display various letters from the user’s password, to help remember the password. However, it must be noted that this technology will not work with Samsung Pay.
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There is no certainty that we will see this technology in the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S9 series, which is rumoured to make an appearance during CES 2018 in January. Many tech companies, including Samsung, file for patents but don’t necessarily translate in to a product.
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