Tainan, Taiwan, Dec. 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Himax Technologies (NASDAQ:), Inc. today announced… (Himax or Company) (Nasdaq: HIMX), a leading manufacturer of integrated circuits for non-programmable display drivers and other semiconductors, announced that the company will introduce its expanded WiseEye™ PalmVein lineup at CES 2025, featuring face and two-factor authentication. Technologies. This game-changing, contactless, ultra-low power two-factor biometric authentication is designed to enhance the security and ease of use in smart door locks. By leveraging multiple personal biometric attributes for authentication, the newly introduced solution provides unparalleled security, seamless adaptability, and a robust, user-friendly experience, ensuring authentication performance across different scenarios and environments.
The Himax WiseEye PalmVein solution, part of the Himax WiseEye unit business, integrates the Himax WiseEye2 AI processor, an AoS CMOS sensor and a proven palm vein authentication algorithm. It is worth noting that the Himax PalmVein solution has received the PSA Level 2 Safety Certification, ensuring that it meets high safety standards. Featuring an ultra-low power, compact, plug-and-play design, this device can verify an individual's identity in less than 100 milliseconds, representing a breakthrough in security technology for battery-powered smart devices. Given that each person's palm vein pattern is as unique as DNA, even between identical twins, it provides a higher level of security compared to traditional fingerprints or facial recognition. Furthermore, it only consumes a few milliwatts of power, making it ideal for battery-powered, on-device AI endpoint applications.
Himax WiseEye PalmVein delivers superior accuracy and powerful liveness detection, dramatically reducing impersonation and fraud, with a FAR (false acceptance rate) of 1 in 1,000,000 and FRR (false rejection rate) less than 1%. This ensures reliable performance regardless of challenges such as age, fingerprint quality, height or lighting, which typically affect other authentication methods, such as vision and fingerprint-based systems. Additionally, PalmVein authentication provides a contactless health experience that quickly verifies identity in less than 100 milliseconds. Industry-leading ultra-low power performance extends battery life to over 9 months using just 8 AA batteries, even with regular daily use in a typical home. Since its debut in early 2024, Himax's WiseEye PalmVein technology has quickly received significant customer interest and has been certified by a US customer for smart access control systems, with mass production continuing.
During CES, Himax will showcase a live demonstration of its expanded WiseEye PalmVein lineup with two-factor authentication, featuring palm and facial vein authentication, precisely designed to meet customer requirements for increased flexibility in smart door locks, regardless of environmental conditions. For example, in extremely cold environments where wearing gloves makes palm access control infeasible, the system seamlessly adapts by enabling facial recognition along with keyboard input, simplifying the two-step authentication process into security Continuous, reliable and enhanced. This advance in flexibility and intuition demonstrates Hymax's leadership in biometric authentication technology, providing a versatile and secure solution for modern battery-powered smart door locks. Furthermore, the WiseEye module's versatile plug-and-play features simplify the process of integrating additional personal attributes, opening up future possibilities for multimodal authentication. This capability emphasizes security and user convenience, ensuring seamless and flexible access control across a wide range of environments and applications.
The live demonstration of the smart door lock will highlight how two-mode biometric authentication, featuring facial and vein recognition, enhances security and user convenience. Don't miss the opportunity to experience our leading biometrics in our suite at The Venetian Las Vegas Hotel (3355 Las Vegas Boulevard S, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA) Venetian Tower Suite 34-208. To schedule a meeting or booth tour, please contact Himax at: Himax_CES2025@himax.com.tw.
About Himax Technologies
Himax Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: HIMX) is a leading global provider of non-destructive semiconductor solutions for display imaging processing technologies. The company's display motor and timing controller integrated circuits have been widely adopted across many industries worldwide including televisions, PC monitors, laptops, mobile phones, tablets, automotive, e-paper devices, industrial displays and more. As a global leader in automotive display technology, the company provides innovative and comprehensive automotive IC solutions, including conventional driver ICs, in-cell touch and display driver integration (TDDI), Local Dimming Tcon controllers, Large touch driver and display integration (LTDI) and OLED display technologies. Himax is also a leader in optical artificial intelligence and related fields of optical technology. Industry-leading WiseEye™ Ultralow Power AI Sensing technology including Himax's ultra-low power AI processor, always-on CMOS image sensor, and CNN-based AI algorithm has been widely deployed in consumer electronics and AI-related applications For things. Himax optics technologies, such as toric chip-level optics, small LCoS displays and 3D sensing solutions, are essential to facilitating emerging AR/VR/metaverse technologies. In addition, Himax designs and supplies touch controllers, OLED ICs, LED ICs, EPD ICs, power management ICs, and CMOS image sensors to cover diverse display applications. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan, Himax currently employs approximately 2,200 people from three Taiwan-based offices in Tainan, Hsinchu and Taipei and country offices in China, Korea, Japan, Germany and the United States. Hemax has 2,683 granted patents and 390 patents pending worldwide as of September 30, 2024.
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Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those described in this conference call include, but are not limited to, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the Company's business; general business and economic conditions and the state of the semiconductor industry; market acceptance and competitiveness of the driver and non-driver products developed by the Company; demand for products for end-use applications; Reliance on a small group of key customers; uncertainty about the continued success of technological innovations; our ability to develop and protect our intellectual property; pricing pressures including declines in average selling prices; changes in customer demand patterns; Changes in the estimated effective tax rate for the full year; Shortage in supply of key components; changes in environmental laws and regulations; Changes to export licenses regulated by the Export Administration Regulations (EAR); exchange rate fluctuations; regulatory approvals for further investments in our subsidiaries; Our ability to collect accounts receivable, manage inventory, and other risks described from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those risks identified in the section titled “Risk Factors” on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2023 filed with the SEC. Finance and stock exchanges, as may be amended.
Company Contacts:
Eric Lee, Chief Public Relations/IR Officer
Himax Technologies
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Karen Tiao, Investor Relations
Himax Technologies
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Mark Schwalenberg, Director
Investor Relations – US Representative
MZ North America
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Email: HIMX@mzgroup.us
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