CFS flats

The Future of Biometrics Is Here

Introducing CFS flats—the world’s first FBI-certified 3D contactless fingerprint scanner.

CFS flats represents the pinnacle of fingerprint scanning technology – a high-quality 3D contactless fingerprint scanner that’s changing how we think about biometric identification.

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CFS flats uses structured blue light for 3D reconstruction. A known pattern is projected on and deformed by the surface structure of the finger. By imaging the deformed pattern with a camera, the 3D surface shape can be reconstructed via triangulation. An unwrapping algorithm transforms the 3D fingerprint scan to a 2D image, thereby providing important compatibility with today’s infrastructure of contact-based 2D fingerprint databases. Therefore, not only can CFS flats be used for verification, but also for enrolment in these 2D fingerprint databases.

The 3D contactless fingerprint scanner CFS flats does not just take a picture of the fingerprint, but instead takes a full 3D image of the fingerprint, creating a 3D point cloud of the surface of the fingers. CFS flats takes up to eight million data points per scan, 13 point-clouds per second, achieves a micron-scale depth resolution, and outputs data in the government standard fingerprint quality (e.g. 500ppi resolution).

CFS flats scanner successfully captures fingerprints in all conditions and functions optimally independent of ambient lighting, motion, skin color variation, and skin moisture levels. The CFS flats scanner simultaneously captures four flat fingerprints significantly faster than contact-based devices (where good contact with the scanning surface is required).

WHY GO CONTACTLESS

Unlike traditional scanners that require physical contact, CFS flats captures perfect fingerprint scans without users ever touching a surface.

This contactless aspect protects the user from any bacteria, viruses and/or chemicals that might have been left on the surface of the device by previous users. In addition, no latent prints are left on the scanner from previous users, which can pose security problems due to false matching.

The contactless workflow also assists the operator from needing to clean the surface between uses, decreasing the cost of operating materials, and speeding up the time of acquisition. Normal wear-and-tear and device damage also is drastically reduced simply because the device does not need to be touched. Common contact-based scanner challenges, such as scratched surfaces, become obsolete.