Himax 3D SLiM in Face Recognition application: Smart door lock

Meeting & Discussion

Have you ever forgotten your key when you go out and wait at the door for a locksmith or relatives and friends to open the door? Or after a busy day, with a large bag on your back, before returning home, you have to free your hand to find the key, press the password, or swipe your fingerprints. When it was discovered that the house was stolen, the door lock showed no signs of damage, and the other party used the copied key to enter the door!
The smart door lock applied by the Himax SLiM face recognition solution can obtain depth information with high depth accuracy and high accuracy (20 times higher than fingerprints) through Himax 3D AI Processor and depth camera module. Himax SLiM module equipped with face recognition algorithm can detect quickly, and is suitable for low light source and low power consumption environment. Combined with the high anti-counterfeiting characteristics of 3D structured light, face-to-face unlocking provides both safety and speed door lock scheme.

Himax Technologies, Inc.

Himax Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: HIMX) is a fabless semiconductor solution provider dedicated to display imaging processing technologies. Himax is a worldwide market leader in display driver ICs and timing controllers used in TVs, laptops, monitors, mobile phones, tablets, automotive, digital cameras, car navigation, virtual reality (VR) devices and many other consumer electronics devices. Additionally, Himax designs and provides controllers for touch sensor displays, in-cell Touch and Display Driver Integration (TDDI) single-chip solutions, AMOLED ICs, LED driver ICs, power management ICs and LCoS micro-displays for augmented reality (AR) devices and heads-up displays (HUD) for automotive. The Company also offers CMOS image sensors, wafer level optics for AR devices, 3D Sensing and ultralow power AI Image Sensing, which are used in a wide variety of applications such as mobile phone, tablet, laptop, TV, PC camera, automobile, security, medical device, home appliance, AIoT, etc. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan, Himax currently employs around 2,200 people from three Taiwan-based offices in Tainan, Hsinchu and Taipei and country offices in China, Korea, Japan, and the US. With around 3,000 patents in three continents on its technologies, Himax has retained its position as the leading display imaging processing semiconductor solution provider to consumer electronics brands worldwide.