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TAINAN, Taiwan, Dec. 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Himax Technologies (NASDAQ:), Inc. (Himax or Company) (Nasdaq: HIMX), an industry leader in ICs and other semiconductors, today announced that the Company will its expanded WiseEye ™ PalmVein platform at CES 2025, featuring powerful bimodal palm vein and face sealing technology. This flexible, anonymous, low-power bimodal biometric authentication is designed to enhance security and user-friendliness in smart locks. Using multiple biometric methods for authentication, the newly introduced solution offers unparalleled security, unlimited adaptability and a powerful, user-friendly experience, ensuring t authentication process in different contexts and environments.
The Himax WiseEye PalmVein solution, a commercial part of the Himax WiseEye module, combines the Himax WiseEye2 AI processor, an AoS CMOS sensor, and a palm vein authentication algorithm. In particular, the Himax PalmVein solution has been awarded the PSA Certified Level 2 security certificate, to ensure that it meets the highest security standards. Featuring a low-cost, modular, plug-and-play design, it can verify personal information in less than 100 milliseconds, marking the breakthrough in security technology for smart devices battery powered. Due to the fact that an individual’s palm vein pattern is as unique as DNA, even among identical twins, it offers higher security compared to conventional fingerprints or facial recognition. In addition, it uses only a few milliwatts of power, making it ideal for battery-powered, on-device AI applications.
Himax WiseEye PalmVein provides high accuracy and robust detection, greatly reducing identity fraud and fraud, with a FAR (False Acceptance Rate) of 1 in 1,000,000 and an FRR (False Rejection Rate) of less than 1% . This ensures reliable operation regardless of challenges such as age, fingerprint quality, height, or lighting, which affect other authentication methods, such as vision systems and fingerprints. In addition, PalmVein authentication provides a seamless experience that confirms identity in less than 100 milliseconds. Its industry-leading low-power operation extends battery life to more than 9 months per 8 AA batteries only, although it is used regularly at home. Since its launch at the beginning of 2024, Himax’s WiseEye PalmVein technology has already won a lot of customer interest and has been adopted by the American consumer for smart access control systems, with a large production underway first.
During CES, Himax will demonstrate a live demo of the extended WiseEye PalmVein suite with bimodal validation, palm and face vein validation, specifically designed to address customer needs for adaptability to smart locks, regardless of environmental conditions. For example, in extreme cold environments where wearing gloves makes palm access control impossible, the system adapts by enabling face recognition as well as keypads, improving the functionality of two-step authentication for continuous, reliable and enhanced security. This flexible and intuitive achievement demonstrates Himax’s leadership in biometric authentication technology, providing a flexible and secure solution for modern battery-operated door locks. . In addition, the WiseEye Module’s flexible, plug-and-play characteristics facilitate the integration of other personalization features, opening the door to the future of multi-modal authentication. This capability ensures security and user comfort, ensuring seamless, flexible access control across a wide range of environments and applications.
The smart door lock application will highlight how bimodal biometric authentication, with facial and neural recognition, enhances security and user comfort. Don’t miss the opportunity to see our valuable biometrics at our booth at The Venetian Las Vegas Hotel (3355 Las Vegas Boulevard S, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA) Venetian Tower Suite 34-208. To arrange a meeting or tour, please contact Himax at: Himax_CES2025@himax.com.tw.
About Himax Technologies, Inc.
Himax Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: HIMX) is the world’s leading provider of fabless semiconductor solutions dedicated to display imaging technology. The Company’s display ICs and timing controllers have been widely adopted in many industries worldwide including TVs, PC monitors, laptops, mobile phones, tablets, automobiles , ePaper tools, industry exhibitions, among others. As a global segment leader in the automotive display technology market, the Company provides innovative and complete automotive IC solutions, including traditional driver ICs, Touch in-cell Touch and Display Driver Integration (TDDI), local dimming controllers (Local Dimming Tcon), Large. Touch and Display Driver Integration (LTDI) and OLED display technology. Himax is also a pioneer in tinyML visual-AI and related aspects of optical technology. The Company’s industry-leading WiseEye™ Ultralow Power AI Sensing technology that includes Himax’s proprietary ultralow AI processor, a permanent CMOS image sensor, and a CNN-based AI algorithm is embedded throughout the device. consumer electronics and AIoT-related applications. Himax Optics technologies, such as wafer level optics, LCoS microdisplays and 3D sensing solutions, are essential for driving the emerging AR/VR/metaverse technology. In addition, Himax designs and supplies touch controllers, OLED ICs, LED ICs, EPD ICs, power management ICs, and CMOS image sensors for of various security systems. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Tainan, Taiwan, Himax currently employs approximately 2,200 people from three Taiwan offices in Tainan, Hsinchu and Taipei and country offices in China, Korea, Japan, Germany and the US. Himax has 2,683 patents granted and 390 patents pending worldwide as of September 30, 2024.
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Forward-Looking Statements
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 competition for driver and non-driver products developed by the Company; demand for end-use products; reliance on a small group of key customers; the uncertainty of continued success in technological developments; our ability to develop and protect our intellectual property; pricing pressures including declines in average retail prices; changes in customer order patterns; estimated changes in the effective tax rate for the entire year; lack of supply of essential components; changes in environmental laws and regulations; changes in the export license governed by the Export Administration Regulations (EAR); exchange rate fluctuations; regulatory approvals for additional investments in our subsidiaries; our ability to collect accounts receivable and manage assets and other risks described from time to time in the Company’s SEC filings, including the risks described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in the Form its 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2023. with the SEC, as amended.
Company Names:
Eric Li, Chief IR/PR Officer
Shares of Himax Technologies, Inc.
Phone: +886-6-505-0880
Fax: +886-2-2314-0877
Email: hx_ir@himax.com.tw
www.himax.com.tw
Karen Tiao, Investor Relations
Shares of Himax Technologies, Inc.
Phone: +886-2-2370-3999
Fax: +886-2-2314-0877
Email: hx_ir@himax.com.tw
www.himax.com.tw
Mark Schwalenberg, Director
Investor Relations – US Representative
MZ North America
Phone: +1-312-261-6430
Email: HIMX@mzgroup.us
www.mzgroup.us
Source: Himax Technologies, Inc.
