| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 科技管理研究所 === 84 === The purpose of this research was to investigate the
development trend offingerprint identification technology
from the viewpoints of technicalcapabilities, social -
economic environments, application areas and marketdemands.
Special emphasis was on its applicability towards
electronicauthentication. Other than monitoring literature, this
research collected 219U.S. patents awarded between 1975 - 1996
to fingerprint identification relatedinnovations. The
technological and business competition among those
companiesaround the world were derived from analyzing
these patents. The patentanalysis revealed the fact that the
fingerprint identification technology hasbecome mature,
however, the market demand is still at the early stage.
Fingerprint identification shall play an essential role
with respect toelectronic authentication in the information
era. Taiwan''s government and PCindustry should exert a
concerted effort to better prepare and position forthe enormous
market of integration of fingerprint identification device
intothe computing/networking systems.
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