Iris recognition for secure authentication comes to mobile phones

Oki Denki managed to put a processor-hungry iris recognition application onto a cameraphone. Nobody was able to do it before, according to the company. At Wireless Japan 2007 tradeshow, they demonstrated a working solution for Windows Mobile 2003 and Symbian smartphones. The application can also potentially run on Linux or BREW phones. The camera’s resolution should be at least 1 megapixel, however 2 megapixels are highly recommended. 200KB of phone’s internal memory are required to store the client software and another 200KB of memory are needed to run it.

Sources: IT Media, Oki Denki (Japanese)