Jean-Franqois Mainguet

Jean-François Mainguet was born in Sarrebourg, France, on July 3, 1960. He became an engineer for Télécommunications de Bretagne in 1984. Since joining Thomson-CSF Semiconducteurs Spécifiques, Grenoble in 1984, he has been engaged in the development of SOS and SOI rad-hard semiconductor devices, electrical simulation, layout & mask design tools, analog to digital converter design and invented the sweeping technique for direct silicon fingerprint scanning. He was chief scientist of the FingerChip® project since Thomson became Atmel in 2000.
In 2009, he joined the CEA-Leti, Grenoble.

Email: jean-francois.mainguet@wanadoo.fr

Published papers:

1. J.F. Mainguet, W.Marais "Un capteur thermique saisit les empreintes digitales" Electronique, Juin 1998 p75-85
2. J.F. Mainguet: "Une puce pour les empreintes digitales" La Recherche, Septembre 98 (312) p.46& "Un chip para las huellas dactilares" Mundo Scientifico, November 98 (195) p.44
3. J.F. Mainguet: "Authentifier le vivant" Face Au Risque, Novembre 98
4. J.F. Mainguet, M. Pegulu, and J. B. Harris. "Fingerchip: thermal imaging and finger sweeping in a silicon fingerprint sensor. " In Proc. of AutoID 99 , pages 91?4, October 99.
5. J.F. Mainguet, M. Pegulu and J.B. Harris, " Fingerprint recognition based on silicon chips" Future Generation of Computer Systems 16 (2000), Elsevier, pp. 403-415 (submitted March 1999)
6. J.F. Mainguet "Biometrics for Large-scale Consumer Products" International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, June 2003.
7. J.F. Mainguet, Wei Gong, Anne Wang "Reducing Silicon Fingerprint Sensor Area" International Conference on Biometric Authentication ICBA 2004 Hong-Kong July, 15-17 2004 Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3072 / 2004, pp. 301 - 308 The Wave report

Speaker/cited:

* Identech'98 / Paris / 20 janvier 1998 & 27 mai 1998 "FingerChip, un capteur thermique d'empreintes digitales tout silicium"
* Identech'99 / Paris / 26 janvier 1999 "Technique d'empreintes digitales: les applications du syst?e FingerChip"
* Eurosec'99 / Paris (avec Richard Bault/Cezam) / 23 mars 1999 / Session 7 (programme) "L뭓uthentification par empreinte digitale dans les syst?es d뭝nformation"
* S?inaire Leti-Industrie: Quoi de neuf au sujet des d?ecteurs infrarouges non refroidis? / Ch?eau de Sassenage (France) / 2 avril 1999 "Capteurs d'empreintes digitales par capteurs thermiques"
* Development Institute International / Paris / S?inaire Nouvelles Technologies d'Authentification / 7 mai 1999 "Quel est l'apport des technologies biom?riques dans le contr?e d'acc? physique et logique?"
* Smart Card 2000 / Olympia 2 / London with Richard Bault (Cezam) February 8, 2000 "Fingerprint authentication in IT Systems"
* Development Institute International / Paris / S?inaire Nouvelles Techniques de Signature Electronique & Cryptologie / 20 septembre 2000 "R?ertorier les alternatives offertes par la biom?rie pour s?uriser vos activit? de e-commerce"
* Development Institute International / Paris / S?inaire Mettez ?jour vos techniques de S?urit?Bancaire / 27 septembre 2000 "Tirer profit du d?eloppement de la biom?rie pour am?iorer votre s?urit?bancaire"
* Cartes 2000 / CNIT Paris / October 24, 2000 "Fingerprint recognition based on silicon chips"
Development Institute International / Paris / S?inaire Biom?rie / 5 d?embre 2000 "Comment maximiser la fiabilit?de vos solutions biom?riques et votre s?urit?"
* AI'03 (International Conference on Artificial Intelligence) Las Vegas June 25, 2003 (program) "Biometrics for Large-scale Consumer Products"
* BC'03 (Biometric Consortium Conference) Arlington / September 23, 2003 (program) "Biometrics for Large-scale Consumer Products" (my biography)
* Table ronde INT November 27, 2003 (programme)
* ICBA 2004 / Hong-Kong / July, 15-17 2004 (homepage, program) "Reducing Silicon Fingerprint Sensor Area"
* Fing, r?nion de cl?ure du groupe "Confiance et S?urit? / 28 septembre 2004 / Paris, minist?e de la Recherche Fondation Internet Nouvelle G??ation.
* Development Institute International / Forum 2005 de la S?urit?Bancaire / Paris, le 09 d?embre 2004 "Biom?rie en milieu bancaire"
* Biosec, 2nd workshop / Brussels / January 20, 2005 "Aliveness detection: issues in fingerprint"
* Science&Vie Hors-s?ie novembre 2005 "Les r?olutions de la maison individuelle". Un entrefilet avec l'article sur les serrures.
* Dauphin?Lib??du 2 novembre 2005: "Les puces seront du voyage"
Reed Business Information, Comundi / BIOMETRIE Choisir et mettre en oeuvre votre solution biom?rique / du 14 au 15 D?embre 2005/ Paris (programme)
* Enter 2.0 / agosto 2006 (Colombia) Biometr?, la llave del futuro por Iv? Luzardo. + Identificacion por Biometria, la llave del futuro
* Biometrics 2006 / October, 18-20 / London. "Tutorial: Biometric Sciences - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (Valorie Valencia leading). "Liveness detection". With so many cases now recorded about the 몊poofing?of biometrics, this highly controversial issue will be examined by one of the world뭩 leading authorities.
* The Register: Steal my ID, steal my fingers - the public gets nervous by Mark Ballard (18th October 2006). (archive) Gizmo Watch: Is Biometric Security Safe for the Fingers? Punto Informatico (20 ottobre 2006): La biometria d?la caccia alle password Insic (26 ottobre 2006): La biometria d?la caccia alle password Redazione Antifurto My comment: this is a truncated version of my words. They forgot to say that it's difficult to define what is life, and so saying if a finger is alive or dead is hard because a surgeon can mend a chop finger. It is possible to make things very hard to spoof. But well, this is a much more attractive article as it is :-)
* Speaker at Cardex 2008 in Cairo, 25-MAY-2008.
* Speaker at Digital Identity Assurance 2009 in Dubai, 3-5-MAY-2009

Lessons:

(2007 Oct, 2008 Oct) Biometrics within New trends in cryptology at the Master M2 SCSI, Universit?Joseph Fourier + Polytech / Ensimag, Grenoble.

Professional Associations, thesis:

International Committee on Information Technology Standards (INCITS), voting member M1 Biometrics Committee, M1.3 & M1.5 (up to end 2007)
Groupe de travail Thermique du vivant ( Andr?Dittmar , CNRS / Lyon )
Jury of N.Galy thesis: "Etude d'un syst?e complet de reconnaissance d'empreintes digitales pour un capteur microsyst?e ?balayage"

Award:

"Electron d'or 1998" Electronique / France. ( cover, article )

Patents:

Brevet 96 07419 "Syst?e de lecture d'empreintes digitales" 14 juin 1996
EP0813164 / FR2749955 / JP10091769 / DE69720109 / AT235718 / ZA9705193 / CA2206825 / CN1119766 / CN1172308 / ES2191816 / IL121045
US 6,289,114 "Fingerprint-reading system" September 11, 2001
US 6,459,804 "Fingerprint-reading system" October 1, 2002
Proc??et dispositif de reconnaissance de personne / Person recognition method and device
FR0300593 2003-01-21 / WO2004068394 / EP1586074 / US20060115128 / FR2850190 / KR20050096142
Proc??et dispositif de s?urisation par reconnaissance de personne / Person recognition securement method and device
FR0300594 2003-01-21 / WO2004068388 / EP1586069 / US20090008459 / FR2850191 / CN1739114 / CA2513619
Proc??d'acquisition d'image d'empreinte digitale / Method for the acquisition of an image of a finger print
FR0308822 2003-07-18 / WO2005015481 / EP1646965 / US20060204061 / FR2857768 / CA2532082 / KR20060052839 / CN1826605
G??ateur de s?uences binaires al?toires / Random binary sequence generator
FR0313491 2003-11-18 / WO2005050434 / EP1685479 / FR2862394 / EP1685479 / CN1879079
Capteur d'empreinte digitale ?deux sens de balayage / Two-Way Scanning Fingerprint Sensor
FR0313661 2003-11-21 / WO2005050540 / EP1685520 / FR2862785 / CA2545033 / KR20060108637 / US2008247615 / JP2007511845 / CN100394434
Dispositif de r?ctivation d'un appareil plac?en mode de veille / Activation apparatus
FR0511970 2005-11-25 / WO2007060178 / EP1952615 / FR2894049 / CN101313562
Syst?e de lecture de microreliefs / Optical sensor
FR0513218 2005-12-23 / EP1969524 / WO2007071572
Sensor manufacture with data storage
US7385381 2007-03-06 / WO2008107450
Sensor monitoring / Surveillance de d?ecteur
US2008219520 2007-03-06 / WO2008107449
Incremental recognition
US20080226135 2007-03-12
Biometric control device
US20090058595 2007-08-30
Interleaving slices and anti-spoof data continuously
US20090060296 2007-08-30
Variable resolution biometric sensor
US20090067684 2007-09-06
Biometric data processing
US20090067679 2007-09-11
Fingerprint Sensor with Bump Packaging
US20090067690 2007-09-11 Hardware method to read impedance

US 02-JUN-2008 12/131,625 ==> aux environs de janvier 2010

Software scoring

US 02-JUN-2008 12/136,400

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Citations

Article of e-Smart Super Smart Card on Korean News Paper

케이엘넷, 지문 찍어야 읽히는 카드 개발
도용방지 0.3㎜ 초박형 개발

카드에 달린 생체인식 센서에 손가락을 갖다 대야 작동하는 보안 솔루션이 국내 기술로 처음 개발됐다. IT솔루션 기업 케이엘넷(대표 박정천)은 지문인식 시스템을 장착한 보안 솔루션(USSㆍUbiquitous Security Service)을 이스마트코리아 등 4개 회사와 공동으로 개발했다고 16일 밝혔다.


USS는 케이엘넷이 자체 설계한 네트워크형 보안 서비스로 신용카드와 교통카드 사원증 학생증 출입증 등 각종 카드 솔루션에 모두 적용할 수 있는 것이 특징이다.


두께 0.33㎜ 초박형 IC칩 카드에 지문인식 센서와 처리회로를 내장했다. 기업이 이 카드를 채택하면 박 대리는 회사 단말기에 카드 앞부분을 넣고 뒷부분의 지문인식 센서를 손가락으로 눌러야 출근한 것으로 인식된다.


박정천 케이엘넷 대표는 "카드 분실 시 발생하는 각종 도용 사고 우려를 사전에 차단하는 동시에 누군가가 대리로 입력하는 것을 원천 봉쇄할 수 있어 정확한 출입 파악이 가능하다"고 설명했다. 또 이를 신용카드에 적용하면 도용에 따른 카드사와 고객 간 법적 분쟁도 차단할 수 있다.

아울러 신분증 신용카드 교통카드 홈쇼핑 TV뱅킹 등 다목적 용도로 사용할 수 있도록 제작했다. 따라서 카드 여러 장을 갖고 다닐 필요가 없는 셈이다. 박 대표는 "보안과 정확한 출입 기록이 동시에 필요한 카드사 통신사 대학 연구소 공항 등 어디서든 적용할 수 있는 솔루션"이라며 "사용자별로 서버 접근 권한을 설정할 수 있어 정보가 유출될 염려도 줄였다"고 설명했다.

다만 이 카드는 케이엘넷에서 제공하는 단말기와 솔루션 소프트웨어 등 시스템이 있어야 사용할 수 있다. 이와 관련해 케이엘넷은 `다중인증에 대한 시스템 보안`이라는 이름으로 국내 특허를 출원할 예정이다. [이상덕 기자]

Development of Smart Card which operates only with the fingerprint
* This article is from Korean News Paper, Maeil Kyongjae (Everyday Economy).
http://news.mk.co.kr/newsRead.php?year=2009&no=165060

Article of e-Smart Super Smart Card on Nikkei Electronics

There is an article of e-Smart's Super Smart Card on honorable 1000ｔｈ　Ｅｄｉｔｉｏｎ　Nikkei Electronics, the #1 electronics megazine in Japan.



US Venture Company Develops Thin Fingerprint Sensor to Be Embedded in IC Cards

Teruhiko Tamori

Teruhiko has been a world leading inventor in hardware analog, digital and Microwave technology area, covering automobile auto alignment system and fuel jet control, wireless communications, mixed signal area as well as software area, especially micro computer programming. The most profound and epoch making technology breakthrough is on his invention of fingerprint sensor, including semiconductor sensor and pressure type fingerprint sensor, which is water proof and ESD proof and further he developed the very accurate fingerprint matching algorithm and actual microcode program, which he invented new highly sophisticated program, using complex plane filtering and further basic Minutiae algorithm. He also made standard of FAA and FAR for Global Biometrics Card Committee (GBCC). He is also responsible for standardizations of BioAPI for GBCC.

Tamio Saito(Left) and Teruhiko Tamori (Right)
Teruhiko is Chief Biometric Officer (CBO) of e-Smart technology, Inc. and President and CEO of BMF Corporations.

1. How world first Waterproof, ESD Proof, Pressure Sensitive Fingerprint Sensor has been developed.

In 1978 Mr.Fukushima, president and founder of ENIX, largest game programming company, such for SONY play station, when the company was very small on the only game was done in the computer with 5.25” drive, asked me to develop a fingerprint key system of the door. At that time, there was no DOS, no Windows, no MicroSoft.
Mr.Fukushima at that time, gaming market may have some limitation up to 10 years and after gaming market, he believes the door access by fingerprint will be the future.
He was born in Hokkaido, northern part of Japan, where people think security is very important. And he does not want carry any keys, just want to use his finger to open the door. He was investigating how may doors in the world and how large the market is. I told him successful possibility is 50% so I do not want to do that, but he told me if there is 1% possibility, still there is a possibility, so even though he will lose all money he will be happy, even though he is very stingy person. But I believe that person like Mr.Fukushima is the real pioneer and I am disappointed by US investor, who invests small amount of money and push too much. Actually total amount of money which Mr.Fukushima invested me by expenses but not by security is around $60M and I am curious how much money e-Smart has been invested on the sensor. I agreed with e-Smart to sell all IP, market and product development by $60M investment by Mr. Fukushima, for only $2M. This is because I trust e-Smart market, such as fingerprint sensor on a smart card is large and TERUHIKO wan to work together with e-Smart.
Mr.Fukushima now has billions of dollars and retired already and no interest in fingerprint market.
Teruhiko made the world first fingerprint sensor in 1983. Teruhiko made a matrix sensor by asking Mimura printing by making 50 micron pitch, but there was too many pinholes.
Then I made world first semiconductor fingerprint sensor development in 1995 and the patent is granted. May companies, including Fujitsu, Infineon, Veridicom, Finger Card and other companies were all infringing my patents. So, even Fujitsu sensor is based on may patents, so it can be called as my sensor, thus can be called e-Smart/BMF IP sensor. This means no one can make smart card with semiconductor sensor except e-Smart. If IDSmart or any other parties used semiconductor sensor, infringing Teruhiko patents, e-Smart and or BMF has right to sue them.
In 1995, I spent more than $1M to NEC to make semiconductor fingerprint sensor and they made a fingerprint sensor. Price was too high ($80).
Then I asked SONY in 1998 to make glass substrate sensor, using poly-Silicon TFT, which has been used in LCD display. Mr. Kato, god father of LCD display finally agreed to make fingerprint sensor after 6 months negotiations. SONY has high temperature poly silicon TFT technology using quartz substrate, where annealing temperature is 1200 degree centigrade. In 1999, I have displayed SONY-made sensor in Cebit 1999.
This was $100 per sensor. SONY, afterwards, decided to make their own sensor and by their own ego stopped making my sensor.
Then I had to move to SANYO to make a sensor based on Low temperature poly Silicon TFT. What is good was SANYO was so happy to do that thus they invested us $1.5M. later I bought back all shares I sold at that time and thus I have all my right on BMF.
They made a sensor in 2000 and start selling sensor from 2001. At the same time I asked NEC to back up. NEC made FBI size sensor whereas the size is 1”x1” for me.
SANYO made 85,000 pcs of sensor.


2. IP of sensors.
Tamori have filed more than 50 patents, most of that has been granted.

3. Sensors in the Market
In so many places my sensor has been used.
A) Police Department: In 2001 we sold sensor to Gunma Police department. We have won the competition over NEC on this deal, because my sensor is water proof and dry finger proof, but NEC was using Prism, which is not water proof or dry finger proof. But they asked us to sell through NEC for keeping face. The volume was around 10,000. Price was $30.

B) Denver Airport:
My sensor has been used in Denver airport to check Pilots and flight attendants for smuggling and drugs carry since 2005. About 2,999-3,000 sensor has been sold to them.

C) Gun Case:
Chinese companies has been using my sensor to Gun case for worldwide market. Total amount was around 20,000.

D) Contracts with e-Smart
Summary of contracts:
BMF made an agreement with e-Smart International, Inc. (IVI Smart) for close business relationship. Teruhiko serves as Chief Biometrics Officer of e-Smart Technology, Inc..
Teruhiko fully guides and supports the development of SUS based flexible fingerprint sensor development work with University and related manufacturers.

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