The original title: brush hand payment come! Technology patent big exposure: second kill brush face! Netizen: really chop hands
Sihai Netcom is not afraid of pocket money, just afraid of cell phone power failure. In China, we have basically entered the era of mobile payment in an all-round way, leading the world: the United States marvels, Japan is' forced to keep up '.
But maybe soon, we don't even need to bring a cell phone. On December 26, the U.S. patent and Trademark Office announced Amazon's latest patent application, a non-contact scanning system that can identify users by scanning palm features, including Palmprint and veins. Customers can link to their credit or debit cards by scanning their palms and complete all transactions within 0.3 seconds.
In this regard, netizens exclaimed, this time is really 'chop hands'. Will this be a subversive era of black technology?
Amazon palmprint recognition patent scanning hands can pay
On December 26, according to foreign media reports, the U.S. patent and Trademark Office announced Amazon's latest patent application, which is a non-contact scanning system that can identify a shopper by scanning palm features (including wrinkles and veins) without having to brush your face again.
Simply put, the scanner is placed at the entrance or exit of a given location, and the scanning palm can be linked to the customer's credit card or debit card, and all transactions can be completed with a wave of hand.
In September, the New York Post said Amazon was testing a new technology that would allow customers at whole foods to pay by scanning their hands at checkout, rather than swiping a card. If this technology can be implemented, then there is a high probability that Amazon will use it in Amazon go unmanned retail stores.
According to heart of machines, the system has a recognition error rate of less than one in a million, and Amazon engineers are trying to raise it to less than one in 100 million. The response speed of this technology is also very fast. Ordinary bank card transaction takes 3 to 4 seconds, but Amazon's system only takes 0.3 seconds, greatly accelerating the checkout speed.
In the patent document, Amazon describes the technology as follows: "this technology can achieve accurate and fast user authentication and can be used in multiple scenarios. For example, access to places, offices, transportation facilities, and other locations that need to be controlled based on user identity. "
Patent information shows that many of the inventors of the app belong to the Amazon go business group, including Dilip Kumar, the company's head of technology and vice president of Amazon's physical retail program.
Affected by a variety of news, Amazon's share price soared 4.45% that night, and its market value increased by nearly 40 billion US dollars (about 280 billion yuan).
Netizen: it's really true to chop hands
For this black technology, the people who play the most 6 times in electronic payment in the world have launched a heated discussion on it.
Some people agree that it's better than face brushing: face brushing is easily affected by light, posture and clothing, but even twins can't do it.
Some expressed concern about whether the case of "chopping hands" would really happen for the sake of profit, but it was immediately explained that venous blood circulation was needed, and it was useless to chop other people's hands.
There are also concerns that there is really no privacy.
Of course, others say it's getting easier and easier to make money at a rate that doesn't keep pace with the diversity of payments.
Alipay has studied palmprint recognition.
It is worth noting that according to the online report of Zhongguancun (000931, Guba), Alipay showed the future payment security in 2014: using biometrics to kill digital ciphers, biometrics is not limited to fingerprints. It includes face, voice print, fingerprint, palmprint, handwriting and keyboard tapping. Through the development of these technologies, it can form an effective complement with the existing digital password, and even in some scenes and links, its security is far beyond the digital password.
Palmprint recognition is based on Palmprint comparison, which can not only compare the direction and position information of palmprint main line and fold, but also measure the center of gravity, mean value and variance of palmprint image to get a feature dictionary. The palmprint is collected by special equipment and converted into digital signal, which generates huge data instantly, which can be used as the basis for identification.
China Mobile Payment leads the world
China's China make complaints about the fact that a US journalist came to China in 2017 to express his admiration for China's cash free payment.
In 2016 alone, the scale of China Mobile Payment in 2016 was about 50 times that of the same period in the United States.
China has already entered the era of electronic payment
You know, in China, we have already entered the era of electronic payment. According to the analysis report on China's inclusive finance indicators released by the central bank in 2018, the proportion of e-payment in China exceeds 80%. Now, in the run-up to 2020, that number is likely to increase: more and more people say that paying cash out of doors is now scorned.
Then, once we leave the country, the things we are used to may be totally different.
Recently, the Japanese drama "late night canteen season 5" has been updated. One of the clips is about the payment difference between Japan and China: when a Chinese diner checks out, he takes out his mobile phone and says to the shopkeeper, "I scan you, you sweep me?" while the Japanese reply "cash only, only cash. '
Some netizens sighed: too real. According to the earthman Research Report, the Japanese media also followed up: "the super reality of the & lsquo; Chinese & quot; appearing in Japanese TV plays has become a topic in China.".
Some make complaints about Japan's electronic payment too backward.
Of course, with the large number of China tourists visiting Japan, Japanese businessmen have already realized the strong power of 'WeChat' Alipay because they can't sweep up the whole thing. '
Therefore, more and more Japanese stores have begun to support mobile phone payment methods, such as Alipay and WeChat, which are suitable for Chinese tourists.
It is reported that since the early, when Alipay Alipay entered the Japanese market, the commercial facilities of China's tourists concentrated and high frequency consumption have added the functions of WeChat and Alipay payment, including Japanese department stores, electrical appliances stores, cosmetics stores, etc. China's tourists love to go to the consumer places, almost all of them have used Alipay and WeChat payment.
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