指纹识别技术的发展

指纹识别技术由于具有独特的防伪性、可靠性、方便性、实时性、灵活性、可接受性、安全性和兼容性，因而可广泛应用于公安、保安、机要军事、商业等领域。本文首先对指纹识别技术的技术背景做了较为详细的介绍，包括个人识别和特征识别、指纹识别及其优点、指纹识别的发展历史、其它识别办法的限制、指纹自动识别系统的发展现状等，然后对指纹识别技术的市场前景做了综述，包括指纹锁和指纹卡的潜在应用。总之，随着市场的推动和技术的提高，指纹识别应用领域将会越来越广泛，在人们生活中的作用也会越来越重要。

Development of fingerprint identification technology

Because fingerprint identification has unique anti counterfeiting, raliability, convenience, real time, flexibility, acceptance, safety and compatiblity, it can be widely used in the fields of public security, ensure public security, confidential military, commerce and so on. Firstly, the paper introduces the backgronud of the technology in detail, including personal identification, characteristic identification, fingerprint identification and its advantages, the history of the devolopment of fingerprint identification, the limitation of other identification methods, the present situation of the automatic fingerprint identification system, and so on. Then the paper gives a summary of the developing future of fingerprint technology, including the summary of potential application fields of fingerprint card and fingerprint lock. In a ward, with the promotion of the market and the improvment of the techanolgy, fingerprint identification will be further widely used in many fields, and its effection in peples lives will be more important.