Add timeout mechanism as an asynchronous equivalent of sleeping (uru4000
needs this).
Start implementing polling infrastructure which also accounts for pending
timeouts. We don't expose file descriptors yet, but this is a start.
[dsd@gentoo.org: some trivial changes:
fixed some warnings
fixed fp_img memory leak on error
renamed endpoint constants (calling a bulk endpoint 'ctrl' is confusing,
as a control endpoint is something different)
]
After lot 713, Microsoft fingerprint readers changed. The new version
comes with a new USB product ID and a challenge-response authentication
scheme where the device challenges the authenticity of the driver.
An independent third party produced documentation on the computations
needed to convert a challenge into the correct response, and I then used
this documentation to produce a clean-room reimplementation of the
authentication scheme.
This is an active capacitance swipe-type device similar to but smaller
than the AES2501.
Image processing performance is good but matching performance is not so
good. The bozorth3 matcher needs tweaking in order to better cope with
small sets of minutiae.
With a lowered threshold, matching performance is good enough for now.
The UPEK TouchChip is an active capacitance imaging device with a
press-type sensor. It also has image storage capabilities which will
hopefully be accessible through libfprint in the near future.
This device can be found in the Samsung P35 laptop.
This driver works quite nicely. Seems a little too sensitive though (too
much black in the standardized image, not enough ridge gap definition).
Processing results are quite good, but you need a good enrollment image
(i.e. long!). It's best to get such images by pressing harder than you
might think necessary and swiping slowly.
mindtct appears to completely ignore the pixels-per-mm input parameter
(ippmm). When processing AES4000 images, the binarized image is
completely mangled and a lot of ridge information is lost.
Resizing the AES4000's small images results in a huge imaging performance
gain.
We use imagemagick for the resizing, as it's resizing code resamples the
image too (smoothing it out), which further improves performance.
The basic model is that image drivers declare a fp_img_driver structure
rather than a fp_driver struct. fp_img_driver will contain primitive imaging
operations such as 'scan finger and return image'. The imgdev layer will
generically implement the primitive fp_driver operations, and the imgdev
layer will fix up the enroll/verify/etc pointers at driver registration
time.
Removed const from all fp_driver declarations, as these are now modified
dynamically in the case of imaging drivers.
