[fprint] Shuttle SN68PTG6 fingerprint scanner

[Laurie Bradshaw]

On 14/12/2007, Daniel Drake <dan at reactivated.net> wrote:
> Laurie Bradshaw wrote:
> > Hmm, I'll have to think about that one. How useful would, say, a
> > knuckle scan be?
>
> That would probably be fine, but please try that under windows first so
> that you get an idea of the kind of images that come back from your
> knuckle. As long as they aren't all-white or all-black (i.e. there is
> some substance in the image) it will still be useful.
>
> Also, at least when sniffing the data, no need to attempt to swipe your
> knuckle. Just placing it against the sensor should be fine. I think we
> will find that this sensor, like the other swipe sensors we support,
> returns continuous "slice"-images (i.e. image resolution of approx
> 200x16) with varying overlap - and then the computer has to piece them
> together and eliminate overlap. So as long as we can get some of the
> slice images from the device, that should be all we need to go on.
>
> Daniel

The Windows software is very temperamental, so I gave up and scanned
the side of my thumb, which seemed to work, created a new bug report
with usb log and lsusb output attached