Eye-brush payment is coming? Tencent applies for Wechat iris payment trademark

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen xiaocluoyuzi for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, January 4, recently, Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. applied to register a number of "Wechat iris pay", "Wechat iris" and "Wechat iris recognition" trademarks. The international classification involves communication services, financial property management, website services and so on. The current trademark status is awaiting substantive examination.

CTOnews.com learned that the iris is a circular area between the black pupil and the white sclera on the surface of the human eye, which has many advantages such as rarity, stability, non-contact and so on. Iris recognition technology can effectively determine identity by comparing the similarity between iris texture features. it is one of the most accurate and secure biometric technologies in the world, and its accuracy and stability are much higher than those of fingerprint scanning and face recognition. These advantages make iris recognition technology used in the financial field, has a unique advantage, and can effectively solve the contradiction between security and ease of use in payment business.

In October last year, Wechat launched "Wechat Brush Palm payment" Mini Program, which can make it more convenient for users to manage brush palm payment.

It is reported that the palm brushing device is provided by WeChat Pay, which is equipped with a display screen and a palmprint recognition area. after users activate the Wechat palm brushing payment function, they only need to scan in the palmprint recognition area to complete the payment of goods.

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