147e:1001 TCS5B Fingerprint sensor

Upek

Vendor ID
147e
Product ID
1001
Combined
147e:1001
Decimal
5246:4097

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a TCS5B Fingerprint sensor manufactured by Upek. The vendor ID 147e is registered to Upek with the USB Implementers Forum, and 1001 is the product ID that Upek assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 147e:1001 Upek TCS5B Fingerprint sensor.

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 147e:1001 Upek TCS5B Fingerprint sensor

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 147e:1001, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 147e:1001. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=147e, idProduct=1001.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_147E&PID_1001
USB\VID_147E&PID_1001&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_147E&PID_1001"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    TCS5B Fingerprint sensor:
      Product ID: 0x1001
      Vendor ID: 0x147e  (Upek)

Driver help

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.

Raw usb.ids entry

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

147e  Upek
	1001  TCS5B Fingerprint sensor

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