Fingerprint Sensor Integrated Display Object Selection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic devices with fingerprint recognition sensors lack efficient methods to utilize detected fingerprints for controlling display operations and selecting objects, limiting their functionality in security authentication and user interface interactions.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device equipped with a fingerprint recognition sensor that recognizes fingerprints through a display and uses a processor to control the display, allowing for the selection of objects based on detected fingerprints, including rotation and direction, for security authentication and user interface operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If fingerprint recognition sensor is integrated into the display, then device complexity is reduced and user interface is simplified, but the ability to control display operations and select objects based on fingerprint detection is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice complexityVSAvoidfunctionality
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The fingerprint recognition sensor is integrated into the display structure, allowing the display to serve dual purposes: visual output and biometric authentication. This multi-functional integration reduces device complexity while enabling versatile control operations including object selection, rotation detection, and directional input based on fingerprint patterns

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If fingerprint detection is used for security authentication, then security features are enhanced, but the method of utilizing detected fingerprints for controlling display operations is inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity featuresVSAvoidprocessing efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of fingerprint patterns immediately upon detection, extracting rotational and directional information in real-time. This preliminary processing enables immediate control of display operations and object selection without requiring separate authentication steps, thereby enhancing both security and processing efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides immediate feedback by utilizing the detected fingerprint pattern to directly control display operations and object selection. The fingerprint detection result feeds back into the user interface, enabling dynamic object selection, rotation control, and directional navigation based on the authenticated fingerprint characteristics

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Ease of operation

If fingerprint recognition sensor recognizes fingerprints through the display, then user interaction is simplified, but the precision of object selection and display control based on fingerprint characteristics is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interactionVSAvoidobject selection precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system analyzes specific local characteristics of the fingerprint pattern, such as ridge orientation, rotation angle, and directional vectors at different positions within the fingerprint. By extracting these localized features, the system achieves precise object selection and display control while maintaining simplified user interaction through the integrated display sensor

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS10768736B2Method of processing fingerprint and electronic device thereof
Publication Date: 2020.09.08 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a display, a fingerprint recognition sensor configured to recognize a fingerprint received through the display, and a processor. The processor is configured to implement the method, which includes detecting a fingerprint using a fingerprint recognition sensor of the electronic device through a display of the electronic device; and controlling the display to display at least one object based on the fingerprint.