Fingerprint Sensor Gesture Mapping for Mobile Terminal Shortcut Execution

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing mobile terminals require multiple interactions after fingerprint recognition for identity authentication, leading to low operation efficiency due to the need for users to navigate through screen-locked and screen-off states to access applications.

Innovation Solution

A method that uses fingerprint recognition to directly illuminate the screen, perform unlocking, and present shortcuts on the mobile terminal, allowing users to run desired applications with a single fingerprint event and operation vector, eliminating the need for additional input operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If fingerprint recognition is used for identity authentication only, then security is improved, but operation efficiency deteriorates due to multiple required interactions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveidentity authentication securityVSAvoidoperation efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The fingerprint sensor is extended from a single identity authentication function to multiple functions including application launching, shortcut access, and system control. Different fingerprint patterns (single press, double press, sliding gestures) are mapped to different operations, allowing the same hardware component to serve multiple purposes and eliminate the need for separate interaction steps after authentication.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-configures multiple fingerprint events with corresponding shortcuts and operations in advance. When a fingerprint is recognized, the system immediately executes the pre-associated operation without requiring additional user interactions. This preliminary configuration of fingerprint-event-opration mappings enables direct action upon recognition, improving operational efficiency while maintaining security.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If multiple interactions are required after fingerprint recognition, then precise control is improved, but operation duration increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperation control precisionVSAvoidoperation duration
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces dynamic fingerprint gestures including sliding directions, pressing durations, and sequential patterns. These dynamic variations allow precise control over which operation is executed while still completing the entire process in a single continuous action. The dynamic nature of the gestures provides multiple degrees of freedom for control without requiring multiple separate interaction steps.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Productivity

If fingerprint recognition directly launches applications, then operation efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperation efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically manages the complexity of fingerprint recognition and operation mapping without requiring user intervention. The processor autonomously recognizes fingerprint patterns, matches them against stored templates, determines the corresponding operation, and executes it. This self-service approach handles the computational and logical complexity internally, allowing the user to benefit from simplified interaction while the system manages the underlying complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentEP3796148B1Operation method with fingerprint recognition, apparatus, and mobile terminal operation method with fingerprint recognition, apparatus, and mobile terminal
Publication Date: 2024.02.14 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of the present invention provide an operation method with fingerprint recognition, an apparatus, and a mobile terminal, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: obtaining a fingerprint event that is entered by a user; presenting at least one shortcut if the fingerprint event that is entered by the user matches a preset fingerprint event; obtaining an operation vector, where the operation vector is generated by operating at least one operation component of the mobile terminal by the user; and running a first shortcut in the at least one shortcut according to the operation vector, and presenting a running result. A shortcut is presented by performing matching between fingerprint events, a to-be-run shortcut is determined according to an operation vector generated by operating a mobile terminal by a user, the shortcut is run, and a running result is presented, so that the user can conveniently and quickly run the shortcut, thereby reducing operation duration, and improving operation efficiency.