Fingerprint Sensor Gesture Interface for Efficient UI Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices with touch-sensitive surfaces and fingerprint sensors face inefficiencies in manipulating user interfaces, leading to cumbersome and energy-wasting methods for tasks like navigating through applications, switching between interfaces, and performing operations, particularly in battery-operated devices.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of electronic devices equipped with fingerprint sensors and touch-sensitive surfaces that utilize fingerprint movements and gestures to navigate and interact with user interfaces more efficiently, allowing for faster switching between interfaces, multi-purpose button functions, and optimized power management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional touch-sensitive surface methods are used for manipulating user interfaces, then user interaction is possible, but the methods are cumbersome and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the fingerprint sensor functionality into multiple distinct gesture types (swipe up, swipe down, swipe left, swipe right, circular motions, etc.), each mapped to specific user interface manipulation tasks. This segmentation allows efficient, dedicated control methods for different interface operations, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and time consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces conventional mechanical touch surface interactions with fingerprint-based biometric gestures. The fingerprint sensor detects ridge patterns and their movements, substituting the mechanical touch system with a more precise biometric detection system that enables faster and more intuitive interface manipulation.
2Productivity
If conventional interface manipulation methods are used, then tasks can be completed, but energy is wasted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs periodic action by activating the fingerprint sensor only during brief gesture moments rather than continuously. The sensor captures fingerprint images during short time windows when gestures occur, processes them quickly, and returns to idle state, thereby maintaining high productivity while minimizing energy consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-mapping fingerprint gesture patterns to specific user interface commands. When a fingerprint gesture is detected, the corresponding action is immediately executed without requiring additional processing steps, improving productivity while keeping energy usage low through efficient pattern recognition.
3Adaptability or versatility
If fingerprint sensor is used for authentication only, then security is provided, but interface manipulation capability is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements universality by enabling the fingerprint sensor to perform multiple functions: traditional authentication, swipe gestures for navigation, circular gestures for selection, and other biometric-based interface manipulations. This multi-functionality increases adaptability without significantly increasing device complexity, as the same sensor hardware supports diverse interaction modes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies dynamics by allowing the fingerprint sensor's functional role to change dynamically based on context. The sensor can switch between authentication mode, gesture recognition mode, and other operational states, providing versatile interface manipulation capability while maintaining manageable complexity through dynamic adaptability.
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AI summary
Devices, methods and graphical user interfaces for manipulating user interfaces based on fingerprint sensor inputs are provided. An electronic device with a display and a fingerprint sensor may obtain fingerprint-verification criteria for controlling verification of fingerprints. For each of a plurality of respective inputs that correspond to respective restricted operations, the device may identify fingerprint features of the respective input. The device may determine fingerprint-verification information for the respective input. In response to detecting the respective input and in accordance with a determination that the fingerprint-verification information meets respective authorization criteria for the respective restricted operation, the device may perform the respective restricted operation. In response to detecting the respective input and in accordance with a determination that the fingerprint-verification information does not meet the respective authorization criteria for the restricted operation, the device may forgo performing the respective restricted operation.