Fingerprint Sensor UI Adaptation via Attribute-Based Resource Selection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic devices face challenges in providing a user interface for fingerprint sensors that is tailored to the specific attributes of the device, such as type, size, and density, leading to inconsistent user experiences across different applications and screen configurations.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device with a fingerprint sensor, display, and processor that determines the appropriate resources based on the sensor's attributes to generate and display a customized user interface, including selecting the correct resources for the type, size, and density of the fingerprint sensor, and integrating them with application screens.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a single user interface is used for all fingerprint sensor configurations, then device complexity is reduced, but user experience consistency deteriorates across different screen sizes and sensor attributes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interface adaptabilityVSAvoidinterface management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by providing different user interface resources (images, layouts, icons) tailored to specific fingerprint sensor attributes such as type, size, and density. Instead of a uniform interface, the system selects appropriate interface elements based on the local characteristics of each sensor configuration, ensuring optimal display quality and user experience for each specific case.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes interface parameters (such as image resolution, icon size, layout configuration) based on fingerprint sensor parameters (type, size, density). The processor determines the sensor attributes and dynamically adjusts the corresponding UI resource parameters to match, creating an adaptive interface that scales appropriately with different sensor configurations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If multiple customized user interface resources are provided for different fingerprint sensor attributes, then user experience consistency is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser experience consistencyVSAvoidresource management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by pre-preparing multiple user interface resources (different images, layouts, and icons) for various fingerprint sensor configurations before runtime. The system anticipates different sensor types and sizes, and has corresponding UI resources ready in advance, allowing quick selection and display without complex real-time generation or calculation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If the user interface is customized based on fingerprint sensor attributes, then adaptability to different devices is improved, but processing time increases due to resource selection

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice compatibilityVSAvoidinterface rendering time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

By pre-organizing UI resources according to fingerprint sensor attributes (type, size, density) before the application runs, the system enables rapid resource selection during execution. The processor can quickly match the current sensor attributes to the corresponding pre-prepared resources without performing complex real-time adjustments, thereby reducing interface rendering time while maintaining high adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10990207B2Electronic device and screen provision method of electronic device
Publication Date: 2021.04.27 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises a fingerprint sensor, a display and a processor, wherein the processor may be configured to: execute an application comprising a plurality of resources corresponding to a plurality of images to be displayed on the display with respect to the fingerprint sensor; determine a resource among the plurality of resources which corresponds to the fingerprint sensor, on the basis of an attribute of the fingerprint sensor; and display one of the images which corresponds to the determined resource, on the display with respect to the fingerprint sensor.