Samsung Patent Describes Touch Screen That Doubles as Fingerprint Sensor
While Apple pins faith on facial recognition to unlock iPhones, Samsung is going back to basics with fingerprint sensing -- with a twist. Samsung’s plan, as described in U.S. patent application 2017/0336906 published Thanksgiving Day at the Patent and Trademark…
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Office, is to make a smartphone's touch screen of conventional appearance function also as a fingerprint sensor by switching resolution. If the captured scan image of the fingertip matches a reference image the owner previously stored, the phone unlocks and switches the screen back to normal touch control, it said. By reducing the screen area that needs to be scanned in high resolution, “speedy fingerprint recognition becomes possible,” it said. The manufacturer didn’t comment.