IP Library Granted Patent US 12690835
Granted Patent B2
US 12690835 · App. 18/989,653 · Granted Jul 28, 2026

Method for ultrasonically measuring heart rate via finger, apparatus for ultrasonically measuring heart rate via finger, electronic device, and storage medium

Inventor: Jun Zhu (Shenzhen, CN)
Assignee: HUIKE (SINGAPORE) HOLDING PTE. LTD.
A61B8/02A61B8/5207
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Patent No.
US 12690835
App. No.
18/989,653
Granted
Jul 28, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method and apparatus for ultrasonically measuring a heart rate via a finger, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: acquiring, when the finger presses the screen, a correspondence function between an echo signal and a fly time, and determining a target fly time based on the correspondence function, wherein the fly time is time elapsed from transmission to reception of an ultrasonic signal; transmitting the ultrasonic signal to the finger, receiving a current echo frame returned from the finger and carrying fingerprint information of the finger based on the target fly time; determining a time domain sampling signal based on an inter-frame difference between the current echo frame and a reference frame; and calculating a heart rate value based on the time domain sampling signal. Through the above steps, heart rate measurement can be achieved through a finger based on an ultrasonic fingerprint apparatus.

Claims (48)

1 . A method for ultrasonically measuring a heart rate via a finger, being applied to an ultrasonic fingerprint apparatus, the ultrasonic fingerprint apparatus being arranged below a cover sheet of an electronic device to implement under-display ultrasonic fingerprint identification, the method comprising:

acquiring, when the finger presses a screen, a correspondence function between an echo signal and a fly time, and determining a target fly time based on the correspondence function, wherein the fly time is a time elapsed from transmission to reception of an ultrasonic signal;

transmitting the ultrasonic signal to the finger, and receiving a current echo frame that is returned from the finger and carries fingerprint information of the finger based on the target fly time;

determining a time domain sampling signal based on an inter-frame difference between the current echo frame and a reference frame; and

calculating a heart rate value based on the time domain sampling signal;

wherein the method further comprises:

calculating a difference between pixel points of the current echo frame and corresponding pixel points of a last echo frame as an inter-frame difference between the current echo frame and the last echo frame; and

using, in response to the inter-frame difference between the current echo frame and the last echo frame satisfying an inter-frame difference threshold, the current echo frame as the reference frame.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the determining the target fly time based on the correspondence function comprises:

determining a peak value of the correspondence function based on the correspondence function; and

determining the target fly time based on the peak value of the correspondence function, wherein the target fly time is a fly time corresponding to the obtaining of a maximum echo signal.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the using, in response to the inter-frame difference between the current echo frame and the last echo frame satisfying the inter-frame difference threshold, the current echo frame as the reference frame comprises:

maintaining a continuous count value of current echo frames that satisfy the inter-frame difference threshold;

comparing the continuous count value with a count threshold; and

updating the reference frame by using, based on the comparison showing that the continuous count value satisfies a count threshold, any one of the current echo frames that satisfy the inter-frame difference threshold and correspond to the continuous count value as the reference frame.

4 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein the determining the time domain sampling signal based on the inter-frame difference between the current echo frame and the reference frame comprises:

calculating a reference difference between the current echo frame and the reference frame, and using the reference difference as time domain sampling data of the current echo frame; and

determining the time domain sampling signal based on the time domain sampling data.

5 . The method according to claim 4 , wherein the using the reference difference as the time domain sampling data of the current echo frame comprises:

comparing the reference difference with a reference difference threshold; and

determining, based on the comparison showing that the reference difference satisfies a reference difference threshold, the reference difference as the time domain sampling data of the current echo frame.

6 . The method according to claim 5 , wherein the calculating the heart rate value based on the time domain sampling signal comprises:

filtering the time domain sampling signal to obtain a filtered time domain sampling signal; and

calculating the heart rate value based on the filtered time domain sampling signal.

7 . An electronic device, comprising: a processor, a memory, a communication interface, and a communication bus, wherein the processor, the memory, and the communication interface are configured to communicate with each other through the communication bus; the memory is configured to store at least one executable instruction, and the executable instruction causes the processor to execute a method for ultrasonically measuring a heart rate via a finger, being applied to an ultrasonic fingerprint apparatus, the ultrasonic fingerprint apparatus being arranged below a cover sheet of the electronic device to implement under-display ultrasonic fingerprint identification, the method comprising:

acquiring, when the finger presses a screen, a correspondence function between an echo signal and a fly time, and determining a target fly time based on the correspondence function, wherein the fly time is a time elapsed from transmission to reception of an ultrasonic signal;

transmitting the ultrasonic signal to the finger, and receiving a current echo frame that is returned from the finger and carries fingerprint information of the finger based on the target fly time;

determining a time domain sampling signal based on an inter-frame difference between the current echo frame and a reference frame; and

calculating a heart rate value based on the time domain sampling signal;

wherein the method further comprises:

calculating a difference between pixel points of the current echo frame and corresponding pixel points of a last echo frame as an inter-frame difference between the current echo frame and the last echo frame; and

using, in response to the inter-frame difference between the current echo frame and the last echo frame satisfying an inter-frame difference threshold, the current echo frame as the reference frame.

8 . The electronic device according to claim 7 , wherein the determining the target fly time based on the correspondence function comprises:

determining a peak value of the correspondence function based on the correspondence function; and

determining the target fly time based on the peak value of the correspondence function, wherein the target fly time is a fly time corresponding to the obtaining of a maximum echo signal.

9 . The electronic device according to claim 7 , wherein the using, in response to the inter-frame difference between the current echo frame and the last echo frame satisfying the inter-frame difference threshold, the current echo frame as the reference frame comprises:

maintaining a continuous count value of current echo frames that satisfy the inter-frame difference threshold;

comparing the continuous count value with a count threshold; and

updating the reference frame by using, based on the comparison showing that the continuous count value satisfies a count threshold, any one of the current echo frames that satisfy the inter-frame difference threshold and correspond to the continuous count value as the reference frame.

10 . The electronic device according to claim 9 , wherein the determining the time domain sampling signal based on the inter-frame difference between the current echo frame and the reference frame comprises:

calculating a reference difference between the current echo frame and the reference frame, and using the reference difference as time domain sampling data of the current echo frame; and

determining the time domain sampling signal based on the time domain sampling data.

11 . The electronic device according to claim 10 , wherein the using the reference difference as the time domain sampling data of the current echo frame comprises:

comparing the reference difference with a reference difference threshold; and

determining, based on the comparison showing that the reference difference satisfies a reference difference threshold, the reference difference as the time domain sampling data of the current echo frame.

12 . The electronic device according to claim 11 , wherein the calculating the heart rate value based on the time domain sampling signal comprises:

filtering the time domain sampling signal to obtain a filtered time domain sampling signal; and

calculating the heart rate value based on the filtered time domain sampling signal.