IP Library Granted Patent US 10,824,835
Granted Patent B2
US 10,824,835 · App. 16/155,110 · Granted Nov 3, 2020

Electronic device

Inventor: Takahiro Hatanaka (Inagi, JP)
Assignee: FUJITSU CONNECTED TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
G06K9/0002A61B5/117
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Patent No.
US 10,824,835
App. No.
16/155,110
Granted
Nov 3, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electronic device includes: an operation unit including a fingerprint sensor, a longitudinal direction of the operation unit being defined as a first direction; and a processor that performs fingerprint authentication processing and processing to respond to movement of a finger of a user in the first direction on the operation unit, based on a detection result by the fingerprint sensor, in which a sensing unit of the fingerprint sensor is displaced from the center of the operation unit in the first direction.

Claims (21)

1. An electronic device comprising:

an operation unit being capable of receiving a push in operation and including a fingerprint sensor along a longitudinal direction of the operation unit; and

a processor that performs fingerprint authentication processing and processing to respond to a movement of a finger of a user in the longitudinal direction on the operation unit, based on a detection result by the fingerprint sensor, wherein

a sensing unit of the fingerprint sensor is displaced from a center of the operation unit in the longitudinal direction.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1 , further comprising a display unit on one surface of a housing of the electronic device, wherein

the operation unit is configured to be pressed from a side surface of the housing, the side surface defined with respect to the one surface, and the longitudinal direction of the operation unit is perpendicular to a direction of the push-in operation, and screen control processing in the display unit is executed based on the movement of the finger in the longitudinal direction.

3. The electronic device according to claim 2 , wherein

the screen control processing includes at least one of scroll processing to scroll an image in the screen, transition processing to cause screen transition, and zoom-in and zoom-out processing to zoom in and out on an image in the screen.

4. The electronic device according to claim 2 , wherein

the operation unit is provided on a side surface of the electronic device.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein

the operation unit is provided on a side surface of the electronic device, and

the operation unit is capable of positional change in a direction perpendicular to the side surface.

6. The electronic device according to claim 5 , wherein

the processor further performs processing to respond to the positional change of the operation unit.

7. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein

the operation unit includes a resin portion in which the fingerprint sensor is embedded.

8. The electronic device according to claim 7 , wherein

the fingerprint sensor is in a form of a chip, is mounted on a circuit board, and is electrically connected to an electrode on the circuit board on a side opposite in the longitudinal direction to a side to which the sensing unit is displaced.

9. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein

a distance between the fingerprint sensor and an edge of the operation unit in the longitudinal direction is equal to or less than 10 mm in the longitudinal direction.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 26, 2024
From: YAMATO KANZAI LIMITED
To: FCNT LLC
Reel/Frame 066908/0856 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 21, 2024
From: FCNT LIMITED
To: YAMATO KANZAI LIMITED
Reel/Frame 066854/0942 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 19, 2024
From: FUJITSU CONNECTED TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
To: FCNT LIMITED
Reel/Frame 066832/0399 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 9, 2018
From: HATANAKA, TAKAHIRO
To: FUJITSU CONNECTED TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Reel/Frame 047207/0464 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-198540 · Oct 12, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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