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US 11,132,523 · App. 16/833,472 · Granted Sep 28, 2021

Method and apparatus for fingerprint identification and electronic device

Inventor: Rongying Hu (Shenzhen, CN)
Assignee: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
G06K9/0002G06F21/32
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Patent No.
US 11,132,523
App. No.
16/833,472
Granted
Sep 28, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are a method and apparatus for fingerprint identification and an electronic device, which could increase a speed of fingerprint identification. The method is applied to an electronic device including M fingerprint sensors, and the method includes: acquiring pressing information of a finger in a fingerprint detecting region; determining a target sub-region among N sub-regions according to the pressing information, where the N sub-regions cover the fingerprint detecting region, M and N are positive integers greater than 1, and N>M; and determining a data acquiring region according to the target sub-region, where fingerprint data in the data acquiring region is used for fingerprint identification.

Claims (23)

1. A method for fingerprint identification, wherein the method is applied to an electronic device comprising M fingerprint sensors, each fingerprint sensor corresponds to one sensing region, sensing regions of the M fingerprint sensors constitute a fingerprint detecting region of the electronic device, and the method comprises:

acquiring fingerprint data in a data acquiring region, wherein the data acquiring region is determined according to a target sub-region of N sub-regions, the target sub-region is determined according to pressing information of a finger in the fingerprint detecting region, the N sub-regions cover the fingerprint detecting region, M and N are positive integers and N>M, the N sub-regions comprise a sub-region that at least partially overlaps with a sensing region of only one fingerprint sensor and a sub-region that at least partially overlaps with sensing regions of a plurality of fingerprint sensors, and the fingerprint data in the data acquiring region is used for fingerprint identification.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the pressing information comprises a center of gravity of pressing of the finger, and the target sub-region is a region where the center of gravity of pressing is located.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein an area of the data acquiring region is equal to an area of a sensing region of one fingerprint sensor.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein when the target sub-region at least partially overlaps with a sensing region of only one fingerprint sensor, at least one fingerprint sensor acquiring the fingerprint data is the fingerprint sensor whose sensing region overlaps with the target sub-region, and the data acquiring region is the sensing region of the fingerprint sensor.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein when the target sub-region at least partially overlaps with sensing regions of a plurality of fingerprint sensors, at least one fingerprint sensor acquiring the fingerprint data is the plurality of fingerprint sensors whose sensing regions overlap with the target sub-region, and the data acquiring region is constituted by parts of the respective sensing regions of the plurality of fingerprint sensors.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein when the target sub-region at least partially overlaps with sensing regions of K fingerprint sensors adjacent to each other, the data acquiring region comprises 1/K of each of the sensing regions of the K fingerprint sensors, K≤M.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the N sub-regions do not overlap with each other.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the M fingerprint sensors are arranged in a single row or in an array.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein when the M fingerprint sensors are arranged in a single row, the N sub-regions are arranged in a single row, N=2M−1, wherein the 2i+1-th sub-region covers sensing regions of respective edge portions of two adjacent fingerprint sensors, and the 2i-th sub-region only covers a sensing region of a middle portion of one fingerprint sensor, 1≤i≤(N−1)/2.

10. The method according to claim 8 , wherein when the M fingerprint sensors comprise m rows×n columns of fingerprint sensors, the N sub-regions comprise (m+1) rows×(n+1) columns of sub-regions, wherein sub-regions in the first and last rows and the first and last columns of the N sub-regions cover a sensing region of an edge portion of one fingerprint sensor or sensing regions of respective edge portions of two adjacent fingerprint sensors, and sub-regions other than the sub-regions in the first and last rows and the first and last columns cover sensing regions of respective edge portions of four fingerprint sensors adjacent to each other.

11. An apparatus for fingerprint identification, wherein the apparatus comprises M fingerprint sensors, each fingerprint sensor corresponds to one sensing region, and sensing regions of the M fingerprint sensors constitute a fingerprint detecting region of the apparatus,

wherein at least one fingerprint sensor of the M fingerprint sensors is configured to acquire fingerprint data in a data acquiring region, wherein the data acquiring region is determined according to a target sub-region of N sub-regions, the target sub-region is determined according to pressing information of a finger in the fingerprint detecting region, the N sub-regions cover the fingerprint detecting region, M and N are positive integers and N>M, the N sub-regions comprise a sub-region that at least partially overlaps with a sensing region of only one fingerprint sensor and a sub-region that at least partially overlaps with sensing regions of a plurality of fingerprint sensors, and the fingerprint data in the data acquiring region is used for fingerprint identification.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the pressing information comprises a center of gravity of pressing of the finger, and the target sub-region is a region where the center of gravity of pressing is located.

13. The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein an area of the data acquiring region is equal to an area of a sensing region of one fingerprint sensor.

14. The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein when the target sub-region at least partially overlaps with a sensing region of only one fingerprint sensor, the at least one fingerprint sensor is the fingerprint sensor whose sensing region overlaps with the target sub-region, and the data acquiring region is the sensing region of the fingerprint sensor.

15. The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein when the target sub-region at least partially overlaps with sensing regions of a plurality of fingerprint sensors, the at least one fingerprint sensor is the plurality of fingerprint sensors whose sensing regions overlap with the target sub-region, and the data acquiring region is constituted by parts of the respective sensing regions of the plurality of fingerprint sensors.

16. The apparatus according to claim 15 , wherein when the target sub-region at least partially overlaps with sensing regions of K fingerprint sensors adjacent to each other, the data acquiring region comprises 1/K of each of the sensing regions of the K fingerprint sensors, K≤M.

17. The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the N sub-regions do not overlap with each other, and the M fingerprint sensors are arranged in a single row or in an array.

18. The apparatus according to claim 17 , wherein when the M fingerprint sensors are arranged in a single row, the N sub-regions are arranged in a single row, N=2M−1, wherein the 2i+1-th sub-region covers sensing regions of respective edge portions of two adjacent fingerprint sensors, and the 2i-th sub-region only covers a sensing region of a middle portion of one fingerprint sensor, 1≤i≤(N−1)/2.

19. The apparatus according to claim 17 , wherein when the M fingerprint sensors comprise m rows×n columns of fingerprint sensors, the N sub-regions comprise (m+1) rows×(n+1) columns of sub-regions, wherein sub-regions in the first and last rows and the first and last columns of the N sub-regions cover a sensing region of an edge portion of one fingerprint sensor or sensing regions of respective edge portions of two fingerprint sensors, and sub-regions other than the sub-regions in the first and last rows and the first and last columns cover sensing regions of respective edge portions of four fingerprint sensors adjacent to each other.

20. An electronic device, wherein the electronic device comprises an apparatus for fingerprint identification, the apparatus comprises M fingerprint sensors, each fingerprint sensor corresponds to one sensing region, and sensing regions of the M fingerprint sensors constitute a fingerprint detecting region of the apparatus,

wherein at least one fingerprint sensor of the M fingerprint sensors is configured to acquire fingerprint data in a data acquiring region, wherein the data acquiring region is determined according to a target sub-region of N sub-regions, the target sub-region is determined according to pressing information of a finger in the fingerprint detecting region, the N sub-regions cover the fingerprint detecting region, M and N are positive integers and N>M, the N sub-regions comprise a sub-region that at least partially overlaps with a sensing region of only one fingerprint sensor and a sub-region that at least partially overlaps with sensing regions of a plurality of fingerprint sensors, and the fingerprint data in the data acquiring region is used for fingerprint identification.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 27, 2020
From: HU, RONGYING
To: SHENZHEN GOODIX TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
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Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2019087107 · May 15, 2019
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