Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electronic device including finger sensor having orientation based authentication and related methods
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Application No.: US14531306Application Date: 2014-11-03
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Publication No.: US09652657B2Publication Date: 2017-05-16
- Inventor: Mark Allen Heilpern
- Applicant: APPLE INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: APPLE INC.
- Current Assignee: APPLE INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06K9/32 ; G06F21/32

Abstract:
An electronic device may include a housing, and a finger sensor carried by the housing to sense a user's finger placement at different rotational angles. The electronic device may also include an orientation sensor carried by the housing to sense an orientation thereof, and a processor coupled to the finger sensor and the orientation sensor. The processor may acquire finger-matching biometric data of the user's finger at an unknown rotational angle relative to a known rotational angle of finger-enrollment data, generate an estimated rotational angle of the acquired finger-matching biometric data and based upon a sensed orientation of the housing, and attempt an authentication of the user based upon the estimated acquired rotational angle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150049926A1 ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING FINGER SENSOR HAVING ORIENTATION BASED AUTHENTICATION AND RELATED METHODS Public/Granted day:2015-02-19
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