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Company News >> Apple's new patent exposure: LCD display embedded fingerprint identification technology 26th,Apr,2018

According to a foreign technology blog AppleInsider, the US Patent and Trademark Office assigned a fingerprint identification technology patent to Apple on Thursday. This patent describes a technology that can embed fingerprint recognition technology in mobile devices. Advanced method of display device.

It is reported that this patented technology is one of the first patents submitted by the fingerprint sensor manufacturer AuthenTe Division. The inventor of this patent is Dale R. Setlak, co-founder of AuthenTec. In July 2012, Apple acquired the fingerprint sensor manufacturer for US$356 million. The industry generally believes that Apple’s acquisition of AuthenTec is paving the way for the introduction of fingerprint recognition capabilities for its next-generation mobile devices.

According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's patent documents, in the patent obtained by Apple, the fingerprint sensor can occupy all or part of the mobile device's LCD display. Therefore, the fingerprint sensor can also be used as an input method, can also be used in conjunction with other circuits, support selection functions, provide tactile feedback, or start the device. It is worth mentioning that the sensor matrix can be rigid or flexible, so it will be widely used in the future.

Apple's patented sensor technology can not only be applied to mobile devices such as the iPhone, but also can compensate for shortcomings in the current fingerprint identification technology that can not be "recognized" by "a little distance."

Current market rumors and speculations generally hold that Apple's next-generation iPhone will embed fingerprint sensor technology, but most believe that fingerprint sensors will be built into the Home key. However, from the details of the patent issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday, if Apple uses this technology on the iPhone in the future, the fingerprint sensor may be embedded on the display instead of the Home button.