Elan Microelectronics Corporation

Jui-Che Lin

Chao-Chi Yang

Chung-An Tang

Chung-Han Cheng

Tung-An Yao

A fingerprint sensing system has a fingerprint sensing device and a power supply circuit. The fingerprint sensing device has a high-voltage input terminal and a low-voltage input terminal. During scan phases of the fingerprint sensing device, the power supply circuit provides a first voltage to the high voltage input terminal and provides a second voltage to the low voltage input terminal. During the read phases of the fingerprint sensing device, the power supply circuit provides a third voltage to the high voltage input terminal and provides a fourth voltage to the low voltage input terminal. A first voltage difference is between the first voltage and the second voltage. A second voltage difference is between the third voltage and the fourth voltage. The first voltage difference is greater than the second voltage difference.

Operating method for a fingerprint sensing device and fingerprint sensing system

A sensing method of a fingerprint sensor includes the following steps: (a) applying a first voltage, a second voltage and a third voltage to a first node connected to an electrode plate to be measured, a second node disconnected from the first node, and a conductor adjacent to the electrode plate to be measured, respectively; (b) providing a first finger drive voltage for a finger; (c) stopping applying the first, second and third voltages to the first node, the second node and the conductor, respectively; (d) after step (c), applying a fourth voltage to the conductor, and connecting the first node to the second node; (e) after steps (b) and (c), providing a second finger drive voltage for the finger; and (f) after steps (d) and (e), obtaining a measurement result of the electrode plate to be measured according to a signal on the second node.

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Jui-Che Lin