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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
May. 13, 2014
Applicant:
Htc Corporation, Taoyuan, Taoyuan County, TW;
Inventors:
Chia-Jun Chia, Taoyuan, TW;
Tsung-Pao Kuan, Taoyuan, TW;
Assignee:
HTC CORPORATION, Taoyuan, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06K 9/22 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00087 (2013.01); G06F 1/1684 (2013.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06K 9/0002 (2013.01); G06K 9/228 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2105 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hand-held electronic device hand-held electronic device. A sensing surface is adopted to detect fingerprints and a contact of an object on the sensing surface. Storage stores a fingerprint signature. A controller is configured to determine whether a composition of detected fingerprints matches with the fingerprint signature and determine at least one character of the contact. The at least one character comprises a location on which the object contacts the sensing surface.