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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2015
Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;
Jie Seol, Seoul, KR;
Soyeon Yim, Seoul, KR;
LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A mobile terminal according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a display unit including a fingerprint recognizable area in which a fingerprint can be recognized, and a fingerprint non-recognition area in which the fingerprint cannot be recognized; a fingerprint recognition sensor embedded on the lower end of the display unit so as to correspond to the fingerprint recognizable area, and recognizing the fingerprint inputted to the display unit; and a control unit for controlling the fingerprint recognition sensor such that the fingerprint inputted simultaneously with a drag operation is recognized if the drag operation, of moving the finger from any one of the fingerprint recognizable area and the fingerprint non-recognition area to the other one while making contact therewith, is inputted into the display unit, and for executing a security home screen or a basic home screen according to whether fingerprint authentication performed on the basis of the fingerprint recognized by the fingerprint recognition sensor has been successful.