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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Gregory T. Minteer, Cupertino, CA (US);
Patrick J. Landy, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ondrej Konopka, Bohemia, CZ;
Assignee:
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/0012 (2013.01);
Abstract
An electronic device may include an array of finger sensing pixels and data acquisition circuitry coupled to the array. The data acquisition circuitry may be capable of acquiring finger biometric data from each sub-array of the array, and acquiring spoof detection data from at least one of the sub-arrays in an interleaved fashion with the finger biometric data.