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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2013
Synaptics Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Erik Jonathon Thompson, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Frank Schwab, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Anthony P. Russo, New York, NY (US);
Bjoren Davis, Boston, MA (US);
Charles Bellman, Tempe, AZ (US);
Gregory Lewis Dean, Standish, ME (US);
Philip Yiu Kwong Chan, Fremont, CA (US);
Jaswinder Jandu, Chandler, AZ (US);
Synaptics Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for conserving power during navigation, e.g., user device pointer/cursor navigation, using a fingerprint image sensor, that may comprise processing, via a computing device, fingerprint image sensor data indicative of finger position and movement with respect to a fingerprint image sensor surface in a finger navigation mode to determine if the finger is in a first finger navigation mode; processing, via the computing device, fingerprint image sensor data indicative of finger position and movement with respect to a fingerprint image sensor surface in a finger navigation mode to determine if the finger is in a second finger navigation mode; and transitioning, via the computing device, the fingerprint image sensor from a first power consumption mode to a second power consumption mode, based on detecting a transition from the first finger navigation mode to the second finger navigation mode.