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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2015
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Jeong-Ho Cho, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Jeong-Min Park, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Do-Hyoung Chung, Seoul, KR;
Ki-Hong Min, Seoul, KR;
Dong-Han Lee, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, , KR;
Abstract
A method of operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting a plurality of fingerprint drags after a touch on a portion of the electronic device, wherein each of the plurality of fingerprint drags is a consecutive drag from a previous drag and each of the plurality of fingerprint drags has a different orientation from each other; and identifying a fingerprint based on a plurality of images acquired from the plurality of fingerprint drags, wherein each of the plurality of images is compared with corresponding portion of a reference image.