Method and apparatus for fingerprint identification and electronic device
AssigneeShenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.
InventorRongying Hu
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Abstract
Provided are a method and apparatus for fingerprint identification and an electronic device, which could increase a speed of fingerprint identification. The method is applied to an electronic device including M fingerprint sensors, and the method includes: acquiring pressing information of a finger in a fingerprint detecting region; determining a target sub-region among N sub-regions according to the pressing information, where the N sub-regions cover the fingerprint detecting region, M and N are positive integers greater than 1, and N>M; and determining a data acquiring region according to the target sub-region, where fingerprint data in the data acquiring region is used for fingerprint identification.
Claims20
A method for fingerprint identification, wherein the method is applied to an electronic device comprising M fingerprint sensors, each fingerprint sensor corresponds to one sensing region, sensing regions of the M fingerprint sensors constitute a fingerprint detecting region of the electronic device, and the method comprises:
- acquiring pressing information of a finger in the fingerprint detecting region;
- determining a target sub-region among N sub-regions according to the pressing information, wherein the N sub-regions cover the fingerprint detecting region, M and N are positive integers greater than 1, and N>M, the N sub-regions comprise a sub-region that at least partially overlaps with a sensing region of only one fingerprint sensor and a sub-region that at least partially overlaps with sensing regions of a plurality of fingerprint sensors;
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- determining a data acquiring region according to the target sub-region, where fingerprint data in the data acquiring region is used for fingerprint identification.
An apparatus for fingerprint identification, wherein the apparatus comprises a processor and a fingerprint module comprising M fingerprint sensors, each fingerprint sensor corresponds to one sensing region, and sensing regions of the M fingerprint sensors constitute a fingerprint detecting region of the apparatus, and the processor is configured to:
- acquire pressing information of a finger in the fingerprint detecting region;
- determine a target sub-region among N sub-regions according to the pressing information, wherein the N sub-regions cover the fingerprint detecting region, M and N are positive integers greater than 1, and N>M, the N sub-regions comprise a sub-region that at least partially overlaps with a sensing region of only one fingerprint sensor and a sub-region that at least partially overlaps with sensing regions of a plurality of fingerprint sensors;
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- determine a data acquiring region according to the target sub-region, wherein fingerprint data in the data acquiring region is used for fingerprint identification.
An electronic device comprising an apparatus for fingerprint identification, wherein the apparatus comprises a processor and a fingerprint module comprising M fingerprint sensors, each fingerprint sensor corresponds to one sensing region, and sensing regions of the M fingerprint sensors constitute a fingerprint detecting region of the apparatus, and the processor is configured to:
- acquire pressing information of a finger in the fingerprint detecting region;
- determine a target sub-region among N sub-regions according to the pressing information, wherein the N sub-regions cover the fingerprint detecting region, M and N are positive integers greater than 1, and N>M, the N sub-regions comprise a sub-region that at least partially overlaps with a sensing region of only one fingerprint sensor and a sub-region that at least partially overlaps with sensing regions of a plurality of fingerprint sensors;
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- determine a data acquiring region according to the target sub-region, wherein fingerprint data in the data acquiring region is used for fingerprint identification.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.