US 9,176,614 B2 · Adapative sensing component resolution based on touch location authentication

Abstract

A display component (108) displays multiple icons that a user can touch. A sensing component (104) supports multiple resolution modes, including at least a high resolution mode and a low resolution mode. In one embodiment, in response to detecting an object touching one of the multiple icons while in the low resolution mode, at least a portion of the sensing component over the touched icon changes to operating in a high resolution mode. While in the high resolution mode, the user's fingerprint is sensed, and then the sensing component is returned to the low resolution mode. In another embodiment, icons are displayed in different regions of a display, and those different regions are associated with different sensing component resolutions. When an icon is touched, the touch is detected by the sensing component using the sensing component resolution associated with the region that includes the icon.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

displaying, by a display of a device, multiple icons;
activating, by the device, in a low resolution mode, a sensing component of the device for detecting touches at the display;
while the sensing component operates in the low resolution mode, detecting, by the device, an object touching a location of the display at which a particular icon from the multiple icons is displayed;
determining, by the device, that the particular icon is associated with a higher resolution mode of the sensing component, the higher resolution mode being of greater resolution than the low resolution mode;
and
responsive to detecting the object touching the location of the display at which the particular icon is displayed, activating, by the device, in the higher resolution mode, at least one area of the sensing component that corresponds to the location of the display at which the particular icon is displayed.

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A device comprising:

a display control module configured to display multiple icons at a display;
a sensing component operable in multiple resolution modes including a low resolution mode and a higher resolution mode, the higher resolution mode being of greater resolution than the low resolution mode;
and
a sensing component control module configured to:
while the sensing component operates in a low resolution mode, detect an object touching a location of the display at which a particular icon from the multiple icons is displayed;
determine that the particular icon is associated with the higher resolution mode of the sensing component;
and
responsive to detecting the object touching the location of the display at which the particular icon is displayed, activate, in the higher resolution mode, at least one area of the sensing component that corresponds to the location of the display at which the particular icon is displayed.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Adapative sensing component resolution based on touch location authentication

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Adapative sensing component resolution based on touch location authentication

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Abstract

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