Tuesday 26 November 2013

Apple patent application: fingerprint sensor as an input device

Apple is considering a number of applications on a fingerprint scanner, go well beyond authentication and unlocking iPhone 5s. This is a broad patent application by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) group have now been published.

Total 464 claims (the "claims") protected many Apple want to get fingerprint scanner management concepts. Or iPhone 5s in the technology described in the patent application in the button or touch the part of the screen.

Finger-a-bruck-scanner can control, for example, service-specific functionality, operating system applications, fingers wiping motion sensors, such as multi-tasking bar, writes Apple-this seems to be the home button press. He was also used as mini-trackpad to control applications, the group carry-for example, moving around the area in the maps application. To switch between different user profiles by fingerprint authentication to lead iPhone manufacturer out there.

Apple describes the integrated fingerprint sensor on the screen-this may be "reduced sensitivity" to work as before or in the mode "increased sensitivity". Only authorized users for the certain apps on the Windows main screen, such as email clients or news software, the other application will open freely accessible areas of the screen could run a sensitivity to the different, writes the Apple.

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