Electronic device including finger-operated input device based biometric matching and related methods

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9348987-B2
Application number	US-201213451280-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 19, 2012
Priority date	Apr 19, 2012
Publication date	May 24, 2016
Grant date	May 24, 2016

Abstract

An electronic device may include a finger-operated input device, and a finger sensor carried by the finger-operated input device to sense a user's finger. The electronic device may further include a processor to perform applications and perform at least one device function responsive to an operation of the finger-operated input device. The processor may acquire finger-matching biometric data of the user's finger responsive to each operation of the finger-operated input device. The processor may further authenticate the user based upon an authentication request from one of the applications. The authentication may be based upon a match of most recently acquired finger-matching biometric data and finger-enrollment biometric data.

First claim

That which is claimed is:

1. An electronic device comprising:
a finger-operated input device;
a finger sensor carried by said finger-operated input device to sense a user's finger; and
a processor to
perform a plurality of applications,
perform at least one menu function responsive to an operation of said finger-operated input device,
acquire finger-enrollment biometric data of the user's finger response to each of a plurality of operations of said finger sensor without p…

Assignees

• Boshra Michael
• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Boshra Michael

Classifications

• G06F2221/2139

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F21/32 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic