Apparatus and method for a biometric sensor in a handheld mobile wireless communication device
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1. A mobile wireless communication device, comprising:
- a handheld device, wherein the handheld device is of a type of a smart phone or a tablet computer, the device has a top side and a bottom side, the topside has a display screen for displaying images and a touch screen that is overlaid over the display screen, and wherein the touch screen simultaneously detects multiple finger touch points, using a capacitive touch sense, for touch control of the device'"'"'s operations;
the device has a processor and a memory and a biometric capture logic stored in the memory and executing in the processor, wherein the biometric capture logic, when activated in the device, causes a temporary display of a touch area, wherein the touch area is displayed on any part of the touch screen that has been pre-selected by a user and visually identifies a space on that part of the touch screen; and
the biometric capture logic, when the user'"'"'s thumb pad or the finger pad is positioned flat on the touch area, detects a gross touch on the touch area, when the aggregate electrical charge collected from the gross touch exceeds a threshold;
the biometric capture logic, when the aggregate charge of the gross touch exceeds the threshold, the biometric capture logic collects a biometric sample of the fingerprint or the thumbprint of a user in the form of a grid of electrical charge values representative of the fingerprint or the thumbprint from the touch area of the part of the touch screen itself.
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A smart phone device has a display screen overlaid by a touch screen and a processor and a memory in the device hosting functions to perform display and touch functions. A logic executing in the processor in the device programmed to use a part of the touch screen as a biometric sensor. The logic sets aside a space on the touch screen for that specific space to function as the biometric sensor. The biometric sensor configured to use and uses either a finger of the hand or a thumb and thus captures either a fingerprint or a separate and distinct thumbprint, where a fingerprint and a thumbprint are different biometric samples.
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1. A mobile wireless communication device, comprising:
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a handheld device, wherein the handheld device is of a type of a smart phone or a tablet computer, the device has a top side and a bottom side, the topside has a display screen for displaying images and a touch screen that is overlaid over the display screen, and wherein the touch screen simultaneously detects multiple finger touch points, using a capacitive touch sense, for touch control of the device'"'"'s operations; the device has a processor and a memory and a biometric capture logic stored in the memory and executing in the processor, wherein the biometric capture logic, when activated in the device, causes a temporary display of a touch area, wherein the touch area is displayed on any part of the touch screen that has been pre-selected by a user and visually identifies a space on that part of the touch screen; and the biometric capture logic, when the user'"'"'s thumb pad or the finger pad is positioned flat on the touch area, detects a gross touch on the touch area, when the aggregate electrical charge collected from the gross touch exceeds a threshold; the biometric capture logic, when the aggregate charge of the gross touch exceeds the threshold, the biometric capture logic collects a biometric sample of the fingerprint or the thumbprint of a user in the form of a grid of electrical charge values representative of the fingerprint or the thumbprint from the touch area of the part of the touch screen itself. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A thumbprint biometric sensor device comprising:
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an electronic device with a CPU and a memory and a display screen that displays images and wherein the display screen is overlaid with a touch screen with a grid of capacitive touch points, wherein the touch screen simultaneously detects multiple touch points, and wherein the grid density of the capacitive touch points is substantially 250 pixels per inch; a biometric capture logic stored in the memory and executing in the CPU causes a temporary display on the display screen a marked surface area, wherein the location of the marked surface area on the touch screen is user selectable and having a length and width dimension that accommodates at least a placement of a human thumb flat on the marked surface area to facilitate capture of a thumbprint from the marked surface area; the capture logic detects a gross touch on any part of the marked surface area, based on the gross touch exceeding an energy threshold, when the user'"'"'s thumb pad is positioned flat on the marked surface area and a duration of the touch exceeding a time threshold, wherein the biometric capture logic using the placement of the thumb on the marked surface area collects a thumbprint biometric sample in the form of a grid of capacitance charge values. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for thumbprint biometric sensor device comprising the steps of:
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providing an electronic device with a CPU and a memory and a display screen for displaying images overlaid with a touch screen with a grid of capacitive touch points, wherein the touch screen simultaneously detects multiple touch points, and wherein the grid density of the capacitive touch points is substantially 250 pixels per inch; storing in the memory and executing in the CPU a biometric capture logic, displaying by the capture logic on the display screen a marked surface area, wherein the location of the marked surface area on the touch screen is user selectable and having a length and width dimension that accommodates at least a placement of a human thumb flat on the marked surface area to facilitate capture of a thumbprint from the marked surface area; detecting by the capture logic a gross touch on any part of the marked surface area, based on the gross touch exceeding an energy threshold, when the user'"'"'s thumb pad is positioned flat on the marked surface area and a duration of the touch exceeding a time threshold, wherein the biometric capture logic using the placement of the thumb on the marked surface area collects a thumbprint biometric sample in the form of a grid of capacitance charge values. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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