Information processing unit

• US 20060003821A1
• Filed: 08/24/2005
• Published: 01/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Yamashita, Naoto, Inamitsu, Kazutoyo
• Granted Patent: US 7,321,758 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/575.300
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/13 Sensors therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/1335 Combining adjacent partial images (e.g. slices) to create a composite input or reference pattern; Tracking a sweeping finger movement
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/63 by static guides
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/67 by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10

Abstract

The present invention relates to an information processing unit, such as a mobile phone, equipped with a fingerprint sensor and reconciles size reduction with operability at a high level. The present invention is provided, adjacent to a operation panel, with a V-shaped groove which contains a first slope stretching away from the operation panel and slanting downward and a second slope stretching further away from the operation panel and slanting upward, where the V-shaped groove contains a fingerprint sweep sensor which detects a fingerprint on a finger moved along the first slope and the second slope.

Claims

1. An information processing unit which comprises a casing equipped with a control pad, wherein:

the casing comprises, adjacent to the control pad, a groove which contains a first slope stretching away from the control pad and slanting downward and a second slope stretching further away from the control pad and slanting upward;

the groove comprises a fingerprint sensor which detects a fingerprint on a finger moved along the first slope and the second slope; and

the first slope and the second slope have mutually different tilt angles.

2. The information processing unit according to claim 1, wherein the first slope has a larger tilt angle than the second slope.

3. The information processing unit according to claim 1, wherein the fingerprint sensor is a fingerprint sweep sensor.

4. The information processing unit according to claim 3, wherein the fingerprint sweep sensor has a surface protruding above an inner surface of the groove.

5. The information processing unit according to claim 3, wherein the fingerprint sweep sensor is located in the groove in such a way as to hide a ridge line where an extension surface of the first slope and an extension surface of the second slope meet.