The disclosure relates to electronic devices, and more particularly a method and electronic device for enabling interaction using a fingerprint on display.
Generally, ubiquitous input devices like fingerprint on display (FOD) provide an interactive and fast way for a user of the electronic device to interact with applications by the help of gestures (such as for e.g., touch input, long press, etc.). As the electronic devices, such as smartphone of the user, are prone to be accessed by one or more different users with or without the user's knowledge, a demand for providing security to the electronic devices and/or the applications installed therein is increased.
The use of a fingerprint integrated with display is an emerging trend, in which a fingerprint sensor is placed underneath a touchscreen for ensuring secure interaction with the device. Using a fingerprint integrated display, various kinds of applications, especially applications based on fingerprint information, have been gradually popularized. In this context, there remains a need to define various mechanisms for interacting with an electronic device using the fingerprint information of the user.
In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, there is provided a method and electronic device for enabling interaction using a fingerprint on display.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, one or more fingerprints may be registered with one or more graphical objects.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, the one or more fingerprints may be received on a display screen of the electronic device for interacting with the one or more graphical objects.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, an action may be dynamically performed in the electronic device using the one or more fingerprints.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, one or more fingerprints may be assigned to the one or more graphical objects.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, the one or more fingerprints assigned to the one or more graphical objects may be stored.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, one or more recommendations for registering the one or more fingerprints with one or more graphical objects may be provided based on content associated with the one or more graphical objects.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, the one or more graphical objects assigned to the one or more fingerprints may be identified.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, an action may be performed in the electronic device using the one or more fingerprints.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, one or more graphical objects assigned to the one or more fingerprints may be displayed in response to detecting the one or more fingerprints.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, there is provided a method for enabling interaction on an electronic device using fingerprint on display. The method may include registering one or more fingerprints with one or more graphical objects, detecting the one or more fingerprints on a display screen of the electronic device for interacting with the one or more graphical objects and dynamically performing an action in the electronic device using the one or more fingerprints.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, registering the one or more fingerprints with one or more graphical objects may include receiving one or more fingerprints for the one or more graphical objects. The method may include assigning the received one or more fingerprints to the one or more graphical objects and storing the one or more fingerprints assigned to the one or more graphical objects.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, the electronic device may provide one or more recommendations for registering the one or more fingerprints with one or more graphical objects based on content associated with the one or more graphical objects.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, dynamically performing an action in the electronic device using the one or more fingerprints may include receiving one or more fingerprints on a display screen of the electronic device. The method may include identifying the one or more graphical objects assigned to the one or more fingerprints and performing an action in the electronic device using the one or more fingerprints.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, performing an action in the electronic device using the one or more fingerprints may include displaying one or more graphical objects assigned to the one or more fingerprints.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, performing an action in the electronic device using the one or more fingerprints may include extracting content relevant to the one or more graphical objects. The method may include rendering the extracted content.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, the method may include performing one or more actions using one or more fingerprints received on the display screen when the extracted content is being rendered.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, performing an action in the electronic device using the one or more fingerprints may include selecting at least one content in the electronic device using the one or more fingerprints. The method may include transferring the selected content to another electronic device using the one or more fingerprints.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, performing an action in the electronic device using the one or more fingerprints may include selecting one or more graphical objects in the electronic device using the one or more fingerprints. The method may include accessing the selected one or more graphical objects with the one or more fingerprints.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, performing an action in the electronic device using the one or more fingerprints may include modifying one or more the parameters of the graphical objects.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, there is provided an electronic device for enabling interaction using fingerprint on display. The electronic device may include a registration engine and an interaction engine. The registration engine may be configured to register one or more fingerprints with one or more graphical objects. The interaction engine may be configured to receive the one or more fingerprints on a display screen of the electronic device for interacting with the one or more graphical objects. Further, the interaction engine may be configured to dynamically perform an action in the electronic device using the one or more fingerprints.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, there is provided a method for operating an electronic device. The method may includes detecting at least one fingerprint from at least one touch input on a display screen, identifying an object corresponding to the at least one fingerprint, and performing at least one actions based on the object.
In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, there is provided a method for operating an electronic device. The method may include detecting a fingerprint of a finger corresponding to a touch input on a display screen, determining an operation of the electronic device corresponding to the fingerprint, and performing the operation of the electronic device.
These and other aspects of the disclosure will be better appreciated and understood when considered in conjunction with the following description and the accompanying drawings. It should be understood, however, that the following descriptions, while describing embodiments and numerous specific details thereof, are given by way of illustration and not of limitation. Many changes and modifications may be made within the scope of the embodiments herein without departing from the spirit thereof, and the embodiments herein include all such modifications.
Certain aspects of the disclosure are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, throughout which like reference letters indicate corresponding parts in the various figures. The embodiments herein will be better understood from the following description with reference to the drawings, in which:
Various embodiments of the disclosure will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description, specific details such as detailed configuration and components are provided to assist the overall understanding of these embodiments of the disclosure. Therefore, it should be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications of the embodiments described herein can be made without departing from the scope and spirit of the disclosure. In addition, descriptions of well-known functions and constructions are omitted for clarity and conciseness.
Also, the various embodiments described herein are not necessarily mutually exclusive, as some embodiments can be combined with one or more other embodiments.
Herein, the term “or” as used herein, refers to a non-exclusive or, unless otherwise indicated. The examples used herein are intended merely to facilitate an understanding of ways in which the embodiments herein can be practiced and to further enable those skilled in the art to practice the embodiments herein. Accordingly, the examples should not be construed as limiting the scope of the embodiments herein.
Expressions such as “at least one of,” when preceding a list of elements, modify the entire list of elements and do not modify the individual elements of the list. For example, the expression, “at least one of a, b, and c,” should be understood as including only a, only b, only c, both a and b, both a and c, both b and c, or all of a, b, and c.
As is traditional in the field, embodiments may be described and illustrated in terms of blocks which carry out a described function or functions. These blocks, which may be referred to herein as units, engines, manager, modules or the like, are physically implemented by analog and/or digital circuits such as logic gates, integrated circuits, microprocessors executing computer-readable instructions, microcontrollers, memory circuits, passive electronic components, active electronic components, optical components, hardwired circuits and the like, and may optionally be driven by firmware and/or software. The circuits may, for example, be embodied in one or more semiconductor chips, or on substrate supports such as printed circuit boards and the like. The circuits constituting a block may be implemented by dedicated hardware, or by a processor (e.g., one or more programmed microprocessors and associated circuitry), or by a combination of dedicated hardware to perform some functions of the block and a processor to perform other functions of the block. Each block of the embodiments may be physically separated into two or more interacting and discrete blocks without departing from the scope of the disclosure. Likewise, the blocks of the embodiments may be combined into more complex blocks without departing from the scope of the disclosure.
The embodiments herein generally provide for a method for enabling interaction on an electronic device using a fingerprint on a display. The method may include registering one or more fingerprints with one or more graphical objects. The method may include receiving the one or more fingerprints on a display screen of the electronic device for interacting with the one or more graphical objects. Further, the method may include dynamically performing an action in the electronic device using the one or more fingerprints.
The proposed method can be used for interacting with the electronic device using the fingerprint on display. With the proposed method, various fingerprints can be assigned to various graphical objects and those graphical objects can be retrieved, accessed, and/or controlled using the fingerprints on the display.
In some embodiments, the method may include detecting the fingerprint on the display and modifying various parameters (e.g.: appearance, zoom, scenes, audio mute, language) of the graphical objects.
In various embodiments, the method may include providing various recommendations for assigning the various fingerprints to the graphical objects.
Referring now to the drawings, and more particularly to
In an embodiment, fingerprint registration engine 110 can be configured to register the fingerprints of various fingers of the user, and associate the fingerprints with objects. Herein, the objects may include contents, functions, information, graphical items (icons, graphics, etc.), application components, or any combination thereof. For example, a fingerprint of the thumb is registered with a first object, a fingerprint of the index finger is registered with a second object, and a fingerprint of the middle finger is registered with a third object. More than one object may be registered with a same fingerprint.
The fingerprint registration engine 110 can be configured to detect the fingerprints of the various fingers in the user's hand and register these fingerprints of the various fingers in association with one or more objects. The fingerprint registration engine 110 can implement various conventional mechanisms for obtaining various fingerprints of the fingers in the user's hand. The fingerprint registration engine 110 can include one or more sensors and other components for obtaining the fingerprints of the user. The fingerprint registration engine 110 can be configured to store the one or more fingerprints detected from the user in a fingerprint database 110a. The various steps performed by the fingerprint registration engine are described in
The fingerprint recognition engine 120 can be configured to recognize the detected one or more fingerprints of the user. In some embodiments, the fingerprint recognition engine 120 can be configured to identify the objects associated with the one or more fingerprints of the user.
In an embodiment, the interaction engine 130 can be configured to perform one or more actions in the electronic device 100 by identifying the objects assigned to the one or more fingerprints based on the fingerprints detected on the display screen 160. The various actions performed by the interaction engine 130 based on the fingerprints detected on the display screen 160 are explained in conjunction with the figures in the later parts of the description.
The processor 140 is coupled with the interaction engine 130 and the memory 150. The processor 140 is configured to execute instructions stored in the memory 150 and to perform various actions for providing the context based multimodal predictions. The memory 150 also stores instructions to be executed by the processor 140. The memory 150 may include non-volatile storage elements. Although the fingerprint database 110a is illustrated as being a component of the fingerprint registration engine, the fingerprint database 110 may be stored in the memory 150 and accessed by the fingerprint registration engine 110.
The display screen 160 in combination with one or more other components of the electronic device 100, such as the fingerprint registration engine 110, the fingerprint recognition engine 120 and the processor 140, can be configured to detect fingerprints and to display the objects. Further, the display screen 160 can be configured to display UI changes based on the detected fingerprints of the user.
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At step 204, the electronic device 100 identifies an object corresponding to the fingerprint. Specifically, the electronic device 100 identifies the fingerprint by matching a captured fingerprint to one of registered fingerprints, and retrieves the object in a database including mapping information related to objects and fingerprints. The mapping information may be defined for each application. For example, depending on an application, the fingerprints may correspond to graphical objects (e.g. a character, or a component of graphic model), functions (e.g., zoom in/out, or blurring), information (e.g., an identifier), interface items (e.g., virtual keys), states of the electronic device 100 (e.g., lock/unlock, or a mode) and so on.
At step 206, the electronic device 100 performs at least one action based on the object. The electronic device 100 performs at least one action related to the identified object. In various embodiments, the identified object may be used as at least one of a lookup parameter, a command, an address, a classifier and so on. For example, the electronic device 100 may reproduce a portion corresponding to the object in a video, store or transmit data to a destination corresponding to the object, display a user interface (UI) corresponding to the object, transition a mode corresponding to the object, apply a modification corresponding to the object to contents, or perform a function corresponding to the object.
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When the graphical objects are considered as human faces, each human face can be assigned to each fingerprint of the thumb, the index finger and the little finger. As illustrated in the
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At step 404, the electronic device 100 detects the one or more fingerprints on a display screen 160 for interacting with the one or more graphical objects. The fingerprint recognition engine 120 detects the one or more fingerprints on the display screen 160 of the electronic device 100 for interacting with the one or more graphical objects.
At step 406, the electronic device 100 performs an action using the one or more fingerprints. The interaction engine 130 dynamically performs an action in the electronic device 100 using the one or more fingerprints.
The various actions, acts, blocks, steps, or the like in the flow diagram 300 may be performed in the order presented, in a different order or simultaneously. Further, in some embodiments, some of the actions, acts, blocks, steps, or the like may be omitted, added, modified, skipped, or the like without departing from the scope of the invention.
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At step 414, the electronic device 100 assigns the detected one or more fingerprints to the one or more graphical objects. The fingerprint registration engine 110 assigns the detected one or more fingerprints to the one or more graphical objects.
At step 416, the electronic device 100 stores the one or more fingerprints assigned to the one or more graphical objects. The fingerprint registration engine 110 stores the one or more fingerprints assigned to the one or more graphical objects in the fingerprint database 110a.
The various actions, acts, blocks, steps, or the like in the flow diagram 400 may be performed in the order presented, in a different order or simultaneously. Further, in some embodiments, some of the actions, acts, blocks, steps, or the like may be omitted, added, modified, skipped, or the like without departing from the scope of the invention.
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Further, when the user taps on the second electronic device 100b using the fingerprints, the server 600 transfers the selected graphical objects to the second electronic device as shown in the
In some embodiments, the electronic device 100 provides various recommendations to the user for registering the fingerprint(s) based on usage pattern of the graphical objects.
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The embodiments disclosed herein can be implemented through at least one software program running on at least one hardware device and performing network management functions to control the elements. The elements shown in
The foregoing description of the specific embodiments will so fully reveal the general nature of the embodiments herein that others can, by applying current knowledge, readily modify and/or adapt for various applications such specific embodiments without departing from the generic concept, and, therefore, such adaptations and modifications should and are intended to be comprehended within the meaning and range of equivalents of the disclosed embodiments. It is to be understood that the phraseology or terminology employed herein is for the purpose of description and not of limitation. Therefore, while the embodiments herein have been described in terms of preferred embodiments, those skilled in the art will recognize that the embodiments herein can be practiced with modification within the spirit and scope of the embodiments as described herein.
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