US 11,695,865 B2
Control of a user device under wet conditions
Sandeep Louis D'Souza, San Diego, CA (US); Vadim Winebrand, San Diego, CA (US); Mohamed Ahmed, San Marcos, CA (US); Syed Fawad Ahmad, Escondido, CA (US); Nathan Felix Altman, San Diego, CA (US); Suhail Jalil, San Diego, CA (US); Livingstone Song, San Diego, CA (US); Raj Kumar, San Diego, CA (US); David Chandler, San Diego, CA (US); Masoud Roham, San Diego, CA (US); Xin Fan, Irvine, CA (US); Lennart Karl-Axel Mathe, San Diego, CA (US); Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev, Los Gatos, CA (US); and Deep Bhatia, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/813,141.
Application 17/813,141 is a continuation of application No. 16/741,571, filed on Jan. 13, 2020, granted, now 11,394,819.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/895,955, filed on Sep. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0353360 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04M 1/72448 (2021.01)
CPC H04M 1/72448 (2021.01) [H04M 2250/12 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A user device, comprising:
a user interface that includes an ultrasonic sensor and a fingerprint scanner;
one or more memories; and
one or more processors communicatively coupled to the one or more memories, the one or more memories and the one or more processors configured to:
determine whether the user device is potentially operating under a wet condition;
configure, based at least in part on whether the user device is potentially operating under the wet condition, the ultrasonic sensor to receive an ultrasonic measurement to detect when a user is attempting to unlock the user device;
determine that the ultrasonic measurement is received under the wet condition, and
cause based at least in part on receiving the ultrasonic measurement indicating that the user is attempting to unlock the user device, the fingerprint scanner to enable an authentication process to be performed based at least in part on a scan of a finger of the user,
wherein the fingerprint scanner is configured to perform the authentication process to permit an unlock operation of the user device to be performed under the wet condition.