US 12,189,940 B2
Fingerprint encoded gesture initiation of device actions
Amit Kumar Agrawal, Bangalore (IN); Manoj Jain, Bangalore (IN); and Varun Shrivastava, Bengaluru (IN)
Assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed by Motorola Mobility LLC, Chicago, IL (US)
Filed on Mar. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/190,667.
Prior Publication US 2024/0329827 A1, Oct. 3, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2022.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06V 40/12 (2022.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/04883 (2013.01) [G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06V 40/12 (2022.01); G06V 40/172 (2022.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computing device, comprising:
a display screen with an integrated fingerprint sensor area; and
a content control module implemented at least partially in hardware and configured to:
segment the integrated fingerprint sensor area of the computing device into two or more segments, each segment associated with a respective user profile;
receive, by the integrated fingerprint sensor area, an input including a touch-based gesture to a particular segment of the two or more segments that includes a sequence of strokes to define a text string-based input;
generate fingerprint identity information based on the input by sampling two or more instances of fingerprint data at two or more spatial locations of the sequence of strokes and comparing the two or more instances of fingerprint data to one another;
determine that the fingerprint identity information is associated with a user of the computing device;
determine a user profile from a set of user profiles associated with the fingerprint identity information based on the touch-based gesture and the particular segment of the two or more segments;
infer an action for performance by the computing device based on the text string-based input defined by the sequence of strokes, the touch-based gesture being located within the particular segment, and the determined user profile; and
perform the action by the computing device, the action particular to the determined user profile.