AuthenTec "Smart Sensor" appears key to Apple's urgent acquisition - Page 2

Originally Posted by diplication 
Depends on the level of frostbite...

I've unlocked and passworded my iPhone before with my nose when my fingers were too cold to register presses.

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Originally Posted by allenbf 

Sounds awesome.  I can use a different finger to automatically dial a specific person, without flipping to the contact list.  My mother in law is definitely going to be the middle finger.

I loled. 

my guess - pressure sensitivity response, but with no need for added thickness/weight for real pressure sensing electronics or parts. 

basically - this technology would be used to detect level of distortion of a fingerprint pattern due to amount of pressure applied by the user. more distortion = more pressure. 

pressure can be a very useful input. emotional music for one thing. or, faster scrolling with a harder push? endless possibilities. 

I am reminded of this patent reported on patently apple:

Your article mentions that it can work from underneath a protective layer, so perhaps it will be under a screen or trackpad. This would be great for things like a fast/secure unlock or NFC based payments, i.e. "Just swipe to approve payment." They could even integrate a password manager into Safari where you just swipe to enter login and password on a site.

Some of the blackberrys have what looks like home-like button but really its an an optical mouse.  You move your finger over the button and it moves a cursor on the screen.  I would welcome that on an iphone/ipad.

Clement

Great. Now Apple will require my fingerprint to access their insecure cloud. I can change passwords when Apple's security fails, but not my fingerprint.

So I wonder how they test the claim that a dead person's finger wouldn't work...  

There's a scene in The Avengers where Tony Stark is setting up the lab with Bruce Banner. He holds his finger stationary on an on-screen button for several seconds while it verifies his identity. In the meantime, a pie chart fills up denoting the amount of time requires (kinda like how Xbox Kinect makes you hover on top of an icon you want to select)

I could see a similar thing with iPhone. A quick tap could lead to a lot of false positives.

Originally Posted by Unicron 
There's a scene in The Avengers where Tony Stark is setting up the lab with Bruce Banner. He holds his finger stationary on an on-screen button for several seconds while it verifies his identity. In the meantime, a pie chart fills up denoting the amount of time requires (kinda like how Xbox Kinect makes you hover on top of an icon you want to select)

 

I could see a similar thing with iPhone. A quick tap could lead to a lot of false positives.

WHOOP, prior art. Apple can't use it now. 

Old thread I know, but as some other previosuly mentioned..  I think this would be great if this would actually going to serve as a combination "swipe to unlock" *and* the authorization? It would be completely seamless to the user.

( Assuming this sensor was fully integrated into the main screen )

That would be beyond awesome....

You could even keep the existing pin access method to but enhance it with fingerprint identification, so that with each quick touch, the sensor could get slightly different data to get a more sophisticated amount of data from your fingerprint. So instead of just getting one fingerprint, you'd actually get 4 or 5 or whatever of the same finger at slightly differing positions.

Giving the program multiple opportunities to weed out bad samples, and the user would never know.

Magic.