Pressing fingerprint identification technology is a patent issue of intellectual property rights.
AuthenTec is the world's most famous fingerprint authentication sensor and solution provider, and has developed a push-type fingerprint identification technology combined with Home button. IPhone5s and iPhone6 are its representative products. In the smart phone war between Apple and Samsung, the housekeeping means is to conduct early mergers and acquisitions of new companies, take new technologies for yourself, and prevent competitors from using them. As early as 20 12, Apple was keenly aware of the great prospect of fingerprint identification technology, and decisively spent $356 million to acquire Authentec. After the completion of the acquisition transaction, Apple immediately stopped Authentec's external product sales and technical services, blocked competitors' access to its press fingerprint identification, and won an unparalleled patent victory.
Since then, the push-type fingerprint identification module developed by AuthenTec can only be supplied to Apple alone, and other mobile phone manufacturers have to find another way out in the face of the iPhone that monopolizes fingerprint identification patents.
I won't leave you here, but I have my own place. Huawei once snapped up the flagship model Mate7 for half a year and found another supplier.
Since the front doesn't work, try the back. Sweden's fingerprint card AB (industry collectively referred to as FPC) company is also committed to the research, development, production and sales of biometric components and technologies, and has developed the fingerprint identification scheme of FPC 1020, cleverly avoiding the Home key patent of iPhone series. You can recognize the unlocking by gently placing your finger in the unlocking area. This contact fingerprint identification module is excellent, but the sensor is bulky and can only be placed on the back of the fuselage. Relying on the unique patented technology of FPC solution, Huawei Mate7, Mate8, Red Rice note3 and other mobile phones equipped with rear fingerprint modules have faster unlocking time and higher recognition rate.
In addition, in the fingerprint identification industry, China Ding Hui has also developed a set of low-voltage drive technology solutions. Ding Hui's GT66X8 fingerprint identification module has a unique patented technology of finger flash mode. In practical experience, there is no sensory difference between several different fingerprint identification schemes, but the technical difference lies in the noise reduction ratio of the sensor. Apple's touch ID is driven by high voltage to improve the signal-to-noise ratio. The general working voltage is 18V, but when we use the iPhone6, we only activate the touch ID when necessary. Ding Hui and other manufacturers realize this by optimizing the front-end circuit design. Generally, the working voltage is only 2.8V~3.3V The completely different technical methods belong to the technical scheme of low-voltage driving.
Bypassing Apple's exclusive patent, FPC and Ding Hui realized the same experience with different R&D patented technologies. From the dominance of the iPhone to the present, the market is full of flowers. The patent ownership of intellectual property rights has constructed a two-way effect of benign development in the field of fingerprint identification. While protecting the unique patent first-Mover advantage of iPhone, it also prompted other manufacturers to invest in R&D, which finally set off a great leap forward in fingerprint identification technology and formed a prosperous scene in the field of fingerprint identification.