Patent suggests how the Galaxy Note 9 in-display fingerprint sensor might work

Last updated: May 3rd, 2018 at 12:01 UTC+01:00

It has been rumored for the past couple of years that Samsung is developing an in-brandish fingerprint sensor that it'southward going to use for its flagship smartphones. The Galaxy S9 doesn't have one which leaves the Galaxy Note 9 as the only remaining Samsung flagship 2018 which may or may not get this component.

Information technology was reported concluding month that Samsung is seriously considering i of three solutions developed by Samsung Display to integrate an in-display fingerprint sensor. The company is expected to make a final decision on whether or not this component will be included in its next flagship smartphone soon.

Nevertheless some other in-display fingerprint sensor patent

Samsung has no shortage of patents detailing an in-display fingerprint sensor and another has at present surfaced online which suggests how this component might work. The module may be placed towards the bottom of the display which is where one would wait to detect it anyhow. That'south also where the display-based fingerprint sensor of the Vivo X21 UD is located.

Once the sensor receives the touch input, it volition determine the touch region respective to the input and so utilise the AMOLED display's light-emitting belongings to read the biometric information by changing the brightness around the sensor upon touch.

The method is quite like to the one used by the Synaptics Clear ID sensor on the Vivo X21 UD. Previous reports have suggested that Samsung might source the in-brandish fingerprint sensor from Synaptics but there's no confirmation nigh that merely nonetheless.

Practice proceed in listen that this is but ane of the many patents that Samsung has detailing in-brandish fingerprint sensing applied science so it can't exist taken as a confirmation that the Milky way Note 9 is indeed going to feature this component.

Many believe that it'southward high fourth dimension that Samsung introduces an in-display fingerprint sensor in its flagship smartphones every bit Chinese OEMs have already taken the pb on this. Whether or not it does that for the Galaxy Notation 9 remains to be seen.