Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fingerprint sensors and electronic devices having the same
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Application No.: US15067506Application Date: 2016-03-11
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Publication No.: US09916490B2Publication Date: 2018-03-13
- Inventor: Choong-Hoon Lee
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR
- Agency: Onello & Mello, LLP
- Priority: KR10-2015-0113580 20150812
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; H03M1/10 ; H03M1/12

Abstract:
A fingerprint sensor includes a pixel array, an offset cancellation circuit, a correlated double sampling and integration circuit, a sample and hold circuit, and an analog-to-digital converter. The pixel array includes unit pixels arranged in rows and columns, each of which generates an analog signal by detecting a fingerprint of a user. The offset cancellation circuit receives the analog signal from the unit pixels through a plurality of column lines, and outputs one of the analog signal and an offset cancellation signal as an integration signal based on an offset control signal. The correlated double sampling and integration circuit accumulatively performs a correlated double sampling operation and an integration operation on the integration signal to generate an accumulation signal. The sample and hold circuit samples the accumulation signal based on a hold signal to generate a sampling signal. The analog-to-digital converter converts the sampling signal to a digital signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170046551A1 FINGERPRINT SENSORS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICES HAVING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2017-02-16
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