Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating user interfaces based on fingerprint sensor inputs

US11209961B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Apple Inc. · US

Inventors

• Benjamin J. Pope · Mountain View, US
• Daniel W. Jarvis · Sunnyvale, US
• Nicholas Merz · San Francisco, US
• Scott A. Myers · San Francisco, US
• Michael A. Cretella · San Jose, US
• Michael Eng · San Jose, US
• James H. Foster · Manistique, US
• Terry L. Gilton · Boise, US
• Myra Haggerty · San Mateo, US
• Byron B. Han · Cupertino, US
• M. Evans Hankey · San Francisco, US
• Steven P. Hotelling · Los Gatos, US
• Brian R. Land · Woodside, US
• Stephen Brian Lynch · Portola Valley, US
• Paul Meade · San Mateo, US
• Mushtaq A. Sarwar · Santa Clara, US
• John P. Ternus · Loomis, US
• Paul M. Thompson · San Jose, US
• Marcel van Os · San Francisco, US
• John Andrew Wright · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 20, 2013
• Grant date: Dec 28, 2021
• Expiry date: Dec 28, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F2200/1614
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Devices, methods and graphical user interfaces for manipulating user interfaces based on fingerprint sensor inputs are provided. While a display of an electronic device with a fingerprint sensor displays a first user interface, the device may detect movement of a fingerprint on the fingerprint sensor. In accordance with a determination that the movement of the fingerprint is in a first direction, the device allows navigating through the first user interface, and in accordance with a determination that the movement of the fingerprint is in a second direction different from the first direction, the device allows displaying a second user interface different from the first user interface on the display.