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- the embodiments are generally related to electronic sensing devices, and, more particularly, to sensors for sensing objects located near or about the sensors for use in media navigation, fingerprint sensing and other operations of electronic devices and other products.
- sensors for sensing objects at a given location.
- Such sensors are configured to sense electronic characteristics of an object in order to sense presence of an object near or about the sensor, physical characteristics of the object, shapes, textures on surfaces of an object, material composition, biological information, and other features and characteristics of an object being sensed.
- Sensors may be configured to passively detect characteristics of an object, by measuring such as temperature, weight, or various emissions such as photonic, magnetic or atomic, of an object in close proximity or contact with the sensor, or other characteristic.
- An example of this is a non-contact infrared thermometer that detects the black body radiation spectra emitted from an object, from which its temperature can be computed.
- sensors work by directly exciting an object with a stimulus such as voltage or current, then using the resultant signal to determine the physical or electrical characteristics of an object.
- a stimulus such as voltage or current
- An example of this is a fluid detector consisting of two terminals, one that excites the medium with a voltage source, while the second measures the current flow to determine the presence of a conductive fluid such as water.
- a two dimensional array of impedance may be created by moving a line sensing array over the surface of an object and then doing a line by line reconstruction of a two dimensional image like a fax machine does.
- An example of this is a swiped capacitive fingerprint sensor that measures differences in capacitance between fingerprint ridges and valleys as a finger is dragged across it. The swiping motion of the fingerprint by a user allows the one-dimensional line of sensor points to capture a large number of data points from the user's fingerprint surface.
- Such sensors reconstruct a two dimensional fingerprint image after the fact using individual lines of the captured data points. This reconstruction process requires a great deal of processing by a device, and is subject to failure if the swipe movement and conditions are not optimum.
- a more user friendly way to obtain a two dimensional image is to create a two dimensional sensing array that can capture a user's fingerprint data while the user holds the fingerprint surface still on the sensor surface, rather than swipe across a sensor.
- Such sensors can be prohibitive in cost due to the large number of sensing points needed in the array.
- An example of this is a two dimensional capacitive fingerprint sensor.
- These sensors are based use 150 mm 2 or more of silicon area and are therefore cost prohibitive for many applications. They are also delicate and fragile. They are sensitive to impact and even temperature changes, and thus are simply not durable enough for most applications, such as smart phones and other mobile electronic devices that are handled and sometimes dropped by users.
- biometric sensors for measuring biological features and characteristics of people such as fingerprints
- medical applications such as medical monitoring devices, fluid measuring monitors, and many other sensor applications.
- the sensing elements of the various devices are connected to a processor configured to process object information and to enable interpretations for object features and characteristics. Examples include ridges and valleys of a fingerprint, temperature, bulk readings of presence or absence, and other features and characteristics.
- Fingerprint sensors for example, have been in existence for many years and used in many environments to verify identification, to provide access to restricted areas and information, and many other uses.
- These placement sensors may be configured to sense objects placed near or about the sensor, such as a fingerprint placement sensor that is configured to capture a full image of a fingerprint from a user's finger and compare the captured image with a stored image for authentication.
- sensors may be configured to sense the dynamic movement of an object about the sensor, such as a fingerprint swipe sensor that captures partial images of a fingerprint, reconstructs the fingerprint image, and compares the captured image to a stored image for authentication.
- the placement sensor a two-dimensional grid of sensors that senses a fingerprint image from a user's fingerprint surface all at once, was the obvious choice, and its many designs have become standard in most applications.
- fingerprint image Once the fingerprint image is sensed and reproduced in a digital form in a device, it is compared against a prerecorded and stored image, and authentication is complete when there is a match between the captured fingerprint image and the stored image.
- fingerprint sensors have been finding their way into portable devices such as laptop computers, hand held devices, cellular telephones, and other devices. Though accuracy and reliability are still important, cost of the system components is very important.
- the conventional placement sensors were and still are very expensive for one primary reason: they all used silicon sensor surfaces (this is excluding optical sensors for this example, because they are simply too large and require more power than a portable device can afford to allocate, among other reasons, and thus they are generally not available in most commercially available devices). These silicon surfaces are very expensive, as the silicon material is as expensive as the material to make a computer chip. Computer chips, of course, have become smaller over the years to reduce their cost and improve their performance. The reason the fingerprint silicon could not be made smaller: they need to remain the size of the average fingerprint, and the requirement for full scanning of the users' fingerprints simply cannot be compromised. Substantially the full print is required for adequate security in authentication.
- swipe sensors are fundamentally designed with a line sensor configured to sense fingerprint features as a user swipes their finger in a perpendicular direction with respect to the sensor line.
- Some swipe sensors are capacitive sensors, where capacitance of the fingerprint surface is measured and recorded line by line. Others send a small signal pulse burst into the surface of the fingerprint surface and measure a response in a pickup line, again recording fingerprint features line by line.
- the full fingerprint image needs to be reconstructed after the user completes the swipe, and the individual lines are reassembled and rendered to produce a full fingerprint image. This image is compared with a fingerprint image stored in the laptop or other device, and a user will then be authenticated if there is an adequate match.
- the first generation sensors were constructed with direct current (DC) switched capacitor technology (for example U.S. Pat. No. 6,011,859).
- DC direct current
- This approach required using two plates per pixel forming a capacitor between them, allowing the local presence of a finger ridge to change the value of that capacitor relative to air.
- These DC capacitive configurations took images from the fingerprint surface, and did not penetrate below the finger surface. Thus, they were easy to spoof, or fake a fingerprint with different deceptive techniques, and they also had poor performance when a user had dry fingers.
- RF (Radio Frequency) sensors were later introduced, because some were able to read past the surface and into inner layers of a user's finger to sense a fingerprint.
- a typical sensor for a fingerprint application will be on the order of 10 mm ⁇ 10 mm, with a resolution of 500 dpi.
- Such a sensor array would be approximately 200 rows by 200 columns, meaning there would need to be 200 via connections between layers in the device.
- semiconductor vias can be quite small, the cost for implementing a sensor in silicon has proven to be prohibitive, as mentioned above.
- circuit board via pitch is on the order of 200 um, vs. the 50 um pitch of the sensor array itself. Additionally, the added process steps required to form vias between layers of a circuit board significantly increase the tolerances for the minimum pitch of traces on each of the layers.
- Single-sided circuits may be readily fabricated with high yield with line pitch as low as 35 um, whereas double sided circuits require a minimum line pitch on the order of 60 um or more, which is too coarse to implement a full 500 dpi sensor array.
- One further consideration is that at similar line densities, double-sided circuits with vias are several times more expensive per unit area than single sided, making high-density double sided circuits too expensive for low cost sensor applications.
- Electrodes structures typically square or circular and can be configured in a parallel plate configuration (for example U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,325,442 and 5,963,679) or a coplanar configuration (for example U.S. Pat. No. 6,011,859 and U.S. Pat. No. 7,099,496).
- touchpad and touch screen devices consist of arrays of drive and sense traces and distinct sense electrodes, they are incapable of resolutions below a few hundred microns, making this technology unsuitable for detailed imaging applications. These devices are capable of detecting finger contact or proximity, but they provide neither the spatial resolution nor the gray-scale resolution within the body of the object being sensed necessary to detect fine features such as ridges or valleys.
- the embodiment provides such a device that addresses these and other needs in an elegant manner. Given the small size and functional demands of mobile devices, space savings are important. Thus, it would also be useful to be able to combine the functions of a sensor with that of other components, such as power switches, selector switches, and other components, so that multiple functions are available to a user without the need for more components that take up space.
- sensors could not only act as image capturing components, but to also provide navigation operations for viewing and exploring various media, such as with touch-screens used in many smart phones, such as the iPadTM, iPodTM, iPhoneTM and other touch-sensitive devices produced by Apple CorporationTM, the GalaxyTM and its progeny by Samsung CorporationTM, and other similar devices.
- FIG. 1 shows a diagrammatic view of one embodiment showing the drive and pickup plate structures with an insulating dielectric layer separating the drive and pickup lines.
- FIG. 2 shows a basic diagrammatic view of one embodiment showing the basic electrical field operation without an object in close proximity to the drive and pickup plate structures with one drive plate excited by a voltage source.
- FIG. 3 shows a basic diagrammatic view of one embodiment showing the basic electrical field operation with an object in close proximity to the drive and pickup plate structures with one drive plate excited by a voltage source.
- FIG. 4 shows a basic diagrammatic view of one embodiment of the sensor showing the differences in field intensity with and without an object in close proximity to the drive and pickup plate structures with one drive plate excited by a voltage source.
- FIG. 5 shows a basic diagrammatic view of one embodiment showing the basic electrical field operation with an object in close proximity of the drive and pickup plate structures with the selected pickup plate amplified and all inactive drive and pickup plates grounded.
- FIG. 6 a shows a basic diagrammatic view of one embodiment showing the basic electrical field operation with a finger or object containing a ridge surface feature in close proximity to the active electrode pair.
- FIG. 6 b shows a basic diagrammatic view of one embodiment showing the basic electrical field operation with a finger or object containing a valley surface feature in close proximity to the active electrode pair.
- FIG. 7 shows a diagrammatic view of an x-y grid of plate rows and columns depicted by lumped circuit components that represent the electric field couplings of the sensor at each drive/pickup crossover.
- FIG. 8 shows an example of an embodiment of the placement embodiment using a differential amplifier to take the signal from the selected pickup plate and subtract it from a reference signal plate for noise reduction purposes.
- FIG. 9 a shows the drive and sense multiplexing circuitry of an embodiment that incorporates a tank circuit to compensate for input loading effects.
- FIG. 9 b shows the drive and sense multiplexing circuitry of an embodiment that incorporates cascaded buffers to minimize input loading effects.
- FIG. 9 c shows the drive and sense multiplexing circuitry of an embodiment that incorporates dedicated buffers for each sense to minimize loading effects.
- FIG. 10 shows an embodiment that incorporates an analog receiver to process the sensed signal, and processing circuitry to perform the drive and sense line scanning function.
- FIG. 11 shows an embodiment that incorporates a direct digital conversion receiver to process the sensed signal, and processing circuitry to perform the drive and sense line scanning function.
- FIG. 12A shows one example of a layout of the drive and sense traces for an embodiment that incorporates the folded aspect of the embodiment laid out flat prior to folding.
- FIG. 12B shows one example of a layout of the drive and sense traces for an embodiment that incorporates the folded aspect of the embodiment laid out flat prior to folding.
- FIG. 13 a shows the layer stack-up of an embodiment that incorporates the folding aspect subsequent to folding.
- FIG. 13 b shows an embodiment that incorporates the folding aspect subsequent to folding and assembly into a rigid module.
- FIG. 14 shows a sensor system configured according to the embodiment for the purpose of sensing features of an object.
- FIG. 15 shows an example of the sensing of a fingerprint features.
- FIG. 16 shows the process flow steps required to collect a 2-dimensional image with a sensor system configured according to one embodiment.
- FIG. 17 a shows the process flow steps required to authenticate a user with a fingerprint sensor system configured according one embodiment.
- FIG. 17 b shows the process of template extraction from a fingerprint image typically utilized in user authentication applications.
- FIGS. 18A-18D show an example of a fingerprint sensor system having an integrated switch to allow a user to contact a fingerprint sensor and to actuate a switch simultaneously.
- FIGS. 19A-J show another example of a fingerprint sensor system having an integrated switch, a dome switch in this example, to allow a user to contact a fingerprint sensor and to actuate a switch simultaneously.
- FIG. 20 shows a top view of an embodiment of a switch formed on the same substrate as the fingerprint sensor.
- FIGS. 21A and B are detailed views which show the operation of the embedded switch depicted in FIG. 20 .
- FIGS. 22A-26C illustrate other embodiments of the invention.
- FIGS. 27-29 illustrate a method for integrating a folded flex fingerprint sensor directly onto a touch-screen device.
- FIGS. 30-32 illustrate a fingerprint sensor integrated onto the same substrate layers as a conventional touch-screen.
- FIGS. 33 and 34 illustrate a novel “Dual Grid” touch-screen.
- FIGS. 35-37 illustrate a fully integrated Dual Grid touch-screen and fingerprint sensor, which advantageously share a common drive and sense circuit.
- FIGS. 38-40 illustrated a fully integrated display with integral touch-screen and fingerprint sensing over the entire display area.
- FIGS. 41-50 illustrate how the dual grid finger motion tracking process operates.
- FIG. 51 illustrates a flexible fingerprint sensor integrated with a touchscreen.
- FIG. 52 illustrates an embodiment of a fingerprint sensor sharing a substrate layer with a touchscreen.
- FIG. 53 illustrates a sensor and a touchscreen implemented on common substrate layers utilizing a common controller chip.
- one embodiment is directed to a two-dimensional sensor, and may also be referred to as a placement sensor, touch sensor, area sensor, or 2D sensor, where a substantial area of an object such as a user's fingerprint is sensed rather than a point or line like portion of space that may or may not yield a characteristic sample that is adequate for identification.
- the sensor may have sensor lines located on one or more substrates, such as for example a flexible substrate that can be folded over on itself to form a grid array with separate sensor lines orthogonal to each other.
- the sensor lines may alternatively be formed on separate substrates.
- the crossover locations of different sensor lines create sensing locations for gathering information of the features and/or characteristics of an object, such as the patterns of ridges and valleys of a fingerprint for example.
- touch screen circuitry that resides under protective glass, such as Gorilla GlassTM used in many touch screen devices, may share common electrical connections with a two dimensional sensor used for navigation, and/or fingerprint sensing, or other operations.
- This provides benefits for manufacturing a device with both a touch screen and a fingerprint sensor, and may simplify the electrical layout of such a device. Exemplary configurations are described below and illustrated herein.
- a sensor grid may act as a touch screen by sensing presence of a user's finger or fingers and also movement of the fingers from one location to another together with speed to determine a swipe direction and speed.
- the same sensor lines may act as drive lines and pickup lines, where a signal is transmitted from the screen to the user's finger or fingers, and the resulting signal is received by a pickup line and measured to determine the impedance of the fingerprint surface.
- Impedance values of fingerprint ridges are different than the impedance measurement of fingerprint valleys, and thus the fingerprint image may be mapped once the impedance values are captured of a two dimensional surface of a fingerprint surface.
- the resulting fingerprint image may then be compared to a stored fingerprint image to authenticate the user, much in the same way a simple password is compared to a stored password when users authenticate themselves with electronic devices using numerical and alphanumeric passwords with devices. The difference is that the use of a fingerprint in place of a password is much more secure.
- a two dimensional sensor may be configured in different ways, such as for example a component that may be integrated on a portable device, a sensor integrated with a touch-screen used to provide touch sensitive surfaces for navigation of electronic content and operations in a portable device, or as a stand-alone component that may be electrically connected to a system or device to transmit and receive information for authentication, activation, navigation and other operations.
- the drive lines and pickup lines are not electrically intersecting or connected in a manner in which they would conduct with each other, they form an impedance sensing electrode pair with a separation that allows the drive lines to project an electrical field and the pickup lines to receive an electrical field, eliminating the need for distinct electrode structures.
- the two lines crossing with interspersed dielectric intrinsically creates an impedance sensing electrode pair.
- the sensor is configured to activate two one-dimensional sensor lines to obtain one pixel of information that indentifies features and/or characteristics of an object.
- a sensor configured according to certain embodiments may provide a two dimensional grid that is capable of capturing multiple pixels of information from an object by activating individual pairs of drive and pickup lines and capturing the resultant signal. This signal can be processed with logic or processor circuitry to define presence and absence of an object, features and/or characteristics of an object.
- a touch screen may operate as a sensor configured in one mode to capture information on a nearby object, such as information for forming an image of a fingerprint, and may operate in another mode to perform navigation or other operations when another mode.
- an OLED touch screen is configured to operate in at least two modes, one as a touch screen, and another as a fingerprint sensor, where a fingerprint may be captured in any part of the OLED touch screen desired, and even multiple fingerprints from two or more user fingers may be captured.
- these sensors may be configured to capture information of a nearby object, and the information may be used to produce renderings of an object, such as a fingerprint, and compare the renderings to secured information for authentication.
- a device can utilize the intrinsic impedance sensing electrode pair formed at the crossings between the drive and pickup lines.
- the electric fields may be further focused by grounding drive and pickup lines near or about the area being sensed by the particular crossover location at one time. This prevents interference that may occur if other drive and pickup lines were sensing electric fields simultaneously. More than one electrode pair may be sensed simultaneously. However, where resolution is an important factor, it may be preferred to avoid sensing electrode pairs that are too close to each other to avoid interference and maintain accuracy in sensing object features at a particular resolution.
- intrinsic electrode pair refers to the use of the impedance sensing electrode pairs that are formed at each of the drive and pickup line crossover locations.
- guard grounds around the pixel are formed dynamically by switching adjacent inactive drive and pickup lines into ground potential. This allows the formation of high density pixel fields with relatively low resolution manufacturing processes, as the minimum pixel pitch for a given process is identical to the minimum feature spacing. This, in turn, enables the use of low cost manufacturing process and materials, which is the key to creating a low cost placement sensor.
- the sensor lines may consist of drive lines on one layer and pickup lines on another layer, where the layers are located over each other in a manner that allows the separate sensor lines, the drive and pickup lines, to cross over each other to form impedance sensing electrode pairs at each crossover location.
- These crossover locations provide individually focused electrical pickup locations or pixels, or electrode pairs where a number of individual data points of features and/or characteristics of an object can be captured.
- the high degree of field focus is due to the small size of the intrinsic electrode pairs, as well as the high density of the neighboring ground provided by the inactive plates.
- the flexible substrate may have a second substrate configured with logic or processor circuitry for sending and receiving signals with the sensor lines to electronically capture information related to the object.
- the utilization of the crossover locations between perpendicular lines on adjacent layers for the pickup cell greatly reduces the alignment requirements between the layers. Since there are no unique features at a sensor pixel location to align, the only real alignment requirement between the layers is maintaining perpendicularity. If the sense cell locations had specific features, such as the parallel plate features typical of prior art fingerprint sensors, the alignment requirements would include X and Y position tolerance of less than one quarter a pixel size, which would translate to less than +/ ⁇ 12 um in each axis for a 500 DPI resolution fingerprint application.
- a drive line is activated, with a current source for example, and a pickup line is connected to a receiving circuit, such as an amplifier/buffer circuit, so that the resulting electric field can be captured.
- An electric field extends from the drive line to the pickup line through the intermediate dielectric insulating layer. If an object is present, some or all of the electric field may be absorbed by the object, changing the manner in which the electric field is received by the pickup line. This changes the resulting signal that is captured and processed by the pickup line and receiving circuit, and thus is indicative of the presence of an object, and the features and characteristics of the object may be sensed and identified by processing the signal. This processing may be done by some form of logic or processing circuitry.
- the signal driving the drive line may be a complex signal, may be a varying frequency and/or amplitude, or other signal. This would enable a sensor to analyze the features and/or characteristics of an object from different perspectives utilizing a varying or complex signal.
- the signal may include simultaneous signals of different frequencies and/or amplitudes that would produce resultant signals that vary in different manners after being partially or fully absorbed by the object, indicating different features and characteristics of the object.
- the signal may include different tones, signals configured as chirp ramps, and other signals. Processing or logic circuitry may then be used to disseminate various information and data points from the resultant signal.
- the varying or complex signal may be applied to the drive line, and the pickup line would receive the resulting electric field to be processed.
- Logic or processing circuitry may be configured to process the resulting signal, such as separating out different frequencies if simultaneous signals are used, so that features and/or characteristics of the object may be obtained from different perspectives.
- each pixel may be captured in a number of ways.
- a drive line may be activated, and pickup lines may be turned on and off in a sequence to capture a line of pixels.
- This sequencing may operate as a scanning sequence.
- a first drive line is activated by connecting it to a signal source, and then one pickup line is connected to amplifier/buffer circuitry at a time, the information from the pixel formed at the crossing of the two lines is captured, and then disconnected.
- a next pixel is processed in sequence, then another, then another, until the entire array of pickup lines is processed.
- the drive line is then deactivated, and another drive line is activated, and the pickup lines are again scanned with this active drive line.
- These may be done one at a time in sequence, several non-adjacent pixels may be processed simultaneously, or other variations are possible for a given application. After the grid of pixels is processed, then a rendering of object information will be possible.
- pickup lines or top plates 102 a [m], 102 b [m+1] are located on a insulating dielectric substrate layer 104 and configured to transmit a signal into a surface of an object located in close proximity to the sensor lines.
- Drive lines or bottom plates 106 a [n], 106 b [n+1] are juxtaposed and substantially perpendicular to the drive lines or plates and are located on an opposite side of the a insulating dielectric substrate to form a type of a grid.
- the pickup lines are configured to receive the transmitted electromagnetic fields modified by the impedance characteristics on an object placed within the range of those electric fields.
- FIG. 2 a diagrammatic view of a sensor 200 is shown having pickup lines or top plates 202 a , 202 b and insulating layer 204 , and drive lines or bottom plates 206 a , 206 b .
- the Figure further illustrates how electromagnetic fields 208 a , 208 b extend between the drive lines and pickup plates through the substrate. Without an object within proximity, the electric field lines are uniform within the sensor structure and between the different lines. When an object is present, a portion of the electric field lines are absorbed by the object and do not return to the pickup plates through the insulating layer.
- an object 310 is illustrated proximate the sensor 300 .
- the sensor 300 has pickup lines or top plates 302 a , 302 b , an insulating dielectric layer 304 , and drive lines or bottom plates 306 a , 306 b .
- the drive lines and pickup lines of this device example may be individually activated, where a drive line/pickup line pair is activated to produce an active circuit.
- the result is a circuit that transmits electric field from active drive plate 316 into the combined dielectric of the insulating layer 304 and object 310 via electric field lines, 306 a , 306 b , and received by the active pickup plate.
- the sensor can capture a type of image of the object surface electronically, and generate a representation of the features and characteristics of an object, such as the features and characteristics of a fingerprint in the fingerprint sensor example described below.
- a drive line may be activated, and the pickup lines may be scanned one or more at a time so that a line of pixels can be captured along the drive line and pickup lines as they are paired along a line at the crossover locations. This is discussed in more detail below in connection with FIG. 5 .
- each area over which a particular drive line overlaps a pickup line with a separation of the a insulating dielectric substrate is an area that can capture and establish a sensing location that defines characteristics or features of a nearby object about that area. Since there exist multiple sensing locations over the area of the sensor grid, multiple data points defining features or characteristics of a nearby object can be captured by the sensor configuration.
- the sensor can operate as a planar two-dimensional sensor, where objects located on or about the sensor can be detected and their features and characteristics determined.
- the embodiment is not limited to any particular configuration or orientation described, but is only limited to the appended claims, their equivalents, and also future claims submitted in this and related applications and their equivalents. Also, many configurations, dimensions, geometries, and other features and physical and operational characteristics of any particular embodiment or example may vary in different applications without departing from the spirit and scope of the embodiment, which, again, are defined by the appended claims, their equivalents, and also future claims submitted in this and related applications and their equivalents.
- a sensor device includes drive lines located on or about an insulating dielectric substrate and configured to transmit a signal onto a surface of an object being sensed.
- Pickup lines are located near or about the drive lines and configured to receive the transmitted signal from the surface of an object.
- the substrate may act as an insulating dielectric or spacing layer.
- the substrate may be for example a flexible polymer based substrate.
- KaptonTM tape is widely used in flexible circuits such as those used in printer cartridges and other devices.
- the package may include such a flexible substrate, where the drive lines may be located on one side of the substrate, and the pickup lines may be located on an opposite side of the substrate.
- the drive lines may be orthogonal in direction with respect to the pickup lines, and may be substantially perpendicular to the pickup lines.
- a device may be configured with drive lines and pickup lines located on or about opposite sides of an insulating dielectric substrate, where the combination of these three components provides capacitive properties.
- the drive lines may be activated to drive an electric field onto, into or about an object.
- the pickup lines can receive electronic fields that originated from the drive lines, and these electronic fields can be interpreted by processing or logic circuitry to interpret features or characteristics of the object being sensed.
- the layer separating the drive lines from the pickup lines can provide a capacitive property to the assembly.
- a grid may be formed.
- the drive lines are located and oriented substantially in parallel with respect to each other about a first plane.
- One surface of the substrate is located about the drive lines in a second plane that is substantially parallel relative to the drive lines.
- the pickup lines are located and oriented substantially in parallel with respect to each other about a third plane that is substantially parallel to the first and second planes and also located about another substrate surface that is opposite that of the drive lines, such that the substrate is located substantially between the drive lines and the pickup lines.
- the embodiment is directed to a sensor configured with plurality of drive and pickup lines that generally cross over each other at a pixel location and are configured to detect presence and other features and characteristics of a nearby object
- the embodiment is not limited to any particular configuration or orientation, but is only limited to the appended claims, their equivalents, and also future claims submitted in this and related applications and their equivalents.
- orientation of the planes (which may be deformable, and thus may be sheets separated by a substantially uniform distance) of groups of components (such as drive lines or pickup lines for example) or substrates may vary in different applications without departing from the spirit and scope of the embodiment.
- a plurality of drive lines are juxtaposed on one surface of a generally planar substrate, and a plurality of pickup lines are juxtaposed on an opposite surface of the planar substrate.
- the drive lines are substantially orthogonal to the pickup lines, and may be described as substantially perpendicular to the pickup lines.
- the distance between the drive lines and pickup lines may be filled with a substrate or insulating material that will provide for a capacitive configuration.
- the drive lines on one side of the substrate forms one capacitive plate, and the pickup lines on an opposite side for the corresponding capacitive plate.
- sensor lines such as sensor drive lines and sensor pickup lines
- substantially parallel drive lines These drive lines are intended to be described as parallel conductive lines made up of a conductive material formed, etched, deposited or printed onto the surface such as copper, tin, silver and gold.
- conductive lines are seldom “perfect” in nature, and are thus not exactly parallel in practice. Therefore, they are described as “substantially parallel”.
- Different applications may configure some of the drive lines even non-parallel, such that the lines may occur parallel for a portion of the line, and the line may necessarily deviate from parallel in order to connect with other components for the device to operate, or in order to be routed on or about the substrate on which it is formed or traced.
- the separate array of lines may be described as orthogonal or perpendicular, where the drive lines are substantially orthogonal or perpendicular to the pickup lines.
- the various lines may not be perfectly perpendicular to each other, and they may be configured to be off-perpendicular or otherwise crossed-over in different angles in particular applications.
- They also may be partially perpendicular, where portions of drive lines may be substantially perpendicular to corresponding portions of pickup lines, and other portions of the different lines may deviate from perpendicular in order to be routed on or about the substrate or to be connected to other components for the device to operate.
- the drive lines can transmit an electromagnetic field toward an object that is proximal to the device.
- the pickup lines may receive a signal originating from the drive lines and then transmitted through the object and through the substrate and onto the pickup lines.
- the pickup lines may alternatively receive a signal originating from the drive lines that were then transmitted through the substrate and onto the pickup lines without passing through the object.
- This electric field can vary at different locations on the grid, giving a resultant signal that can be interpreted by some type of logic or processor circuitry to define features and/or characteristics of an object that is proximate the assembly.
- the drive lines and pickup lines may be controlled by one or more processors to enable the transmission of the signal to an object via the drive lines, to receive a resultant signal from an object via the pickup lines, and to process the resultant signal to define an object image.
- One or more processors may be connected in one monolithic component, where the drive lines and pickup lines are incorporated in a package that includes the processor.
- the drive lines, pickup lines and substrate may be assembled in a package by itself, where the package can be connected to a system processor that controls general system functions. This way, the package can be made part of the system by connecting with a system's input/output connections in order to communicate with the system.
- the senor can be connected as a stand-alone component that communicates with the system processor to perform sensor operations in concert with the system processor.
- a sensor may be configured to drive signals at different frequencies since the impedance of most objects, especially human tissue and organs, will greatly vary with frequency.
- the receiver In order to measure complex impedance at one or more frequencies of a sensed object, the receiver must be able also to measure phase as well as amplitude.
- the resulting signal generated from a given impedance sensing electrode pair may result from varying frequencies, known in the art as frequency hoping, where the receiver is designed to track a random, pseudo-random or non-random sequence of frequencies.
- a variation of this embodiment could be a linear or non-linear frequency sweep known as a chirp. In such an embodiment one could measure the impedance of a continuous range frequencies very efficiently.
- a grid sensor as described above may be configured to also operate as a pointing device.
- a pointing device could perform such functions as well known touch pads, track balls or mice used in desktops and laptop computers.
- a two dimensional impedance sensor that can measure the ridges and valleys of a finger tip may be configured to track the motion of the fingerprint patterns.
- Prior art swiped fingerprint sensors can perform this function, but due to the physical asymmetry of the array and the need to speed correct, or “reconstruct” the image in real time make these implementations awkward at best.
- the sensor could also double as both a fingerprint sensor and a high quality pointing device.
- One device configured according to the embodiment includes a first array of sensor lines on a flexible substrate, and a second array of sensor lines on a flexible substrate, and also a processor configured to process fingerprint data from the first and second arrays of sensor lines.
- the separate sensor lines When folded upon itself in the case of a single flexible substrate or when juxtaposed in the case of separate substrates, the separate sensor lines cross each other without electrically shorting to form a grid with cross-over locations that act as pixels from which fingerprint features can be sensed.
- an array of substantially parallel sensor drive lines is located on a surface of the flexible substrate. These drive lines are configured to sequentially transmit signal into a surface of a user's finger activating a line at a time.
- a second array of sensor lines is similar to the first, consisting of substantially parallel sensor pickup lines that are substantially perpendicular to the drive lines. These pickup lines are configured to pick up the signal transmitted from the first.
- the flexible substrate is further configured to be folded onto itself to form a dual layer configuration.
- the first array of sensor drive lines becomes substantially perpendicular to the second array of pickup sensor lines when the flexible substrate is folded onto itself.
- This folding process creates crossover locations between these separate arrays of sensor lines—though they must not make direct electrical contact so that they operate independently.
- These crossover locations represent impedance sensing electrode pairs configured to sense pixels of an object and its sub-features juxtaposed relative to a surface of the flexible substrate. The scanning of these pixels is accomplished by activating individual rows and columns sequentially.
- the perpendicular pickup rows are scanned one at a time over the entire length of the selected driver. Only one row is electrically active (high impedance) at a time, the non active rows are either shorted to ground or multiplexed to a state where they do not cross couple signal.
- a finger ridge is placed above an array crossover location that is active, it interrupts a portion of the electric field that otherwise would be radiated through the surface film from the active drive column to the selected row pickup.
- the placement of an object's subfeature, such as a ridge or valley in the case of a fingerprint sensor, over an impedance sensing electrode pair results in a net signal decrease since some of the electric field is conducted to ground through the human body.
- the valley affects the radiation of electric field from the selected drive line to the selected pickup line much less than a ridge would.
- this general example of the grid sensor will be now used to illustrate how such a sensor configured according to the embodiment can be implemented as a fingerprint sensor, where the object would simply be the surface of the fingerprint on the user's finger.
- This example will be carried through the following Figures for illustration of the benefits and novel features of the impedance sensor configured according to the embodiment.
- any object may be sensed by a device configured according to the embodiment.
- the example and description are intended only for illustration purposes.
- the senor can be configured to detect the presence of a finger surface located proximate to the sensor surface, where the drive lines can drive an active electromagnetic field onto the finger surface, and the pickup lines can receive a resulting electromagnetic field signal from the pickup lines.
- the drive lines can generate an electric field that is passed onto the surface of the finger, and the different features of the fingerprint, such as ridges and valleys of the fingerprint surface and possibly human skin characteristics, would cause the resulting signal to change, providing a basis to interpret the signals to produce information related to the fingerprint features.
- a flexible substrate is used as the insulating dielectric layer 104 , to allow for beneficial properties of durability, low cost, and flexibility.
- the drive lines or plates 106 a , 106 b are located on the flexible substrate and configured to transmit a signal into a surface of a user's fingerprint features and structures, such as ridges and valleys, placed on or about the sensor lines.
- the pickup lines 102 a , 102 b are configured to receive the transmitted signal from the user's finger surface.
- a processor (not shown) can be configured to collect and store a fingerprint image based on the received signal from the pickup lines.
- an example a sensor 400 configured as an object sensor, where the top plates or pickup lines 402 a , 402 b , . . . , 402 n are located on one side of insulating dielectric layer or substrate 404 .
- Bottom plates or pickup lines 406 a , 406 b , . . . , 406 n are located on an opposite side of the substrate 404 .
- Electric fields 408 a , 408 b extend from bottom plates or drive lines 406 a , 406 b through the insulating layer or substrate 404 and onto active top plate 402 a .
- these drive lines may be activated one at a time to reduce any interference effects, but the electric field results illustrated here are intended to illustrate a contrast between electric fields that are partially or fully absorbed by the object with electric fields that are not absorbed the object at all.
- This information may be collected from drive and pickup plate electrode pairs at each crossover location to sense features and characteristics of the object that is proximate the sensor lines.
- Partially covered top plate or pickup line 402 b is connected to voltmeter 417
- uncovered top plate 402 a is connected to voltmeter 418 .
- Active drive line or bottom plate 406 b is connected is connected to AC signal source 416 , causing an electric field to radiate from active plate 406 b .
- the number of drive lines and pickup lines can vary depending on the application, and it may depend on the cost and resolution desired.
- the electric field lines 408 a is partially captured by the pickup lines 402 a and 402 b , and part is captured by the object, in this case finger 410 .
- volt meter 417 illustrates the response to the top plate or drive line 402 b
- voltmeter 418 illustrates the response of top plate or drive line 402 a .
- the difference in the deflections of voltmeter 417 in comparison 418 show the delta in electric field intensity between the two electrode pair locations, one with a finger present the other without.
- FIG. 5 another example of a sensor configured according to the embodiment is illustrated the Drive and pickup configuration when detecting the presence of an object.
- the sensor 500 is illustrated, where the top plates or pickup lines 502 a , 502 b , . . . , 502 n are located on one side of insulating layer or substrate 504 , and bottom plates or drive lines 506 a , 506 b , . . . , 506 n are located on an opposite side of the substrate 504 .
- the pickup lines are shown on the layer closest to the object being sensed for maximum sensitivity, and the drive lines shown on the opposite side of the substrate.
- Electric fields 508 a , 508 b extend from bottom plates or drive lines 506 a , 506 b through the insulating layer or substrate 504 and onto active top plate 502 b .
- Other configurations are possible, perhaps having drive plates on the top, and pickup plates on the bottom.
- the embodiment is not limited to any particular configuration that is insubstantially different than the examples and embodiments disclosed and claimed herein.
- FIG. 5 further shows a snapshot of one selected individual electrode pair located at the crossover of pickup line 502 b and drive line 506 b , where the remaining pickup and drive lines are not active, shown grounded in FIG. 5 .
- Drive line 506 b is connected to AC voltage source 516
- pickup line 502 b is connected to amplifier/buffer 514 .
- electric field lines 508 a , 508 b are generated, and they radiate from drive line 506 b and are sensed by pickup line 502 b , sending the resultant signal into amplifier/buffer 514 , and are later processed by analog and digital circuit functions.
- Grounding the inactive adjacent drive and pickup lines focuses the electric fields 508 a and 508 b at the crossover location between the active the drive and pickup plates, limiting crosstalk from adjacent areas on the object being sensed.
- different drive line/pickup line crossover pairings may be activated to capture different pixels of information from the object.
- an object sensor it can capture information on the shape of the object, and, if the electrical characteristics are non-uniform across its surface, it's composition.
- the embodiment is not limited to this particular configuration, where one single electrode pair, several electrode pairs, or even all electrode pairs may be active at one time for different operations.
- a drive line may be activated, and the pickup lines may be scanned one or more at a time so that a line of pixels can be captured along the drive line and pickup lines as they are paired along a line at the crossover locations.
- the AC voltage source 516 may remain connected to drive line 506 b , and the connection of the amplifier/buffer 516 may cycle or scan over to sequential pickup lines, so that another pixel of information can be captured from another pickup line crossover paired with drive line 506 b .
- drive line 506 b can be deactivated, than another drive line in sequence can be activated with the AC voltage source, and a new scanning can commence through the pickup lines.
- a two dimensional image or rendering of the object features and characteristics can be made, such as a rendering of the shape of the object, and potentially a composition map.
- a reduced cost fingerprint swipe sensor could be configured using the same innovation provided by the embodiment.
- a reduced number of pickup lines could be configured with a full number of orthogonal drive lines.
- Such a configuration would create a multi-line swipe sensor that would take the form of pseudo two-dimensional sensor, and when a finger was swiped over it would create a mosaic of partial images or slices. The benefit of this would be to reduce the complexity of image reconstruction task, which is problematic for current non-contact silicon sensors that rely on one full image line and a second partial one to do speed detection.
- FIGS. 6 a and 6 b illustrate the operation of the sensor when detecting surface features of an object such as fingerprint ridges and valleys.
- the sensor is configured identically to the previous example in FIG. 5 , but in this case is interacting with a textured surface such as a fingerprint.
- FIGS. 6 a and b another example of a sensor configured according to the embodiment is illustrated.
- the sensor 600 is illustrated, where the top plates or pickup lines 602 a - n are located on one side of insulating layer or substrate 604 , and bottom plates or drive lines 606 a - n are located on an opposite side of the substrate 604 .
- For maximum sensitivity pickup lines are shown on the layer closest to the object being sensed, and the drive lines shown on the opposite side of the substrate.
- FIG. 6 a shows electric field lines 620 as they interact with a proximally located object's valley and FIG.
- 6 b shows electric field lines 621 as the interact with a proximally located object's peaks, extending from bottom plate drive line 606 b through the insulating layer or substrate 604 and onto active drive line 606 b .
- the corresponding ridges and valleys over the fingerprint surface can be captured by the grid of drive line/pickup line crossover points, and the resulting data can be used to render an image of the fingerprint.
- a stored fingerprint can then be compared to the captured fingerprint, and they can be compared for authentication. This is accomplished using any one of many fingerprint matching algorithms which are available from vendors as stand alone products. Such vendors include Digital Persona, BioKey, and Cogent Systems, to name just a few.
- FIGS. 6 a and b Also illustrated in FIGS. 6 a and b , is the individual sensor line pairing of pickup line 602 b and drive line 606 b . Their crossover forms the active electrode pair, and the remaining pickup and drive lines are not active, and will nominally be grounded by electronic switches.
- Drive line 606 b is connected to AC voltage source 616
- pickup line 602 b is connected to amplifier/buffer 605 .
- electric field lines 620 and 621 are created as shown in FIGS. 6 a and 6 b respectively, and they emanate between the drive line 606 b and pickup line 602 b , sending a resultant signal that is radiated onto pickup line 602 b and connected to amplifier/buffer 605 , and later processed by analog and digital processing circuitry.
- different drive line/pickup line crossover pairs may be activated to capture different pixels of information from the object.
- a fingerprint it can capture information on different features and characteristics of the fingerprint and even the body of the finger itself.
- the embodiment is not limited to this particular configuration, where one electrode pair, several electrode pairs, or even all electrode pairs may be active at one time for different operations. In practice, it may be preferable for less than all of the electrode pairs to be active at a given time, so that any interference that may occur between close-by pixels would be minimized.
- a drive line may be activated, and the pickup lines may be scanned one or more at a time so that a line of pixels can be captured along the drive line and pickup lines as they are paired along a line at the crossover points.
- the voltage source 616 may remain connected to drive line 606 b , and the connection to buffer/amplifier 605 may cycle or scan over to another pickup line, so that another pixel of information can be captured from another electrode pair using driveline 606 b.
- drive plate 606 b remains excited by AC signal source 616 until an entire column of pixels is scanned, while unused drive plates ( 606 a,c - n etc.), are switched to ground for isolation purposes. Likewise, in one embodiment only one pickup plate is active at a time and some or substantially all other pickup plates are switched to ground to minimize crosstalk.
- the two conductive layers Drive layer 606 and Pickup layer 602 are separated by an electrically insulating layer 604 .
- This insulating layer 604 has high DC resistance and has a dielectric constant greater than one to allow the transmission of high frequency electric fields through it.
- this layer 602 is created by folding a single sided flexible printed circuit board back onto itself. In another embodiment it is created by placing a dielectric layer between two electrically active layers to form a double sided circuit board.
- FIG. 7 shows an example of an x-y grid of plate rows and columns depicted by lumped circuit components that represent the electric field couplings of the sensor at each drive/pickup crossover.
- FIG. 7 shows a scan snapshot where one drive switch 740 b in the on condition connecting the corresponding plate to the signal source. This activates one entire row 740 b with AC signal over the entire length of the plate that is equal to the sensor width in one dimension.
- each column plate 703 a,b,c etc. will pickup up AC signal through insulating layer 704 and coupling capacitors 761 a,b,c . . . n. Only one pickup plate at a time is active being switched into the buffer amplifier 716 .
- Top Plate 702 b is shown as the active plate in FIG. 7 , while all or substantially all other pickups are shorted to ground via switch matrix 730 a - n , thus the information from one x-y pixel is captured.
- a single row remains active only as long as it takes the entire number of pickup plates/columns to be scanned.
- Scan time per pixel will depend on the frequency of operation and the settling time of the detection electronics, but there is no need to scan unduly fast as is typical with prior art swipe sensors.
- prior art swipe sensors must scan at a very high pixel rate in order not to lose information due to undersampling relative to the finger speed that can be greater than 20 cm/sec. This reduction in capture speed relative to a swipe sensor relaxes the requirements of the analog electronics and greatly reduces the data rate that a host processor must capture in real time. This not only reduces system cost but allows operation by a host device with much less CPU power and memory. This is critical especially for mobile devices.
- the amount of signal that is coupled into the buffer amplifier 716 is a function of how much capacitance is formed by the insulating layer and the finger ridge or valley in close proximity.
- the detailed operation of how these electric fields radiate is shown in FIGS. 6 a and b .
- the total coupling capacitance is a series combination of the insulating layer capacitance 704 that is fixed for a given thickness, and the variable topological capacitance of the object being sensed. The variable portion of this is shown in FIG. 7 as a series of variable capacitors numbered 760 a - n , 761 a - n , 762 a - n etc., forming a two dimensional array.
- FIG. 8 shows an example of an embodiment of the placement sensor using a differential amplifier 880 to take the signal from the selected pickup plate ( 802 a - n ), and subtract it from the reference signal of plate 805 .
- the electrical subtraction of these signals performs several functions: first wide band common mode is subtracted out; second, subtracting against reference plate 805 provides a relative reference signal equivalent to an ideal ridge valley; third, common mode carrier signal that couples into both plates other than through a finger is also subtracted out.
- First order carrier cancellation of etch variation in the pickup plates also occurs when we subtract out carrier that is coupled in by other means than through fingers placed on the sensor. This is critical for high volume manufacturing at a low cost.
- Reference plate 805 is intentionally located outside of the finger contact area of the sensor, separated from pickup plates 802 a - n by Gap 885 , Gap 885 is much larger that the nominal gap between the pickup plates that is typically 50 um. In a real world embodiment plate 805 would be positioned under the plastic of a bezel to prevent finger contact, placing it at least 500 um apart from the other pickup plates.
- Each one of the pickup plates 802 a - n is scanned sequentially being switched through pickup switches 830 a - n connecting them to Differential Amplifier 880 .
- the positive leg of the differential amplifier remains connected to reference plate 805 to provide the same signal reference for all of the pickup plates.
- FIG. 9 a shows a circuit diagram of an example of a front end for the placement sensor in a topology that uses a bank of Single Pole Double Throw Switches or SPDTs to scan the pickup plate rows and a bank of Single Pole Single Throw switches to multiplex the pickup plate columns.
- FIG. 9 a we see a snapshot of the analog switches as the scanning process begins. Only the first SPDT switch 1044 a is shown in the “on” position, which allows pickup plate 902 a to conduct its plate signal into Differential Amplifier 980 . The remaining pickup plates are shorted to ground via switches 944 a - 944 n , preventing any pickup signal received by them from entering into differential amplifier 980 .
- Each SPDT has a Parasitic Capacitance 945 , due to the fact that real world switches to not give perfect isolation. In fact the amount of isolation decreases with frequency, typically modeled by a parallel capacitor across the switch poles.
- a SPDT switch we can shunt this capacitance to ground when an individual plate is not active. Since there is a large array of switches equal to the number of pickup plates, typically 200 for a 500 dpi sensor, the effective shunt capacitance to ground is multiplied by that number. So if a given switch has 0.5 picofarads of parasitic capacitance and there where 200 pickups, that would add up to 100 picofarads of total shunt capacitance.
- a compensating circuit In order to prevent this large capacitance from diverting most of the received signal from the active pickup to ground, it is desirable in this example to use a compensating circuit. This is accomplished by using resonating inductor 939 , forming a classic bandpass filter circuit in conjunction with parasitic capacitors 945 (one per switch) and tuning capacitors 934 and 937 .
- a two step null & peak tuning calibration procedure is used where tuning capacitor 934 and 937 are individually tuned with inductor 939 using the same drive signal on both the plus and minus inputs to differential amplifier 980 .
- the two bandpass filters formed with inductor 1039 and resonating capacitors 934 , and 937 respectively, will be tuned to the same center frequency when there is zero signal out of differential amplifier 980 .
- capacitors 934 and 937 and inductor 939 are tuned together using a differential input signal with opposite 180 degrees phases on the plus and minus inputs to the differential amplifier 980 . They are incremented in lock step until the exact drive carrier frequency is reached, this occurs when the output of differential amplifier 980 is at its peak, making the center frequency equal to the exact frequency of the carrier drive signal 916 .
- a calibration routine would be performed before each fingerprint scan to minimize drift of this filter with time and temperature.
- the resonating inductor 939 needs to have a Q or Quality Factor of at least 10 to give the filter the proper bandwidth characteristics necessary to optimize the signal to noise ratio.
- carrier source 916 may be a variable frequency source, and capicitors ( 937 and 934 ) may be fixed values. In this embodiment, tuning is accomplished by varying the frequency of source 916 ) until peak output is obtained from differential amplifier 980
- FIG. 9 b shows an alternate example of a device employing multiple banks of plates grouped together, each with their own differential amplifiers.
- Dividing up the large number of parallel pickup plates into groups each containing a smaller number of plates is an alternate architecture that would not require the use of a tuned bandpass filter in the front end because the parasitic switch capacitances would be greatly reduced. This would have two possible advantages, first lower cost, and second the ability to have a frequency agile front end.
- first switch 944 a of bank 907 a is active. All other switch banks 907 a - 907 n are shown inactive, shorting their respective plates to ground.
- voltage or current differential amplifier 980 a has any plate signal conducted into it
- voltage or current differential amplifiers 980 b - 980 n have both their positive and negative inputs shorted to ground through their respective switches 945 a - n and 945 r , preventing any signal from those banks making a contribution to the overall output.
- Each of the differential amplifiers 980 a - 980 n is summed through resistors 987 a - 987 n into summing amplifier 985 . Only the differential amplifier 980 a in this snapshot has plate signal routed into it, so it independently produces signal to the input of summing amplifier 985 . This process is repeated sequentially until all or substantially all of the switch banks 907 a - n , and switch plates 944 a - n , 945 a - n , etc, of the entire array are fully scanned. In different embodiments, all or substantially all of the array may be scanned, or less than the entire array may be scanned in different applications.
- a lower resolution may be desired, so all of the array may not need to be scanned.
- a full image may not be necessary, such as a navigation application, where limited images may be used to detect movement of speed, distance and/or direction to use as input for a pointing device, such as directing a cursor on a display similar to a computer touch-pad or a mouse.
- the capacitive input load on each plate is reduced from that of the full array of switches to the number of switches within a given plate group. If we were to divide for example 196 potential pickup plates into 14 banks of 14 plates, resulting in a capacitance load equal to the parasitic capacitance of 14 switches ( 944 ), plus the capacitive load of the differential amplifier. If analog switches 944 are constructed with very low parasitic capacitance then the overall input load would be small enough not to need a bandpass circuit in the front end in order to resonate out the load capacitance. As integrated circuit fabrication techniques improve we would be able design smaller switches with less parasitic capacitance, making this approach become more attractive.
- FIG. 9 c illustrates another example of a front end circuit using individual plate buffers that are multiplexed into a second stage differential amplifier.
- Buffers 982 a through 982 n as illustrated are special buffers that are designed to have very low input capacitance.
- these buffers could be configured as single stage cascoded amplifiers in order to minimize drain-to-gate Miller capacitance and die area.
- two sets of switches could be used for each input.
- Analog switches 930 a - 930 n are included in this example to multiplex each selected buffer into differential amplifier 980 .
- Switches 932 are included to shut down the power simultaneously to all the other input buffers that are not selected. This effectively puts them at ground potential.
- An alternate embodiment would be to put input analog switches in front of each amplifier to allow a short of the unused plates directly to ground.
- One effect of this approach may be an increase in input load capacitance for each plate.
- FIG. 9 c shows a snapshot of the scanning process where top plate 902 a is being sensed though buffer 982 a that has power supplied to it through switch 932 a .
- Analog switch 930 a is closed, routing it to differential amplifier 980 . All other buffer outputs are disconnected from the differential amplifier 980 via analog switches 930 b - n and power switches 982 b - n
- differential amplifier 980 The positive input to differential amplifier 980 is always connected to the reference plate 902 r , providing an “air” signal reference to the amp.
- the differential amplifier 980 serves to subtract out noise and common mode carrier signal in addition to providing a “air” reference carrier value.
- FIG. 10 shows a particular embodiment of a placement sensor implemented with traditional analog receiver technology.
- the analog front end begins with Differential Amplifier 1080 where selected Pickup Plate 1002 a - n is subtracted from Reference Plate 1005 , which is located outside the finger contact area providing a reference signal equivalent to an ideal finger valley.
- a programmable gain stage or PGA 1090 follows the Differential Amplifier 1090 , but could be integrated into the same block providing both gain an subtraction in a single stage.
- PGA 1090 is designed to have a gain range wide enough to compensate for production variations in plate etching and solder mask thickness between the layers.
- Control processor 1030 orchestrates the scanning of the two dimensional sensor plate array.
- Drive plates/columns 1002 a - 1002 n are scanned sequentially by the Drive Plate Scanning Logic 1040 in the Control Processor 1030 .
- a selected drive plate is activated it is connected to carrier signal source 1016 .
- All inactive drive plates are connected to ground.
- the active drive plate remains on long enough for the entire row of Pickup Plates 1002 a - n to be scanned by Pickup Plate Logic 1045 .
- Analog mixer 1074 multiplies the gained up plate signal against the reference carrier 1013 .
- the result is a classic spectrum of base band plus harmonic products at multiples of the carrier frequency.
- An analog low pass filter 1025 is employed to filter out the unwanted harmonics and must have a sharp enough roll of to attenuate the information associated with of the second harmonic without losing base band information.
- A/D Converter 1074 Following the low pass filter is an A/D Converter 1074 that must sample at a least twice the pixel rate to satisfy the Nyquist criteria.
- Memory buffer 1032 stores the A/D samples locally with sufficient size to keep up with the worst case latency of the host controller.
- the A/D Sample Control Line 1078 provides a sample clock for the converter to acquire the sequential pixel information that is created by the sequencing of the plate rows and columns.
- FIG. 11 shows an example of one embodiment of a placement sensor implemented with direct digital conversion receiver technology.
- the analog front end begins with Differential Amplifier 1180 where selected Pickup Plate 1102 a - n is subtracted from Reference Plate 1105 , which is located outside the finger contact area providing a reference signal equivalent to an ideal finger valley.
- the electrical subtraction of these signals performs several functions: first wide band common mode is subtracted out; second, subtracting against reference plate 1105 provides a relative reference signal equivalent to an ideal ridge valley; third, common mode carrier signal that couples into both plates other than through a finger is also subtracted out. Elimination of common mode is particularly important in high RF noise environments. First order carrier cancellation of etch variation in the pickup plates also occurs when we subtract out carrier that is coupled in by other means than through fingers placed on the sensor. This is critical for high volume manufacturing at a low cost.
- a programmable gain stage or PGA 1190 follows the Differential Amplifier, which could easily be combined into a single differential amplifier including programmable gain as is commonly done in modern integrated circuit design PGA 1190 is designed to have a gain range wide enough to compensate for production variations in plate etching and solder mask thickness between the layers.
- Control processor 1130 orchestrates the scanning of the two dimensional sensor plate array.
- Drive plates/columns 1102 a - 1102 n are scanned sequentially by the Drive Plate Scanning Logic 1140 in the Control Processor 1130 .
- a selected drive plate When a selected drive plate is activated it is connected to carrier signal source 1116 . All inactive drive plates are connected to ground. Before activating the next drive plate in the sequence the active drive plate remains on long enough for the entire row of Pickup Plates 1102 a - n to be scanned by Pickup Plate Logic 1145 and captured by the A/D converter 1125 .
- the A/D Converter 1125 is sampled at a rate of at least twice the carrier frequency to satisfy the Nyquist criteria.
- the A/D Sample Control Line 1107 provides a sample clock for the converter to acquire the sequential pixel information that is created by the sequencing of the plate rows and columns.
- a Digital Mixer 1118 that digitally multiplies the A/D output that is at the carrier frequency against the reference carrier generated by the Digitally Controlled Oscillator 1110 .
- the result is that the signal is down converted to the base band with the carrier removed.
- a combination decimator and digital filter 1120 follows the Digital Mixer 1118 .
- This block performs sampling down conversion, reducing the sample rate from at least twice the carrier frequency to at least twice the pixel rate that is much lower.
- the digital filter would typically include a Cascaded Integrator Comb, or CIC filter, which removes the unwanted spectral byproducts of mixing as well as improving the receiver signal to noise.
- a CIC filter provides a highly efficient way to create a narrow passband filter after mixing the signal down to baseband with the digital mixer.
- the CIC filter may be followed by a FIR filter running at the slower decimated rate to correct passband droop.
- Control Processor Buffer 1132
- a relatively small Control Processor Buffer 1132
- a swipe sensor that must scan the partial image frames at a rate fast enough to keep up with the fastest allowable swipe speed, usually around 200 ms.
- a slow swipe of two seconds must also be accommodated, requiring ten times the amount of memory as the fastest one.
- Various techniques have been developed to throw away redundant sample lines before storage, but even with that the real time storage requirements are much greater for swipe sensors. This is a critical factor in Match on Chip applications where memory capacity is limited.
- a placement sensor has no real-time data acquisition or processing requirements on the host processor beyond the patience of the user for holding their finger in place.
- Chip on Flex is a configuration where a processor chip is attached to a flexible substrate, such as KaptonTM tape, and that is electrically connected to conductive lines and possibly other components located on the flexible substrate.
- the sensor layout 1200 is shown within the borders of Kapton tape having pitch rails 1202 , 1204 with slots 1206 located along both rails. These slots are used in the manufacturing process to feed the tape through the process while lines and possibly components are formed on the tape.
- the pitch of a device refers to the length of Kapton tape required to form a device on the CoF.
- the distance “d” 1208 measured here between slots 1207 and 1209 , is substantially constant throughout each rail, and the pitch is a shorthand method of determining the length of flex that a device covers.
- the pitch 1212 shows a span between slot 1207 and 1214 of eight slots, and thus would be characterized as an 8-pitch device.
- the example sensor device shown which may be a fingerprint sensor or other type of placement, 2D or area sensor, illustrates an integrated circuit 1210 , which may be a logic circuit formed on a silicon substrate, a microprocessor, or other circuit for processing pixel information captured from a sensor circuit.
- the example may also be formed or otherwise manufactured on a substrate other than flexible substrate or Kapton tape, in fact it may be formed on a silicon substrate, rigid board, or other substrate configured for various applications.
- integrated circuit 1210 may be a mixed signal chip that enables all or some of the functions described in FIG. 16 below. In one embodiment, it has enough inputs and outputs to drive a 200 by 200 line array of drive and pickup lines, and may have more or less of either lines.
- the top layer 1220 is formed by an array of pickup lines connected directly to integrated circuit 1210 . This may be a flip chip mounted directly to the flex substrate without bond wires.
- the bottom layer is formed by folding the single layer back onto itself along the folding axis 1230 to create double layer active sensor area 1255 . The drive lines fold to create the bottom layer 1225 .
- the drive lines in this example are split into left and right groups 1240 and 1242 respectively for the sake of layout balance, but could be all on the left or right side of the sensing area.
- the left drive plate bundles 1240 , and right drive plate bundles 1242 are inter-digitated with alternating left and right feeds to form a continuous line array on bottom layer 1225 .
- Flexible substrate based connector 1235 routes power, ground and interface signals out to an external host or onto another substrate that contains system level components, such as those illustrated in FIG. 16 and described below. These components may include but are not limited to a processor with memory, logic enabling imbedded matching algorithm(s) and encrypting/decrypting functions.
- connector 1235 may be attached to the host substrate using conductive adhesive otherwise known as anisotropic conductive film (ACF attach), which may be labeled as “high density” in some products.
- ACF attach anisotropic conductive film
- FIG. 12B another example of a sensor 1250 is shown having a different orientation and configuration on a substrate. Similar to the above example, the sensor 1250 is a placement sensor, and is configured to be folded onto itself along the folding axis 1251 to create two layers, the bottom layer 1252 with drive lines 1256 , and top layer 1254 , with pickup lines 1257 , integrated circuit 1258 , flex external connections 1262 , and processor connections 1260 that may be used to connect the integrated circuit to external devices, such as for manufacturing testing for example.
- This configuration however, has a much smaller pitch, again where the distance “d” is the distance between each pair of slots 1206 , and the pitch in this example is between slots 1270 and 1272 , making this device a 5-pitch device.
- This example device takes up 5 pitches of Kapton tape compared to the other example device 1200 ( FIG. 12A ) taking up 8 pitches of Kapton tape.
- This device performs substantially the same function as that of example 1200 , FIG. 12A , yet takes up less Kapton tape, saving in material costs.
- the device may take up even less pitches of tape if the size of the resulting sensor surface were reduced, allowing the space needed to accommodate the pickup lines, drive lines, and other components to be reduced.
- the effective sensor surface may be ten square millimeters, and could be reduced to nine or even eight millimeters, and the structures could be reduced accordingly to reduce the overall area of the device, likewise reducing the area of substrate required to accommodate the overall device.
- the flex layer structure 1300 includes an imaging area 1350 , in which drive lines form crossover locations with pickup lines, where the crossover locations are formed by folding the top layer 1370 over bottom layer 1372 , folding the flexible substrate upon itself about flex bend radius 1374 .
- the top flex 1364 is layered over top soldermask 1362 , which is layered upon top copper or pickup lines 1360 .
- Bottom layer solder mask 1370 is folded under top copper 1360
- bottom copper 1372 is formed under solder mask 1370 and over bottom flex 1375 .
- FIG. 13 b an example of a module structure 1301 is shown for mounting the flex layer structure 1300 of FIG. 13 a .
- the example structure 1301 includes rigid substrate 1330 that receives the flex top layer 1370 on its top layer with flex locating pins or plastic frame 1337 configured to ensure alignment of the drive plates with the pickup plates.
- the x-y alignment tolerance requirements may be on the order of several pixels, rather than the sub-pixel alignment tolerances that would be required if there were features to be matched between the two layers.
- the four mounting holes ( 1337 ) on each layer are sufficient to ensure angular and x-y alignment. Also illustrated is driver chip 1310 and imaging area 1350 .
- a sensor device may be incorporated into a system, or may be configured as a stand-alone product.
- the sensor components may be encased in a housing (not shown), and electrical connections exposed for connection to a device or system that would utilize such a device.
- a housing not shown
- electrical connections exposed for connection to a device or system that would utilize such a device Those skilled in the art will immediately see how a sensor configured according to the embodiment as described herein can be incorporated into a housing such as those that widely used in different industry sectors.
- the mechanical connections, designs and structures may necessarily vary according to a particular application.
- FIG. 14 illustrates a diagrammatic representation of a system 1400 that incorporates a sensor 1402 configured according to the embodiment with the folded flexible or rigid substrate 1404 having a top layer 1406 and a bottom layer 1408 , and each having either pickup lines or plates and drive lines or plates respectively depending on the application, though not shown here.
- the two-dimensional sensing area 1411 is shown with an object 1410 on top, which may be a finger in the case of a fingerprint sensor, or another object in another application.
- the top layer's pickup plates or lines (not shown) communicate with top plate processing circuitry 1410 via communication link 1412 to send resultant signals received.
- Drive lines or plates are located but not shown here on bottom layer 1408 , and receive drive signals from bottom plate processing circuitry 1414 via communication line 1416 .
- the top plate processing circuitry 1410 includes front end buffers and amplifiers 1416 configured to receive, amplify and/or buffer or store a resultant signal received from the pickup plates or lines.
- a switch array 1418 such as that illustrated in FIG.
- DSP digital signal processor
- Bottom plate processing circuitry 1414 is configured to produce a drive signal for use by drive plates or lines located on the bottom layer 1408 of the sensor substrate 1404 , and includes drivers and scanning logic 1424 for producing the signal, and programmable frequency generate 1426 for programmable setting the frequency in which the drive signal is set.
- the bottom plate processing circuitry 1414 includes communication link 1428 , likewise, top plate circuitry has communication link 1420 for communicating with system buss 1432 for sending and receiving communications among the system, such as to processors, memory modules, and other components.
- System buss 1432 communicates with persistent memory 1434 via communication link 1436 for storing algorithms 1428 , application software 1440 , templates 1442 , and other code for persistent and frequent use by processor 1444 .
- Processor 1444 includes processor logic having logic and other circuitry for processing signals received from the system buss and originating from the sensor 1402 , and also includes arithmetic logic unit 1450 configured with logical circuits for performing basic and complex arithmetic operations in conjunction with the processor.
- Processor memory 1452 is configured for local storage for the processor 1444 , for example for storing results of calculations and retrieval for further calculations.
- drive signals are controlled by processor 1444 , and parameters for the drive signals originating from bottom plate processing circuitry 1414 are set in the bottom plate processing circuitry 1414 by the processor 1444 .
- Drive signals are generated by logic 1424 within the parameters set in generator 1426 and sent to bottom plate 1408 via communication link 1416 .
- These signals generate electromagnetic fields that extend to pickup lines on top layer 1406 about the sensing area 1411 .
- These signals are cycled through different pixel electrode pairs on the sensor grid (not shown here, but described above), and some of these electromagnetic fields are absorbed by the object 1410 (such as a fingerprint for example).
- the resultant signal is picked up by the pickup plates or lines located on top layer 1406 about the sensing area (not shown here, but described above).
- the resultant signal is then transmitted to top plate processing circuitry 1410 via communication line 1412 , and the signal is processed and transmitted to storage or processor 1444 for further processing.
- data related to features and characteristics of the object can be defined and utilized by the system.
- the image may be a fingerprint image that can be compared to a stored fingerprint image, and, if there is a match, it can be used to validate a user.
- FIG. 15 Illustrates how a device configured according to the embodiment may be applied to a fingerprint sensing application.
- a user places a finger with fingerprint ( 1510 ) over the sensor grid, which is formed by the crossover locations of the drive plates ( 1506 a - 1506 n ) and the pickup plates ( 1502 a - 1502 m ).
- Image pixel 1561 a senses the fingerprint area above the electrode pair of drive plate 1506 a and pickup plate 1502 a
- pixel 1561 a senses the crossover of drive 1506 n and pickup 1502 a
- pixel 1562 n senses the area above the crossover of drive 1506 n and pickup 1502 m
- FIG. 16 illustrates the steps required to collect the fingerprint image as shown in FIG. 15 , using the embodiment shown in FIGS. 11 and 14 .
- Image capture begins at step 1601 .
- a row counter is initialized to 1 at step 1602 .
- Step 1603 is the beginning of a row scan sequence.
- a column counter is set to 1 at step 1603 .
- the top plate scanning logic 1145 activates the appropriate analog switch (one of 1103 a through 1103 n ) for the selected row.
- Step 1605 the sense of an individual pixel begins when the bottom plate scanning logic 1140 activates the appropriate drive plate (one of 1106 a through 1106 n ) with the carrier signal 1116 .
- step 1606 the signal from differential amplifier 1180 is sampled repeatedly by A/D converter 1125 after processing through programmable gain amplifier 1190 .
- Digital mixer 1118 mixes the samples down to the baseband frequency set by digital oscillator 1110 .
- the baseband signal is then filtered by digital decimating filter 1120 to produce a signal level value for the current pixel.
- the functions performed for this step in the embodiment of FIG. 11 could alternatively be performed by the corresponding analog receiver shown in FIG. 10 , or other functionally similar arrangements.
- step 1607 the signal level value derived in step 1606 is stored in the appropriate position in memory buffer 1132 that corresponds to the currently selected row and column.
- step 1608 the column number is incremented, and in step 1609 the column number is tested to determine whether the current row collection has been completed. If the row has not been completed, we return to step 1605 to collect the next pixel in the row. If the row is complete, we proceed to step 1610 and increment the row number. In step 1611 , we test the row number to determine if all the rows have been scanned. If not, flow returns to 1603 to start the next row back at the first column. Once all the rows have been scanned, image capture is complete, and we proceed to step 1612 , at which point the image is ready for further processing or transfer to long term storage.
- row and column scanning order may not correspond directly to physical position in the array, as some implementations may more optimally be sampled in interleaved fashions.
- FIG. 17 an example of the example as shown in FIG. 14 in a user authentication application.
- a system level application 1440 on processor 1444 requires user authentication.
- the user is prompted to provide a finger for verification.
- the system waits for finger presence to be detected in step 1703 . This can be performed by collecting a reduced size image as described in FIG. 16 and testing for finger image, or via other dedicated hardware. Once finger presence is detected, a complete image is collected in step 1704 , using the method described in FIG. 16 or other substantially similar method. This image is then stored and in step 1705 converted into a template 1712 as shown in FIG.
- step 1707 the template is then compared against one or more enrollment templates that were retrieved from persistent template storage 1142 in step 1706 . If a match is found, the user is authenticated in step 1708 and granted access to the application. If no match is found, the user is rejected in step 1709 , and access is denied.
- a device such as a smartphone may have differing security and convenience (speed) requirements for differing operating modes, as well. These tradeoffs may be governed by the value of security for different types of information. As an example, users may place a low value on security for simply powering up their smartphone or other device. But, they may place a much higher value on performing a financial transaction or other sensitive transfer. They may want to lock out the ability to access personal contact information or customer lists, or may also want to lock out the ability for others to make local calls, long distance calls, access personal photos, access social networking websites, sent and receive text messages or emails, and they may want to have different security protocols for the access to different information.
- Embodiments described herein facilitate supporting both of these requirements by providing variable captured image resolution and matching algorithm security level.
- high security mode such as when enrolling a user or validating a high-value transaction
- the image capture procedure described in FIG. 16 and the match procedure described in FIG. 17A-B may operate in full resolution mode.
- ‘convenience’ mode such as unlocking the phone, looking at photos, surfing the internet or switching users
- the fingerprint image may be acquired in a half-resolution mode by skipping every other column and every other row—for example where steps 1608 and 1610 would increment the Column and Row counters, respectively, by two instead of one. This may result in an image with half the resolution in each axis compared to the high security mode, and one-fourth the size.
- step 1707 may be accordingly reduced.
- FIGS. 18A-D another embodiment of a sensor module or assembly is illustrated as a sensor 1800 , first shown in an expanded view in FIG. 18A , made up of a folded flex sensor 1802 , a module folding base 1804 and mounting board 1806 .
- a switch having a plunger 1812 and base 1813 is incorporated into a sensor assembly that allows the integration of the sensor operations, such as fingerprint sensor operations, together with other operations of a device.
- this assembly allows for the configuration of a personalization switch for use on a device, such as a mobile telephone or smart phone for example, that has extended functions including biometric operations.
- a fingerprint sensor can be used for authentication while using these personal devices.
- the authentication can be used to access the device entirely, access different levels of information such as different information that a user wishes to protect, or could be used for authentication of the user for financial transactions that require a higher level of security.
- These settings may be preset by the manufacturer, may be reset by the user, may be set by a financial institution associated with the user or the device, or may be configurable by anyone with an interest in protecting the information.
- the folded flex sensor 1802 may be folded at 1805 and 1807 respectively to fit about the module folding base 1804 at mounting locations loop brace 1805 -A and folding edge 1807 -A respectively, along with placement holes 1808 to aid in placing the flex about the module and holding it in place.
- the sensor 1802 may include processor 1810 as described in similar embodiments above.
- Mounting board 1806 includes a switch 1813 mounted about switch opening 1811 to accommodate plunger 1812 , and may also have a processor opening 1814 configured to accommodate processor 1810 .
- FIG. 18B another expanded view of the sensor of FIG. 18A is shown from another angle, where one side of the flex sensor 1802 shows more clearly the openings 1808 and processor 1810 , where the openings 1808 are configured to receive placement or mounting pegs 1816 for holding the sensor 1802 substrate in place and then received by mounting openings 1818 .
- the placement or mounting pegs 1820 are received by mounting openings 1822 .
- Switch base opening 1824 is configured to receive switch base 1813 .
- the opening for the plunger 1812 and the base 1813 may be a single sized opening that will accept the entire switch, or the switch may have base with the same diameter as the plunger so that a single cylindrical or rectangular or other shaped opening may be sufficient to accommodate the switch.
- FIG. 18C shows a side cut away view of the assembled sensor assembly with the sensor substrate 1802 mounted on module folding base 1804 and mounted on base 1806 , and with the openings 1811 and 1824 accommodating the switch plunger 1812 and switch base 1813 respectively.
- FIG. 18D shows a close-up view of the side view of FIG. 18C .
- FIGS. 19A-J show an alternative sensor/switch assembly where a dome switch is used for the underlying switch that is integrated in the assembly.
- the assembly 1900 includes a dome switch 1912 integrated with module folding base 1904 mounted on mounting board 1906 .
- a switch having a domed shaped plunger 1912 and base 1913 ( FIG. 19C ) is incorporated into a sensor assembly that allows the integration of the sensor operations, such as fingerprint sensor operations, together with other operations of a device.
- the folded flex sensor 1902 may be folded at 1905 and 1907 respectively to fit about the module folding base 1904 at mounting locations loop brace 1905 -A and folding edge 1907 -A respectively, along with placement holes 1908 ( FIG. 19D ) to aid in placing the flex about the module and holding it in place.
- the sensor 1902 may include processor 1910 as described in similar embodiments above.
- Mounting board 1906 includes a switch 1913 mounted below plunger 1912 , and may also have a processor opening 1914 configured to accommodate processor 1910 ( FIG. 19D ).
- FIGS. 19G , H and I side views of the sensor is shown, showing the flex sensor 1902 and the openings 1908 and processor 1910 , where the openings 1908 are configured to receive placement or mounting pegs 1916 for holding the sensor 1902 substrate in place and then received by mounting openings 1918 .
- the placement or mounting pegs 1920 are received by mounting openings 1922 .
- Switch base opening 1924 is configured to receive switch base 1913 .
- the opening for the plunger 1912 and the base 1913 may be a single sized opening that will accept the entire switch, or the switch may have base with the same diameter as the plunger so that a single cylindrical or rectangular or other shaped opening may be sufficient to accommodate the switch.
- FIGS. 19 E,F, and J show a normal, cutaway, and expanded cut away views of the sensor assembly mounted in a device such as a smartphone, with the sensor substrate 1902 mounted on module folding base 1904 and mounted on base 1906 , and with the openings 1911 and 1924 accommodating the switch dome plunger 1912 and switch base 1913 respectively.
- the sensor area 1901 is accessed by a bezel opening 1909 which is incorporated into the finished case 1925 of the device. When the user places a finger on sensor surface 1901 they will simultaneously depress switch plunger 1912 .
- FIG. 20 illustrates a perspective view of one embodiment of an embedded switch 2000 that can provide a means to electronically connect a top conductive layer 2002 through insulating layer 2004 to conductive layer 2006 upon the touch of a user on the surface of the sensor, not shown here, but it may be a layer above conductor 2002 .
- the three layers may be embedded within a fingerprint sensor as described above, allowing for a switch located within the double-layered fingerprint sensor, so that a user can activate a function upon touch, such as power, select, initiate, enter, or other switch functions in a device.
- the three layers may be placed on a surface 2006 of module 2008 , where the module is located on the surface 2010 of a substrate 2012 .
- FIG. 21A shows an embodiment where a switch is formed on the same substrate as the sensor.
- the figures show the folded flex stack-up consisting of flex substrates 2102 and 2103 , typically but not limited to Kapton ⁇ , metalized layers 2104 and 2105 are typically etched or formed copper traces and insulating layers 2106 and 2107 are typically solder mask. Insulating layers 2106 and 2107 have a cutout section 2110 out exposing the conductive layers 2104 and 2105 . When no vertical pressure is applied over the gap 2110 conductive layers 2104 and 2105 are not electrically in contact with each other and are in the off position.
- FIG. 21B shows the flex top layer 2103 and conductive layer 2112 mechanically depressed by a contacting object such as a finger.
- Top conductive layer 2107 can be pushed physically into electrical contact with conductive layer 2106 at pressure focal point 2112 . This forms an embedded flex switch, which is shown in the on position.
- FIGS. 22A-26C illustrate alternative embodiments and further examples. These examples may be configured using different materials and structures, and they may further be oriented or integrated in different structures such as power buttons in mobile devices, stationary devices, computers, laptops, access devices (doorknobs, entryways, or the like). Note that in these figures and the number of plates is greatly reduced to simplify the drawings, and the size of individual drive and pickup plates are increased for simplicity as well. In practice, both drive and pickup plates may be formed at fixed or variable pitch, and unlike the drawings, the spacing between plates may be greater or less than the individual plate size.
- FIG. 22 depicts an embodiment where the drive and detection electronics are implemented on separate silicon components. This configuration minimizes interconnect between layers by directly mounting the drive die on the substrate layer for the drive lines, and directly mounting the pickup die on the substrate for the pickup plates.
- the rigid substrate for the drive plates also serves as a common base layer which provides interconnect for synchronizing signals between the two subsystems, as well as power and communications to the host device.
- the common substrate ( 2201 ) is a two layer rigid circuit board, which also provides a mechanical base for the sensor.
- the drive circuitry is implemented in integrated circuit die ( 2204 ) which is mounted on rigid drive substrate ( 2201 ).
- the die is connected to the circuit on the rigid substrate by a number of bonding pads ( 2206 ) using standard flip-chip mounting processes.
- a large number of drive lines (typically more than 100) are connected to the drive plates ( 2209 ), which are formed on the top side of the rigid substrate.
- a dielectric layer ( 2208 ) separates drive plates ( 2209 ) from pickup plates ( 2210 ).
- dielectric layer ( 2208 ) is provided by a solder mask layer applied to the drive plates ( 2209 ) and rigid substrate ( 2201 ).
- Pickup substrate assembly ( 2202 ) with pre-attached pickup circuit die ( 2205 ) is mounted on top of drive substrate ( 2201 ).
- the die is connected to the circuit on the flexible substrate by a number of bonding pads ( 2216 ) using standard flip-chip mounting processes.
- attach pads ( 2211 ) can mate with their corresponding pads ( 2212 ) on base substrate ( 2201 ).
- a cutout ( 2203 ) is provided in base substrate ( 2201 ) to accommodate pickup chip ( 2205 ) so the assembly lies flat.
- Attach pads ( 2211 ) provide interconnect to the mating pads ( 2212 ) on the substrate layer ( 2201 ).
- Interconnect traces ( 2214 ) formed on the top layer of base substrate ( 2201 ) provide synchronizing signals between the integrated circuits ( 2204 ) and ( 2205 ).
- Interconnect traces ( 2215 ) in the base substrate ( 2201 ) route signals to interconnect pads ( 2213 ) for power, ground, and communications interconnect to the host system.
- FIGS. 23 a - f illustrates an example of an assembly stackup of the two-chip.
- FIG. 23 a shows the rigid base ( 2201 ) with the drive plates ( 2209 ), host interconnect traces ( 2215 ) and contact pads ( 2213 ), pickup communications traces ( 2214 ) and contact pads ( 2212 ). Cutout ( 2203 ) is mad in base ( 2201 ) to accommodate the pickup IC which will be attached in a subsequent step.
- Rigid base ( 2201 ) could be fabricated from standard circuit board materials, such as FR4, in which case plates ( 2209 ), interconnect ( 2213 and 2214 ) and pads ( 2213 and 2212 ) would typically be formed from copper by use of circuit board etching techniques.
- Rigid base ( 2201 ) could also be formed from glass, in which case plates ( 2209 ), interconnect traces ( 2213 and 2214 ), and pads ( 2212 and 2213 ) would typically be formed from a transparent conductive material such as Indium-Tin Oxide (ITO).
- ITO Indium-Tin Oxide
- FIG. 23 b shows drive electronics die ( 2204 ) attached to the traces on the assembly from FIG. 23 a .
- the die is shown attached to the traces via standard flip-chip mounting processes.
- FIG. 23 c shows the exemplary assembly after the addition of dielectric layer 2208 .
- This dielectric layer may be formed by a standard soldermask process, such as LPI, or by applying a piece of dielectric such as Kapton film.
- FIG. 23 d shows a cutaway view of the exemplary flexible substrate ( 2202 ) with pickup plates ( 2210 ) and pickup communications pads ( 2211 ) formed on it.
- Flexible substrate ( 2202 ) may be formed from a Kapton film, in which case the plates ( 2210 ), traces, and pads ( 2211 ) would likely be formed of copper by standard etching techniques.
- Flexible substrate ( 2202 ) could also be made of a transparent material, such as polyester, with plates, traces, and pads formed from by depositing a film of a transparent conductive material such as ITO.
- FIG. 23 e shows the cutaway view of the exemplary flexible substrate with the addition of pickup electronics die ( 2205 ). Electrical connections between the die and elements on the flex are made by bonding interconnect bumps ( 2216 ) on the die to contacts ( 2217 ) on the flex assembly, as shown in FIG. 22 e . Interconnect bumps ( 2216 ) are typically made of gold, while contacts ( 2217 ) are features formed of the same material as the plates and traces.
- FIG. 23 f shows a cutaway view of the exemplary completed assembly, as the flex assembly is mounted onto the rigid assembly. Electrical connection between the two sub-assemblies is made by mating flex assembly pads ( 2211 ) to rigid assembly pads ( 2212 ).
- FIG. 24 shows an example of steps required to assemble the exemplary embodiment shown in FIGS. 22 and 23 .
- Step 2401 traces 2214 and 2215 , host contact pads 2213 , layer interconnect pads 2212 , and drive plates 2209 are all formed by an etching process on substrate 2201 .
- a number of instances of the substrate assemblies may be formed at the same time by repeating the pattern across a large panel of base material.
- Step 2402 cutout 2203 is formed in substrate 2203 by a standard circuit board routing process. This may take place at the same time that the multiple instances of substrate 2201 are separated by cutting out the substrate outline from the common panel.
- Step 2403 dielectric layer 2208 is created by applying a layer of material such as LPI solder mask to substrate 2201 and drive plates 2209 .
- pickup plates 2210 , interconnect pads 2211 , and bonding pads 2217 are formed on substrate 2202 by an etching process.
- drive electronics die 2204 is mounted onto the substrate assembly 2201 using a standard chip-on-board flip-chip bonding process.
- pickup electronics die 2205 is mounted onto substrate assembly 2202 using standard flip-clip chip-on-flex bonding process.
- flex substrate assembly 2202 is mounted onto base substrate assembly 2201 .
- pads 2211 and 2212 are electrically connected using an anisotropic conducting film (ACF) attach process.
- ACF anisotropic conducting film
- FIG. 25 shows an embodiment where the drive and detection electronics are implemented on separate structures, such as separate silicon components for example.
- This configuration minimizes interconnect between layers by directly mounting the drive die on the substrate layer for the drive lines, and directly mounting the pickup die on the substrate for the pickup plates.
- the drive and pickup layers may be both connected to a common base layer which provides interconnect for synchronizing signals between the two subsystems, as well as power and communications to the host device.
- the common substrate ( 2500 ) may be a two layer rigid circuit board, which may also provide a mechanical base for the sensor.
- the drive circuitry may be implemented in integrated circuit die ( 2504 ) that is mounted on flexible drive substrate ( 2501 ).
- the die may be connected to the circuit on the flexible substrate by a number of bonding pads ( 2506 ) using standard flip-chip mounting processes or other mounting processes known in the art.
- a large number of drive lines (possibly 100 or more) may be connected to the drive plates ( 2509 ), which may or may not be formed on the same flexible substrate.
- Attach pads ( 2511 ) can provide interconnect to the mating pads ( 2512 ) on the substrate layer ( 2500 ).
- Substrate ( 2500 ) may incorporate a cutout ( 2513 ). In one example, the cutout may be configured so that when the drive substrate ( 2501 ) is attached drive electronics chip ( 2504 ) will not contact substrate ( 2501 ), and the assembly lies flat or planar.
- a surface may not be entirely planar or even molded over an object such as a power button, the different layers my have a cutout to accommodate different structures such as the drive electronics.
- Pickup substrate assembly ( 2502 ) with pre-attached pickup circuit die ( 2505 ) may be mounted on top of both drive substrate ( 2501 ) and base substrate ( 2500 ).
- drive substrate ( 2501 ) provides the dielectric layer between the drive and pickup plates, without the need for a separate dielectric layer as in previously discussed embodiments. If substrate ( 2502 ) is flexible, attach pads ( 2507 a ) may be able to mate with their corresponding pads ( 2507 b ) on base substrate ( 2500 ).
- a cutout ( 2503 ) may be provided in base substrate ( 2500 ) to accommodate pickup chip ( 2505 ) so the assembly lies flat.
- Interconnect traces ( 2514 ) formed on the top layer of base substrate ( 2500 ) may be included to provide synchronizing signals between the integrated circuits ( 2504 ) and ( 2505 ).
- Vias ( 2507 c ) or other openings in the base substrate ( 2500 ) may be used to route signals to the bottom layer, where lower layer traces ( 2509 ) may connect the signals to interconnect pads ( 2508 ) for possibly power, ground, communications interconnect to the host system, and other connections.
- FIG. 26 shows an exemplary embodiment where the drive and detection electronics are both provided by a single integrated circuit.
- substrate ( 2601 ) may be composed of a dielectric material which separates the drive ( 2602 ) and pickup ( 2603 ) plates.
- Substrate ( 2601 ) may be a flexible material, such as Kapton, or a thin rigid material, such as an aramid laminate layer in a FlipChip package, or it may be another material.
- Integrated circuit die ( 2604 ) incorporates contact pads ( 2611 ) which are mounted onto bonding pads ( 2605 ) the bottom layer of the substrate.
- the bonding pads provide connections from die ( 2604 ) to interconnect traces ( 2606 ), drive plates ( 2602 ), and pickup interconnect traces ( 2607 ), A number of vias ( 2609 ) electrically connect pickup interconnect ( 2607 ) on the bottom layer to pickup plates ( 2602 ), which may be located on the top layer.
- Interconnect traces ( 2606 ) may connect die ( 2604 ) to host connector pads ( 2608 ).
- a dielectric layer ( 2610 ) may be formed atop pickup plated ( 2603 ) to prevent direct contact of the finger with the pickup plates.
- the dielectric layer ( 2610 ) may be formed from a number of materials, including but not limited to an LPI soldermask material, an ink, or a top kapton coversheet. In another embodiment, a surface may not be entirely planar or even molded over an object such as a power button,
- FIGS. 27-29 illustrate a method for integrating a folded flex fingerprint sensor directly onto a touch-screen device.
- An unfolded Chip on Flex (COF) substrate is shown in FIG. 28 and is folded back onto itself as is shown in FIG. 27 callouts ( 2701 - 2705 ).
- Host interface tab ( 2705 ) connects the sensor to the host using a connector that accepts the etched flex tab directly or is attached to the host circuit board using an industry standard conductive adhesive referred to as ACF.
- FIG. 28 shows a COF layout where the substrate is folder end-over-end but could also be reconfigured to fold on another axis such as side-by-side.
- FIGS. 30-32 illustrate a fingerprint sensor integrated onto the same substrate layers as a conventional touch-screen.
- FIG. 51 illustrates a method for integrating a folded flex fingerprint sensor with a touchscreen device that utilizes a protective cover layer.
- Display substrate ( 5106 ) is a conventional display assembly, which may optionally incorporate a touchscreen.
- Flexible substrate ( 5120 ) has driver receiver chip ( 5104 ) mounted on it, and provides a substrate for both the drive and pickup lines of the fingerprint sensor.
- Substrate ( 5120 ) is then folded and mounted on top of display substrate ( 5106 ).
- Host interface connector ( 5205 ) provides data and control interconnect between the fingerprint sensor assembly and the host device.
- An optically transparent dielectric spacer ( 5130 ) is placed on top of the display substrate. This dielectric spacer is the same thickness as the stacked fingerprint sensor substrate ( 5112 ).
- a cutout ( 5108 ) in the dielectric spacer allows the fingerprint sensor sensing area ( 5112 ) to sit flush with the top of dielectric spacer.
- Top layer ( 5107 ) may be made of a protective material such as Corning Gorilla Glass or a protective polymer film. This top layer has a cutout ( 5109 ) which allows direct finger contact with finger sensing area ( 5112 ).
- FIG. 52 illustrates a method for integrating a fingerprint sensor on the same substrate layers as a touchscreen.
- Display substrate ( 5206 ) contains a standard LDC module.
- the lower layer plates ( 5211 ) of the fingerprint sensor are formed or etched on top of the display substrate, from a conductive material such as Indium Tin Oxide (ITO).
- Flexible substrate ( 5520 ) has driver receiver chip ( 5204 ) mounted on it. Connections from the driver receiver chip ( 5502 ) are made to the lower layer plates ( 5211 ) through a lower layer edge connector ( 5210 ). This connector may be attached through anisotropic conductive film (ACF) or other means.
- An optically transparent dielectric spacer ( 5230 ) is placed on top of the display substrate.
- the spacer has a cutout ( 5209 ) to accommodate lower edge connector ( 5510 ) and upper edge connector ( 5221 ).
- Top layer ( 5210 ) is fabricated from a thin glass or transparent polymer film. This layer ( 5510 ) has upper layer sensor plates ( 5212 ) formed or etched on its lower surface made of a conductive material such as Indium Tin Oxide (ITO).
- ITO Indium Tin Oxide
- Flexible substrate 5520 connects signals from driver receiver chip ( 5204 ) through upper edge connector ( 5221 ), again through ACF or other means.
- FIG. 53 illustrates a configuration where the fingerprint sensor and a touchscreen are implemented on common substrate layers utilizing a common controller chip.
- Driver receiver chip ( 5304 ) is mounted to flexible substrate ( 5320 ) which provides interconnect between the chip and the host through a host interface connector ( 5305 ).
- Display substrate ( 5306 ) is the upper surface of a display module.
- Both the lower touchscreen plates ( 5330 ) and the lower layer fingerprint sensor plates ( 5311 ) are formed or etched on top of display substrate ( 5306 ). These plates mat be etched or formed from a transparent material such as Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) or other suitable conductive material.
- Upper fingerprint sensor plates ( 5312 ) and upper touchscreen plates ( 5331 ) are both etched or formed on the lower side of top layer ( 5307 ).
- ITO Indium Tin Oxide
- a dielectric layer ( 5330 ) separates the lower sets of plates for the two sensors from the upper sets of plates.
- Flexible substrate provides signal interconnect between driver/receiver chip ( 5304 ) to the lower sets of plates through lower edge connector ( 5310 ) and interconnect to the upper plate sets through upper edge connector 5321 .
- edge connectors may be electrically connected through an Anisotropic Conductive Film (ACF) bond or other suitable means.
- ACF Anisotropic Conductive Film
- FIGS. 33 and 34 illustrate a novel “Dual Grid” touch-screen.
- User motion tracking is required in touchscreen devices for a number of functions, including icon selection and movement, control selection, gesture recognition, text selection, and so on. Many motion tracking functions only require coarse position determination, but may be done at high speed. This is especially true of gesture recognition. Other functions may require much finer position determination, but these generally are performed at low speeds of motion to allow the user more precise control. Such functions include text selection and drawing tasks.
- the important characteristics for a touchscreen display input are good high speed coarse absolute position determination, and highly responsive high resolution low-speed relative motion determination.
- This invention addresses the need for high speed coarse absolute positioning and responsive high resolution slow speed motion tracking by providing a dual resolution sensing system.
- a primary grid is formed at a spacing equal to that used by commercially available touch screens with a spacing of 5-10 per inch while a secondary grid is formed about the primary lines with a much finer resolution equal to that of a commercial fingerprint sensor at 500 lines per inch.
- the result is a sensor that is capable of detecting macro finger movements using the primary grid as well as small incremental movements using the secondary grid which tracks the movements of fingerprint ridge and valley features.
- FIG. 33 shows one embodiment of this dual grid concept in a touchscreen application where the cover layer has been omitted.
- the touchscreen consists of a matrix of passive capacitance sensing junctions formed at the crossover points of each row an column arranged in a pattern to facilitate both coarse absolute position detection and high resolution relative motion tracking.
- the illustration shows a simplified embodiment where the sense and drive lines are configured to provide a regularly space series of 3 ⁇ 3 pixel high resolution patches, where the high resolution pixels are spaced in a manner to detected localized features of a fingerprint. These pixels within the cluster would typically be spaced approximately 50 to 100 microns apart.
- the clusters of pixels are spaced in a manner to provide several contact points within a finger, leading to a typical cluster spacing of 1 to 3 millimeters apart.
- Active circuitry is located on the periphery of the array outside the sensing area and is used to make the individual crossovers impedance sensitive to a proximally located object as well as scan the entire array
- FIG. 34 is an exploded view of the embodiment shown in FIG. 33 , showing the stack up of the substrate, with the drive lines atop that, and the chip with the processing electronics mounted to routing lines which feed the drive plates, as well as feed lines with connect to the sense lines on the upper layers and host interconnect.
- a dielectric layer separated the drive and pickup lines. The dielectric has cutouts to allow the interconnect pads to feed the pickup signals back to the processing electronics.
- a thin protective layer, typically of a polymer film or very thin glass is mounted on top of the sense plates.
- FIGS. 35-37 illustrate a fully integrated Dual Grid touch-screen and fingerprint sensor, which advantageously share a common drive and sense circuit.
- a dedicated area of high density pixels if provided to create a fingerprint sense area for user authentication or other similar purposes, adjacent to a dual-grid touchscreen array configured as in FIG. 33 .
- FIGS. 36 and 37 are exploded views of the embodiment shown in FIG. 35 .
- FIGS. 38-40 illustrated a fully integrated display with integral touch-screen and fingerprint sensing over the entire display area.
- the drive plates are formed below the OLED emissive pixels, while the pickup plates are formed of transparent conductors, such as ITO, in a layer above the OLED emissive layer.
- FIGS. 41-46 illustrate how the dual grid finger motion tracking process operates.
- FIGS. 41 and 42 show the location of a finger on the dual grid sensor before and after a coarse position change. Coarse position finding and fast motion tracking is performed by activating all the pixels in a cluster simultaneously and taking a single measurement to determine if the cluster is covered by a finger.
- FIG. 43 is a flowchart for this coarse scan process.
- FIG. 44 illustrates the computation of the centroid locations for the finger in the two samples collected before and after the move. If the coarse coverage changes between two scans, then the finger is moving quickly, and fine position tracking is not needed. In this case the device will report a new absolute position for each sensed finger to the host system.
- FIG. 45 illustrates a sequence of images taken at a single high resolution cluster as a finger moves over it. It can be seen that a coarse centroid measurement would not detect the motion of the finger, but examination of the ridge pattern at a fine pixel resolution can detect this relative motion.
- FIG. 46 shows the local images collected at three different high resolution clusters before and after a very fine motion. For this example, we examine a 4 ⁇ 4 cluster of high resolution pixels at each location on the coarse grid. The advantage provided by taking samples at multiple locations is demonstrated by examining the results from each cell individually.
- FIG. 49 demonstrates that a ridge tracking system can be locally insensitive to movement that is parallel to the local ridge orientation. In order to reliably track motion of fingerprints, therefore, it is strongly advantageous to sample the finger at several different locations.
- the dual grid configuration enables this by dispersing the pixel clusters widely about the finger, so that it samples the finger at locations with a variety of local orientations, without requiring the resources to cover the entire finger area at a high resolution.
- FIG. 50 shows the combination of results from the three measurement cells to produce a single robust score to determine if the pattern has remained stationary or moved. If motion is detected, the previously computed position (initially from the coarse position) is adjusted by the detected motion, and the updated position is transmitted to the host.
- the embodiment has application in many areas, particularly in biometric sensors. Fingerprint sensors, for example, and other biometric sensors are gaining increasing acceptance for use in a wide variety of applications for security and convenience reasons. Devices, systems and methods configured according to the embodiment will have improved security of the biometric verification process without increasing the cost of the system. Furthermore, the embodiment may extend to devices, systems and methods that would benefit from validation of components. As discussed above, the embodiment includes the ability for the host and sensor to include any combination or subset of the above components, which may be arranged and configured in the manner most appropriate for the system's intended application. Those skilled in the art will understand that different combinations and permutations of the components described herein are possible within the spirit and scope of the embodiment, which is defined by the appended Claims, their equivalents, and also Claims presented in related applications in the future and their equivalents.
- the embodiment may also involve a number of functions to be performed by a computer processor, such as a microprocessor.
- the microprocessor may be a specialized or dedicated microprocessor that is configured to perform particular tasks according to the embodiment, by executing machine-readable software code that defines the particular tasks embodied by the embodiment.
- the microprocessor may also be configured to operate and communicate with other devices such as direct memory access modules, memory storage devices, Internet related hardware, and other devices that relate to the transmission of data in accordance with the embodiment.
- the software code may be configured using software formats such as Java, C++, XML (Extensible Mark-up Language) and other languages that may be used to define functions that relate to operations of devices required to carry out the functional operations related to the embodiment.
- the code may be written in different forms and styles, many of which are known to those skilled in the art. Different code formats, code configurations, styles and forms of software programs and other means of configuring code to define the operations of a microprocessor in accordance with the embodiment will not depart from the spirit and scope of the embodiment.
- Cache memory devices are often included in such computers for use by the central processing unit as a convenient storage location for information that is frequently stored and retrieved.
- a persistent memory is also frequently used with such computers for maintaining information that is frequently retrieved by the central processing unit, but that is not often altered within the persistent memory, unlike the cache memory.
- Main memory is also usually included for storing and retrieving larger amounts of information such as data and software applications configured to perform functions according to the embodiment when executed by the central processing unit.
- RAM random access memory
- SRAM static random access memory
- DRAM dynamic random access memory
- flash memory and other memory storage devices that may be accessed by a central processing unit to store and retrieve information.
- RAM random access memory
- SRAM static random access memory
- DRAM dynamic random access memory
- flash memory and other memory storage devices that may be accessed by a central processing unit to store and retrieve information.
- RAM random access memory
- SRAM static random access memory
- DRAM dynamic random access memory
- flash memory and other memory storage devices that may be accessed by a central processing unit to store and retrieve information.
- RAM random access memory
- SRAM static random access memory
- DRAM dynamic random access memory
- flash memory and other memory storage devices that may be accessed by a central processing unit to store and retrieve information.
- RAM random access memory
- SRAM static random access memory
- DRAM dynamic random access memory
- machine-readable medium should be taken to include a single medium or multiple media (e.g., a centralized or distributed database, and/or associated caches and servers) that store the one or more sets of instructions.
- the term “machine-readable medium” shall also be taken to include any medium that is capable of storing, encoding or carrying a set of instructions for execution by the machine and that causes the machine to perform any one or more of the methodologies of the present embodiment.
- the machine-readable medium includes any mechanism that provides (i.e., stores and/or transmits) information in a form readable by a machine (e.g., a computer, PDA, cellular telephone, etc.).
- a machine-readable medium includes memory (such as described above); magnetic disk storage media; optical storage media; flash memory devices; biological electrical, mechanical systems; electrical, optical, acoustical or other form of propagated signals (e.g., carrier waves, infrared signals, digital signals, etc.).
- the device or machine-readable medium may include a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS), nanotechnology devices, organic, holographic, solid-state memory device and/or a rotating magnetic or optical disk.
- MEMS micro-electromechanical system
- the device or machine-readable medium may be distributed when partitions of instructions have been separated into different machines, such as across an interconnection of computers or as different virtual machines.
- references in the specification to “an embodiment,” “one embodiment,” “some embodiments,” or “other embodiments” means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiments is included in at least some embodiments, but not necessarily all embodiments.
- the various appearances “an embodiment,” “one embodiment,” or “some embodiments” are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiments. If the specification states a component, feature, structure, or characteristic “may”, “might”, or “could” be included, that particular component, feature, structure, or characteristic is not required to be included. If the specification or Claim refers to “a” or “an” element, that does not mean there is only one of the element. If the specification or Claims refer to “an additional” element, that does not preclude there being more than one of the additional element.
- the methods, systems and devices include improved security operations and configurations with a novel approach to biometric systems. Such systems would greatly benefit from increased security features, particularly in financial transactions.
- this embodiment is described and illustrated in the context of devices, systems and related methods of validating biometric devices such as fingerprint sensors, the scope of the embodiment extends to other applications where such functions are useful.
- biometric devices such as fingerprint sensors
- the scope of the embodiment extends to other applications where such functions are useful.
- the foregoing description has been with reference to particular embodiments of the embodiment, it will be appreciated that these are only illustrative of the embodiment and that changes may be made to those embodiments without departing from the principles of the embodiment, the scope of which is defined by the appended Claims and their equivalents.
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