Patents Assigned to AuthenTec Inc. State of Incorporation: Delaware
  • Publication number: 20120112764
    Abstract: A method of making finger sensor packages may include advancing a flexible circuit tape along a predetermined path of travel. The flexible circuit tape may include a flexible layer and conductive traces thereon defining individual flexible circuits. The method may include, as the flexible circuit tape is advanced along the path of travel, securing a respective finger sensing integrated circuit (IC) and surrounding sensor package frame to each flexible circuit, applying at least one fluid fill material adjacent each finger sensor IC while using the corresponding sensor package frame as a dam to thereby define finger sensor packages, and stamping out the finger sensor packages from the flexible circuit tape to form at least one flush common edge of each sensor package frame and individual flexible circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: AuthenTec, Inc., State of Incorporation: Delaware
    Inventors: Michael P. Goldenberg, Roger Schenk, Phil Spletter, Yang Rao
  • Publication number: 20110202994
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a communications interface, a user prompting device, a biometric sensor, and a controller. The controller may perform biometric spoof detection with the biometric sensor, and receive a request for human presence verification from a remote device via the communications interface. The controller may also prompt the user for a verification action using the sensor based upon receiving the request, and determine that the user has completed the verification action in response to the prompting and based upon the biometric spoof detection. The controller may further send a response to the remote device via the communications interface and based upon determining that the user has completed the verification action. The controller may send a notification to the remote device that there is a biometric sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: AuthenTec, Inc., State of Incorporation: Delaware
    Inventors: Glenn Hicks, Richard Albury, James W. Neil
  • Publication number: 20070292007
    Abstract: A finger sensing device may include a finger sensing area to receive a user's finger moved in a sliding motion, and a controller cooperating with the finger sensing area for generating successive image samples. Moreover, the controller may also generate the displacement estimate of the user's finger by at least performing a plurality of different image sample correlations between at least one pair of image samples, and cross-verifying results of the plurality of different image sample correlations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: AuthenTec, Inc. State of Incorporation: Delaware
    Inventor: James NEIL
  • Publication number: 20050129291
    Abstract: A method is for processing a plurality of finger biometric enrollment data sets that accounts for uncertainty in alignment between finger biometric enrollment data sets. The method may include generating a respective estimated physical transformation between each pair of finger biometric enrollment data sets, and generating a respective uncertainty for each estimated physical transformation. The method may also include associating the respective estimated physical transformation and the uncertainty for each estimated physical transformation with each pair of finger biometric enrollment data sets to define a logical finger biometric enrollment graph. The logical finger biometric enrollment graph is readily used for subsequent accurate matching in either touch sensor applications or slide sensor applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Applicant: AuthenTec, Inc. State of incorporation: Delaware
    Inventor: Michael Boshra
  • Publication number: 20050078855
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, a display carried by the housing, and a fingerprint sensor also carried by the housing. The electronic device may also include a processor for generating a plurality of menu items on the display, and for scrolling an indicator along the menu items based upon static placement of a finger adjacent a selected portion of the fingerprint sensor. The sensor may have a polygonal shape, and the scrolling may be in a direction of a corner portion of the polygonal shape. The menu items may be arranged in a single column, or in a plurality of columns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: AuthenTec Inc. State of Incorporation: Delaware
    Inventors: Curt Chandler, Dale Setlak, Arthur Stewart