Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus for detecting a fingerprint is provided, which includes a plurality of sensor pads receiving a response signal from a finger applied to a driving signal, a sensing circuit outputting a sensing signal based on the response signal, and a sensing signal adjusting unit sampling the sensing signal outputted from the sensing circuit maintaining the sensing signal, and adjusting an average voltage level of the sensing signal based on a reference voltage.

Abstract: A fingerprint information processing method and apparatus in which the method includes: obtaining a fingerprint image; calculating an average value of shading values of pixels in a specific region based on a pixel with respect to each pixel of the fingerprint image, performing a first processing of calculating a sum of average values of shading values of pixels included in an expanded region while gradually expanding the specific region, and generating a first processing image for the fingerprint image using a first processing-performed value for each pixel; and forming a window including a predetermined region in the first processing image, and selecting feature points among pixels in a window region while moving the window.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, provided is a method by which an electronic device comprising a minimum fingerprint sensing area processes fingerprint information, comprising the steps of: acquiring a fingerprint image from the fingerprint sensing area; calculating a shade change value, defined by a shade difference value from a neighboring pixel, for each pixel of the fingerprint image; selecting points, as feature point candidates, of which the shade change value is a threshold value or more; applying artificial distortion for noise filtering to an area including the feature point candidates and neighboring pixels thereof; and selecting, as final feature points, candidates of which the shade change value after the artificial distortion is within a threshold range from among the feature point candidates.