Samsung patents watch with fingerprint sensor inside finger hole
Samsung has filed a patent for a wearable device, such as a smartwatch, that features a hole in the housing for a user to insert their finger. Inside this hole is a button with a fingerprint sensor that reads the user's fingerprint as they slide their finger across it to unlock the device or verify their identity.
In the filing’s own words
A wearable device is provided. The wearable device includes a housing including at least one hole into which a finger of a user is inserted, a button disposed on an inner surface facing the at least one hole of the housing, a fingerprint sensor disposed on the button, memory for storing at least one computer program including computer-executable instructions, and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the button, the fingerprint sensor and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the wearable device to detect a fingerprint input event through the button, in response to detecting the fingerprint input event, obtain a fingerprint input for the fingerprint sensor, and obtain fingerprint information of the user through the fingerprint sensor based on a sliding input to the fingerprint sensor.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A wearable device comprising: a housing including at least one hole into which a finger of a user is inserted; a button disposed on an inner surface facing the at least one hole of the housing; a fingerprint sensor disposed on the button; memory for storing at least one computer program including computer-executable instructions; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the button, the fingerprint sensor and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the wearable device to: detect a fingerprint input event through the button, in response to detecting the fingerprint input event, obtain a fingerprint input for the fingerprint sensor, and obtain fingerprint information of the user through the fingerprint sensor based on a sliding input to the fingerprint sensor.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- WEARABLE DEVICE COMPRISING FINGERPRINT SENSOR, AND OPERATING METHOD THEREFOR
- Publication number
- US20260321051A1
- Application number
- 19466977
- Filed
- Feb 2, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 7
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06V 40/13 Physics & computingG06F 3/02 Physics & computingG06F 3/033 Physics & computingG06F 3/038 Physics & computingG06F 2203/0331 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in Wearables
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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