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A new Apple Patent covers Under-Display Touch ID for iPhones and Apple Watch using a Narrow Field-of-View Collimator & more
2020 was a relatively busy year for Apple s under-display project with three new patent applications (01, 02 and 03). The three patent applications explored various methods of bringing this feature to future iPhones. Apple also was granted a patent in September 2020.
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published yet another patent application from Apple relating to under-display Touch ID. More specifically, Apple s invention generally relates to an under-display optical fingerprint sensor with narrow field-of-view (NFV) collimator and a thin-film transistor (TFT)-based organic imager.
An optical fingerprint sensor may be particularly advantageous for verification and/or authentication in an electronic device and, more particularly, a portable device, for example, a portable communication device. The optical fingerprint sensor may be carried