US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on Nov. 4 for "Fingerprint recognition device and fingerprint recognition method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,554, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Fingerprint recognition device and fingerprint recognition method" was invented by Yi-Hsuan Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Yuan Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Chi Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Jen Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wen-Tsung Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fingerprint recognition device includes a memory and a processor. The memory is configured to store at least one command. The processor is configured to read the at least one command to execute following steps: dividing a fingerprint image into a plurality of sub-areas; cla...