Original title: Apple gets a new patent for off screen fingerprint, which can be applied to iPhone as soon as next year
Recently, the U.S. patent and Trademark Office officially granted apple a patent for an optical imaging sensor, which can perform touch ID by touching an OLED display. According to foreign media reports, apple is fully testing the application of off screen fingerprint technology to iPhone, which will be implemented as soon as 2020. According to media reports, Apple's new MacBook pro16 already uses optical sensors for identification.
It is understood that the touch ID used by the iPhone previously used capacitive fingerprint identification technology. This means that in future Apple products, there may not be a circular touch ID fingerprint unlock button, but a new off screen fingerprint touch ID technology.
In fact, as early as 2013, Apple has been working on touch ID, an off-screen fingerprint technology, and released its first patent in 2015.
Apple supplier GIS and Qualcomm have jointly developed ultrasonic fingerprint scanners, which are likely to be used in Apple's future iPhones. The industry is still exploring whether to use optical or ultrasonic fingerprint authentication. Apple is committed to the research of these two methods.