Input devices including touch sensor devices (also commonly called touchpads, touch screens, or proximity sensor devices), as well as fingerprint sensor devices, are widely used in a variety of electronic systems.
Touch sensor devices typically include a sensing region, often demarked by a surface, in which the touch sensor device determines the presence, location and/or motion of one or more input objects, typically for purposes allowing a user to provide user input to interact with the electronic system.
Fingerprint sensor devices also typically include a sensing region in which the fingerprint sensor device determines presence, location, motion, and/or features of a fingerprint or partial fingerprint, typically for purposes relating to user authentication or identification of a user.
Touch sensor devices and fingerprint sensor devices may thus be used to provide interfaces for the electronic system. For example, touch sensor devices and fingerprint sensor devices are often used as input devices for larger computing systems (such as opaque touchpads and fingerprint readers integrated in or peripheral to notebook or desktop computers). Touch sensor devices and fingerprint sensors are also often used in smaller computing systems (such as touch screens integrated in mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets).
Minimizing false or unnecessary wake up of a host-processor or other components associated with the electronic system, touch sensor device and/or fingerprint sensor device may be desirable to minimize power consumption. Conventional wake up schemes rely on a button press to signal when wake up of the fingerprint sensor may be necessary. Further, certain biometric sensors rely upon illumination or other activation of a sensing area in connection with biometric imaging. The illumination or other activation may introduce latency and/or impact the visual presentation of a display of a user device.
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