The next Xiaomi phones could have the fingerprint reader on the entire screen

The Asian manufacturer Xiaomi has just patented a technology that would allow the entire screen of mobile devices to be used as a fingerprint reader.

A few years ago, fingerprint readers were located both on the front and on the back of the devices. Of course, when we say front we are not referring to the screens. And, is that, the fingerprint sensors were in the frames of the devices. In those years the reduced frames were the dream of many.

The technology that allowed fingerprint readers to be integrated just below the screens radically changed the design of the devices. Now finding a frame of a certain thickness is an indication that the company has not taken seriously the design of its terminals, come on is something negative.

What happens is that, as when they were not on the screens, the area of ​​action of the fingerprint reader is limited. By having a limited area, the truth is that the experience is not entirely satisfactory and, in a perfect world, the entire screen would have to function as a fingerprint reader..

We may get closer to this perfect world and everything is thanks to Xiaomi. The manufacturer of all kinds of devices and gadgets has just patented a method in which the entire screen of the device serves as a fingerprint reader. This method is eye-catching and works in a complex way that they haven’t detailed.

What we know to date is that the operation would be based on infrared sensors that would be scattered throughout the screen, the main purpose of these sensors would be to reflect the fingerprint pattern to the reader; thus the device could be unlocked even pressed where the reader is not.

At the moment this technology is a patent and there is no device that has integrated it to date, we will have to wait until we know what Xiaomi wants to do with this technology. Of course, it is more than likely that they will end up including it in their devices if they see that works perfectly.