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CMOS Integrated Capacitive Fingerprint Sensor with Pixel-level Auto Calibration Circuit  

Jung, Seung-Min (Department of Information and Telecom, Hanshin University)
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Abstract
We propose a pixel-level automatic calibration circuit scheme that initializes a capacitive fingerprint sensor LSI to eliminate the influence of the surface condition and environment, which is degraded by dirt during long-time use, process variation and ambient temperature. The sample chip is fabricated on $0.35{\mu}m$ standard CMOS process. The calibration is executed by optimizing the reference voltage in each pixel to make the sensor signals of all pixels the same. The calibration control circuit is composed of the sensing circuit and charge pumping circuit, and calibrates all pixels in a short time. 16-level gray scale fingerprint images can be captured to increase the accuracy of identification. This confirms that the scheme is effective for capturing consistent clear images during long-time use.
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지문센서;자동보상회로;전하펌프회로;용량형센서;전하분할;지문알고리즘;
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