Patent ID: 8471679

Claim:
An electronic device comprising: a slide finger biometric sensor; an audio output transducer; and a controller cooperating with said slide finger biometric sensor for determining at least one biometric characteristic of a user's finger based upon a sliding motion of the user's finger across said slide finger biometric sensor and generating a finger velocity signal based upon a velocity of the sliding motion of the user's finger relative to said slide finger biometric sensor; said controller assembling biometric data for the at least one biometric characteristic based upon the finger velocity signal; said controller authenticating the user by determining a match between the assembled biometric data for the at least one biometric characteristic and at least one stored biometric characteristic; said controller also cooperating with said slide finger biometric sensor for causing said audio output transducer to generate at least one musical tone changing based upon the finger velocity signal and the sliding motion of the user's finger across said slide finger biometric sensor.