Patent ID: 7738916

Claim:
A hand-held device with a built-in fingerprint sensor comprising: a display unit which displays an image, a control panel a fingerprint sensor for fingerprint attestation provided on said control panel, a unit that moves a cursor or a pointer displayed on said display unit according to movement of a finger on said sensor side or a time change in the position of the applied pressure obtained by detecting the movement of the finger on said sensor side or the time change in the position of the applied pressure, wherein an area of said fingerprint sensor is divided into a grid of 9 meshes in total where a number of meshes of one side is 3, said unit that moves a cursor detects the movement of the finger or the movement of the applied pressure in any one of the meshes, and moves the cursor displayed on said display unit, and said fingerprint sensor carries out the fingerprint attestation during the movement of the cursor displayed on said display unit.