Biometrics Patents (Class 340/5.82)
  • Patent number: 11514146
    Abstract: A method including receiving, in a security device, a user object storing stored biometric data describing a biometric parameter of the user. Sensed biometric data is generating by sensing directly, using a sensor, the biometric parameter of the user. The stored biometric data is compared to the sensed biometric data. A confidence factor is determined using a first degree of trust, assigned to the object, combined with a second degree of match between the stored biometric data and the sensed biometric data. A user input is received indicating a desired activity. A risk factor is determined based on a combination of the confidence factor and the user input. The risk factor is compared to a selected pre-determined threshold. The user is granted a selected level of access to the security device from among different levels of access to the security device when the risk factor satisfies the selected pre-determined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Nautilus Hyosung America, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Militello, Keith Lennard, James D. Barton
  • Patent number: 11510256
    Abstract: Provided is a setting method of a Wi-Fi doorbell (2), in which a Wi-Fi doorbell (2) comprising a camera capable of reading a two-dimensional code and a mobile communication terminal (4) comprising a display unit (6) capable of displaying the two-dimensional code are used. The setting method comprises steps of causing the display unit (6) to display a two-dimensional code in which password information for enabling the Wi-Fi doorbell (2) to connect to a network (5) via a Wi-Fi router (20) is embedded reading the two-dimensional code by the camera (9) of the Wi-Fi doorbell (2); and setting the Wi-Fi doorbell (2) to a state where the Wi-Fi doorbell (2) can perform communication with a remotely disposed server (3) via the Wi-Fi router (20), based on the read two-dimensional code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: AIPHONE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya Yamakawa, Tetsuya Sumida
  • Patent number: 11508179
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device. The electronic device includes a screen provided with a first polarizer, a second polarizer arranged below the screen, and an optical fingerprint identification module arranged below the second polarizer. The polarization direction of the first polarizer is the same with the polarization direction of the second polarizer. The first polarizer and the second polarizer are configured to filter a first optical noise. The second polarizer is configured to filter a second optical noise. The first optical noise is light from screen light of the screen and directing to the optical fingerprint recognition module. The second optical noise is light from the screen light, directing away from the optical fingerprint recognition module and reflected by a glass cover on an outer side of the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Anping Wu, Le Yang, Xuejian Yuan
  • Patent number: 11482050
    Abstract: A system provides intelligent gallery management for biometrics. A first gallery is obtained that includes biometric and/or other information on a population of people. An application is identified. A subset of the population of people is identified based on the application. A second gallery is derived from the first gallery by pulling the information for the subset of the population of people without pulling the information for the population of people not in the subset. Biometric identification (such as facial recognition) for the application may then be performed using the second gallery rather than the first gallery. In this way, the system is improved as less time is required for biometric identification, fewer device resources are used, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: ALCLEAR, LLC
    Inventor: Kevin Lupowitz
  • Patent number: 11475714
    Abstract: Systems for detecting liveness in image data may perform a process including receiving, from one or more image capture devices, two-dimensional image data representing two images captured simultaneously and depicting the same human person, including data representing light captured in two spectral bands, such as visible light and infrared light. The received image data may be converted to grayscale or downsampled prior to further processing. The process may include creating a two-dimensional combined image representation of the received image data and analyzing the combined image representation to detect any implied three-dimensional features using a neural network or machine learning. The process may include classifying the received image data as likely to depict a live person or a two-dimensional spoof of a live person, dependent on the analysis, and outputting a classification result indicating a likelihood that the received image data depicts a live person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Henson, Pietro Russo
  • Patent number: 11455384
    Abstract: A method and apparatus with an adaptively updated enrollment database (DB) are provided. A method with an adaptively updated enrollment database (DB) includes extracting an input feature vector from an input image, determining whether the input feature vector is included in a changeable enrollment range, with the changeable enrollment range being determined based on a threshold distance from each of plural enrolled feature vectors in the enrollment DB, and with the enrolled feature vectors corresponding to enrolled images, determining whether to enroll the input feature vector in the enrollment DB in response to the input feature vector being determined as being included in the changeable enrollment range, and in response to a result of the determining of whether to enroll the input feature vector being to enroll the input feature vector, selectively enrolling the input feature vector in the enrollment DB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minsu Ko, Seungju Han, Jaejoon Han, Deoksang Kim, Chang Kyu Choi
  • Patent number: 11457122
    Abstract: A password authentication device includes an authentication processing unit and an output processing unit. The authentication processing unit authenticates a user when an input password that is input matches a predetermined first password. The output processing unit outputs a hint of the first password when a matching rate between a predetermined second password different from the first password and the input password is equal to or greater than a predetermined first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Takeo Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11455622
    Abstract: An application system for authenticating a contactless payment transaction is described, the application system comprising: (i) a verification module configured to receive, from an operating system, a cipher if a customer is authenticated; and (ii) an access module configured to: (a) instruct the operating system to use the cipher to decrypt a transaction personal identification number (PIN) which is stored in a local database in an encrypted form; (b) receive the transaction PIN once decrypted; and (c) use the transaction PIN to access a token, the token being associated with payment details for processing the payment transaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Asif Shaukat Kadiwala, Gaurav Anilkumar Dayal
  • Patent number: 11450164
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamic control of security systems based on identity are disclosed. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for controlling a security system comprises receiving interaction data from one or more external systems associated with predefined stages of a passenger's travel path, the interaction data indicative of interaction by the passenger with said one or more external systems, storing and updating data defining an assurance level of the passenger, wherein the assurance level is increased in response to receiving said interaction data, and wherein the assurance level is decreased in the absence of receiving interaction data within a predefined elapsed time, receiving data identifying a request from a security system, the request including data identifying the passenger, and responsive to said request, generating and outputting a control signal to the security system in dependence on the stored assurance level of the identified passenger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: International Consolidated Airlines Group, S.A.
    Inventors: Daniel Jobling, Glenn Morgan, Harvey Tate
  • Patent number: 11436885
    Abstract: An in-vehicle intelligent access control system and method are configured to automate access of a vehicle to an access point. Prior to approach of the vehicle to the access point, an enrollment system stores, in a database, first data identifying a non-human object in a vehicle, second data identifying the vehicle, third data identifying a human occupant of the vehicle, and fourth data identifying an itinerary of the vehicle. An access control management system receives at least the first data from the database. When the vehicle approaches the access point, the system detects the vehicle within a predetermined range of an access point, receives fifth data transmitted by the vehicle, determines a match of the fifth data with at least the first data within a prescribed tolerance, and controls the access point to allow access of the vehicle to a facility if the fifth data matches at least the first data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventor: Hussain Ali Y. Alhazmi
  • Patent number: 11420109
    Abstract: The invention discloses a system and method for tracking physical activities of a user in real world engaging in a virtual world. Based on at least one of a sensor data received from the user by means of a communication channel while performing a real-world activity, The system further generates a virtual journey schedule in the virtual world based on a user preference or a system preference and maps the real-world activity to the virtual journey by analyzing the received sensor data. The virtual journey schedule is generated based on the pace of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: KAHA PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Sudheendra Shantharam, Nischal Srivastava
  • Patent number: 11403707
    Abstract: A method for transforming bank-owned real property assets and/or bank held mortgage note receivables, suitable for refinancing, into a negotiable hybrid mortgage/asset-backed security. The method includes providing a bank mortgage at a below-market mortgage rate for purchase of the real property or refinance by the mortgagor. The bank mortgage, having a face value, is assigned to a secondary market buyer at a market price greater than 30% of the mortgage face value. The face value minus the market price defining mortgage note equity. Using the current bond price % of the mortgage face value, a negotiable government security or Non-governmental organization security is purchased by the secondary market buyer. The bank mortgage note and government security/non-governmental organization security are securitized into a single negotiable hybrid security suitable for selling or pledging to a central bank as collateral securing funds to recycle the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Inventor: Duane Edward Faust
  • Patent number: 11394825
    Abstract: A method, a communication device and a computer program product for managing communication device calls based on facial recognition. The method includes detecting, via a processor of a communication device, an incoming call and triggering an image capture device to capture image data from a field of view of the image capture device. The method further includes receiving the image data from the image capture device and retrieving reference image data from a memory. The method further includes determining if the image data is substantially similar to the reference image data and in response to the image data being substantially similar to the reference image data, stopping at least one notification associated with the incoming call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Ranjeet Gupta, Joel D. Voss
  • Patent number: 11368308
    Abstract: Techniques of authenticating a first device of a user to a second device are disclosed. The method enables the second device to perform authentication using a biometric template stored on the first device and a biometric measurement. Homomorphic encryption may be used by the first device to encrypt the biometric template and the second device to determine an encrypted similarity metric between the biometric template and the biometric measurement. The second device can also determine an encrypted code using an authentication function and the encrypted similarity metric. The second device sends the encrypted code and the encrypted similarity metric to be decrypted by the first device. The second device can receive a response from the first device, indicating whether a decrypted similarity metric exceeds a threshold; and whether the decrypted code matches a test code. The second device can then authenticate the user based on the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Payman Mohassel, Shashank Agrawal, Pratyay Mukherjee, Saikrishna Badrinarayanan
  • Patent number: 11353704
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display system including a HMD mounted on a head of a user and a smartphone coupled to the HMD. The smartphone includes a touch sensor configured to accept a position input operation to detect coordinates of an operational position, a first sensor configured to detect a motion of the user with respect to the smartphone, and a first execution unit configured to execute personal authentication of the user based on a detection result of the first sensor until the user starts the position input operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11347353
    Abstract: Provided is a method of performing a half-shutter function using optical object recognition, the method including: displaying a shutter button on a display panel by driving a portion of a plurality of light sources included in the display panel, the portion of the plurality of light sources being disposed corresponding to an object recognition window of the display panel; obtaining a first image based on reflected light received by an object recognition sensor through the object recognition window while driving the portion of the plurality of light sources; determining whether the first image includes a first object, the first object having a half-shutter state; and based on a determination that the first image includes the first object having the half-shutter state, performing a half-shutter process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Moonkyu Song, Seongwook Song, Soongeun Jang
  • Patent number: 11321557
    Abstract: Described herein are biometric identification systems and methods that use a set of finely spaced analog sensors to generate and record a unique dynamic pressure user profile. The pressure profile is evaluated based on data from a trained model that comprises a number of personal biometric characteristics used to uniquely identify a person, e.g., for authentication purposes, such as granting access to sensitive, confidential information in connection with an electronic commercial transaction, an Internet of Things (IoT) device, an automotive device, an identity and access management (IAM), or a robotic or high functioning touch sensing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Inventors: Alex C Lee, Hong Chang
  • Patent number: 11288490
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for identifying users that are enrolled for use of a user-recognition system and updating enrollment data of these users over time. To enroll in the user-recognition system, the user may initially scan his or her palm. The resulting image data may later be used when the user requests to be identified by the system by again scanning his or her palm. However, because the characteristics of user palms may change over the time, the user-recognition system may continue to build more and more data for use in recognizing the user, in addition to removing older data that may no longer accurately represent current characteristics of respective user palms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Manoj Aggarwal, Jason Garfield, Korwin Jon Smith, Jordan Tyler Williams
  • Patent number: 11270102
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for providing instructions when receiving biometric data associated with a user. For instance, an electronic device may detect a portion of a user, such as a hand. The electronic device may then determine locations of the portion of the user relative to the electronic device. Based on the locations, the electronic device may cause a visual indicator to provide instructions to the user for placing the portion of the user at a target location relative to the electronic device. For example, the visual indicator may emit light indicating that the portion of the user is off-centered, angled, too low, and/or too high. After providing the instructions and determining that the portion of the user is at the target location, the electronic device may capture at least an image of the portion of the user and use the image to identify an account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Howie Ho Wai Lau, Jennifer Li
  • Patent number: 11256791
    Abstract: An improved authentication, identification, and/or verification system is provided in various embodiments. The system is provided for use in relation to provisioning access or establishing identity in relation to one or more human users, and may be used in a single site/scenario/system, or across multiple sites/scenarios/systems. A combination of biometric modalities and authentication mechanisms having diverse characteristics are utilized to establish identity, the diverse characteristics being utilized to modify aspects of identity management and access provisioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: BIOCONNECT INC.
    Inventors: Robert Douglas, Ahsan Naqvi, Pritesh Yogesh Patel, Chris Alexander, Bianca Lopes
  • Patent number: 11244199
    Abstract: A user identity determining method includes: acquiring target multidimensional feature information of a target user, wherein the target multidimensional feature information includes at least two types of feature information in at least one of biometric feature information or non-biometric feature information; comparing the target multidimensional feature information with multidimensional feature information of a plurality of designated users, respectively, to obtain a comparison result; and determining an identity of the target user based on the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dandan Zheng, Liang Li, Wei Xu
  • Patent number: 11210877
    Abstract: A method for a secure Passive Entry Passive Start (PEPS) authentication protocol measures the walking gait of a user approaching a related vehicle using a passive key device carried by the user. The method also includes measuring the user's gait from the perspective of the vehicle using a vehicle perception system to compare the two and validate the security of an unlock request, authenticate the unlocking session, and protect against relay attacks. The two-factor authentication protocol validates the physical presence and temporal state of the key fob or mobile phone relative to the vehicle using detected key gait measurement (key G-gait) and a vehicle perception-based gait (C-gait) measurement by comparing the independent gaits and generating control commands responsive to consistent and inconsistent measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Lawrence Chikeziri Amadi, Ali Hassani, Walter Joseph Talamonti, John Robert Van Wiemeersch
  • Patent number: 11210676
    Abstract: A method is provided for displaying an augmented reality image of account information associated with an indicialess transaction card having a card surface with a background pattern applied thereto. A real-time image of the card surface is captured and processed to determine if the background pattern matches a card background pattern associated with a cardholder account. Responsive to a positive determination, communication is established between the user device processor and a card processor carried by the indicialess transaction card. The user device processor receives from the card processor an encrypted verification block and transmits, to an authentication server, an authentication request including the verification block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey Rule
  • Patent number: 11184766
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, the system maintains and enforces assertions about a user's intent and identity at a point of access (e.g., a computer system being used to access a service, system, cloud, etc.). In one example, the system includes lightweight browser components and mobile and/or desktop agents that communicate in the background with a cloud-based authentication service. The system integrates seamlessly with enterprise applications, cloud services, multi-factor authentication solutions and existing identity management solutions. In one example, the system includes protocols, application programming interfaces, etc. that facilitate integration with standards such as Fast Identity Online (“FIDO”) Universal Authentication and OpenID Connect. In one example, the system includes protocols, application programming interfaces, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Locurity Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Charles Lord, Joshua Andrew Hartley, Shrikant N. Palaskar
  • Patent number: 11172097
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire data, an instruction for a process in which the data are used, and biological information on a user who provides the instruction, and execute the process in accordance with a condition under which a time before the process is completed is shorter, when the biological information indicates that the user is in a specific psychological state, than a specific psychological state under a condition determined in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Yusuke Taguchi, Yohei Makino, Akihiro Ishii, Shuhei Toda, Hiroyuki Mitsuhashi
  • Patent number: 11171904
    Abstract: Authenticating a message by receiving a first message from a source, generating a touch activation matrix from the first message, the touch activation matrix comprising touchscreen data associated with the first message, generating a second message from the touch activation matrix, determining a first legitimacy state by comparing the first message and the second message, determining a second legitimacy state using a discriminator network, determining a categorization for the first message according to the first and second legitimacy states, and sending the categorization for the first message to the source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Helio Leonardo Pinheiro e Mota, Renata Balthazar de Lima Mussauer, Rosana Rueda Elias, Rafael Risso Moleiro
  • Patent number: 11157604
    Abstract: A method for biometric authentication has the steps of sending a confidential communication to an intended recipient through the system, the intended recipient providing one or more biometric identifiers to view the communication, wherein the one or more biometric identifiers are unique to the intended recipient, the system verifying the one or more biometric identifiers against one or more stored biometric identifiers, the system accepting the one or more biometric identifiers further has the steps of the system displaying the confidential communication on the mobile device, and the user continues to provide the one or more biometric identifiers, the system continuously verifying the one or more biometric identifiers while the communication is displayed wherein when the verification is uninterrupted of fails the communication is hidden.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Robinson, David Andrew Elston
  • Patent number: 11120112
    Abstract: A three-factor authentication system for restricting and securing user-access to a system. The authentication system that includes a vein-image-capturing device for capturing and processing wrist-vein images. The unique biometric data is one factor of a three-factor authentication system, along with unique device identification data and a user PIN, all three used to validate and provide secure access to a user. This system can be used to restrict and provide secure access to information systems, physical spaces, personal computer devices, and any other device or system requiring controlled user access.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Liping Chen
  • Patent number: 11120449
    Abstract: A system and method provide efficient, secure and fast automation of order processing. The method includes initiating an order by wirelessly receiving data from a personal digital key (PDK). The method also includes receiving a biometric input and confirming the initiation of the order by authenticating the biometric input. In response to authenticating the biometric input, the order is processed. In another embodiment, the method of further includes automatically initiating an order completion by wirelessly receiving data from a PDK. The method further includes receiving a biometric input and confirming the order completion by authenticating the biometric input. In response to authenticating the biometric input, the order is completed. In yet another embodiment, the method further includes processing rewards based on the order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Proxense, LLC
    Inventor: John J. Giobbi
  • Patent number: 11108756
    Abstract: A computing device, a system, and a method are provided to receive a number of inputs associated with one or more sensors of the computing device. One or more processors are configured to determine input data based on the number of inputs and authenticate a user account based on the input data. A communication interface is enabled to communicate with one or more devices based on the authentication. Further, the system may aggregate the input data based on the number of inputs. The system may determine identity data of the user account based on the aggregation. The system may transmit an indication of the identity data to the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Carmen S. Yu, Nicole Padellan Kim, David Edward Eramian, Christina Marie Vallery, Miguel Angel Escobedo, Joao Paulo Malhinha, Michael S. Hwang, Michael Voege
  • Patent number: 11095814
    Abstract: A likelihood of each of a plurality of registered images belonging to a same group for an input image is calculated, and a prescribed number of registered images is selected from a top ranking in descending order of likelihood among the plurality of registered images as the authentication result for the input image. Based on a likelihood of a registered image included in an authentication result for an input image of a first frame and a likelihood of a registered image included in an authentication result for an input image of a second frame being previous to the first frame, one of the authentication result for the input image of the first frame and the authentication result for the input image of the second frame is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koji Makita, Shunsuke Nakano, Kotaro Yano
  • Patent number: 11086976
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to identification preprocessing. In one aspect, a method includes receiving at an identification server, and from a mobile computing device that has entered a predetermined area surrounding a biometric feature collection device, a group identifier of a user group to which a user of the mobile computing device belongs. The group identifier is transmitted by the mobile computing device in response to the mobile computing device receiving a radio signal broadcast to the predetermined area. The user group is one of multiple user groups. Based on the group identifier, the identification server selects, from a stored registration biometric feature set, a registration biometric feature associated with each user in the user group. The identification server adds the registration biometric feature to a screening feature set established for the biometric feature collection device. Biometric feature-based identification is performed on the user using the screening feature set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yitao Song, Mian Huang, Lei Zhou
  • Patent number: 11087327
    Abstract: A face image of a resource transferor is obtained, wherein the face image is used to authenticate an identity of the resource transferor. Resource transfer identification information of the resource transferor is obtained, wherein the resource transfer identification information corresponds to a transferor account of the resource transferor. Based on the resource transfer identification information, information about the transferor account and a reference image corresponding to the transferor account are obtained. In response to determining that the face image corresponds to the reference image, a resource of the resource transferor is transferred based on the information about the transferor account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shumin Lin, Liyun Dong, Jianlong Huang, Donglin Jia, Yuanshen Li, Liang Zhou, Hongwei Zhao
  • Patent number: 11055389
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for authenticating a user using molecular snapshots of the user. One method comprises obtaining enrollment information of a user, wherein the enrollment information comprises a reference molecular snapshot of the user obtained following an ingestion by the user of nanoparticles; initiating a challenge to the user in connection with an authentication request by the user to access a protected resource; processing a responsive molecular snapshot obtained in response to the challenge, wherein the processing comprises evaluating the responsive molecular snapshot obtained in response to the challenge relative to the reference molecular snapshot; and resolving the authentication request based on the evaluating. The ingested nanoparticles optionally target one or more predefined cell types, and wherein the resolving further comprises the step of evaluating a ratio of cell types in the responsive molecular snapshot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: RSA Security LLC
    Inventor: Brian C. Mullins
  • Patent number: 11036969
    Abstract: A device and method for achieving a high probability of match for identifying individuals in a particular group, is provided. The device and method consists of two stages. The first stage compares a biometric template against personnel in an authorized group with a high probability of match standard. In the second stage, in response to no match being made in the authorization group, a search would be conducted against a second group, such as a watch list, with the same or lower probability of match rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Inventor: Robert Kocher
  • Patent number: 11017195
    Abstract: The described techniques support a sensing scheme for electromagnetic excitation in ultrasonic imaging sensors. A biological tissue may be sensed and imaged using an electromagnetic excitation process to generate ultrasonic waves, such as, within the tissue. A component of a device may generate one or more pulses of electromagnetic waves, which may encounter and enter the biological tissue. In some examples, the component may be a display interface or may be different from a display interface of the device. The electromagnetic waves may excite the biological tissue and generate ultrasonic waves via expansion and contraction of the tissue upon heating. The ultrasonic waves may propagate within the biological tissue and may be sensed by an ultrasonic receiver array. The sensed ultrasonic waves may be converted to pixel image data of a biometric image and may be used for biometric authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jack Conway Kitchens, John Keith Schneider, Stephen Michael Gojevic, Evan Michael Breloff, Emily Kathryn Brooks, Alexei Stoianov, Fitzgerald John Archibald, James Anthony Miranto
  • Patent number: 11004283
    Abstract: Described herein is a temperature device, including systems and methods associated therewith. The temperature device may include a housing. The temperature device may further include an actuation feature associated with the housing and configured to receive a user input. The temperature device may further include a sensing feature recessed within the housing and configured to detect a temperature condition in response to a receipt of the user input. The temperature device may further include a communication module operatively connected to the sensing feature and configured to transmit and receive information associated with a detection of the temperature condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: KEEE, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Doherty, John Wall, Michael S. Biviano, Steven W. Murray, Jeremy Morgan Murray, Brian A. Frank, Joseph A. Turek
  • Patent number: 11004285
    Abstract: A processing device includes a control unit configured to perform: identifying a user when the user enters a vehicle and performing a process of guaranteeing a boarded state of the user while the user is in the vehicle; receiving information on a predetermined procedure for performing an authentication process from the user; and transmitting user information which is required for performing the predetermined procedure as information on the user of whom the boarded state in the vehicle is guaranteed to an external device that is installed at a first place for the predetermined procedure in a state in which the boarded state of the user is guaranteed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiro Murakami, Katsuhiko Sakakibara, Makoto Matsushita, Junya Sato, Kiyonori Yoshida, Tae Sugimura, Takashi Hayashi, Jun Endo
  • Patent number: 10985913
    Abstract: One embodiment described herein provides a system and method for facilitating user access to encryption keys stored within a hardware module. During operation, a server coupled to the hardware module receives a key request from the user, the key request comprising a user identifier and a key identifier. The server receives a voice message from the user, extracts voice features from a voiceprint associated with the received voice message, looks up voice features stored within the hardware module based on the user identifier, and compares the extracted voice features with the voice features stored within the hardware module. In response to the extracted voice features matching the stored voice features, the server retrieves from the hardware module an encryption key based on the user identifier and the key identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Yingfang Fu
  • Patent number: 10969102
    Abstract: A portable biometric lighter device (100) generally involving a control unit (210), a biometric sensor, such as a fingerprint sensor (140), wherein the biometric sensor is configured to scan a biometric data of a user and is operably coupled to the control unit (210), and an ignition element, wherein the ignition element is activated by the control unit (210) upon a match of the scanned biometric data of the user and a biometric data of an authorized user that is stored in a memory device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: John Gibson Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: John Gibson
  • Patent number: 10963713
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a wireless module configured to emit a first radar signal and receive a second radar signal, which is the first radar signal reflected by a user; a gravity sensor configured to sense a status of the electronic device to generate a sensing result; and a control unit coupled to the wireless module and the gravity sensor, and configured to control the wireless module to emit the first radar signal when the sensing result conforms to an emitting condition and determine a physiological status of the user according to the second radar signal received by the wireless module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Teng Shen, Cheng-Wei Chang
  • Patent number: 10943000
    Abstract: A wearable device having one or more processors configured to receive one or more signals representative of biometric parameter(s) and sensed presence of a user. The one or more processors configured to compare the biometric parameter to a stored user parameter for authentication of the user. Upon authentication, the one or more processors switch from a locked mode to an unlocked mode to enable communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Tokenize, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Shapiro, Melanie Shapiro, Richard Lourette, Michael W. Allen, Stephen L. Schultz
  • Patent number: 10917431
    Abstract: System, method, and device of detecting identity of a user and authenticating a user; as well as detecting a possible attacker or impostor, and differentiating among users of an electronic device or of a computerized service. A mobile or portable electronic device is utilized to capture a self-taken image or video of a user, which is utilized as a user-authentication factor. The accelerometer and gyroscope or device-orientation sensor of the mobile device, sense and measure spatial and physical device properties during, before or after the submission of the self-taken image or video. Based on such spatial and physical device properties, in combination with computer-vision analysis of the content shown in the self-taken image or video, the system determines liveness of the user and freshness of the submitted self-taken image or video, and differentiates between a legitimate user and an attacker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: BIOCATCH LTD.
    Inventor: Avi Turgeman
  • Patent number: 10911427
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses, and/or devices for reconfiguring a wearable device. The methods, systems, apparatuses, and/or devices may include a first biometric sensor configured to take a first physiological measurement of a user corresponding to a first set of parameters, and wherein the first set of parameters is a first frequency that the first biometric sensor takes the first physiological measurement; a second biometric sensor configured to take a second physiological measurement of the user; and a processing device configured to, in response to receiving the reconfiguration request, reconfigure the first device to: activate the second biometric sensor to take the second physiological measurement; or take the first physiological measurement of the user corresponding to a second set of parameters that are different than the first set of parameters, wherein the second set of parameters is a second frequency that the first biometric sensor takes the first physiological measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Inventors: Rick V. Murakami, David Miller, Matthew W. Pettit, Larry V. Lunt
  • Patent number: 10909226
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising a biosensor is disclosed. The electronic device comprises: the biosensor for acquiring bio-information related to a user; light-emitting circuitry comprising a first light source for outputting light including a designated band; a display panel comprising a second light source for outputting light including one or more pixels; and a processor, wherein the processor can check situation information related to the user, select the corresponding first light source and/or second light source on the basis of the situation information, and acquire the bio-information through the biosensor by using the selected at least one light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-Geol Baek, Kyung-Hoon Song, Gyu-Sang Cho, Yun-Jang Jin, Kwang-Sub Lee, Se-Young Jang, Heung-Sik Shin, Chi-Hyun Cho
  • Patent number: 10902237
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for identifying users that are enrolled for use of a user-recognition system and updating enrollment data of these users over time. To enroll in the user-recognition system, the user may initially scan his or her palm. The resulting image data may later be used when the user requests to be identified by the system by again scanning his or her palm. However, because the characteristics of user palms may change over the time, the user-recognition system may continue to build more and more data for use in recognizing the user, in addition to removing older data that may no longer accurately represent current characteristics of respective user palms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Manoj Aggarwal, Jason Garfield, Korwin Jon Smith, Jordan Tyler Williams
  • Patent number: 10867460
    Abstract: A method for providing public safety access to an enterprise is provided. The method may include receiving an indication of an incident at an enterprise location. The method may further include determining a type of biometric access control in use at the enterprise location. The method may further include retrieving biometric data for a responder assigned to the incident is compatible with the type of biometric access control in use at the enterprise location. The method may also include adapting the biometric data to be compatible with a specific biometric access control system in use at the enterprise location. The method may additionally include sending the adapted biometric data to the specific biometric access control system in use at the enterprise location, wherein the specific biometric access control system in use at the enterprise location grants access to the enterprise location to the responder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Trent J Miller, Lee M Proctor
  • Patent number: 10853477
    Abstract: A portable terminal has an authenticator for biometric authentication, and a TPM for storing biometric information of a user necessary when performing authentication processing with the authenticator and a secret key generated for the biometric information. At the time of initialization of an OS, the portable terminal transmits a request for a registration cancelation using a registration cancelation URL to a server in which registration information including a public key which is a pair with a secret key is registered. When an authentication request for the registration cancelation is received from the server, a signature is generated using the secret key extracted according to an authentication success in the biometric authentication of the authenticator using the biometric information read by the biometric information sensor, when the signature is successfully verified by being transmitted to the server, the registration cancelation of the registration information is performed in the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuki Shirakawa
  • Patent number: 10846962
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for managing geospatial boundaries. In some implementations, an identification of a user is scanned. Based on the scan, information corresponding to the user is retrieved. The user is then registered using the retrieved information corresponding to the user. Location data is obtained. A determination is made that the user is proximate to a geographic boundary. The location data and at least a portion of the information corresponding to the user is transmitted to an access control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: eIngot LLC
    Inventor: William J. Raduchel
  • Patent number: 10825106
    Abstract: A document management system includes first and second terminals and a server, wherein processing tasks of the first terminal is offloaded to the server and results of the processing tasks are delivered to the second terminal. The first terminal transmits document preparation data and a destination address corresponding to a user. The server receives the document preparation data and the destination address, generates a document code indicating a classification of document contents and the document, stores the document, and controls transmissions of the document code and a storage address of the document to the destination address. The second terminal receives the document code and storage address, downloads the document based on the information indicating the storage address of the document, and stores the downloaded document in a storage device of the second terminal at a location determined based on the classification of document contents included in the document code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignees: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Kikuchi