Aerosol generating device and method of unlocking the same
AssigneeKt&G Corporation
InventorsWonkyeong Lee, Paul Joon Sunwoo, Min Kyu Kim, Soung Ho Ju
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Abstract
An aerosol generating device includes a housing, a battery disposed in the housing and configured to supply power, an aerosol generator configured to receive the power from the battery and activate aerosol generation, a biometric information obtainer exposed to an outside of the housing and configured to obtain biometric information of a user, and a controller configured to perform authentication of the user based on the biometric information and activate the aerosol generator based on a result of the authentication.
Claims12
An aerosol generating device with a locking function, the aerosol generating device comprising:
- a housing;
- a battery disposed in the housing and configured to supply power;
- an aerosol generator configured to receive the power from the battery and activate aerosol generation;
- a biometric information obtainer exposed to an outside of the housing and configured to obtain biometric information of a user;
- and
- a controller configured to perform authentication of the user based on the biometric information and activate the aerosol generator based on a result of the authentication through an authentication procedure of at least two phases,
- wherein the controller is configured to perform a primary authentication phase of determining whether the user is a genuine user by a user terminal and a secondary authentication phase of determining whether the user is the genuine user through the biometric information, and
- wherein, whether the genuine user is an adult is verified through an adult authentication application on the user terminal and a result of an adult authentication performed by the user terminal is transmitted to the aerosol generating device, and biometric information data of the genuine user is registered in the aerosol generating device by the biometric information obtainer, when the genuine user is verified to be the adult.
A method of unlocking an aerosol generating device, the method comprising:
- registering biometric information data of a genuine user in the aerosol generating device;
- obtaining biometric information of a user through a biometric information obtainer provided in the aerosol generating device;
- determining whether the user is the genuine user based on the obtained biometric information;
- and
- unlocking the aerosol generating device when the user is determined to be the genuine user,
- wherein the registering of the biometric information data of the genuine user in the aerosol generating device comprises:
- verifying whether the genuine user is an adult through an adult verification application on a user terminal;
- transmitting a result of the verifying to the aerosol generating device;
- and
- registering the biometric information data of the genuine user in the aerosol generating device obtained by the biometric information obtainer, when the genuine user is verified to be the adult.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.