Bio-metric input mechanism
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorZafer Kadi
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Abstract
A biometric keyboard or other input device, such as a keypad or touch screen, may be part of an input mechanism for inputting user information to a computing system. The mechanism may include biometric sensors associated with the buttons or keys of the input device. A mapping scheme may be used such that the input value forwarded to a processing resource when a user activates one or more of the buttons or keys varies depending on which digit (finger, toe, etc.) was used to activate the key(s) or button(s). Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
Claims35
An apparatus, comprising:
- an input mechanism to receive input from a user based on user activation of the mechanism with one or more digits of the user's body;
- a recognition module to identify a digit used to activate the mechanism;
- and
- a mapping module to determine an input value, based on the identified digit.
A method, comprising:
- receiving biometric data from a sensor associated with a button of an input device;
- identifying a digit based on the biometric data;
- determining a unique input value for the button, digit pair.
An article comprising a machine-accessible medium having a plurality of machine accessible instructions, wherein, when the instructions are executed by a processor, the instructions provide for:
- receiving biometric data from a sensor associated with a button of an input device;
- identifying a digit based on the biometric data;
- determining an input value associated with the button, based on the digit identity.
An system, comprising:
- an input device having M buttons capable of activation by one or more user digits;
- an execution resource coupled to the input device;
- and
- a memory system coupled to the execution resource;
- wherein said memory system is to store one or more instructions that provide for identifying one or more user digits that have been used to activate one or more of the M buttons;
- and
- wherein said memory system is further to store one or more instructions that provide for determining an input value based on the one or more identified digits and the one or more activated buttons.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.