User authentication apparatus and method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorPil-seung YANG
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Abstract
A user authentication apparatus includes an information collection unit which collects user information from a plurality of personal devices of a user within a predetermined distance, and a control unit which identifies the user as a user corresponding to the collected information based on the amount of user information collected. Accordingly, user authentication can be easily performed using devices of a user, resulting in increased user convenience.
Claims23
A user authentication apparatus, comprising:
- an information collection unit which collects authentication information from a plurality of devices associated with a user, the collected authentication information including user information and device identification information;
- and
- a control unit which verifies whether each of the plurality of devices, based on the collected authentication information, is registered for the user, and authenticates the user if an amount of information collected from the plurality of devices verified by the control unit is larger than a threshold value.
A user authentication method, comprising:
- collecting authentication information from a plurality of devices associated with a user, the collected authentication information including user information and device identification information;
- and
- verifying whether each of the plurality of devices, based on the collected authentication information, is registered for the user, and authenticating the user if an amount of information collected from the plurality of devices verified by the control unit is larger than a threshold value.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium comprising an execution program for executing a user authentication method, wherein the user authentication method comprises:
- collecting authentication information from a plurality of devices associated with a user, the collected authentication information including user information and device identification information;
- and
- verifying whether each of the plurality of devices, based on the collected authentication information, is registered for the user, and
- authenticating the user if amount of information collected from the plurality of devices verified is larger than a threshold value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.