US 2017/0251366 A1Published application

Control Of Wireless Communication Device Capability In A Mobile Device With A Biometric Key

AssigneePrinceton Identity, Inc.

InventorsSteven N. Perna, Mark A. Clifton, Jongjin Kim, Bobby S. Varma, Stephen J. Piro, Barry E. Mapen, Kevin P. Richards, David Alan Ackerman, Ann-Marie Lanzilloto, David J. Wade, Timothy J. Davis, Michael P. Fleisch, Jitendra J. Bhangley, Glen J. Van Sant

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Abstract

An iris biometric recognition module includes technology for capturing images of an iris of an eye of a person, whether the person is moving or stationary. The iris biometric recognition technology can perform an iris matching procedure for, e.g., authentication or identity purposes, by comparing a digital iris image to a reference iris image and, if the digital and reference iris images match, authenticating a person as authorized to access a first device and transmitting a wireless communication from the first device to a second device.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A biometric access control device comprising:

a camera having a field of view;
an illuminator device comprising one or more illuminators that emit light into the field of view;
a client device enabled to authenticate a person to access a wireless communication capability to transmit a wireless communication to a second device;
an input device;
memory storing program instructions;
and
a processor communicatively coupled to the illuminator device, the camera, the client device, the input device, and the memory, and further communicatively coupled to a database storing a reference iris image for a user validated to access the client device, the processor executing the program instructions to:
receive an input signal from the input device;
determine that the input signal comprises a permission to scan an iris of a person in proximity to the client device;
align the camera with the iris of the person;
send a first control signal to the illuminator device, the first control signal activating a synchronous emission of light by the one or more illuminators at a pulse frequency above continuous wave eye safe limits;
send a second control signal to the camera, the second control signal activating a capture of a plurality of digital images by the camera, the capture being synchronous with the synchronous emission of light;
receive the plurality of digital images from the camera;
access the database and retrieve the reference iris image;
determine that a first digital image of the plurality of digital images matches the reference iris image;
authenticate the person as authorized to access the wireless communication capability;
and
transmit the wireless communication from the client device to the second device.

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Facts

Application: 15/514,098Filed 24 Sep 2015
Priority: 24 Sep 2014
Published: 31 Aug 2017
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification29 codes

A61B 3/1216
For looking at the eye fundus, e.g. ophthalmoscopes: for diagnostics of the iris
A61B 5/1171
Identification of persons: based on the shapes or appearances of their bodies or parts thereof
G06F 21/32
User authentication: using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
G06F 21/83
Protecting input, output or interconnection devices: input devices, e.g. keyboards, mice or controllers thereof

Family

Application62/054,415Us provisional application · filed 24 Sep 2014
US 10,425,814 B2Related patent
US 2017/0251366 A1This patent

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