Electronic device, method for authenticating user, and computer readable recording medium

Abstract

An electronic device, a method of an electronic device authenticating a user and a computer readable recording medium are provided, The electronic device includes a storage configured to store an identifier and attributes of a first object as authentication information, a display configured to display a plurality of authentication objects comprising a second object that has one or more of the attributes of the first object and has a form different from a form of the first object, in response to a request to perform an authentication procedure, and a controller configured to authenticate a user based on an attribute of an authentication object selected by the user from among the plurality of displayed authentication objects and the stored authentication information.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.