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US 2020/0002977 A1Published application
Door access device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorNatalia Russi-Vigoya
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Abstract
Door access devices are disclosed. An example door access device includes a door handle to open a door and a fingerprint reader disposed on a rear side of the door handle to read a fingerprint from a user touching the rear side of the door handle. The fingerprint reader is obscured from view from a vantage of the user attempting to open the door.
Claims15
A door access system, comprising:
- a door handle to open a door;
- and
- a fingerprint reader disposed on a rear side of the door handle to read a fingerprint from a user touching the rear side of the door handle, the fingerprint reader obscured from view from a vantage of the user attempting to open the door.
A method of controlling access through a door, comprising:
- reading a fingerprint of a user touching a rear side of a door handle using a fingerprint reader obscured from view on the rear side of the door handle;
- comparing the fingerprint of the user to fingerprint data of authorized users in a database;
- and
- unlocking a door lock if a match is found between the fingerprint of the user and a fingerprint in the fingerprint data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.