Electronic Device and Corresponding Methods for Selecting Initiation of a User Authentication Process
AssigneeMotorola Mobility LLC
InventorsRachid Alameh, Jarrett Simerson, Thomas Merrell
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Abstract
An electronic device includes a motion detector operable to detect an at least partially periodic motion of the electronic device. An authentication system operable with the motion detector initiates an authentication process, such as by capturing one or more images or depth scans, to attempt to authenticate a user as an authorized user of the electronic device when the electronic device is most stationary along the at least partially periodic motion.
Claims20
A method in an electronic device, the method comprising:
- identifying, with a motion detector, a substantially periodic motion;
- determining, with one or more processors operable with the motion detector, when the electronic device is most stationary along the substantially periodic motion;
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- initiating, with the one or more processors, a user authentication process to authenticate a user as an authorized user of the electronic device when the electronic device is most stationary along the substantially periodic motion.
An electronic device, comprising:
- a motion detector detecting an at least partially periodic motion of the electronic device;
- and
- an authentication system operable with the motion detector, the authentication system initiating an authentication process to authenticate a user as an authorized user of the electronic device when the electronic device is most stationary along the at least partially periodic motion.
A method in an electronic device, the method comprising:
- detecting, with a motion detector, the electronic device moving in an at least partially periodic motion;
- capturing, with an imager, one or more images of an object within an environment of the electronic device;
- applying, with one or more processors operable with the motion detector, weighting factors to each image of the one or more images;
- selecting, with the one or more processors, an image having a weighting factor corresponding to a maximum confidence level that a depiction of the object within the image can be authenticated;
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- attempting to authenticate, with the one or more processors, the object from the image as depicting an authorized user of the electronic device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.