Gaze tracking password input method and device utilizing the same
AssigneeUtechzone Co., Ltd.
InventorChia-Chun Tsou
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Abstract
A gaze tracking password input method and a device utilizing the same wherein the method includes the following steps: picking up photo images of a person's eyes by a photographing unit which continually takes photo shots at a particular area as the person approaches to the photographing unit and his eye enters the particular area; transmitting the photo images taken at the particular area to an operation unit; setting a script associated with a particular point as a password; and then determining the person's gaze tracking direction which indicates the script to be input by the operation unit. The operation unit comparing the multiple input scripts with predetermined passwords, if the input scripts are matched with the predetermined passwords, then the person is officially authorized.
Claims17
A gaze tracking password input method, comprising the following steps:
- setting up a password input device, comprising a photographing unit, a display unit, and an operation unit;
- said photographing unit continually picking up photo images of a particular area which are transmitted to said operation unit;
- a person approaching said password input device with eyes of the person coming into the particular area so that said photographing unit can take photo images of the eyes of said person, which are transmitted to said operation unit;
- said operation unit identifying the person's approach;
- the eyes of said person gazing onto an input zone for input of a password;
- said operation unit determining the input photo images of the person's eyes gazing at numerals, characters or symbols provided in said input zone picked up by said photographing unit;
- inputting the numerals, characters, or symbols defined in said input zone that said person's eyes gazes at as one or more inputs of a password into one or more input boxes;
- when all of said one or more input boxes are inputted, said operation unit comparing the input numerals, characters, or symbols with preset passwords;
- and
- approving the person's identification in response to the comparing of the input numerals, characters, or symbols matching at least one of said preset passwords.
A device using said gaze tracking password input method, comprising:
- a password input device comprising:
- a photographing unit continually picking up photo images at a particular area, and
- an operation unit operatively connected to said photographing unit which transmits all said picked up photo images to said operation unit;
- and
- a display unit operatively connected to said operation unit,
- wherein
- when a person approaches said photographing unit with eyes of said person coming up to said particular area, said photographing unit continually picks up photo images of the eyes of said person, said operation unit determines the eyes of said person gazing at at least one script having numerals, characters, or symbols presented in an input zone on said display unit, said operation unit generates the numerals, characters or symbols from the at least one script gazed at by the eyes of said person as inputs for a password, said operation unit compares said input password with a preset password;
- and if a comparison of said input password and said preset password is matched, said operation unit approves said person's identification.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.