Biometric identification by garments having a plurality of sensors

• US 10,154,791 B2
• Filed: 07/03/2017
• Issued: 12/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2016
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Life Company Limited (Aiful Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Life Company Limited (Aiful Corporation)
• Inventors: Longinotti-Buitoni, Gianluigi
• Primary Examiner(s): Neyzari, Ali
• Application Number:
  US15/640,963
• Publication Number:
  US 20180000367A1
• Time in Patent Office: 533 Days
• Field of Search: 340 582
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 13/1281 with incorporated means for medical monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0219 Inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes, tilt switches
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0024 for multiple sensor units attached to the patient, e.g. using a body or personal area network
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/053 Measuring electrical impedance or conductance of a portion of the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0816 Measuring devices for examining respiratory frequency measuring frequency of electric signals G01R23/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/11 Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor, mobility of a limb for measuring pulse A61B5/02 ;A61B5/1038 takes precedence; motion detection to correct for motion artifacts in physiological signals A61B5/721
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/117 Identification of persons methods or arrangements for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints, G06F18/00, G06V40/00; identification of persons by analysing their voice or speech G10L17/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/24 Detecting, measuring or recording bioelectric or biomagnetic signals of the body or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/30 Input circuits therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/332 Portable devices specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/389 Electromyography [EMG]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6804 Garments; Clothes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6805 Vests
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/34 involving the use of external additional devices, e.g. dongles or smart cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/015 Input arrangements based on nervous system activity detection, e.g. brain waves [EEG] detection, electromyograms [EMG] detection, electrodermal response detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/15 : Biometric patterns based on physiological signals, e.g. heartbeat, blood flow
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/23 : Recognition of whole body movements, e.g. for sport training
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/28 : Recognition of hand or arm movements, e.g. recognition of deaf sign language static hand signs G06V40/113
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/45 : Detection of the body part being alive
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/70 : Multimodal biometrics, e.g. combining information from different biometric modalities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0861 : using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/065 : Continuous authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/33 : using wearable devices, e.g. using a smartwatch or smart-glasses

Abstract

Biometric identification methods and apparatuses (including devices and systems) for uniquely identifying one an individual based on wearable garments including a plurality of sensors, including but not limited to sensors having multiple sensing modalities (e.g., movement, respiratory movements, heart rate, ECG, EEG, etc.).

Claims

1. A method of confirming a user'"'"'s identity, the method comprising:

wearing a garment comprising a plurality of integrated sensors at predetermined locations;

synchronously recording sensor data from multiple predetermined locations on the garment;

generating, in the garment, a biometric token from the recorded sensor data;

transmitting the biometric token to a lodger in or on the garment; and

transmitting the biometric token to a third party having a biometric template against which the biometric token may be tested.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein generating a biometric token from the recorded sensor data comprises generating the biometric token in a scheduler on the garment.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein wearing the garment comprises adjusting the position of the sensors based on haptic feedback from the garment.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein synchronously recording the sensor data comprises synchronously recording the sensor data from a plurality of motion sensors.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein synchronously recording the sensor data comprises synchronously recording the sensor data from a plurality of motion sensors, one or more respiration sensors and one or more electrodes configured to contact the user'"'"'s skin when the garment is worn.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein wearing the garment comprises wearing the garment over the user'"'"'s torso.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein synchronously recording the sensor data comprises synchronously recording the sensor data from multiple sensor types on the garment.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein synchronously recording the sensor data comprises recording the data at a plurality of frequencies.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising encrypting the biometric token prior to transmitting the biometric token to the third party.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending a coded message requesting approval of the user to proceed from the third party.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising contacting an output on the garment to indicate agreement to the third party.

12. A method of confirming a user'"'"'s identity, the method comprising:

wearing a garment comprising a plurality of integrated sensors at predetermined locations in the garment that are configured to position the integrated sensors over the user'"'"'s torso;

synchronously recording sensor data from multiple predetermined locations on the garment, using a plurality of different sensor types;

generating, in the garment, a biometric token from the recorded sensor data; and

transmitting the biometric token to a third party having a biometric template against which the biometric token may be tested.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein generating the biometric token from the recorded sensor data comprises generating the biometric token in a scheduler on the garment.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein wearing the garment comprises adjusting the position of the sensors based on haptic feedback from the garment.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein synchronously recording the sensor data comprises synchronously recording the sensor data from a plurality of motion sensors.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein synchronously recording the sensor data comprises synchronously recording the sensor data from a plurality of motion sensors, one or more respiration sensors and one or more electrodes configured to contact the user'"'"'s skin when the garment is worn.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein synchronously recording the sensor data comprises recording the sensor data at a plurality of frequencies.

18. The method of claim 12, further comprising encrypting the biometric token prior to transmitting the biometric token to the third party.

19. The method of claim 12, further comprising sending a coded message requesting approval of the user to proceed from the third party.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising contacting an output on the garment to indicate agreement to the third party.

21. A method of confirming a user'"'"'s identity, the method comprising:

wearing a garment comprising a plurality of integrated sensors at predetermined locations in the garment that are configured to position the integrated sensors over the user'"'"'s torso;

adjusting the position of the sensors using haptic feedback from the garment;

synchronously recording sensor data from multiple predetermined locations on the garment, using a plurality of different sensor types;

generating, in the garment, a biometric token from the recorded sensor data;

encrypting the biometric token; and

transmitting the encrypted biometric token to a third party having a biometric template against which the biometric token may be tested.