Secure display

• US 9,066,125 B2
• Filed: 02/10/2012
• Issued: 06/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Biobex, LLC
• Original Assignee: Advanced Biometric Controls, LLC
• Inventors: Sands, Christopher A., Joyce, Arthur W. III
• Primary Examiner(s): Czekaj, Dave
• Assistant Examiner(s): Joisil, Berteau
• Application Number:
  US13/371,175
• Publication Number:
  US 20130208103A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,229 Days
• Field of Search: 348/78
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/40 by quorum, i.e. whereby two or more security principals are required
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/84 output devices, e.g. displays or monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2113 Multi-level security, e.g. mandatory access control
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2137 Time limited access, e.g. to a computer or data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2139 Recurrent verification
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2358/00 Arrangements for display data security
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42201 biosensors, e.g. heat sensor for presence detection, EEG sensors or any limb activity sensors worn by the user input arrangements for interaction with the human body based on nervous system activity detection G06F3/015
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43635 HDMI
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4415 using biometric characteristics of the user, e.g. by voice recognition or fingerprint scanning cryptography using biological data H04L9/3231; authentication in networks using biometric H04L63/0861
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44218 Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the room or changes his face expression during a TV program methods or arrangements for recognising human body or animal bodies or body parts G06V40/10; methods or arrangements for acquiring or recognising human faces, facial parts, facial sketches, facial expressions G06V40/16; methods or arrangements for recognising movements or behaviour G06V40/20; arrangements for identifying users in broadcast systems H04H60/45

Abstract

An electronic display is provided for facilitating authentication. The display may integrate one or more of a camera, microphone, fingerprint sensor, card reader, touch screen, and communication interface to collect biometric and other identification information to authenticate a user requesting access to the display. An integrated proximity or motion sensor may be used to track presence of the user. The user may be required to re-authenticate his identity after an absence from the display. The display may be a standalone device or may cooperate with an external computing device. The display may be configured to verify its identity to the external computing device. The display may be configured to perform its own authentication and authorization procedures before presenting content from an external device.

Claims

1. An electronic display for controlling access to content, comprising:

a display screen;

one or more sensors; and

one or more physical processors programmed with computer program instructions which, when executed, cause the one or more physical processors to;

obtain information from the one or more sensors;

determine whether a first user is within proximity of the electronic display based on the information from the one or more sensors;

determine whether a user other than the first user is within proximity of the electronic display based on the information from the one or more sensors;

determine whether a current time is within a predefined access time period associated with the first user;

limit presentation of the content on the display screen in response to a determination that the first user is not within proximity of the electronic display;

limit presentation of the content on the display screen in response to a determination that a user other than the first user is within proximity of the electronic display; and

limit presentation of the content on the display screen in response to a determination that the current time is not within the predefined access time period.

2. The electronic display of claim 1, wherein the one or more physical processors are further caused to:

present, on the display screen, the content in response to a determination that the first user is within proximity of the electronic display, that a user other than the first user is not within proximity of the electronic display, and that the current time is within the predefined access time period.

3. The electronic display of claim 2, wherein the one or more physical processors are further caused to:

receive at least one of card information, token information, password information, answer information associated with a security question, personal identification number information, or authentication document image information,

wherein presenting the content on the display screen comprises presenting the content on the display screen further in response to the receipt of at least one of card information, token information, password information, answer information associated with a security question, personal identification number information, or authentication document image information.

4. The electronic display of claim 1, wherein presentation of the content is limited by transmitting, to a device external to the electronic display, an indication to perform at least one of locking a session of the first user or logging the first user out of the session, wherein, in is locked or the first user is logged out of the session.

5. The electronic display of claim 4, wherein transmitting the indication to the external device comprises transmitting the indication to the external device via a video interface of the electronic display, and wherein the video interface comprises at least one of a VGA interface, a DVI interface, or a HDMI interface.

6. The electronic display of claim 1, wherein presentation of the content on the display screen is limited by removing the content from the display screen.

7. The electronic display of claim 1, wherein the one or more physical processors are further caused to:

present, on the display screen, the content in response to a determination that only the first user is within proximity of the electronic display and that the current time is within the predefined access time period; and

limit presentation of the content on the display screen in response to a determination that more than one user is within proximity of the electronic display.

8. The electronic display of claim 1, wherein determining whether the first user is within proximity of the electronic display comprises determining, based on the information from the one or more sensors, whether a physical presence of a user was detected by the one or more sensors and, if detected, whether the detected user is the first user, and

wherein limiting presentation of the content on the display screen in response to the determination that the first user is not within proximity of the electronic display comprises limiting presentation of the content on the display screen in response to at least one of:

(i) a determination that a physical presence of a user was not detected by the one or more sensors;

or (ii) a determination that a physical presence of a user was detected by the one or more sensors and that the detected user is not the first user.

9. A method of controlling access to content via an electronic display, the method being implemented on the electronic display that includes one or more physical processors executing computer program instructions which, when executed, perform the method, the method comprising:

obtaining, by the electronic display, information from one or more sensors of the electronic display;

determining, by the electronic display, whether a first user is within proximity of the electronic display based on the information from the one or more sensors;

determining, by the electronic display, whether a user other than the first user is within proximity of the electronic display based on the information from the one or more sensors;

determining, by the electronic display, whether a current time is within a predefined access time period associated with the first user;

limiting, by the electronic display, presentation of the content on the display screen in response to a determination that the first user is not within proximity of the electronic display;

limiting, by the electronic display, presentation of the content on the display screen in response to a determination that a user other than the first user is within proximity of the electronic display; and

limiting, by the electronic display, presentation of the content on the display screen in response to a determination that the current time is not within the predefined access time period.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

presenting, by the electronic display, the content on the display screen in response to a determination that the first user is within proximity of the electronic display, that a user other than the first user is not within proximity of the electronic display, and that that current time is within the predefined access time period.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving, at the electronic display, at least one of card information, token information, password information, answer information associated with a security question, personal identification number information, or authentication document image information,

wherein presenting the content on the display screen comprises presenting the content on the display screen further in response to the receipt of at least one of card information, token information, password information, answer information associated with a security question, personal identification number information, or authentication document image information.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein presentation of the content is limited by transmitting, to a device external to the electronic display, an indication to perform at least one of locking a session of the first user or logging the first user out of the session, and wherein, in response to the transmission of the indication, at least one of the session is locked or the first user is logged out of the session.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein presentation of the content on the display screen is limited by removing the content from the display screen.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the information from the one or more sensors comprises biometric information, and wherein the biometric information comprises at least one of voice information, facial image information, fingerprint information, hand geometry information, iris image information, or retina image information.

15. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

presenting, by the electronic display, on the display screen, the content in response to a determination that only the first user is within proximity of the electronic display and that the current time is within the predefined access time period; and

limiting, by the electronic display, presentation of the content on the display screen in response to a determination that more than one user is within proximity of the electronic display.

16. An electronic display for controlling access to content, comprising:

a display screen;

one or more sensors; and

one or more physical processors programmed with computer program instructions which, when executed, cause the one or more physical processors to;

obtain information from the one or more sensors;

determine whether a first user and a second user are within proximity of the electronic display based on the information from the one or more sensors;

present, on the display screen, the content in response to a determination that at least both the first user and the second user are within proximity of the electronic display; and

limit presentation of the content on the display screen in response to a determination that at least one of the first user or the second user are not within proximity of the electronic display.

17. The electronic display of claim 16, wherein limiting presentation of the content on the display screen comprises limiting presentation of the content on the display screen in response to:

a determination that the first user is within proximity of the electronic display and that the second user is not within proximity of the electronic display;

or

a determination that the first user is not within proximity of the electronic display and that the second user is within proximity of the electronic display.

18. An electronic display for controlling access to content, comprising:

a display screen;

one or more sensors; and

one or more physical processors programmed with computer program instructions which, when executed, cause the one or more physical processors to;

obtain information from the one or more sensors;

determine whether only one user or more than one user is within proximity of the electronic display based on the information from the one or more sensors;

present, on the display screen, the content in response to a determination that only one user is within proximity of the electronic display; and

limit presentation of the content on the display screen in response to a determination that more than one user is within proximity of the electronic display.

19. The electronic display of claim 18, wherein the one or more physical processors are further caused to:

determine whether an authorized user is within proximity of the electronic display based on the information from the one or more sensors; and

present, on the display screen, the content in response to a determination that an authorized user is within proximity of the electronic display and that only one user is within proximity of the electronic display.

20. The electronic display of claim 19, wherein the content is presented on the display screen at a first time in response to the determination that an authorized user is within proximity of the electronic display and that only one user is within proximity of the electronic display, and wherein presentation of the content on the display screen is limited at a second time after the first time in response to the determination that more than one user is within proximity of the electronic display.