Progressive Pictorial & Motion Based CAPTCHAs

• US 20090328150A1
• Filed: 06/29/2009
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Human Differential Intelligence, LLC
• Original Assignee: John Nicholas and Kristin Gross Trust U/A/D April 13 2010
• Inventors: GROSS, JOHN NICHOLAS
• Granted Patent: US 8,752,141 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/3
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/215 comprising means for detecting acoustic signals, e.g. using a microphone
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/332 using wireless networks, e.g. cellular phone networks
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/335 using Internet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/338 using television networks
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/424 involving acoustic input signals, e.g. by using the results of pitch or rhythm extraction or voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/44 involving timing of operations, e.g. performing an action within a time slot
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/52 involving aspects of the displayed game scene
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/61 using advertising information
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/795 for finding other players; for building a team; for providing a buddy list
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/80 Special adaptations for executing a specific game genre or game mode
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/847 Cooperative playing, e.g. requiring coordinated actions from several players to achieve a common goal
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/0661 Making a drawing
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/558 by assessing the players' skills or ranking
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/572 Communication between players during game play of non game information, e.g. e-mail, chat, file transfer, streaming of audio and streaming of video
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/638 according to the timing of operation or a time limit
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8094 Unusual game types, e.g. virtual cooking
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/0423 Word games, e.g. scrabble electric A63F3/0421; two-dimensional puzzles with rotating rings or discs A63F9/0811, A63F9/0819
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2133 : Verifying human interaction, e.g., Captcha
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3241 : Security aspects of a gaming system, e.g. detecting cheating, device integrity, surveillance computer security G06F21/00

Abstract

A CAPTCHA system uses images/pictures and/or motion for granting access to a computing system. The images can be culled from examples used in pictorial games, and can progressively presented to increase the strength of the CAPTCHA challenges. Speech recognition, motion and touch sensing can also be employed as parts of the challenge.

Claims

1. A method of testing recognition of images for a CAPTCHA (Completely Automatic Public Turing Tests To Tell Humans And Computers Apart) system comprising:

a. automatically electing an electronic image for a participant with a computing system, wherein said electronic image comprises imagery other than words;

b. associating said electronic image with one or more concepts;

c. progressively revealing information over a first time period for said electronic image within an interface for said participant using said computing system;

d. automatically processing responses from the participant with the computing system to correlate an accuracy of guesses from said participant for said one or more concepts associated with said electronic image.

2. The method of claim 1 further including a step:

calculating a percentage of participants able to decode and accurately guess said one or more concepts within a predetermined time.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said electronic image is presented at different time intervals with differing levels of resolution, noise and/or pixelation.

4. The method of claim 1 further including a step:

using said electronic image within a CAPTCHA system for granting access to resources of a second computing system.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein said second computing system is associated with a portable electronics device.

6. A method of providing a visual CAPTCHA (Completely Automatic Public Turing Tests To Tell Humans And Computers Apart) challenge comprising:

a. automatically electing an electronic image for a participant with a computing system, wherein said electronic image comprises imagery other than words;

b. associating said electronic image with one or more concepts;

c. progressively revealing information over a first time period for said electronic image within an interface for said participant using said computing system;

d. automatically processing responses from the participant with the computing system to detect if a guess from said participant for said one or more concepts associated with said electronic image meets a required threshold.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said responses are received in audible form and processed by a speech recognition device adapted to recognize human voices.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein the CAPTCHA challenge is embodied in a computer readable form and implemented as a routine executing on a portable computing device which also has motion and/or orientation sensors.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the visual CAPTCHA challenge is combined with a physical CAPTCHA challenge requiring the user to manipulate the portable computing device in a prescribed manner.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein said physical CAPTCHA challenge is used to interact with elements of said electronic image and/or other objects presented in said interface.

11. A method of providing a motion and/or orientation based CAPTCHA (Completely Automatic Public Turing Tests To Tell Humans And Computers Apart) challenge on a portable computing device comprising:

a. automatically electing a manipulation challenge for a user with the portable computing device, wherein said manipulation challenge includes a set of physical manipulation instructions for the portable computing device for the user;

b. automatically processing sensory data associated with user movements and/or manipulations of the portable computing device;

c. automatically determining if said user movements and/or manipulations from the user meet a required threshold for satisfying said set of manipulation instructions.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the set of physical manipulation instructions for the motion and/or orientation based CAPTCHA challenge are presented in an electronic image.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein the set of physical manipulation instructions for the motion and/or orientation based CAPTCHA challenge are presented in audible form by a text to speech engine operating on the portable computing device.

14. The method of claim 11 wherein said set of physical manipulation instructions requires the user to move the portable computing device so as to manipulate objects presented in an interface.

15. The method of claim 11 wherein said set of physical manipulation instructions require the user to orient a needle of a virtual compass in a specified direction.

16. The method of claim 11 wherein said set of physical manipulation instructions require the user to speak or blow into a microphone.

17. The method of claim 11 wherein the motion and/or orientation based CAPTCHA challenge is embodied in computer readable form and implemented as a routine executing on the portable computing device.

18. A method of providing a touch based CAPTCHA (Completely Automatic Public Turing Tests To Tell Humans And Computers Apart) challenge on a portable computing device comprising:

a. automatically electing a manipulation challenge for a user with the portable computing device, wherein said manipulation challenge includes a set of physical touch instructions for the portable computing device for the user;

b. automatically processing touch sensory data associated with user movements and/or manipulations of objects within a graphical interface of the portable computing device;

c. automatically determining if said user touch sensory data meets a required threshold for satisfying said set of physical touch instructions.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein the set of physical touch instructions for the motion and/or orientation based CAPTCHA challenge are presented in an electronic image.

20. The method of claim 18 wherein the set of physical touch instructions for the motion and/or orientation based CAPTCHA challenge are presented in audible form by a text to speech engine operating on the portable computing device.

21. The method of claim 18 wherein said set of physical touch instructions require the user to arrange a set of letters on the graphical interface.

22. The method of claim 18 wherein the touch based CAPTCHA challenge is embodied in computer readable form and implemented as a routine executing on the portable computing device.