Video Passcode

• US 20130176437A1
• Filed: 01/11/2012
• Published: 07/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Tseng, Erick
• Application Number:
  US13/348,089
• Publication Number:
  US 20130176437A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/316 by observing the pattern of computer usage, e.g. typical user behaviour
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/40 Spoof detection, e.g. liveness detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25875 involving end-user authentication restricting access to computer systems by authenticating users using a predetermined code G06F21/33; arrangements for secret or secure communication including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08; authentication in wireless network security H04W12/06
• 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

Abstract

In one embodiment, comparing a first video provided by a user with a second video associated with an object; authenticating the user based on whether the first video matches the second video; and granting the user access to the object when the first video sufficiently matches the second video.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

by one or more computing devices, comparing a first video provided by a user with a second video associated with an object;

authenticating the user based on whether the first video matches the second video; and

granting the user access to the object when the first video sufficiently matches the second video.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the first video comprises a first movement;

the second video comprises a second movement; and

the first video sufficiently matches the second video and the user is authenticated when the first movement and the second movement are similar or the same.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first movement and the second movement are each a movement involving the user'"'"'s face.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the object is a physical or virtual object.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising denying the user access to the object when the first video does not match the second video.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein:

the object is a mobile telephone comprising a camera; and

the mobile telephone is unlocked when the first video sufficiently matches the second video.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising recording the first video with the camera of the mobile telephone.

8. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

recording the second video; and

associating the second video with the object as a passcode for the object.

9. An apparatus comprising:

a memory comprising instructions executable by one or more processors; and

the one or more processors coupled to the memory and operable to execute the instructions, the one or more processors being operable when executing the instructions to;

compare a first video provided by a user with a second video associated with an object;

authenticate the user based on whether the first video matches the second video; and

grant the user access to the object when the first video sufficiently matches the second video.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein:

the first video comprises a first movement;

the second video comprises a second movement; and

the first video sufficiently matches the second video and the user is authenticated when the first movement and the second movement are similar or the same.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the first movement and the second movement are each a movement involving the user'"'"'s face.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the object is a physical or virtual object.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the one or more processors are further operable when executing the instructions to deny the user access to the object when the first video does not match the second video.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein:

the object is a mobile telephone comprising a camera; and

the mobile telephone is unlocked when the first video sufficiently matches the second video.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the one or more processors are further operable when executing the instructions to record the first video with the camera of the mobile telephone.

16. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the one or more processors are further operable when executing the instructions to:

record the second video; and

associate the second video with the object as a passcode for the object.

17. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying logic that is operable when executed to:

compare a first video provided by a user with a second video associated with an object;

authenticate the user based on whether the first video matches the second video; and

grant the user access to the object when the first video sufficiently matches the second video.

18. The media of claim 17, wherein:

the first video comprises a first movement;

the second video comprises a second movement; and

the first video sufficiently matches the second video and the user is authenticated when the first movement and the second movement are similar or the same.

19. The media of claim 18, wherein the first movement and the second movement are each a movement involving the user'"'"'s face.

20. The media of claim 17, wherein:

the object is a physical or virtual object; and

the software is further operable when executed by the one or more computer systems to deny the user access to the object when the first video does not match the second video.