FINGERPRINT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE AND VEHICLE SMART KEY INCLUDING THE SAME

• US 20150248799A1
• Filed: 02/17/2015
• Published: 09/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: LEE, Dong Keon, SEONG, Dong Mug, LEE, Chung Wan, HER, Jae Hak
• Application Number:
  US14/624,230
• Publication Number:
  US 20150248799A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/252 Fingerprint recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00769 with data transmission performed by wireless means
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2209/65 using means for sensing the user's hand
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00174 Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys mechanical locks with electric permutation E05B49/00; arrangements for sensing or reading record carriers G06K7/00; electronic switching H03K17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00563 using personal physical data of the operator, e.g. finger prints, retinal images, voicepatterns

Abstract

A fingerprint identification system including a starting button unit including a starting touch panel to extract a fingerprint of a user, a door handle including a door touch panel to extract the fingerprint of the user; and a control unit to control starting of a vehicle by comparing the extracted fingerprint of the user with a fingerprint, which is previously stored, and to generate an alarm signal. The starting touch panel is provided on a starting button unit.

Claims

1. A fingerprint identification system comprising:

a starting button unit comprising a starting touch panel to extract a fingerprint of a user;

a door handle comprising a door touch panel to extract the fingerprint of the user; and

a control unit to control starting of a vehicle by comparing the extracted fingerprint of the user with a fingerprint, which is previously stored, and to generate an alarm signal,

wherein the starting touch panel is provided on a starting button unit.

2. The fingerprint identification system of claim 1, wherein the control unit comprises:

a storage unit to store the fingerprint of the user; and

a comparison unit to compare the fingerprint of the user, which is previously stored, with an input fingerprint of the user.

3. The fingerprint identification system of claim 1, further comprising a smart key comprising a key touch panel to recognize the fingerprint of the user.

4. The fingerprint identification system of claim 3, wherein the key touch panel comprises an area type of a touch panel or a swipe type of a touch panel.

5. The fingerprint identification system of claim 3, wherein the smart key comprises a key output unit to output an alarm sound, a voice signal, or an image signal by an instruction of the control unit.

6. The fingerprint identification system of claim 2, wherein the storage unit stores fingerprints of a plurality of users, and the comparison unit sequentially compares an input fingerprint with the fingerprints of the users which are stored.

7. The fingerprint identification system of claim 1, wherein the control unit starts the vehicle if the stored fingerprint is matched with the fingerprint extracted from the door handle, and if the stored fingerprint is matched with the fingerprint extracted form the starting button unit.

8. The fingerprint identification system of claim 3, wherein the control unit starts the vehicle if the stored fingerprint is matched with the fingerprint extracted from the smart key, and if the stored fingerprint is matched with the fingerprint extracted form the starting button unit.

9. The fingerprint identification system of claim 1, wherein each of the starting button unit and the door handle comprises an output unit to output an alarm sound, a voice signal, or an image signal by an instruction of the control unit.

10. The fingerprint identification system of claim 9, wherein the output unit comprises a speaker or a display.

11. A vehicle smart key comprising:

a touch input unit to receive a user input pattern;

a storage unit to store at least one user input pattern input through the touch input unit and an operation control signal of a vehicle corresponding to the user input pattern;

a control unit to detect the at least one user input pattern input through the touch input unit and to extract the vehicle operation control signal corresponding to the input user input pattern; and

a communication unit to transmit the vehicle operation control signal corresponding to the user input pattern, which is extracted by the control unit, to the vehicle.

12. The vehicle smart key of claim 11, wherein the storage unit stores a first user input pattern and a first vehicle operation control signal by matching the first user input pattern and the first vehicle operation control signal with each other, and the control unit extracts the first vehicle operation control signal if the first user input pattern is detected.

13. The vehicle smart key of claim 11, wherein the storage unit stores a first user input pattern and first and second vehicle operation control signals by matching the first user input pattern with the first and vehicle operation control signals, and the control unit extracts the first and second vehicle operation control signals if the first user input pattern is detected.

14. The vehicle smart key of claim 11, further comprising a sensor unit to sense a user input motion, wherein the storage unit stores a vehicle operation control signal corresponding to the user input motion input through the sensor unit.

15. The vehicle smart key of claim 14, wherein the storage unit stores a first user input motion input through the sensor unit and a first vehicle operation control signal by matching the first user input pattern and the first vehicle operation control signal with each other, and the control unit extracts the first vehicle operation control signal if the first user input motion is detected.

16. The vehicle smart key of claim 14, wherein the storage unit stores a first user input motion input through the sensor unit and first and second vehicle operation control signals by matching the first user input motion with the first and vehicle operation control signals, and the control unit extracts the first and second vehicle operation control signals if the first user input motion is detected.

17. The vehicle smart key of claim 14, wherein the control unit extracts at least one vehicle operation control signal by combining user inputs input through the sensor unit and the touch input unit.

18. The vehicle smart key of claim 11, further comprising an interface to share the user input pattern input through the touch input unit and the vehicle operation control signal corresponding to the user input pattern with an external terminal device which is preset.