Access using image-based manipulation

• US 8,621,396 B1
• Filed: 10/27/2009
• Issued: 12/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Gossweiler, Richard Carl III
• Primary Examiner(s): Chow, Doon
• Assistant Examiner(s): VARGA, WILSON V
• Application Number:
  US12/606,465
• Time in Patent Office: 1,526 Days
• Field of Search: 715/863, 726 16- 30, 345/619, 345/649, 713/183
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/36 by graphic or iconic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2133 Verifying human interaction, e.g., Captcha
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A computer-implemented method may include presenting to a user an image, receiving a manipulated image by the user and providing access to a computing service based on a comparison of the manipulated image to a predefined arrangement of the image. In one exemplary implementation, presenting to the user the image may include presenting to the user a figure, receiving the manipulated image may include receiving a manipulated figure by the user and providing access to the computing service may include providing access to the computing service based on a comparison of the manipulated figure to a predefined arrangement of the figure.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

presenting to a user an image of a figure having anatomical features, the anatomical features including facial features and limbs;

enabling the user to manipulate the figure by changing a positioning of at least one anatomical feature within the presented image, wherein the positioning of the anatomical features on the figure corresponds to a password;

receiving a manipulated image of the figure by the user to at least one of the facial features or at least one of the limbs of the figure, wherein the manipulated image includes a change in the positioning of at least one anatomical feature within the presented image including a change in the positioning of at least one of the facial features or at least one of the limbs of the figure; and

providing access to a computing service based on a comparison of the manipulated image of the figure to a predefined arrangement of the positioning of the anatomical features including based on a comparison of the manipulated facial features and limbs of the figure to a predefined facial feature and limb arrangement corresponding to the password set by the user.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein:

presenting to the user the figure comprises presenting to the user a three dimensional figure;

receiving the manipulated figure comprises receiving a manipulated three dimensional figure by the user, wherein the manipulated three dimensional figure includes a change in the positioning of at least one feature within the presented three dimensional figure; and

providing access comprises providing access to the computing service based on a comparison of the manipulated three dimensional figure to a predefined arrangement of the three dimensional figure set by the user.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the manipulated figure is received by a user manipulating the figure on a touch screen interface.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein providing access to the computing service comprises unlocking a mobile computing device.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein providing access to the computing service comprises serving to the user a web page.

6. A non-transitory recordable storage medium having recorded and stored thereon instructions that, when executed, perform the actions of:

presenting to a user an image of a figure having anatomical features, the anatomical features including facial features and limbs;

enabling the user to manipulate the figure by changing a positioning of at least one anatomical feature within the presented image, wherein the positioning of the anatomical features on the figure corresponds to a password;

receiving a manipulated image of the figure by the user to at least one of the facial features or at least one of the limbs of the figure, wherein the manipulated image includes a change in the positioning of at least one anatomical feature within the presented image including a change in the positioning of at least one of the facial features or at least one of the limbs of the figure; and

providing access to a computing service based on a comparison of the manipulated image of the figure to a predefined arrangement of the positioning of the anatomical features including based on a comparison of the manipulated facial features and limbs of the figure to a predefined facial feature and limb arrangement corresponding to the password set by the user.

7. The non-transitory recordable storage medium of claim 6 wherein:

instructions that, when executed, perform the action of presenting to the user the figure comprise instructions that, when executed, perform the action of presenting to the user a three dimensional figure;

instructions that, when executed, perform the action of receiving the manipulated figure comprise instructions that, when executed, perform the action of receiving a manipulated three dimensional figure by the user, wherein the manipulated three dimensional figure includes a change in the positioning of at least one feature within the presented three dimensional figure; and

instructions that, when executed, perform the action of providing access comprise instructions that, when executed, perform the action of providing access to the computing service based on a comparison of the manipulated three dimensional figure to a predefined arrangement of the three dimensional figure set by the user.

8. The non-transitory recordable storage medium of claim 6 wherein the manipulated figure is received by a user manipulating the figure on a touch screen interface.

9. The non-transitory recordable storage medium of claim 6 wherein instructions that, when executed, perform the action of providing access to the computing service comprise instructions that, when executed, perform the action of unlocking a mobile computing device.

10. The non-transitory recordable storage medium of claim 6 wherein instructions that, when executed, perform the action of providing access to the computing service comprise instructions that, when executed, perform the action of serving to the user a web page.

11. A computer-implemented access control system, comprising:

a graphical user interface programmed to display an image of a figure having anatomical features to a user, the anatomical features including facial features and limbs;

memory storing a predefined arrangement of a positioning of the anatomical features of the figure set by the user including a predefined facial feature and limb arrangement, wherein the positioning of the anatomical features on the figure including the facial feature and limb arrangement corresponds to a password; and

a processor programmed to compare a manipulated image of the positioning of the anatomical features of the features input by the user to the predefined arrangement of the positioning of the facial and limb features of the figure set by the user as the password, and to initiate access by the user to a computing service, wherein the manipulated image includes a change in the positioning of at least one anatomical feature within the presented image including a change of at least one of the facial features or at least one of the limbs.

12. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

presenting to a user an image of a figure having anatomical features, the anatomical features including facial features and limbs;

enabling the user to manipulate the figure by changing a positioning of at least one anatomical feature within the presented image, wherein the positioning of the anatomical features on the figure corresponds to a password;

receiving a manipulated image of the figure by the user to at least one of the facial features or at least one of the limbs of the figure, wherein the manipulated image includes a change in the positioning of at least one anatomical feature within the presented image including a change in the positioning of at least one of the facial features or at least one of the limbs of the figure; and

providing access to an electronic device based on a comparison of the manipulated image of the figure by the user to a predefined arrangement of the positioning of the anatomical features including based on a comparison of the manipulated facial features and limbs of the figure to a predefined facial feature and limb arrangement corresponding to the password set by the user.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12 wherein providing access to the electronic device comprises unlocking a music device.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 12 wherein providing access to the electronic device comprises unlocking a game device.