Biometric Data Capture During Normal Input Operations

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing user-verifying processes for electronic devices, such as smartphones, are complicated and unfriendly to users, leading to low utilization rates and potential security risks due to the need for pre-stored fingerprint data and separate training modes.

Innovation Solution

An electronic apparatus captures biological features automatically during normal user interactions, generating and storing biological feature data for verification without additional user prompts, using controllers like optical mice, touch screens, or voice-control modules to integrate fingerprint, iris, or voiceprint data seamlessly.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If fingerprint image data is captured and stored in advance through a separate training mode, then user verification can be performed subsequently, but the operation becomes complicated and unfriendly to users

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser verification capabilityVSAvoiduser operation simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the fingerprint capture process with the normal operation mode by integrating the fingerprint scanner into the existing input interface. When users perform normal input operations (such as touching the screen or moving the optical mouse), the system simultaneously captures fingerprint data without requiring a separate training mode, thus combining verification setup with日常 usage

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically captures and stores fingerprint data during normal operation without requiring explicit user instructions to enter training mode. The controller detects manipulating input operations and automatically triggers fingerprint capture, allowing the system to serve itself by creating verification data without additional user effort

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If a separate training mode is used to capture fingerprint data, then fingerprint verification function can be established, but the utilization rate of user-identifying function remains low

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser verification functionVSAvoidfunction utilization rate
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary fingerprint capture automatically during the user's first normal operation sequence. By detecting the initial manipulating input operation and triggering fingerprint data capture at this critical moment, the system ensures verification data is ready before the user needs to perform subsequent verification actions, thereby increasing function utilization

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The controller continuously monitors user input operations and provides automatic feedback by capturing fingerprint data in response to each manipulating input. This feedback mechanism ensures that fingerprint verification function is activated and utilized naturally during normal device operation, preventing the function from remaining unused

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If fingerprint data creation requires additional user inputs through operational menus, then fingerprint verification can be configured, but the process becomes complicated and confuses users

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefingerprint verification setupVSAvoidoperation process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the fingerprint capture function from the complex operational menu system and integrates it directly into the normal input operation flow. The fingerprint scanner is activated automatically when users perform basic input actions (screen touching, mouse movement), eliminating the need for users to navigate through separate menu structures to configure verification settings

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentEP2309410B1Method and electronic apparatus for creating biological feature data
Publication Date: 2018.02.21 HTC CORP
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AI summary

A method is used for creating a biological feature data in an electronic apparatus with a user-operable controller. The method includes: capturing at least a biological feature of a user in response to a control signal generated by the controller due to a manipulating input operation of the user, thereby generating a biological feature data for user verification; and storing the biological feature data for user verification in the electronic apparatus while normally executing the control signal to perform a function corresponding to the manipulating input operation of the user.