Biometric Sensor Adhesive Mounting for Identity Authentication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current identity authentication systems are vulnerable to unauthorized access due to poor access controls, especially in sensitive environments, necessitating a reliable biometric assurance method to prevent unauthorized use of complex systems.
Innovation Solution
A biometric authentication system comprising a biometric sensor, adhesive, and computer that captures and compares static biometric indications from an organism's body to authenticate identity, allowing for secure and cost-effective authentication, even in disposable forms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a high quality and highly accurate biometric system is used to initially establish identity, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity and manufacturing cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The authentication process is divided into two distinct phases: an initial high-quality biometric enrollment phase that establishes a reference profile, and subsequent simpler authentication phases that verify against the stored profile. This segmentation allows the system to use complex, accurate biometric capture only when necessary (during initial enrollment) while using simpler, lower-cost verification mechanisms for subsequent authentications.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs a preliminary biometric enrollment action to capture and store a reference biometric profile before actual authentication is needed. This preliminary action establishes a baseline that simplifies subsequent authentication processes, as the system only needs to verify whether current biometric data matches the pre-stored reference rather than performing complex analysis each time.
2Ease of manufacture
If a simple and cost-effective authentication system is used for subsequent verification, then ease of manufacture is improved, but reliability of authentication decreases
Solution Approach 1:
By performing the complex biometric capture and profile creation as a preliminary action during initial enrollment, the system establishes a reliable reference that enables simpler, lower-cost authentication processes to achieve high reliability in subsequent verifications. The expensive, complex system is used only once to create the baseline, after which simpler systems can reliably verify against it.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a copy or representation of the biometric data during initial enrollment and stores it as a reference profile. Subsequent authentication processes then work with this copied reference data rather than requiring repeated complex biometric analysis, enabling cost-effective verification while maintaining high reliability through comparison with the stored reference.
3Ease of manufacture
If biometric sensors are made disposable and low cost, then ease of manufacture is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the disposable object principle by designing biometric sensors that can be low-cost and single-use or limited-use. The sensor's primary function is to capture biometric data during initial enrollment, after which it may be discarded or replaced. This approach reduces manufacturing costs and eliminates the need for expensive, durable sensor designs, while the system architecture compensates by using software-based verification mechanisms.
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AI summary
The invention may be embodied as an identity authentication system or method. A system according to the invention may have a biometric sensor capable of providing static biometric indications, an adhesive capable of positioning the sensor on an organism, and a computer in communication with the sensor. The computer may have software running on the computer in order to (a) cause the computer to determine whether there is a match between a subsequent static biometric indication and an initial static biometric indication, and (b) cause the computer to send a signal indicating whether a match was determined in order to authenticate the identity of the organism.