User Authentication Control for Firearm Identification and Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge of distinguishing between vermin and humans in poor visibility conditions, such as in mountains, leading to potential accidental shootings by hunters, is not adequately addressed by existing pest control technologies.
Innovation Solution
A processing device that includes an authentication mechanism to verify user identity and control the functionality of connected devices, such as guns, to prevent unauthorized use and ensure safe operation by enabling or disabling identification and tracking features based on user authorization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a hunter uses a gun in poor visibility conditions, then the harmful animal can be exterminated, but the hunter may accidentally shoot a person by mistake
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an authentication unit as an intermediary between the user and the gun's firing mechanism. This intermediary verifies the user's identity through authentication information (biometric data, RFID cards, or passwords) before allowing the gun to operate, thereby preventing unauthorized use and accidental shootings while maintaining ease of operation for authorized users
2Reliability
If authentication information is stored in the gun, then authorized users can be verified, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The authentication unit is designed with multi-functionality to reduce overall system complexity. It can store multiple types of authentication information (biometric data, RFID card data, passwords) and support various authentication methods within a single integrated unit. The authentication unit can also function as a controller for the gun's operations, combining security verification and device control functions in one component
Solution Approach 2:
The authentication information is stored within the gun's storage unit, which is integrated into the overall gun structure. The authentication unit contains the storage unit, creating a nested arrangement where smaller functional components are embedded within larger ones, reducing the need for separate external authentication devices and minimizing overall system complexity
Data Source
AI summary
A processing device according to an aspect of the present disclosure cooperates with another device by being connected to the other device, and the processing device includes at least one memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: determine whether a user is a person who is permitted to use the processing device when using the processing device, enable a first function that is a function for identifying a person of the processing device in a case where the user is determined to be a person who is permitted to use the processing device, disable the first function in a case where it is determined the user is not a person who is permitted to use the processing device, and cause the processing device to output a signal for enabling tracking of the processing device in a case where the first function is disabled.