Smart Ring Biometric Authentication Using Heartbeat Patterns
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional security devices are often lost, stolen, or invasive, and lack flexibility in supporting multi-factor authentication, particularly in accommodating biometric signatures and gesture patterns.
Innovation Solution
A smart ring wearable device that collects biometric data, including heartbeat patterns and gestures, for authentication, enabling various forms of authentication and combinations, and digitally signs transactions using a private cryptographic key.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional security devices (keys, cards, smartphones) are used for authentication, then authentication functionality is provided, but the devices can easily be stolen or misplaced and lack flexibility in supporting multiple authentication forms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple authentication capabilities (biometric sensors, cryptographic functions, gesture recognition) into a single smart ring device. This merging allows the device to support multiple authentication forms simultaneously while being worn on the person, reducing the risk of loss or theft compared to separate devices like smartphones or hardware wallets.
Solution Approach 2:
The smart ring is designed with universal functionality to perform multiple authentication types including fingerprint scanning, heartbeat pattern recognition, gesture detection, and cryptographic operations. This multi-functionality allows a single device to replace conventional security devices while providing enhanced versatility in authentication methods.
2Reliability
If chip implants or tattoos are used for permanent authentication, then authentication reliability is improved, but the solutions become invasive and hard to upgrade or replace
Solution Approach 1:
The smart ring provides a dynamic authentication solution that can be easily replaced, upgraded, or removed unlike permanent implants or tattoos. The device maintains high reliability through biometric sensors while allowing flexible updates to authentication methods and cryptographic keys, combining the benefits of permanence with adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces invasive mechanical implantation with a wearable electronic device that uses optical and electromagnetic sensors for biometric authentication. This substitution eliminates the need for surgical implantation while maintaining authentication reliability through advanced sensing technologies.
3Reliability
If conventional hardware wallets or smart cards are used, then cryptographic authentication is provided, but the devices cannot capture biometric data or gesture patterns
Solution Approach 1:
The smart ring merges cryptographic hardware wallet functionality with biometric sensors and gesture recognition capabilities in a single device. This integration allows simultaneous capture of cryptographic keys, heartbeat patterns, fingerprint data, and gesture movements, enabling multi-factor authentication that conventional devices cannot provide.
Solution Approach 2:
The device achieves universal functionality by incorporating multiple sensor types (optical, capacitive, inertial) alongside cryptographic processors, enabling it to perform both secure cryptographic operations and diverse biometric measurements including heartbeat patterns and gesture recognition that traditional hardware wallets cannot capture.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The smart ring provides a portable, non-invasive solution for multi-factor authentication, supporting a wide range of authentication methods and combinations, enhancing security and convenience by allowing users to move freely without carrying separate devices.
Implementation Method 1
the sensor unit includes a contactless heartbeat sensor configured to detect a heartbeat pattern of the particular user
Data Source
AI summary
A method performed by a housing can include collecting, by one or more sensors of the housing, a biometric data of a user while the user is wearing the housing. The method performed by the housing also can include performing, by one or more processors, an authentication operation. The authentication operation can include analyzing the biometric data of the user. The authentication operation also can include comparing the biometric data of the user to a biometric signature for a known user to determine whether the biometric data of the user matches the biometric signature for the known user. The authentication operation further can include authenticating the user as the known user when the biometric data of the user is determined to match the biometric signature for the known user. Other embodiments are disclosed.