Smart Watch Biometric Security Using ECG and Face Recognition

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing biometric identification methods for smart watches, such as fingerprint, iris, and face recognition, face challenges like geometrical deformation, precision issues, and low reproducibility, making them inconvenient and less secure for user identification in PTT communication devices.

Innovation Solution

An electrocardiogram-based face recognition security system that combines biometric human identification using electrocardiogram data and face recognition, utilizing a smart watch to transmit data to a server for secure PTT communication, enhancing security by aligning pulse forms and extracting characteristics for precise user identification.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If fingerprint recognition is used for biometric identification, then user identification can be performed, but geometrical deformation and low reproducibility reduce reliability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebiometric identification reliabilityVSAvoidfingerprint recognition precision
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple biometric identification methods (fingerprint recognition, iris recognition, face recognition, and voice recognition) into a unified security system. By merging these different biometric technologies, the system overcomes the individual limitations of each method and achieves higher overall reliability and precision in user identification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Reliability

If iris recognition is used for biometric identification, then recognition error rate is low, but precise focal distance requirement and difficulty with movement reduce ease of operation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveiris recognition accuracyVSAvoidiris scanning convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent integrates iris recognition with other biometric methods (fingerprint, face, voice) in a combined security system. This merging allows the system to maintain the high accuracy of iris recognition while compensating for its operational difficulties through alternative biometric channels, thereby improving overall ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Reliability

If retina scanning is used for biometric identification, then individual pattern recognition is accurate, but light irradiation risk and eye contamination reduce safety

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveretina pattern recognition accuracyVSAvoideye contamination risk
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines retina scanning with other non-contact or less invasive biometric methods (fingerprint, face, voice recognition) in a unified security system. By merging these methods, the system maintains accurate individual pattern recognition while reducing reliance on retina scanning alone, thereby minimizing eye contamination risks.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

4Ease of operation

If face recognition is used for biometric identification, then non-contact identification is achieved, but shape variation due to angle, expression, or age reduces measurement precision

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenon-contact face identificationVSAvoidface matching rate
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent integrates face recognition with other biometric methods (fingerprint, iris, voice) in a combined security system. By merging these different biometric technologies, the system maintains the non-contact convenience of face recognition while compensating for its precision issues through complementary identification methods, achieving more reliable overall identification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

5Ease of operation

If voice identification is used for biometric identification, then user identification is simple, but voice fabrication and noise obstructions reduce reliability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevoice identification simplicityVSAvoidvoice identification security
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines voice identification with other biometric methods (fingerprint, iris, face recognition) in a unified security system. By merging these methods, the system maintains the simplicity of voice identification while compensating for its security vulnerabilities through additional biometric verification layers, thereby achieving both ease of operation and high reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS10949651B2Electrocardiogram-based face recognition security system and method using smart watch
Publication Date: 2021.03.16 DODOTDO CO LTD
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AI summary

The present invention relates to an electrocardiogram-based face recognition security system and method using a smart watch, and more particularly, to a security system and a method for enhancing security by simultaneously performing biometric human identification based on an electrocardiogram and biometric human identification using face recognition for user identification in a portable PTT communication device such as smart watch.