Tic Detection Video Authentication System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current authentication methods for accessing secured resources are cumbersome, inconvenient, and vulnerable to video forgery, particularly with the rise of deep fake technologies, and often require multiple identification factors, which can be burdensome for users and increase security costs.

Innovation Solution

A cloud-based authentication system that captures and analyzes video or audio data from a user's device to detect specific tic behaviors, matching them against stored reference patterns to verify authenticity, thereby granting access to secured resources without the need for traditional identification methods.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional authentication methods (multiple identification factors) are used, then security is improved, but user convenience and authentication speed deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovesecurityVSAvoiduser convenience

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and isolates the tic behavior detection capability from traditional authentication methods. By focusing on this specific unconscious behavioral indicator, the system achieves reliable security verification without requiring multiple identification factors, thus improving user convenience while maintaining security

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces mechanical authentication systems (physical ID cards, keys, biometric scanners) with an automated computational system that analyzes unconscious tic behaviors through video/audio processing. This substitution enables seamless authentication that occurs automatically during normal interaction, eliminating the need for users to manually present credentials

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Reliability

If traditional authentication methods are used, then security is improved, but authentication time and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovesecurityVSAvoidauthentication time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of tic behaviors during normal user interactions with the service. By continuously monitoring and analyzing unconscious behaviors in the background, authentication is already partially completed before the user needs to access secured resources, dramatically reducing authentication time

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements continuous tic behavior analysis during normal service interactions rather than requiring separate authentication steps. The useful action of service delivery and the useful action of security verification occur simultaneously and continuously, eliminating time loss associated with sequential authentication processes

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

3Reliability

If multiple identification factors are required, then security is improved, but system complexity and costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovesecurityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts security verification from complex multi-factor authentication systems and isolates it to a single, unique indicator: unconscious tic behaviors. This extraction simplifies the system architecture while maintaining security effectiveness, as tic patterns are inherently difficult to replicate or forge

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system utilizes the user's own unconscious behavioral patterns as the authentication mechanism. The user's natural tic behaviors serve as both the identification and verification elements, eliminating the need for external identification factors and reducing system complexity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

4Reliability

If video forgery protection is enhanced, then security is improved, but detection difficulty increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevideo forgery detectionVSAvoiddetection difficulty

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent converts the harmful effect of deep fake technology into a beneficial detection mechanism. By analyzing unconscious tic behaviors that are extremely difficult to replicate in synthetic videos, the system creates a verification method that naturally identifies forged content, turning the limitation of AI generation into a security advantage

Inventive Principle:

Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

Data Source

PatentUS12199964B1Tic detection-based video authentication method and system

Publication Date: 2025.01.14 UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION (USAA)

AI summary

A user specific tic behavior detection-based method and system of performing an authentication of video of a person in order to authorize access to a secured resource. The user provides audio and/or video data in which they exhibit one or more tic behaviors. When a person later requests access to the user's account, the system and method are configured to capture a video and/or audio recording of the person requesting access. The data is evaluated to determine whether the previously detected tic behavior is present. If the tic behavior is present, the system determines the image or voice is authentic and can verify an identity of the person. In some cases, the system can further be configured to automatically grant the person access to one or more services, features, or information for which he or she is authorized.