Virtual Reality Helmet Authentication Through Room Image Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing virtual reality headset authentication methods, such as login/password or biometric data, are inefficient and disruptive to the immersive experience, especially in professional settings, and lack reliable alternatives.
Innovation Solution
An authentication system using a virtual reality headset that captures images of the real environment to verify against stored reference data, allowing authentication based on room 'fingerprints' or object recognition, reducing computational costs and errors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If login/password authentication is used in virtual reality headset connected to computer, then authentication can be performed, but user experience is degraded and immersion is broken
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical keyboard input system with an optical/image-based authentication system. The headset captures images of the real environment and compares them with reference images stored in the database, eliminating the need for physical keyboard interaction and maintaining immersive experience throughout the authentication process.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary authentication mechanism that operates within the virtual reality environment itself. Instead of requiring users to switch to an external keyboard interface, the system uses the headset's camera to capture environmental images as the intermediary medium for authentication, allowing users to remain immersed in the VR experience.
2Reliability
If virtual keyboard is used in autonomous virtual reality headset, then authentication can be performed, but interaction is not natural and authentication errors increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the virtual keyboard mechanical input system with an image-based authentication system. The headset captures images of the real environment and compares them with reference images, eliminating the precision errors associated with virtual keyboard interaction and providing a more natural, error-free authentication method.
3Reliability
If user takes off headset to enter login/password, then authentication can be performed, but immersion is lost and participation stops
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables continuous authentication action within the immersive VR environment. The headset remains on the user's head throughout the authentication process, capturing environmental images and comparing them with reference data without requiring the user to remove the headset or break immersion, thus maintaining continuous participation in the virtual meeting.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses environmental images captured by the headset as an intermediary that enables authentication without breaking immersion. The system processes these images within the VR environment itself, allowing authentication to occur continuously while the user remains engaged in the virtual meeting without time loss or immersion breaks.
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AI summary
An authentication device including an analyser capable of verifying whether an image relating to at least one element of a real environment captured by a virtual reality helmet corresponds to a reference datum stored in association with an identifier of the user of the virtual reality helmet. The use of the virtual reality helmet can thus be linked to the room in which the helmet is located. The authentication is thus carried out by using the visual “footprint” of the room. Alternatively, the authentication may depend on a password made up of objects as opposed to letters or numbers. The objects correspond to images of said objects captured according to the viewing directions of the user in order to compose the object password.