Sony patents system to link body motion data with user identity
Sony describes a measurement system that uses a sensor to track a person's body movements and location. It combines this motion data with personal authentication details, such as a login or ID, by comparing the positions detected by the sensor with the user's known location.
In the filing’s own words
To simultaneously measure biometric information while simultaneously perform personal authentication for a plurality of subjects. The present technology provides a measurement system that includes a sensor unit, a generation unit, an acquisition unit, and an association unit. The sensor unit transmits a first signal to a subject and receives a second signal reflected by the subject. The generation unit generates body motion information regarding body motion of the subject and first position information regarding a position of the subject on the basis of the first signal and the second signal. The acquisition unit acquires authentication information based on personal authentication of the subject, and second position information regarding the position of the subject. The association unit associates the body motion information and the authentication information with each other by collating the first position information and the second position information with each other.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A measurement system comprising: a sensor unit that transmits a first signal to a subject and receives a second signal reflected by the subject; a generation unit that generates body motion information regarding body motion of the subject and first position information regarding a position of the subject on a basis of the first signal and the second signal; an acquisition unit that acquires authentication information based on personal authentication of the subject, and second position information regarding the position of the subject; and an association unit that associates the body motion information and the authentication information with each other by collating the first position information and the second position information with each other.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION)
- Official title
- MEASUREMENT SYSTEM, MEASUREMENT DEVICE, AND MEASUREMENT METHOD
- Publication number
- US20260279106A1
- Application number
- 19471126
- Filed
- Mar 13, 2024
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06V 40/70 Physics & computingG01S 13/42 Physics & computingG01S 13/50 Physics & computingG01S 13/867 Physics & computingG06F 21/32 Physics & computingG06T 7/593 Physics & computingMore from Sony in Health & body
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