Sony Corporation

Gaetan De Brucker

Hugo Embrechts

Conor Aylward

Philip Marivoet

Dimitri Torfs

Tom Hostyn

Jan Spooren

Olivier Demarto

Gonzalo Bailador Del Pozo

Chris Minnoy

Magdalena Wasowska

Kenny Helsens

Teemu Veikko Tapani Pohjola

Joachim Giard

A method for authenticating a user of an electronic device is provided. The method includes displaying a section of a graphical representation to the user on a display of the electronic device. The graphical representation comprises a graphical object. Further, the method includes requesting the user to navigate to the graphical object. Additionally, the method includes capturing data from one or more sensors of the electronic device that is indicative of a movement of the electronic device by the user for navigating to the graphical object and/or data from one or more input devices of the electronic device that is indicative of a user input by the user for navigating to the graphical object. The method further includes authenticating the user based on the captured data.

Methods for authenticating a user of an electronic device

It is described an apparatus for determining trends in picture taking activity. The apparatus comprises a meta information accessing unit for accessing a set of meta information, each meta information in the set of meta information being associated with a picture having been taken with a camera device at a respective geographic location and at a respective time. The apparatus further comprises a processing unit for determining trends in picture taking activity based on the set of meta information accessible by the meta information accessing unit.

Apparatus and method for determining trends in picture taking activity

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Stuttgart, Germany

Gaetan De Brucker