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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2016
Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;
Matthew John Lawrenson, Bussigny, CH;
Lars Andersson, Solna, SE;
Till Burkert, Huddinge, SE;
Jacob Ström, Stockholm, SE;
Jan Jasper Van Den Berg, Lausanne, CH;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A computing device () for authenticating a user (), such as a mobile phone, a smartphone, a tablet, or the like, is provided. The computing device is operative to acquire a representation of a melody generated by the user, and authenticate the user in response to determining that the acquired representation of the user-generated melody and a representation of a reference melody fulfil a similarity condition. The user-generated melody may either be vocalized or subvocalized. If the melody is vocalized, the representation is derived from audio data captured by a microphone (). If the melody is subvocalized, the representation is derived from nerve signals captured by sensors attached to the throat () of the user, or from a video sequence acquired from a camera (), the video sequence capturing one or more body parts (-) of the user subvocalizing the melody, by magnifying motions of the one or more body parts which are correlated with the subvocalized melody.