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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
May. 29, 2024
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Andriy Oliynyk, Kyiv, UA;
Dmytro Progonov, Kyiv, UA;
Pavlo Kolesnichenko, Kyiv, UA;
Valentyna Cherniakova, Kyiv, UA;
Yevhenii Yakishyn, Kyiv, UA;
Yaroslav Lavrenyuk, Kyiv, UA;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A method performed by a device for protecting content by using biometric information is provided. The content protection method includes displaying, by the device, identification information of encrypted content, receiving, by the device, a user input of selecting the encrypted content, controlling, by the device, according to the reception of the user input of selecting the encrypted content, a sensor to obtain image information of a user's body part, calculating, by the device, feature information of the user's body part from the obtained image information, reproducing, by the device, a crypto key based on the calculated feature information of the user's body part and hint information stored in correspondence to the encrypted content, decrypting, by the device, the encrypted content based on the reproduced crypto key, and displaying, by the device, the encrypted content according to the decryption of the encrypted content.