Patent ID: 8953851
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G06F,G06K,H04L

Abstract:
1. A biometric user authentication method, comprising: receiving asserted user credentials from a user into a biometric authentication system; obtaining a digitally-stored image key and ocular biometric data both associated with the asserted user credentials from memory within the biometric authentication system; verifying the biometric authentication system by simultaneously displaying the image key and at least one image other than the image key to the user and detecting that the user has selected the image key; displaying the image key in view of a first eye but not a second eye; displaying the at least one image other than the image key in view of the second eye but not the first eye, wherein detecting that the user has selected the image key comprises detecting that the first eye is open and that the second eye is substantially closed; authenticating the user by scanning an eye of the user to obtain ocular biometric data and matching the scanned ocular biometric data to the digitally stored ocular biometric data; and providing user access to a protected area in response to both successfully verifying the biometric authentication system and authenticating the user.