Patent ID: 10628568

Abstract:
A biometric recognition system for a hand held computing device incorporating an inertial measurement unit (IMU) comprising a plurality of accelerometers and at least one gyroscope is disclosed. A tremor analysis component is arranged to: obtain from the IMU, accelerometer signals indicating device translational acceleration along each of X, Y and Z axes as well as a gyroscope signal indicating rotational velocity about the Y axis during a measurement window. Each of the IMU signals is filtered to provide filtered frequency components for the signals during the measurement window. The accelerometer signals are combined to provide a combined filtered accelerometer magnitude signal for the measurement window. A spectral density estimation is provided for each of the combined filtered accelerometer magnitude signal and the filtered gyroscope signal. An irregularity is determined for each spectral density estimation; and based on the determined irregularities, the tremor analysis component attempts to authenticate a user of the device.