US 11,672,479 B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for enhanced headsets
James Jorasch, New York, NY (US); Christopher Capobianco, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY (US); Issac W. Hock, Chicago, IL (US); Michael Werner, Germantown, TN (US); Geoffrey Gelman, New York, NY (US); and Gennaro Rendino, Horseheads, NY (US)
Assigned to SCIENCE HOUSE LLC, New York, NY (US)
Filed by Science House LLC, New York, NY (US)
Filed on Sep. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/478,021.
Application 17/478,021 is a continuation of application No. 17/320,164, filed on May 13, 2021, granted, now 11,128,636.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/023,965, filed on May 13, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0006813 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 9/40 (2022.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G07C 9/37 (2020.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); A61B 5/369 (2021.01); A61B 5/291 (2021.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G06F 18/22 (2023.01); H04N 23/60 (2023.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01); G06Q 10/101 (2023.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06Q 50/20 (2012.01)
CPC A61B 5/6803 (2013.01) [A61B 5/291 (2021.01); A61B 5/369 (2021.01); G06F 1/163 (2013.01); G06F 3/012 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 18/22 (2023.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G06V 20/20 (2022.01); G07C 9/37 (2020.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); H04L 63/0861 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01); H04N 23/64 (2023.01); G06Q 10/101 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); G06Q 50/205 (2013.01); G10L 2015/225 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A headset for authenticating a first user based on brain activity of the first user, the headset comprising:
an electronic processing device;
a set of electrodes, each electrode operable to detect an electrical potential at a respective point on a head of a first user;
an amplifier in communication with each of the electrodes and with the electronic processing device, the amplifier operable to amplify differences in the electrical potentials detected at the respective electrodes;
a location sensor; and
a memory storing (i) location analysis instructions, (ii) stored object data, (iii) stored brain wave data, and (iv) processing instructions that, when executed by the electronic processing device, result in:
determining, at a first time and by the location sensor, a location;
identifying, by an execution of the location analysis instructions by the electronic processing device, an object at the location;
identifying, by the electronic processing device and by matching the identified object to a portion of the stored object data, the object as an object that should be familiar to the first user;
sensing, by the set of electrodes and at a second time proximate to and following the first time, a waveform representing a time-varying difference in electrical potentials across the set of electrodes;
identifying, by the electronic processing device and by comparing the sensed waveform to the stored brain wave data, a deviation of the waveform from the stored brain wave data;
identifying, by the electronic processing device and by comparing the identified deviation to a stored threshold, that the first user has exhibited a brain wave response to the object; and
authorizing, in response to the identifying of the brain wave response to the object, the first user to access a resource.