US 12,102,427 B2
User authentication via in-ear acoustic measurements
Keith Robert Santarelli, Wakefield, MA (US); Andrew Todd Sabin, Chicago, IL (US); Brian J. Maguire, Franklin, MA (US); John Allen Rule, Berlin, MA (US); Robert Heinz Haslinger, Arlington, MA (US); and Andrew D. Dominijanni, Newton, MA (US)
Assigned to BOSE CORPORATION, Framingham, MA (US)
Filed by BOSE CORPORATION, Framingham, MA (US)
Filed on Jun. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/353,981.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/042,286, filed on Jun. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0393168 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 5/1171 (2016.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 25/00 (2006.01); G10L 17/24 (2013.01)
CPC A61B 5/1171 (2016.02) [A61B 5/6815 (2013.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); H04R 1/1016 (2013.01); H04R 25/30 (2013.01); G10L 17/24 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause:
emitting, by an in-ear device, a first acoustic signal;
detecting, by the in-ear device, a first otic response to the first acoustic signal;
generating a first user signature, based at least on the first otic response to the first acoustic signal;
performing a comparison of the first user signature and a second user signature associated with the in-ear device, to determine whether the in-ear device has changed users, wherein performing the comparison includes:
determining a difference between the first user signature and the second user signature in a frequency domain at each of a plurality of frequencies of the first user signature and the second user signature,
determining a similarity metric between the first user signature and the second user signature based on the difference between the first user signature and the second user signature in the frequency domain at at least one frequency of the plurality of frequencies of the first user signature and the second user signature, and
determining whether the in-ear device has changed users by comparing the similarity metric to a classification threshold; and
responsive to determining that the in-ear device has changed users, transmitting an alert to an entity that provides one or more services associated with the in-ear device.