Tag: gesture-based access control patent
HID gets patent aimed at increasing security with hand motions
July 10, 2013Martha Entwistle
IRVINE, Calif.—HID Global believes that waving your hand in a unique pattern will be another way to increase the security of a smartcard or smartphone used for access control in the future, and it announced July 9 several new patents for gesture-based methods of authentication.The new patents cover technology that allows a user to "define a series of hand-motion sequences or gestures to be used to control operation of an RFID-based device" or an NFC-enabled smartphone."The gesture is basically...
