US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Feb. 17 for "Authorization using an optical sensor" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,814, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Authorization using an optical sensor" was invented by Alexander Hunt (Tygelsjo, Sweden), Andreas Kristensson (Sodra Sandby, Sweden), Fredrik Dahlgren (Lund, Sweden) and Magnus Olsson (Klagshamn, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of authorizing a device action includes accessing a first baseline model that represents image characteristics of an authorized first user or object. The first baseline model is used as a basis for selecting a first number of sensing structures of a camera image sensor, wherein the first number of sensin...