Managed Biometric Identity

摘要

A computing system such as a game console maintains and updates a biometric profile of a user. In one aspect, biometric data of the user is continuously obtained from a sensor such as an infrared and visible light camera, and used to update the biometric profile using a machine learning process. In another aspect, a user is prompted to confirm his or her identify when multiple users are detected at the same time and/or when the user is detected with a confidence level which is below a threshold. A real-time image of the user being identified can be displayed on a user interface with user images associated with one or more accounts. In another aspect, the biometric profile is managed by a shell on the computing system, where the shell makes the biometric profile available to any of a number of applications on the computing system.

主权项

1. A method for recognizing a user, the method comprising:
signing the user into an account in a computing system, the account associates the user with a biometric profile of the user, the biometric profile comprises biometric data of the user obtained from a sensor; obtaining additional biometric data of the user from the sensor while the user is signed into the account and while the user is in a field of view of the sensor; and updating the biometric profile based on the additional biometric data; wherein:
the biometric data of the biometric profile is classified into different categories based on biometric data-gathering conditions; anda rate of the obtaining the additional biometric data is based on a current biometric data-gathering condition and an amount of biometric data which has been gathered with the current biometric data-gathering condition; andthe rate is relatively higher when the amount of biometric data which has been gathered with the current biometric data-gathering condition is relatively lower.