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Personalized EEG-based encryptor

US9672760B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Marcus Breuer · Oppenheim, DE
Frank Krick · Ockenheim, DE
Thorsten Muehge · Mainz, DE
Erik Rueger · Mainz, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 6, 2016
Grant date	Jun 6, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 6, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L9/3247
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A user-specific, electroencephalogram data-based secure encryption generator maps artificial neural network neuron elements to electroencephalogram data signals generated from scanning neural activity of a user while the user executes a mental activity. Weighting factors are trained to transform the electroencephalogram data signals into a first set of weighted signals that are different from weighted signals generated from scanning neural activity of the user while the user executes another, different activity, and from weighted signals generated from scanning neural activity of another user while executing a similar mental activity. The trained weighting factors are associated with the first set of electroencephalogram data signals and the current mental activity. Thus, a reproducible electroencephalogram encryption key is defined that is unique to the user as a function of one or both of the trained weighting factors and the first weighted set of electroencephalogram data signals.

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