Apparatus and method for monitoring biometric parameters using an ambient light collector

    公开(公告)号:US10722157B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-28

    申请号:US15324456

    申请日:2015-06-12

    Abstract: An apparatus and method, the apparatus comprising; a light collector configured to collect ambient light and provide the collected light to a portion of skin of a user; a photodetector configured to enable a biometric parameter to be monitored by detecting changes in the light absorbed by the portion of skin; and an amplifier configured to amplify an output signal provided by the photodetector; wherein the light collector is configured to filter the collected ambient light to increase the proportion of light within a selected range of wavelengths which is provided to the portion of skin of the user relative to the collected ambient light.

    Device for direct X-ray detection

    公开(公告)号:US10367112B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-30

    申请号:US15575158

    申请日:2016-05-18

    Abstract: A device for direct X-ray detection (516) comprises a plurality of substantially parallel conductive channels (501) separated from one another by a quantum dot material (510), thereby forming a composite material layer (517). The parallel conductive channels (501) are electrically connected to source and drain electrodes (503 504a) which enable a flow of electrical current through the conductive channels (501). The quantum dot material (510) generates electron hole pairs upon exposure to incident electromagnetic radiation and the thus generated charge results in an electric field which causes a change in electrical current passing through at least one of the conductive channels (501). The change in electrical current is indicative of one or more of the presence and magnitude of the incident electromagnetic radiation. Since the conductive channels (501) are oriented in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the substrate (502), the distances between the conductive channels can be chosen under consideration of the diffusion lengths of the generated charge carriers and independently from the thickness of the composite material layer (517) required for X-ray radiation.

    APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS
    6.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170239927A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-08-24

    申请号:US15433469

    申请日:2017-02-15

    Abstract: A thin film manipulator comprising: a porous thin film manipulator interface with a chamber surface and an opposing thin film surface, the porous thin film manipulator interface having a through-thickness porosity to allow a fluid to be used to develop a pressure difference between the chamber surface and the opposing thin film surface; and a plurality of chambers positioned laterally across the chamber surface of the porous thin film manipulator interface, the plurality of chambers configured to allow: progressive removal of fluid laterally across the interface to provide a lateral pressure gradient which progressively decreases the pressure laterally across the thin film surface to progressively hold a thin film at the thin film surface and/or progressive application of fluid laterally across the interface to provide a lateral pressure gradient which progressively increases the pressure laterally across the thin film surface to progressively release an adhered thin film from the thin film surface.

    AN APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MONITORING BIOMETRIC PARAMETERS USING AN AMBIENT LIGHT COLLECTOR

    公开(公告)号:US20170156650A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-06-08

    申请号:US15324456

    申请日:2015-06-12

    Abstract: An apparatus and method, the apparatus comprising; a light collector configured to collect ambient light and provide the collected light to a portion of skin of a user; a photodetector configured to enable a biometric parameter to be monitored by detecting changes in the light absorbed by the portion of skin; and an amplifier configured to amplify an output signal provided by the photodetector; wherein the light collector is configured to filter the collected ambient light to increase the proportion of light within a selected range of wavelengths which is provided to the portion of skin of the user relative to the collected ambient light.

    Apparatus and method for sensing a parameter

    公开(公告)号:US10429310B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-01

    申请号:US15500212

    申请日:2015-07-30

    Abstract: An apparatus and method comprising: a plurality of sensor elements wherein the sensor elements are configured to be actuated in response to exposure to a parameter and the apparatus is configured to record when each of the sensor elements are actuated wherein: the plurality of sensor elements comprises at least a first subset of sensor elements and at least a second subset of sensor elements where the first subset of sensor elements are actuated in response to a first level of exposure to a parameter and the second subset of sensor elements are actuated in response to a second level of exposure to a parameter.

    Storing and retrieving cryptographic keys from biometric data

    公开(公告)号:US09916432B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-13

    申请号:US14885900

    申请日:2015-10-16

    CPC classification number: G06F21/32 G06F21/602

    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided securing information. In some example embodiments, there is provided a method, which may include receiving, at a user equipment, biometric data from a user of the user equipment; receiving, at the user equipment, sensitive data to be encoded and/or decoded; encoding, based on at least one feature detected in the biometric data, the sensitive data, when the user equipment is in a storage mode; and decoding, based on at least the at least one feature detected in the biometric data, the sensitive data, when the user equipment is in a read mode. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.

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