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US 12,369,820 · App. 17/816,190 · Granted Jul 29, 2025

User identification method using electrocardiogram and electromyogram

Inventors: Sungbum Pan (Gwangju, KR); Gyuho Choi (Gwangju, KR)
Assignee: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Chosun University
A61B5/117A61B5/318A61B5/389A61B5/6893A61B5/7207A61B5/7253
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12,369,820
App. No.
17/816,190
Filed
Jul 29, 2022
Granted
Jul 29, 2025
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2665
USPC
382/115
Abstract

Provided is a method of identifying a user by converting an electrocardiogram (ECG) and an electromyogram (EMG) into images, respectively, and inputting each converted image to a multi-stream convolutional neural network (multi-stream CNN). According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the user identification method using the ECG and the EMG includes acquiring one-dimensional ECG and EMG signals for a user, converting the ECG and EMG signals into two-dimensional images, respectively, and identifying a user by inputting the two-dimensional images to a multi-stream convolutional neural network (multi-stream CNN), respectively.

Claims (68)

1. A user identification method using an electrocardiogram and an electromyogram comprising the steps of:

acquiring, by a processor, one-dimensional electrocardiogram (ECG) and electromyogram (EMG) signals for a user;

converting, by the processor, the ECG and EMG signals into two-dimensional images, respectively; and

identifying, by the processor, a user by inputting the two-dimensional images to a multi-stream convolutional neural network (multi-stream CNN), respectively,

wherein the multi-stream CNN is supervised-learned by a training dataset using images of the ECG and EMG signals as input data and using user identification information as label data.

2. The user identification method of claim 1 , wherein the acquiring of the one-dimensional ECG and EMG signals includes acquiring the ECG and EMG signals from a sensor in a vehicle coming into contact with a user's body.

3. The user identification method of claim 1 , wherein the converting of the ECG and EMG signals into the two-dimensional images, respectively includes

normalizing the ECG signal and the EMG signal at the same sampling rate; and

converting the normalized ECG signal and EMG signal into the two-dimensional images, respectively.

4. The user identification method of claim 1 , wherein the converting of the ECG and EMG signals into the two-dimensional images, respectively includes

removing noise in the ECG and EMG signals through a Butterworth filter; and

converting the noise-removed ECG signal and EMG signal into the two-dimensional images, respectively.

5. The user identification method of claim 1 , wherein the converting of the ECG and EMG signals into the two-dimensional images, respectively includes

segmenting the ECG signal and the EMG signal by a preset time through non-fiducial segmentation; and

converting the segmented ECG signal and EMG signal into the two-dimensional images, respectively.

6. The user identification method of claim 1 , wherein the converting of the ECG and EMG signals into the two-dimensional images, respectively includes converting ECG and EMG signals expressed in amplitudes to the time into two-dimensional images expressed by a time axis and a frequency axis, respectively.

7. The user identification method of claim 1 , wherein the converting of the ECG and EMG signals into the two-dimensional images, respectively includes converting the ECG and EMG signals into two-dimensional spectrograms.

8. The user identification method of claim 1 , wherein the converting of the ECG and EMG signals into the two-dimensional images, respectively includes converting the ECG and EMG signals into two-dimensional spectrograms by applying constant Q-transform (CQT) to the ECG and EMG signals.

9. The user identification method of claim 8 , wherein the converting of the ECG and EMG signals into the two-dimensional spectrograms, respectively includes converting the ECG and EMG signals into spectrograms according to Equation 1 below:

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(X represents a spectrogram value, ω represents each frequency, l represents a time index, w represents a window function, x represents an ECG or EMG signal, Q represents a quality factor, and M represents the number of frames to which a window is applied in the ECG or EMG signal).

10. The user identification method of claim 1 , wherein the inputting of the two-dimensional images to the multi-stream CNN includes inputting an image for the ECG signal to a first stream neural network, and inputting an image for the EMG signal to a second stream neural network.

11. The user identification method of claim 10 , wherein the identifying of the user includes concatenating features extracted from the first and second stream neural networks, respectively, and identifying the user based on the concatenated features.

12. The user identification method of claim 11 , wherein the concatenating of the extracted features includes element-wise summing a feature vector extracted from the first stream neural network and the feature vector extracted from the second stream neural network.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 29, 2022
From: PAN, SUNGBUM; CHOI, GYUHO
To: INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, CHOSUN UNIVERSITY
Reel/Frame 060674/0457 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2022-0042244 · Apr 5, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20230309864A1 · Oct 5, 2023
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