Smart watch extended system

• US 10,261,475 B1
• Filed: 03/14/2017
• Issued: 04/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: DP Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Kahn, Philippe R., Kinsolving, Arthur, Vogel, David, Christensen, Mark Andrew
• Primary Examiner(s): Leon, Edwin A.
• Application Number:
  US15/458,936
• Time in Patent Office: 763 Days
• Field of Search: 368 10, 368250-251
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0219 Inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes, tilt switches
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0271 Thermal or temperature sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/01 Measuring temperature of body parts ; Diagnostic temperature sensing, e.g. for malignant or inflamed tissue clinical contact thermometers G01K13/20
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02438 with portable devices, e.g. worn by the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/11 Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor, mobility of a limb for measuring pulse A61B5/02 ;A61B5/1038 takes precedence; motion detection to correct for motion artifacts in physiological signals A61B5/721
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14542 for measuring blood gases A61B5/14551 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4806 Sleep evaluation A61B5/4821 takes precedence; devices for inducing sleep A61M21/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/742 using visual displays A61B5/339 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G04B 47/063 measuring physiological quantities, e.g. pedometers, heart-rate sensors, blood pressure gauges and the like
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/00 Input or output devices integrated in time-pieces
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/04 using radio waves radio-controlled time-pieces G04R
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 9/0064 in which functions not related to time can be displayed digital output to display devices of digital computers G06F3/14
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt

Abstract

A method and apparatus to provide an extended band is described. The method comprises pairing a watch and a host device. The method further comprises monitoring a user'"'"'s status with a plurality of sensors on the host device and/or the watch, and using the extended band to do one or more of: provide alerts to the user, based on the sensor data, control the extended band from one of the devices, and share data with third parties using the extended band.

Claims

1. A smart watch in a watch case comprising:

at least one sensor within the watch case to track a user'"'"'s movements;

a processor within the watch case to process data from the at least one sensor, and determine information about the user, based on the user'"'"'s movements;

a watch face including a subdial to display information about the user, the information calculated by the processor, wherein the information comprises one of;

user activity information and user sleep information.

2. The smart watch of claim 1, wherein the subdial includes one or more hands pointing to a number or symbol.

3. The smart watch of claim 1, further comprising:

a communication system to pair the smart watch to a host device, the host device and the smart watch both providing information to the user.

4. The smart watch of claim 3, wherein the pairing of the smart watch and the host device comprises one of:

a continuous low power connection, a periodic connection, and an on-demand connection, to share data.

5. The smart watch of claim 3, wherein the host device provides a user interface, enabling a user to set preferences.

6. The smart watch of claim 1, wherein the subdial displays one or more of:

a percentage of a step goal currently reached, a percentage of a sleep goal currently reached, a number of steps taken, a number of hours slept, a watch state selected from among awake, asleep, and active.

7. The smart watch of claim 1, further comprising:

a communication system to share sensor data between the smart watch and a host device; and

sensor processing system to analyze the sensor data to determine the user'"'"'s state and identify user state changes.

8. The smart watch of claim 1, further comprising:

a tracker to track movement of hands on the dial, indicating time, the tracker used to enable automatic realignment of the hands by tracking each motion of the hands and comparing the motion against an actual change in time based on data from a host device.

9. The smart watch of claim 1, further comprising:

the watch face including hands showing time;

one or more micromotors to move the hands in the watch face.

10. The smart watch of claim 9, further comprising:

the one or more micromotors further to move hands on the subdial.

11. The smart watch of claim 10, wherein the watch face including the subdial appears as an analog dial.

12. The smart watch of claim 9, further comprising:

a tracker to track movement of the hands, and determine whether the movements are caused by the micromotors, and when the movement is not caused by the micromotors, the tracker to trigger a reset.

13. A smart watch system including a smart watch, the smart watch comprising:

a sensor to track motion data;

a processor within the smart watch to process data from the at least one sensor, and determine user status information based on the motion data;

a first analog dial face to show time;

a subdial to display the user status information.

14. The smart watch system of claim 13, further comprising:

a micro motor to move hands on the analog dial face.

15. The smart watch system of claim 14, further comprising:

a tracker to track movement of hands on the dial indicating time, the tracker used to enable automatic realignment of the hands by tracking each motion of the hands and comparing the motion against an actual change in time based on data from a host device.

16. The smart watch system of claim 15, wherein the tracked movement data from the tracker is used to realign the hands after a reset.

17. The smart watch system of claim 13, further comprising:

a communication system to pair the smart watch to the host device, the host device and the smart watch both displaying information to the user.

18. The smart watch system of claim 13, wherein the user status information is one of:

a percentage of a step goal currently reached or a percentage of a sleep goal currently reached.

19. A smart watch system comprising:

at least one sensor within a watch case to track a user'"'"'s movements;

a processor within the watch case to process data from the at least one sensor, and determine information about the user, based on the user'"'"'s movements;

a first watch face to display time; and

a second watch face to display information about the user, the information calculated by the processor, wherein the information comprises one of;

user activity information and user sleep information.

20. The smart watch system of claim 19, wherein the first watch face and the second watch face are displayed concurrently.