Head worn wireless computer having high-resolution display suitable for use as a mobile internet device

• US 10,579,324 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2018
• Issued: 03/03/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BlueRadios, Inc.
• Original Assignee: BlueRadios, Inc.
• Inventors: Kramer, Mark, Tucker, Wilfred I., Sample, John, Jones, Randy Dwayne
• Primary Examiner(s): Pendleton, Brian T
• Assistant Examiner(s): Luong, Alan H
• Application Number:
  US16/145,400
• Publication Number:
  US 20190034146A1
• Time in Patent Office: 522 Days
• Field of Search: 725141, 345 7, 345 87, 345169, 345 23, 345204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3209 Monitoring remote activity, e.g. over telephone lines or network connections
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3215 Monitoring of peripheral devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03547 Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information

Abstract

A handheld wireless display device, having at least SVGA-type resolution, includes a wireless interface, such as Bluetooth™, WiFi™, Wimax™, cellular or satellite, to allow the device to utilize a number of different hosts, such as a cell phone, personal computer, media player. The display may be monocular or binocular. Input mechanisms, such as switches, scroll wheels, touch pads, allow selection and navigation of menus, playing media files, setting volume and screen brightness/contrast, activating host remote controls or performing other commands. The device may include MIM diodes, Hall effect sensors, or other position transducers and/or accelerometers to detect lateral movements along and rotational gestures around the X, Y and Z axes as gesture inputs and movement queues. These commands may change pages, scroll up, down or across an enlarged screen image, such as for web browsing. An embedded software driver (e.g., Microsoft Windows SideShow™) permits replicating a high-resolution screen display from a host PC. The device may repeatedly poll the host at intervals for updated content even when the host is powered off, asleep or hibernating, and may return the host to its previous power state.

Claims

1. A method comprising the sequential steps of:

transmitting, via a wireless transceiver of a host device, data to a near eye, wearable wireless transfer device;

receiving, via a wireless transceiver of the near eye, wearable wireless transfer device, the data from the host device, the data being of at least Video Graphic Array quality being received over a RFCOMM or Serial Port Profile Bluetooth wireless connection,

wherein the data features auto sequencing and guaranteed packet delivery,

wherein the data comprises audio/visual information received over a first radio frequency channel from the host device and other data transmitted and received over a second radio frequency channel from the host device,

wherein the other data is not audio/visual information;

and

generating a video signal, from the data, that is suitable for handling by a display driver of the near eye, wearable wireless transfer device,

wherein the near eye, wearable wireless transfer device has at least one display configured to be a near eye, wearable display, and

wherein the steps of the method are carried out in an ARM/DSP enabled system;

wherein the near eye, wearable wireless transfer device has a wireless interface configured to implement a packet switching gateway utilizing a Bluetooth physical layer with a Bluetooth proxy; and

wherein the video signal has a packet buffer default size of about 990 bytes.