Boom actuated communication headset

• US 20020098877A1
• Filed: 01/25/2001
• Published: 07/25/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Glezerman, Abraham
• Original Assignee: Glezerman, Abraham
• Inventors: Glezerman, Abraham
• Application Number:
  US09/770,707
• Publication Number:
  US 20020098877A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/575.5
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/385 Transceivers carried on the body, e.g. in helmets
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2001/3866 carried on the head
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/05 specially adapted for use on head, throat or breast

Abstract

A wireless communication headset for attachment to glasses or sunglasses comprises a transceiver within a housing for bi-directional communication with a communication device, a boom hingedly connected to the housing, a microphone affixed to the boom, an earphone connected to the transceiver, and a grasp shaped to secure the housing to the temple arm of a pair of glasses. Preferably, movement of the boom causes at least a portion of the circuitry within the communication headset to be actuated.

Claims

1. A wireless communication headset for local, bi-directional communication with a communication device, comprising:

a transceiver for bi-directional communication with the communication device;

a housing positioned about the transceiver, the housing having a front surface and a rear surface;

a boom hingedly connected at a first end to the front surface of the housing;

a microphone affixed to the boom at a location remote from the housing;

an earphone connected to the transceiver within the housing; and

a grasp shaped to secure the housing to the temple arm of a pair of glasses.

2. The wireless communication headset as in claim 1, wherein the boom includes at least first and second telescoping segments, wherein one telescoping segment is hingedly connected to the housing and another telescoping segment is affixed to the microphone.

3. The wireless communication headset as in claim 1, further comprising a pair of conductive wires connecting the earphone to the transceiver within the housing.

4. The wireless communication headset as in claim 1, wherein the grasp comprises a clip.

5. The wireless communication headset as in claim 4, wherein the clip has opposing contact surfaces and a bias such that the opposing contact surfaces normally engage one another.

6. The wireless communication headset as in claim 1, wherein the grasp comprises at least first and second fingers arranged to contact the temple arm of the glasses.

7. The wireless communication headset as in claim 6, wherein there are first, second and third fingers, two of the fingers oriented in a first direction to engage the temple arm along one margin thereof and the third finger oriented in a second direction to engage the temple arm from an opposing margin thereof.

8. The wireless communication headset as in claim 1, further comprising at least two conductive wires connecting the earphone to the transceiver within the housing.

9. The wireless communication headset as in claim 8, wherein at least one of the conductive wires is connected to an antenna port of the transceiver.

10. The wireless communication headset as in claim 1, further comprising a compartment contained within the boom sized to receive at least one battery.

11. The wireless communication headset as in claim 1, wherein the boom has a first position and a second position, the transceiver being operative to actuate at least the microphone when the boom is in the first position and to de-actuate at least the microphone when the boom is in the second position.

12. A wireless communication headset for local, bi-directional communication with a communication device, comprising:

a transceiver for bi-directional communication with the communication device;

a housing positioned about the transceiver, the housing having a front surface and a rear surface;

a boom hingedly connected at a first end to the front surface of the housing, the boom including at least first and second telescoping segments, the first telescoping segment being hingedly connected to the housing;

a microphone affixed to the second telescoping segment of the boom so as to be positioned at a location remote from the housing;

an earphone connected to the transceiver within the housing; and

a grasp shaped to secure the housing to the temple arm of a pair of glasses,

wherein the boom has a first position and a second position, the transceiver being operative to actuate at least the microphone when the boom is in the first position and to de-actuate at least the microphone when the boom is in the second position.