COMMUNICATION APPARATUS FOR DEMONSTRATING A NON-AUDIO MESSAGE BY DECODED VIBRATIONS

• US 20040189484A1
• Filed: 03/25/2004
• Published: 09/30/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: BenQ Corporation (Qisda Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BenQ Corporation (Qisda Corporation)
• Inventors: Li, I-Yin
• Application Number:
  US10/708,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20040189484A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/825.19
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72481 for visually impaired users
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion

Abstract

A communication apparatus, such as a mobile phone, for demonstrating non-audio messages by encoded vibrations. The communication apparatus has an encoding module and a vibrating module. In addition to handling audio communication, the encoding module of the communication apparatus is capable of encoding non-audio messages into a vibration signal, and the vibrating module will vibrate in different patterns according to the vibration signal, such that a user can identify the non-audio messages by tactile sense.

Claims

1. A communication apparatus comprising:

an encoding module for encoding a text message into a vibration signal, the text message comprising a plurality of text data, each of the text data respectively encoded into a corresponding vibration data of the vibration signal by the encoding module; and

a vibrating module electrically connected to the encoding module for vibrating correspondingly according to the vibration data of the vibration signal in sequence.

2. The communication apparatus of claim 1 wherein the communication apparatus further comprises a communicating module electrically connected to the encoding module for receiving the text message from a communication network.

3. The communication apparatus of claim 1 wherein the vibration of the vibrating module has a vibration frequency less than a frequency of a sound wave.

4. The communication apparatus of claim 1 wherein the vibrating module comprises a vibrator that is capable of vibrating in different frequencies for vibration.

5. The communication apparatus of claim 1 wherein the vibrating module comprises a plurality of vibrators, whereby different vibrators vibrating in different frequencies.

6. The communication apparatus of claim 5 wherein the vibrators are disposed in different positions of the communication apparatus.

7. The communication apparatus of claim 1 wherein the vibrating module performs vibrations in different time durations to distinguish different vibrating data.

8. The communication apparatus of claim 1 wherein when the vibrating module performs vibrations in different amplitudes of vibrations to distinguish different vibrating data.

9. The communication apparatus of claim 2 wherein the communicating module is used to receive a radio signal.

10. The communication apparatus of claim 9 wherein the communication apparatus is a mobile phone.

11. The communication apparatus of claim 2 wherein the communication apparatus further comprises an input interface for receiving instructions input from a user and generating a corresponding text signal which is transmitted to the communicating module afterward.

12. The communication apparatus of claim 2 wherein the communication apparatus further comprises:

a microphone for transforming sound waves to an electric audio signal; and

a speaker electrically connected to the communicating module for transforming an electric sound signal to a sound wave and broadcasting the sound wave;

wherein the communicating module is capable of transmitting the audio signal to the communication network and receiving the sound signal.