Mobile communication device and method for controlling such a mobile communication device

• US 20060234635A1
• Filed: 08/13/2004
• Published: 10/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG (Government of Switzerland)
• Original Assignee: Swisscom Mobile AG (Government of Switzerland)
• Inventors: Jakob, Thomas, Riordan, John, Krone, Olivier, Schmeder, Numa
• Application Number:
  US10/568,068
• Publication Number:
  US 20060234635A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/67.110
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/024 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse rate or heart rate A61B5/0205, A61B5/021 take precedence
• 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 5/145 Measuring characteristics of blood in vivo, e.g. gas concentration, pH value; Measuring characteristics of body fluids or tissues, e.g. interstitial fluid, cerebral tissuemeasuring of blood pressure or blood flow A61B5/02; non-radiation detecting or locating of foreign bodies in blood A61B5/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion

Abstract

A mobile communication device and a method for a mobile communication device, including a multiplicity of modes of operation with different operational functions. The mobile communication device encompasses sensors for determining body-related parameters of the user and/or environmental parameters of the mobile communication device. The mobile communication device includes a selection module for evaluating the body-related parameters of the user and/or the environmental parameters of the mobile communication device, and the mobile communication device includes an operational mode module for adapting the respective mode of operation of the mobile communication device according to the evaluation data for the body-related parameters and/or of the environmental parameters. The mobile communication device can also include a mobile radio device.

Claims

1-18. -18. (canceled)

19. A mobile communication device, including a multiplicity of modes of operation with different operational functions, body-related parameters of a user and/or environmental parameters of the mobile communication device being able to be captured by the mobile communication device by sensors and/or measuring devices, the mobile communication device comprising:

a selection module configured to evaluate the body-related parameters of the user and/or environmental parameters of the mobile communication device; and

an operational mode module configured to adapt a respective mode of operation of the mobile communication device according to evaluation data for the body-related parameters and/or environmental parameters.

20. The mobile communication device according to claim 19, wherein a body-related parameter of the user that is able to be captured by the mobile communication device by sensors includes a cardiac rhythm and/or an adrenaline level and/or an oxygen content of blood and/or a blood sugar content and/or a body position and/or a brain activity and/or a type of movement and/or a direction of movement and/or a vocal activity and/or a pitch of the voice of the user as body-related parameter.

21. The mobile communication device according to claim 19, wherein an environmental parameter for the environment of the mobile communication device that is able to be captured by the mobile communication device by sensors includes a noise level and/or an air temperature and/or a light value for the surrounding area of the communication device.

22. The mobile communication device according to claim 19, wherein the mobile communication device further comprises a mobile radio device connectible to a communication network.

23. The mobile communication device according to claim 19, wherein the mobile communication device further comprises a play station connectible to a communication network.

24. The mobile communication device according to claim 19, wherein the mobile communication device further comprises an expert module, by which selection of the mode of operation by the user based on pattern recognition in dependence upon the body-related parameters of the user and/or environmental parameters for the mobile communication device is trainable.

25. The mobile communication device according to claim 24, wherein the expert module comprises at least one neural network for pattern recognition.

26. The mobile communication device according to claim 19, wherein the selection module comprises a predefinable threshold for triggering alarm functions by the mobile communication device for at least one body-related parameter and/or for at least one environmental parameter.

27. The mobile communication device according to claim 19, wherein the mobile communication device comprises at least one sensor configured to be actuated by the user.

28. A method for controlling different modes of operation of a mobile communication device, different operational functions being controlled through respective modes of operation of the mobile communication device, and body-related parameters of the user and/or environmental parameters of the mobile communication device being captured by the mobile communication device by sensors, the method comprising:

evaluating determined body-related parameters of the user and/or environmental parameters of the mobile communication device by a selection module; and

adapting by an operational mode module respective modes of operation of the mobile communication device based on evaluation data for the body-related parameters and/or for the environmental parameters.

29. The method for controlling different modes of operation of a mobile communication device according to claim 28, wherein heart rhythm and/or blood pressure and/or adrenaline level and/or oxygen content of blood and/or blood sugar content and/or body position and/or brain activity and/or type of movement and/or direction of movement and/or voice activity and/or pitch of the voice of a user is captured as the body-related parameters by the mobile communication device by at least one sensor.

30. The method for controlling different modes of operation of a mobile communication device according to claim 28, wherein noise level and/or air temperature and/or light values of surrounding area is captured as the environmental parameters by the mobile communication device by at least one sensor.

31. The method for controlling different modes of operation of a mobile communication device according to claim 28, wherein a mobile radio device connectible to a communication network is used as the mobile communication device.

32. The method for controlling different modes of operation of a mobile communication device claim 28, wherein a play station connectible to a communication network is used as the mobile communication device.

33. The method for controlling different modes of operation of a mobile communication device according to claim 28, wherein an expert module is trained by pattern recognition based on selection of the mode of operation by the user in dependence upon the body-related parameters of the user and/or environmental parameters of the mobile communication device, and is used for control of the selection of the modes of operation.

34. The method for controlling different modes of operation of a mobile communication device according to claim 33, wherein the expert module trains the pattern recognition using at least one neural network.

35. The method for controlling different modes of operation of a mobile communication device according to claim 28, wherein at least one threshold value is defined for one or more body-related parameters and/or for one or more environmental parameters, whereby upon reaching the threshold value, an alarm function is triggered by the selection module.

36. The method for controlling different modes of operation of a mobile communication device according to claim 28, wherein at least one sensor is actuated by a user.