DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISABLING MOBILE DEVICES
First Claim
1. An arrangement for portable wireless device service change based on deduced presence proximal to vehicle operator'"'"'s station, wherein at least one of velocity, acceleration, jerk, speed, displacement as determined from at least partial information from a navigation system.
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Abstract
An arrangement for disabling suitably equipped mobile devices senses at least one of: acceleration, jerk, velocity, position, orientation relative to a vehicle location trend, and orientation of a direction of motion. Position and orientation sensing elements are becoming increasingly prevalent in mobile devices, be they cell phones, smart phones, portable Internet devices, portable wireless devices, mobile Internet devices, Portable Navigation Devices (PND), iPhones, tablet computers, iPads, or Portable Digital Assistants (PDA). Although the operation of which while driving is illegal in many jurisdictions, mobile devices continue to be used by drivers of motor vehicles. Common perception is that it is dangerous to divide one'"'"'s attention to activities other than the task of operating motor vehicles, while driving. The present invention discloses a device and method of exploiting intricacies of vehicle movement trends by processing to sufficient fidelity as to permit extraction an indication of location with respect to vehicle, of a navigating portable wireless device and temporarily disable. The disclosure teaches use of at least one of: acceleration, jerk, velocity with sufficient fidelity, and differentiation of position updates with sufficient fidelity.
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23 Claims
- 1. An arrangement for portable wireless device service change based on deduced presence proximal to vehicle operator'"'"'s station, wherein at least one of velocity, acceleration, jerk, speed, displacement as determined from at least partial information from a navigation system.
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10. A method of ascertaining proximity to a vehicle'"'"'s operator'"'"'s station comprising:
- a radio navigation entity, an orientation entity, a processor operable to make a statistical estimation indicative of portable wireless device located on driver'"'"'s side of vehicle based on compared portable wireless device speeds, said processor operable to make a further statistical estimation indicative of portable wireless device proximity to the vehicle front based on orientation differences, said processor further operable to change mobile services as a consequence of detecting portable wireless device proximal to said operator'"'"'s station.
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- 13. A device for inhibiting a portable wireless device detected to be proximal to operator'"'"'s station based on changes in orientation, and speed of vehicle longitudinal axis trajectory
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17. A device for inhibiting a portable wireless device comprising:
- a navigation element, an orientation element, a processor in communication with said navigation element, said processor further in communications with orientation element and operable to make a determination of left/right vehicle side location based on changes in integrated Doppler as accumulated from GNSS carrier tracking information.
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