STRAP-BASED COMPUTING DEVICE
First Claim
1. A wearable computing system, comprising:
- a strap designed to be worn around at least a portion of a body part of a human, wherein the strap includes one or more enclosures configured to each enclose one or more removable computing components;
one or more computing component connector interfaces carried by the strap, wherein each of the one or more enclosures includes at least a portion of at least one of the computing component connector interfaces, and wherein the at least portion of the computing component connector interface included in an enclosure is configured to removably physically and communicatively couple thereto a respective removable computing component enclosed in that enclosure;
one or more access point interfaces carried by the strap that are separate from the one or more enclosures and that enable one or more devices separate from the strap to communicatively couple with the strap;
one or more wiring connection mechanisms carried by the strap to inter-connect the one or more access point interfaces with the at least portion of the at least one computing component connector interface included in at least one of the one or more included enclosures; and
multiple removable computing components that are each enclosed in one of the enclosures in a manner that communicatively couples the removable computing component with at least one of the wiring connection mechanisms included in the strap via at least one of the computing component connector interfaces, the multiple removable computing components further being communicatively coupled together via the one or more enclosures.
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Abstract
Techniques are described for implementing and using a portable computing device that may include at least some computing components embedded in or otherwise affixed to or inserted in a belt or other strap that is worn or carried by a user, such as in one or more flaps or other enclosures of the strap, and in some situations includes some components in or otherwise interacts with a wrist-mounted device that includes various display capabilities and/or other user input/output capabilities. The computing components of the portable computing device may be inter-connected before being affixed to or inserted in a strap, or the inter-connections may be provided as part of a communication mechanism that is embedded in or otherwise affixed to the strap. If a wrist-mounted device is in use, the interactions between the portable computing device and the wrist-mounted device may occur in a wireless or wired/cabled manner.
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20 Claims
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1. A wearable computing system, comprising:
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a strap designed to be worn around at least a portion of a body part of a human, wherein the strap includes one or more enclosures configured to each enclose one or more removable computing components; one or more computing component connector interfaces carried by the strap, wherein each of the one or more enclosures includes at least a portion of at least one of the computing component connector interfaces, and wherein the at least portion of the computing component connector interface included in an enclosure is configured to removably physically and communicatively couple thereto a respective removable computing component enclosed in that enclosure; one or more access point interfaces carried by the strap that are separate from the one or more enclosures and that enable one or more devices separate from the strap to communicatively couple with the strap; one or more wiring connection mechanisms carried by the strap to inter-connect the one or more access point interfaces with the at least portion of the at least one computing component connector interface included in at least one of the one or more included enclosures; and multiple removable computing components that are each enclosed in one of the enclosures in a manner that communicatively couples the removable computing component with at least one of the wiring connection mechanisms included in the strap via at least one of the computing component connector interfaces, the multiple removable computing components further being communicatively coupled together via the one or more enclosures. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computing system, comprising:
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a flexible substrate designed to be carried by a human while a body of the human is in motion, wherein the flexible substrate includes one or more enclosures configured to each hold one or more removable computing components; and multiple removable computing components that are each enclosed in one of the enclosures in a manner that communicatively couples the multiple removable computing components together via the one or more enclosures to enable the multiple removable computing components to aggregately provide one or more capabilities, one or more of the multiple removable computing components further being communicatively coupled with one or more devices separate from the strap that provide at least one of output capabilities to the human and of input capabilities using input information from at least one of the human and of an environment in which the human is located, the aggregately provided one or more capabilities including the at least one of the output capabilities and of the input capabilities. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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