EAR-BASED WEARABLE NETWORKING DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD

• US 20140379336A1
• Filed: 06/20/2014
• Published: 12/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Atul Bhatnagar
• Original Assignee: Atul Bhatnagar
• Inventors: BHATNAGAR, Atul
• Application Number:
  US14/310,503
• Publication Number:
  US 20140379336A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/235
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1091 Details not provided for in groups H04R1/1008 - H04R1/1083
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2227/003 Digital PA systems using, e.g. LAN or internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2420/07 Applications of wireless loudspeakers or wireless microphones
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2460/07 Use of position data from wide-area or local-area positioning systems in hearing devices, e.g. program or information selection
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 27/00 Public address systems circuits for preventing acoustic reaction H04R3/02; circuits for distributing signals to loudspeakers H04R3/12; monitoring or testing arrangements for public address systems H04R29/007; amplifiers H03F

Abstract

An ear-based wearable networking device, system, and method is disclosed. The wearable networking device, system, and method is configured to monitor and process plural conversations in proximity of a user and store the associated information in a cloud system. The cloud system is configured to, based on the associated information, process, archive, create alerts, create reminders, retrieve, etc.

Claims

1. A wearable networking device, comprising:

a physical housing configured to fit on or in a user'"'"'s ear;

an audio interface communicatively coupled to a microphone and a speaker;

a wireless interface;

a processor communicatively coupled to the audio interface and the wireless interface;

memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to;

record audio in proximity to the user;

analyze and compress the audio; and

transmit the compressed audio to a cloud-based system along with identifying information via the wireless interface.

2. The wearable networking device of claim 1, wherein the memory storing instructions that, when executed, further cause the processor to:

receive voice commands from the user; and

perform an action based on the voice commands.

3. The wearable networking device of claim 2, wherein the action comprises any of turning on/off audio capture, turning on/off the wearable networking device, uploading/downloading information from the cloud-based system, and searching archived audio/text.

4. The wearable networking device of claim 1, wherein the memory storing instructions that, when executed, further cause the processor to:

receive a voice command from the user regarding a query of prior activity;

transmit the query to the cloud-based system; and

provide a response to the user from the cloud-based system.

5. The wearable networking device of claim 1, wherein the cloud-based system is configured to process the compressed audio to perform audio-to-text conversion.

6. The wearable networking device of claim 5, wherein the cloud-based system is configured to process the audio-to-text conversion to identify relevant keywords and perform actions based thereon.

7. The wearable networking device of claim 1, further comprising:

a location determining device.

8. The wearable networking device of claim 7, wherein the memory storing instructions that, when executed, further cause the processor to:

tag the identifying information with a location from the location determining device.

9. The wearable networking device of claim 7, wherein the memory storing instructions that, when executed, further cause the processor to:

detect a hazard based on the location determining device; and

provide audible directions based on the hazard.

10. The wearable networking device of claim 7, wherein the memory storing instructions that, when executed, further cause the processor to:

receive a request for directions; and

provide audible directions based on the request.

11. A wearable networking system, comprising

a network interface;

a data store;

a processor communicatively coupled to the network interface and the data store;

memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to;

receive audio data from at least one ear-based device associated with a user;

analyze the audio data for actionable items associated therewith;

push the actionable items to at least one application associated with a mobile device of the user; and

store the audio data in a searchable format for later retrieval.

12. The wearable networking system of claim 11, wherein the memory storing instructions that, when executed, further cause the processor to:

receive a query from the user; and

perform an action based on the user.

13. The wearable networking system of claim 11, wherein the action comprises searching archived audio/text stored in the data store and associated with the user.

process the audio data to perform audio-to-text conversion.

14. The wearable networking system of claim 13, wherein the action comprises searching archived audio/text stored in the data store and associated with the user.

identify relevant keywords and perform actions based thereon.

15. The wearable networking system of claim 13, wherein the action comprises searching archived audio/text stored in the data store and associated with the user.

tag the audio-to-text conversion with a location from a location determining device.

16. A method, comprising

providing an ear-based wearable networking device;

receiving audio in proximity to the user by the ear-based wearable networking device;

analyzing and compressing the audio; and

transmitting the compressed audio to a cloud-based system along with identifying information via a wireless interface in the ear-based wearable networking device.