GLOVE WITH USER-INTERACTABLE ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS

• US 20150237181A1
• Filed: 04/25/2014
• Published: 08/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/20/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Abdulhafiz Karimbaksh Khan, Naseem Karimbaksh Khan
• Original Assignee: Abdulhafiz Karimbaksh Khan, Naseem Karimbaksh Khan
• Inventors: KHAN, Naseem Karimbaksh, KHAN, Abdulhafiz Karimbaksh
• Granted Patent: US 9,344,537 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/385 Transceivers carried on the body, e.g. in helmets
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2001/3861 carried in a hand or on fingers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0202 Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. of speakers or microphones H04M1/03
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0264 for a camera module assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0281 for providing single handed use or left/right hand conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724095 Worn on the wrist, hand or arm
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/50 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49005 Acoustic transducer

Abstract

A glove configured to be operational as or part of one or more of a phone and a camera. The glove is connectable to a mobile communication device; has a little finger receptacle with a microphone, an index finger receptacle with a camera and a thumb receptacle with a speaker; and is wearable on both a left hand and a right hand separately.

Claims

1. A wearable mobile communication system comprising:

a mobile communication device; and

a glove having a little finger receptacle, an index finger receptacle and a thumb receptacle and without ring and middle finger receptacles, the glove being wearable on both a left hand and a right hand separately, and the glove including;

a first electronic device receptacle on a first side of the glove,

a second electronic device receptacle on a second side of the glove opposite the first side,

a microphone mounted on a tip of the little finger receptacle,

a headphone mounted on a tip of the thumb receptacle, and

a camera portion mounted on a tip of the index finger receptacle, the camera portion having;

a camera lens mounted on the tip of the index finger receptacle,

a camera flash mounted on the tip of the index finger receptacle,

a capture switch mounted on a side of the tip of the index finger receptacle facing toward the thumb receptacle and away from the little finger receptacle,

wherein the mobile communication device is arranged in one of the first or second electronic device receptacles and is electrically connected to the microphone, the headphone and the camera portion via respective wiring portions.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication device is a square-shaped smart phone arranged in said one of the first and second electronic receptacles of the glove.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein both the first and second electronic receptacles are configured to accommodate therein two opposing sides of the mobile communication device.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein a user'"'"'s middle finger and ring finger are not covered by the glove.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the glove is made of material including silicon, leather, fabric, any combined material, or combination of any of the foregoing.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a mobile electronic device, the mobile communication device being removably coupled in said one of the first or second electronic device receptacles, and the mobile electronic device being removably coupled in the other one of the first or second electronic device receptacles.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication device is a phone, and the system further comprising circuitry configured to enable a user talk on the phone when the thumb receptacle is positioned adjacent the user'"'"'s ear, and the little finger receptacle is positioned adjacent the user'"'"'s mouth.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising circuitry configured to let a user capture images and videos of a scene by pointing the user'"'"'s index finger toward the scene.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising connector circuitry configured to connect the glove to one or more devices other than the mobile electronic device.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein a displayable surface of the mobile communication device when the mobile communication device is arranged in one of the first or second electronic device receptacles is substantially flush or flush with a body portion of the glove.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication device is rotatably coupled, separately, to each of the first and second electronic device receptacles such that two opposing sides of the mobile communication device are exposed.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the glove further comprises a transparent or opaque cover fixedly coupled adjacent to one or more of the first and second electronic device receptacles, each of the one or more covers being configured to cover the mobile communication device when the mobile communication device is arranged in a corresponding one of the first and second electronic device receptacles.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication device is flexible so as to conform generally to the palm or backside of the user'"'"'s hand depending upon orientation of the glove in which one of the first and second electronic device receptacles in which the mobile communication device is arranged.

14. A glove with user-interactable electronic components, comprising:

a flexible body including a little finger receptacle, an index finger receptacle and a thumb receptacle;

a first electronic device receptacle on a first side of the body, the first electronic device receptacle being configured to removably couple thereto an electronic device;

a second electronic device receptacle on a second side of the body opposite the first side, the second electronic device receptacle being configured to removably couple thereto the electronic device;

a microphone on the little finger receptacle; and

a headphone on the thumb receptacle,

wherein the glove is wearable on both a left hand and a right hand separately.

15. The glove according to claim 14, further comprising a camera portion on the index finger receptacle, the camera portion having:

a camera lens mounted on the tip of the index finger receptacle,

a camera flash mounted on the tip of the index finger receptacle, and

a capture switch mounted on a side of the tip of the index finger receptacle facing toward the thumb receptacle and away from the little finger receptacle.

16. The glove according to claim 15, wherein respective electrical connections extend from the microphone, the headphone, and the camera portion to one or more of the first and second electronic device receptacles.

17. The glove according to claim 14, wherein the flexible body is without ring and middle finger receptacles.

18. The glove according to claim 14, wherein the flexible body, though flexible, is rigid such that the flexible body remains against a user'"'"'s hand therein when the electronic device is removably connected to either of the first and second electronic device receptacles.

19. A method comprising:

providing a glove with user-interactable electronic components, the glove including;

a flexible body including a little finger receptacle, an index finger receptacle and a thumb receptacle,

a first electronic device receptacle on a first side of the body, the first electronic device receptacle being configured to removably couple thereto an electronic device,

a second electronic device receptacle on a second side of the body opposite the first side, the second electronic device receptacle being configured to removably couple thereto the electronic device, and

a camera portion on the index finger receptacle, the camera portion having a camera lens mounted on the tip of the index finger receptacle, a camera light mounted on the tip of the index finger receptacle, and a capture switch mounted on a side of the tip of the index finger receptacle facing toward the thumb receptacle and away from the little finger receptacle,

wherein the glove is wearable on both a left hand and a right hand separately.

20. The method according to claim 19,

wherein the glove further includes:

a microphone on the little finger receptacle, and

a headphone on the thumb receptacle, and

wherein the method further comprises;

electrically connecting the electronic device to one of the first or second electronic device receptacles such that the electronic device is operative with one or more of the camera portion, the microphone and the headphone.