Motion sensing remote microphone

• US 8,264,365 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2009
• Issued: 09/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Eric Sacknoff
• Original Assignee: Eric Sacknoff
• Inventors: Sacknoff, Eric
• Primary Examiner(s): Previl, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US12/543,551
• Publication Number:
  US 20110068944A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,086 Days
• Field of Search: 340/669, 340/539.26, 340/521, 340/517, 340/628, 340/603, 340/568.1, 340/571, 340/539.22, 340/577, 340/384.73, 340/573.1, 340/573.7, 340/539.11, 340/539.13
• US Class Current: 340/669
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/166 Mechanical, construction or arrangement details of inertial navigation systems
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 15/18 in two or more dimensions
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/0446 worn on the body to detect changes of posture, e.g. a fall, inclination, acceleration, gait
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/016 Personal emergency signalling and security systems emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2410/00 Microphones

Abstract

An apparatus and method comprising of a remote microphone, attached to a portable radio, incorporating a motion sensing component, such as a Solid State Accelerometer, and an orientation sensing component, such as a Solid State Gyroscope or a multidirectional Solid State Accelerometer and activated by the wearer'"'"'s motionlessness and subsequently activates the Emergency Alert and sends out an audible distress signal, a radio frequency (RF) distress signal, or both, as if the wearer had pressed the Emergency Alert button.

Claims

1. A motion sensing remote microphone for use in portable radios comprising of a motion and orientation sensing device incorporated into said remote microphone (6) and powered by same supply characterized in that said motion/orientation sensing device includes a Solid State Accelerometer and/or a Solid State Gyroscope and/or a multidirectional Solid State Accelerometer (6) have programmable features for time delay activated by combinational variables of time and orientation and the emergency Alert (4) is electronically activated after a set amount of motionlessness when the longitudinal axis of the remote microphone (6) is oriented equal or greater than a set number of degrees away from the vertical plane.

2. The motion sensing remote microphone as claimed in claim 1 wherein said portable radio shall function utilizing assigned radio frequencies and may be generated in an analog or digital mode.

3. The motion sensing remote microphone as claimed in claim 1 wherein said remote microphone (6) shall have a manually activated Emergency Alert button (4).

4. The motion sensing remote microphone as claimed in claim 1 wherein said Solid State Accelerometer and/or Solid State Gyroscope and/or said multidirectional Solid State Accelerometer (6) are installed to interface with the transmission feature of said Emergency Alert button (4).

5. The motion sensing remote microphone as claimed in claim 1 wherein said Solid State Accelerometer and/or said multidirectional Solid State Accelerometer (6) senses the linear acceleration in multiple directions and determines velocity of said remote microphone (6).

6. The motion sensing remote microphone as claimed in claim 1 wherein said Solid State Accelerometer and/or said multidirectional Solid State Accelerometer (6) senses the linear acceleration in multiple directions and determines direction and/or gravitational orientation of said remote microphone (6).

7. The remote microphone as claimed in claim 1 wherein said Solid State Gyroscope or said multidirectional Solid State Accelerometer (6) senses axial relationships in multiple directions and determines orientation of said remote microphone (6).

8. The remote microphone as claimed in claim 1 wherein said Solid State Accelerometer and/or said Solid State Gyroscope and/or said multidirectional Solid State Accelerometer (6) have programmable features for time delay activated by combinational variables of time and orientation and the Emergency Alert (4) is electronically activated after a set amount of motionlessness when the longitudinal axis of the remote microphone (6) is oriented in the vertical plane.

9. The motion sensing remote microphone as claimed in claim 1 wherein said Solid State Gyroscope (6) senses the linear acceleration in multiple directions and determines angular velocity of the remote microphone (6).

10. The motion sensing remote microphone as claimed in claim 1 wherein said Solid State Accelerometer and/or said multidirectional Solid State Accelerometer (6) attains an activation threshold by calculating direction, position, velocity and angular velocity of said remote microphone (6).

11. The motion sensing remote microphone as claimed in claim 1 wherein activation threshold of said Solid State Accelerometer and/or said multidirectional Solid State Accelerometer (6) triggers an alarm sequence of an audible pre-alarm mode, giving the wearer time to cancel the alarm.

12. The motion sensing remote microphone as claimed in claim 1 wherein activation threshold of said Solid State Accelerometer and/or said multidirectional Solid State Accelerometer (6) triggers an alarm sequence of a full-alarm mode, same as manually activating said Emergency Alert button (4).

13. The motion sensing remote microphone as claimed in claim 1 wherein said Solid State Accelerometer and/or said multidirectional Solid State Accelerometer (6) is programmable for various Motion-Sensing sensitivities.

14. The motion sensing remote microphone as claimed in claim 1 wherein said Solid State Accelerometer and/or said multidirectional Solid State Accelerometer (6) can activate an audible Pre-Alarm warning signal.

15. The motion sensing remote microphone as claimed in claim 1 wherein said Solid State Accelerometer and/or said multidirectional Solid State Accelerometer (6) does not hinder physical activation of radio'"'"'s Emergency Alert button (4).

16. The motion sensing remote microphone as claimed in claim 1 wherein said Solid State Accelerometer and/or said multidirectional Solid State Accelerometer (6) is programmed to offer various sensitivities for physically canceling a pre-alarm sequence via movement of said device by shaking or tapping.