Phone that prevents concurrent texting and driving
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1. A phone comprising:
- a wireless transceiver to send and receive wireless communication signals;
a camera to capture one or more images or videos;
a processor to execute code;
wherein the processor is (a) to make a determination that a user of the phone is sitting in a driver seat of a moving vehicle based on analysis of one or more images captured by said camera, and (b) based on the determination, to block one or more features of the phone,wherein the analysis takes into account a characteristic of a vehicular component which appears, at least partially, in at least one image captured by the camera of the phone.
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Abstract
The present invention includes a phone able to detect or determine that a user of the phone is sitting in a driver seat of a moving vehicle. The determination may be based on, for example, captured front-side images, captured back-side images, captured audio, contextual analysis of textual messages, contextual analysis of phone conversations or intra-vehicular conversations, GPS data or other location data, or other parameters. Upon such determination, the phone may block one or more features or applications, such as texting or messaging. The present invention may reduce, eliminate or block occurrences of concurrent texting-and-driving, or other unsafe or illegal operations.
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18 Claims
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1. A phone comprising:
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a wireless transceiver to send and receive wireless communication signals; a camera to capture one or more images or videos; a processor to execute code; wherein the processor is (a) to make a determination that a user of the phone is sitting in a driver seat of a moving vehicle based on analysis of one or more images captured by said camera, and (b) based on the determination, to block one or more features of the phone, wherein the analysis takes into account a characteristic of a vehicular component which appears, at least partially, in at least one image captured by the camera of the phone. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A phone comprising:
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a wireless transceiver to send and receive wireless communication signals; a camera to capture one or more images or videos; a processor to execute code; wherein the processor is (a) to make a determination that a user of the phone is sitting in a driver seat of a moving vehicle based on analysis of one or more images captured by said camera, and (b) based on the determination, to block one or more features of the phone; wherein the analysis takes into account a determination of whether or not the one or more images captured by the camera comprise one or more vehicular components which are typically visible from a vehicular driver seat and which are typically non-visible from a vehicular passenger seat.
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10. A phone comprising:
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a wireless transceiver to send and receive wireless communication signals; a camera to capture one or more images or videos; a processor to execute code; wherein the processor is (a) to make a determination that a user of the phone is sitting in a driver seat of a moving vehicle based on analysis of one or more images captured by said camera, and (b) based on the determination, to block one or more features of the phone; wherein the processor is to determine that the user of the phone is sitting in the driver seat of said moving vehicle, by taking into account an image analysis of an image captured by said camera; wherein the image analysis indicates that the image comprises at least a portion of a vehicular dashboard that is visible exclusively from the driver seat and which is typically not visible from non-driver seats of said vehicle.
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11. A phone comprising:
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a wireless transceiver to send and receive wireless communication signals; a camera to capture one or more images or videos; a processor to execute code; wherein the processor is (a) to make a determination that a user of the phone is sitting in a driver seat of a moving vehicle based on analysis of one or more images captured by said camera, and (b) based on the determination, to block one or more features of the phone; wherein the processor is to determine that the user of the phone is sitting in the driver seat of said moving vehicle, by taking into account an image analysis of an image captured by said camera; wherein the image analysis takes into account one or more extra-vehicular items which appear in said image.
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12. A phone comprising:
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a wireless transceiver to send and receive wireless communication signals; a camera to capture one or more images or videos; a processor to execute code; wherein the processor is (a) to make a determination that a user of the phone is sitting in a driver seat of a moving vehicle based on analysis of one or more images captured by said camera, and (b) based on the determination, to block one or more features of the phone; wherein the processor is to determine that the user of the phone is sitting in the driver seat of said moving vehicle, by taking into account an image analysis of an image captured by said camera; wherein the image analysis takes into account a slanting of a vehicular component which appear in said image.
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13. A portable electronic device comprising:
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a wireless transceiver to send and receive wireless communication signals; a camera to capture one or more images or videos; a processor to execute code; wherein the processor is (a) to make a determination that a user of the portable electronic device is sitting in a driver seat of a moving vehicle based on analysis of one or more images captured by said camera, and (b) based on the determination, to block one or more features of the portable electronic device; wherein the analysis takes into account a determination of whether or not the one or more images captured by the camera comprise one or more vehicular components which are typically visible from a vehicular driver seat and which are typically non-visible from a vehicular passenger seat.
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14. A portable electronic device comprising:
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a wireless transceiver to send and receive wireless communication signals; a camera to capture one or more images or videos; a processor to execute code; wherein the processor is (a) to make a determination that a user of the portable electronic device is sitting in a driver seat of a moving vehicle based on analysis of one or more images captured by said camera, and (b) based on the determination, to block one or more features of the portable electronic device; wherein the analysis takes into account a characteristic of a vehicular component which appears, at least partially, in at least one image captured by the camera of the phone. - View Dependent Claims (15)
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16. A portable electronic device comprising:
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a wireless transceiver to send and receive wireless communication signals; a camera to capture one or more images or videos; a processor to execute code; wherein the processor is (a) to make a determination that a user of the portable electronic device is sitting in a driver seat of a moving vehicle based on analysis of one or more images captured by said camera, and (b) based on the determination, to block one or more features of the portable electronic device; wherein the processor is to determine that the user of the phone is sitting in the driver seat of said moving vehicle, by taking into account an image analysis of an image captured by said camera; wherein the image analysis indicates that the image comprises at least a portion of a vehicular dashboard that is visible exclusively from the driver seat and which is typically not visible from non-driver seats of said vehicle.
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17. A portable electronic device comprising:
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a wireless transceiver to send and receive wireless communication signals; a camera to capture one or more images or videos; a processor to execute code; wherein the processor is (a) to make a determination that a user of the portable electronic device is sitting in a driver seat of a moving vehicle based on analysis of one or more images captured by said camera, and (b) based on the determination, to block one or more features of the portable electronic device; wherein the processor is to determine that the user of the phone is sitting in the driver seat of said moving vehicle, by taking into account an image analysis of an image captured by said camera; wherein the image analysis takes into account one or more extra-vehicular items which appear in said image.
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18. A portable electronic device comprising:
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a wireless transceiver to send and receive wireless communication signals; a camera to capture one or more images or videos; a processor to execute code; wherein the processor is (a) to make a determination that a user of the portable electronic device is sitting in a driver seat of a moving vehicle based on analysis of one or more images captured by said camera, and (b) based on the determination, to block one or more features of the portable electronic device; wherein the processor is to determine that the user of the phone is sitting in the driver seat of said moving vehicle, by taking into account an image analysis of an image captured by said camera; wherein the image analysis takes into account a slanting of a vehicular component which appears in said image.
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