Electrical systems and related methods for providing smart mobile electronic device features to a user of a wearable device

• US 10,171,971 B2
• Filed: 12/13/2016
• Issued: 01/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Skullcandy, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Skullcandy, Inc.
• Inventors: Burton, Thomas C.
• Primary Examiner(s): TALUKDER, MD K
• Application Number:
  US15/377,826
• Publication Number:
  US 20170180911A1
• Time in Patent Office: 749 Days
• Field of Search: 4555561
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

Electrical systems and related methods are disclosed. An electrical system includes a wearable mobile electronic device including cellular voice equipment configured to enable a user to participate in cellular voice calls, cellular data equipment configured to enable the wearable mobile electronic device to communicate through a cellular data network, one or more biometric sensors, and at least one audio speaker. A method includes selecting audio media based, at least in part on biometric information, and providing, with a remote server, data corresponding to the selected audio media to the wearable mobile electronic device through a cellular data network. An electrical system includes a wearable mobile electronic device including control circuitry configured to interact with a remote server to together provide smart mobile electronic device features to a user through the wearable mobile electronic device, wherein the control circuitry is alone insufficient to provide the smart mobile electronic device features.

Claims

1. An electrical system, comprising:

a wearable mobile electronic device including;

cellular voice equipment configured to enable a user of the wearable mobile electronic device to participate in cellular voice calls through a cellular voice network;

cellular data equipment configured to enable the wearable mobile electronic device to communicate through a cellular data network;

one or more biometric sensors;

at least one audio speaker;

control circuitry operably coupled to the cellular voice equipment, the cellular data equipment, the one or more biometric sensors, and the at least one audio speaker, the control circuitry including a processor operably coupled to a data storage device comprising computer-readable instructions stored thereon, the processor configured to execute the computer-readable instructions, wherein the computer-readable instructions are configured to instruct the processor to;

engage in communications with a remote server using the cellular data equipment; and

interact with the remote server to provide audio signals to the at least one audio speaker, the audio signals corresponding to audio media selected based, at least in part, on biometric data provided to the control circuitry by the one or more biometric sensors,

wherein the selected audio media has a beat that is faster than a rate of running steps measured by the biometric sensors when a heart rate measurement by the biometric sensors is slower than a desired heart rate; and

the selected audio media has a beat that is slower than the rate of running steps measurement by the biometric sensors when the heart rate measurement by the biometric sensors is faster than a desired heart rate.

2. The electrical system of claim 1, wherein the wearable mobile electronic device is configured to receive audio data corresponding to the audio signals from the remote server, and present the audio media to the user as streamed audio.

3. The electrical system of claim 1, wherein the wearable mobile electronic device is configured to provide the biometric data to the remote server for processing by the remote server.

4. The electrical system of claim 1, wherein the one or more biometric sensors include at least one sensor selected from the group consisting of an accelerometer, a temperature sensor, a location sensor, a heart rate monitor, and a pulse oxygenation sensor.

5. The electrical system of claim 1, wherein the wearable mobile electronic device includes a headphone device including the cellular voice equipment, the cellular data equipment, the one or more biometric sensors, the at least one audio speaker, and the control circuitry.

6. The electrical system of claim 1, wherein the wearable mobile electronic device includes an input device including a motion sensor configured to sense a wave of a hand near the wearable mobile electronic device.

7. A method of operating the electrical system of claim 1, the method comprising:

detecting biometric information of a user of the wearable mobile electronic device with the one or more biometric sensors of the wearable mobile electronic device;

selecting audio media based, at least in part, on the biometric information by;

selecting audio media with a beat that is faster than a measured rate of running steps of the user when a measured heart rate of the user is slower than a desired heart rate; and

selecting audio media with a beat that is slower than the measured rate of running steps of the user when the measured heart rate of the user is faster than a desired heart rate;

providing, with the remote server, data corresponding to the selected audio media to the wearable mobile electronic device through the cellular data network; and

placing and receiving cellular voice calls natively with the wearable mobile electronic device through the cellular voice network.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising processing the detected biometric information with the remote server to determine at least one of a rate of steps of a user of the wearable mobile electronic device and a heart rate of the user.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising determining frequencies of beats of music files of the audio media using at least one of metadata indicating the frequencies of beats embedded into the music files and frequency analysis of the music files.