Wearable device onboard applications system and method

• US 10,506,322 B2
• Filed: 10/11/2016
• Issued: 12/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bragi GmbH
• Original Assignee: Bragi GmbH
• Inventors: Martin, Toby, Hirsch, Eric Christian, Milevski, Veniamin
• Primary Examiner(s): Blair, Kile O
• Application Number:
  US15/290,711
• Publication Number:
  US 20170111726A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,155 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2001/3866 carried on the head
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/51 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/57 Mechanical or electrical details of cameras or camera modules specially adapted for being embedded in other devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1016 Earpieces of the intra-aural type
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1041 Mechanical or electronic switches, or control elements switches in general H01H
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2420/07 Applications of wireless loudspeakers or wireless microphones
• 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

Abstract

An earpiece wearable includes an earpiece wearable housing, an intelligent control system disposed within the ear piece wearable housing, and an operating system associated with the intelligent control system for the earpiece wearable wherein the operating system provides for a user of the earpiece to choose between a plurality of software applications to execute on the intelligent control system. A method includes installing on the earpiece wearable a plurality of different software applications and selecting one of the plurality of software applications to execute on the intelligent control system of the earpiece wearable using the operating system of the earpiece wearable.

Claims

1. An earpiece wearable comprising:

an in-the-ear earpiece wearable housing;

an intelligent control system disposed within the in-the-ear earpiece wearable housing;

an operating system associated with the intelligent control system for the earpiece wearable; and

a user interface associated with the intelligent control system and the operating system;

wherein the operating system provides for a user of the earpiece wearable to choose between a plurality of software applications to execute on the intelligent control system;

wherein the operating system is programmed to allocate resources associated with the plurality of software applications and is configured to pause, share, and terminate each of the plurality of software applications;

wherein the user can determine a level of cooperation of the plurality of software applications with linked software programs residing on a linked device; and

wherein the user interface allows for user input to the operating system to allow the user to pause, share a user-determined amount of data and terminate each of the plurality of software applications and set the level of cooperation of the plurality of software applications with the linked software residing on the linked device.

2. The earpiece wearable of claim 1 wherein the user interface is a gesture-based user interface.

3. The earpiece wearable of claim 2 wherein the gesture-based user interface comprises at least one sensor configured to detect user gestures.

4. The earpiece wearable of claim 1 wherein the user interface is a voice control user interface.

5. The earpiece wearable of claim 4 further comprising at least one microphone operatively connected to the intelligent control system.

6. The earpiece wearable of claim 1 wherein the user interface is a touch-based user interface.

7. The earpiece wearable of claim 6 further comprising one or more touch sensors operatively connected to the intelligent control system.

8. The earpiece wearable of claim 1 wherein the user interface is an imaging-based user interface.

9. The earpiece wearable of claim 8 further comprising one or more cameras operatively connected to the intelligent control system.

10. The earpiece wearable of claim 1 wherein the user interface provides for detecting user input through ultra sound or radar.

11. The earpiece wearable of claim 10 further comprising one or more sensors operatively connected to the intelligent control system for detecting at least one of ultra sound or radar.

12. The earpiece of claim 1 further comprising a wireless transceiver disposed within the earpiece wearable housing.

13. The earpiece wearable of claim 12 wherein the intelligent control system is configured to communicate data from one or more of the applications to a remote device.

14. The earpiece wearable of claim 1, wherein the user can execute the software applications on the earpiece wearable without any ongoing connection to the linked device.

15. A method for access and control of an earpiece wearable, the earpiece wearable comprising:

an in-the-ear earpiece wearable housing,

an intelligent control system disposed within the in-the-ear earpiece wearable housing,

an operating system associated with the intelligent control system for the earpiece wearable, and

a user interface associated with the intelligent control system and the operating system;

the method comprising the steps of;

installing on the earpiece wearable a plurality of software applications;

allocating resources for the plurality of software applications via the operating system;

receiving a selection of one of the plurality of software applications to execute on the intelligent control system of the earpiece wearable from a user through the user interface of the earpiece wearable; and

receiving instructions from the user instructing a user-determined amount of data to be shared from the software applications.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the earpiece wearable further comprises a wireless transceiver disposed within the earpiece wearable.

17. The method of claim 16 further comprising sending data from one of the plurality of software applications to a remote device using the wireless transceiver.

18. The method of claim 16 further comprising receiving data from a remote device into one of the plurality of software applications using the wireless transceiver.

19. An earpiece wearable comprising:

an earpiece wearable housing;

an intelligent control system disposed within the earpiece wearable housing;

an operating system associated with the intelligent control system for the earpiece wearable; and

a user interface associated with the intelligent control system and the operating system;

a plurality of software applications stored on the earpiece wearable for execution by the intelligent control system;

wherein the operating system provides for a user of the earpiece wearable to choose between the plurality of software applications to execute on the intelligent control system;

wherein the operating system is programmed to allocate resources associated with the plurality of software applications and is configured to pause, share a user-determined amount of data, and terminate each of the plurality of software applications; and

wherein the user interface allows for user input to the operating system.