Wrist-watch wireless telephone

• US 5,960,366 A
• Filed: 10/31/1996
• Issued: 09/28/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Uniloc 2017 LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: US Philips Corporation (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Duwaer, Arne L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dolinar, Andrew M.
• Application Number:
  US08/742,688
• Time in Patent Office: 1,062 Days
• Field of Search: 455/556, 455/563, 455/566, 455/568, 368/13
• US Class Current: 455/556.1
• CPC Class Codes: G04G 21/04 using radio waves radio-controlled time-pieces G04R
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/385 Transceivers carried on the body, e.g. in helmets
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/27475 using interactive graphical means or pictorial representations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/56 Arrangements for indicating or recording the called number at the calling subscriber's set
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages

Abstract

Known is a wrist-watch telephone with an LCD display, and further a portable wireless data collection terminal. Such devices do not take into account all human factors that are to be considered for getting a true multimedia miniature and portable wireless two-way telephone. A wrist-watch wireless telephone is proposed having an interactive display screen as a graphical interface, preferably pen-activated. For still more multimedia like operation, screen functions of the wrist-watch wireless telephone are controlled by further actuators such as a watch button.

Claims

1. A wrist-watch wireless telephone comprising:

two-way wireless telephone circuitry, a microphone, a loudspeaker, a microcontroller, and an interactive display screen,

the microphone, the loudspeaker, and the microcontroller being coupled to the two-way wireless telephone circuitry,

the interactive display screen being coupled to the microcontroller and at least in part forming a graphical user-interface, and

the microcontroller being arranged to cooperate with the two-way telephone circuitry so as to allow an interactive message coming from a far-end user to be displayed on the interactive display screen, and to generate a response to the far-end user upon activation of a sensitive area of the interactive display screen by a near-end user.

2. A wrist-watch wireless telephone according to claim 1, wherein the interactive display screen is of a matrix type so as to allow pen sensitive activation of screen coordinates.

3. A wrist-watch wireless telephone according to claim 1, wherein the interactive display screen is of a type so as to allow finger sensitive activation of screen coordinates.

4. A wrist-watch wireless telephone according to claim 1, wherein the loudspeaker is a wireless loudspeaker for attachment to or in an ear of a user of the telephone, the wireless loudspeaker and the wrist-watch wireless telephone comprising a respective transmitter and receiver for exchanging modulated audio signals.

5. A wrist-watch wireless telephone according to claim 4 comprising a loudspeaker-antenna built-in in the antenna strap for wireless communication with the wireless loudspeaker.

6. A wrist-watch wireless telephone according to claim 1 comprising voice recognition circuitry for recognising voice commands inputted via the microphone, the voice recognition circuitry being coupled to the microcontroller.

7. A wrist-watch wireless telephone according to claim 1, wherein the microcontroller is arranged for recognizing handwritten information or commands on the interactive display screen.

8. A wrist-watch wireless telephone according to claim 1 comprising a watch-strap and a telephone-antenna which is built-in in the watch-strap.

9. A wrist-watch wireless telephone as claimed in claim 1, wherein the interactive message is a far-end user'"'"'s caller identification and the response is connecting to the far-end user.

10. A wrist-watch wireless telephone as claimed in claim 1, which is operated by the near-end user and which is arranged to cooperate with another wrist-watch telephone with another interactive display screen operated by the far-end user, the interactive display screen of the wrist-watch telephone forming a shared work-space with the other interactive display screen such that the interactive message and the response operate on both the interactive display screen and the other interactive display screen.

11. A wrist-watch wireless telephone as claimed in claim 1, wherein the interactive message is a message from the far-end user comprising a telephone number to be dialed, and the response is connecting to the telephone number.

12. A wrist-watch wireless telephone comprising:

two-way wireless telephone circuitry, a microphone, a loudspeaker, a microcontroller, an interactive display screen with a sensitive area which generate an electrical signal upon activation thereof, a watch button for controlling at least one watch function, and a rotational-to-electrical-converter for converting a rotation of the watch button to an electrical control signal,

the microphone, the loudspeaker, and the microcontroller being coupled to the two-way wireless telephone circuitry,

the rotational-to-electrical-converter being coupled to the microcontroller,

the interactive display screen being coupled to the microcontroller and at least in part forming a graphical user-interface, and

the electrical control signal and the electrical signal cooperatively controlling a telephone function.

13. A wrist-watch wireless telephone as claimed in claim 12, wherein the telephone function is name dialing of a far-end user by the near end-user, the electrical control signal controls scrolling of a name list of far-end users, which name list is generated by the microcontroller on the interactive display screen, and the electrical signal causes dialing of a far-end user indicated by the electrical control signal.

14. A wrist-watch wireless telephone as claimed in claim 12, wherein the telephone function is sending a standard message from the near-end user to the far-end user, the electrical control signal controls scrolling of a list of standard messages which is generated by the microcontroller on the interactive display screen, and indicates a standard message to be sent, and the electrical signal causes sending of the indicated standard message.

15. A wrist-watch wireless telephone as claimed in claim 12, wherein the interactive display screen is of a matrix type so as to allow pen sensitive activation of screen coordinates.

16. A wrist-watch wireless telephone as claimed in claim 17, wherein the interactive display screen is of a type so as to allow finger sensitive activation of screen coordinates.

17. A wrist-watch wireless telephone as claimed in claim 12, wherein the loudspeaker is a wireless loudspeaker for attachment to or in an ear of a user of the telephone, the wireless loudspeaker and the wrist-watch wireless telephone comprising a respective transmitter and receiver for exchanging modulated audio signals.