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U.S. Patent: 9,092,177
Patent Title
Smart phones that include a digital camera, a touch sensitive screen, support for voice activated commands, and support to at least part of a protocol within IEEE 802.11 standards
Meta Information
Issued Date: July 28, 2015
Inventor: William Ho Chang et al
External Links: UPSTO, Google Patents
Technical Fields
Abstract
A Smart Phone specification is disclosed, the Smart Phone supports voice activated commands and may include a touch sensitive screen, a digital camera, a wireless communication unit supporting at least partly a protocol within IEEE802.11 standards, an operating system, a graphical user interface, an e-mail application, an Internet browsing application, and an application for playing audio or video content. The Smart Phone may provide an application programming interface (API) to support applications. The Smart Phone may further include a microphone, a speaker, and voice activated command functions for receiving voice commands from the user. In some examples, the digital camera of the Smart Phone may take a picture and transfer the picture to an output device. In other examples, the Smart Phone may stream or transfer digital content over the air or wirelessly in response to voice activated commands or selections over the touch sensitive screen.
Sample Claim
1. A Smart Phone supporting both touch sensitive screen and voice activated command interfaces for interacting with a user, the Smart Phone being an Internet-Phone operable for accessing the Internet and having one or more applications with access to digital content, the Smart Phone further being a mobile and wireless information apparatus, the Smart Phone including each of the following applications installed or pre-installed:
a voice communication application,
an e-mail application,
a messaging application,
a digital imaging application,
an audio application,
a video application,
a document creation application,
an Internet browsing application, and
operating system software in the Smart Phone supporting an object model or an application programming interface (API) to facilitate at least one of said messaging application, said e-mail application, said audio application, said video application, said digital imaging application, said document creation application, and said Internet browsing application, individually or in any combination, interfacing with device management applications in the Smart Phone, and
wherein, the Smart Phone is operable to allow the user to install additional applications associated for running on said operating system software to further expand the functionalities of the Smart Phone; the Smart Phone further comprising:
a digital camera for taking pictures,
a touch sensitive screen interface for interacting with the user,
a graphical user interface over the touch sensitive screen,
a microphone interface,
a speaker interface for outputting sound to the user,
a voice activated command function for receiving voice commands from the user over the microphone interface,
a processing unit,
a memory or storage unit for storing at least part of the digital content, and
a wireless communication unit that includes a radio frequency controller and an antenna for establishing radio frequency wireless communication with the Smart Phone, the wireless communication
unit being compatible, at least partly, with at least part of a protocol within IEEE 802.11 standards; and
wherein, the Smart Phone is further operable to:
receive, via the voice activated command function from the user, a request to transmit or output at least part of the digital content from the Smart Phone, the digital content including one or more of an e-mail, audio content, video content, a receipt, a confirmation, a map, a photo, graphics, a web page, and a document, individually or in any combination, and
pass at least part of the digital content from at least one of said audio application, said digital imaging application, said document creation application, said e-mail application, said Internet browsing application, and said video application, individually or in any combination, for transmission or output of at least part of the digital content from the Smart Phone, the passing of at least part of the digital content being facilitated, at least in part, by the object model or the application programming interface (API) supported by the Smart Phone operating system software, and
transmit or output, over the wireless communication unit of the Smart Phone, at least part of the digital content from the Smart Phone;
whereby, the mobile and wireless Smart Phone is operable to receive voice activated commands from the user to transmit or output at least part of the digital content from the Smart Phone; and
wherein, the Smart Phone is further operable to:
take a picture that includes an image with the digital camera included in the Smart Phone,
establish, via the wireless communication unit that is compatible, at least partly, with at least part of a protocol within IEEE 802.11 standards, a radio frequency wireless connection from the Smart Phone to a wireless output device for transfer of at least part of an image associated with the picture taken with the digital camera, and
transfer, via the wireless communication unit included in the Smart Phone, at least part of an image associated with the picture taken with the digital camera over the established radio frequency wireless connection from the Smart Phone to the wireless output device; and
wherein, the mobile and wireless Smart Phone is further operable to receive, via the touch sensitive screen interface of the Smart Phone, a wireless output device from the user for transfer or output of at least part of an image associated with the picture taken with the digital camera of the Smart Phone to the wireless output device over the established radio frequency wireless connection between the Smart Phone and the wireless output device.