Patents Portfolio
U.S. Patent: 10,860,290
Patent Title
Mobile information apparatuses that include a digital camera, a touch sensitive screen interface, support for voice activated commands, and a wireless communication chip or chipset supporting IEEE 802.11
Meta Information
Issued Date: Aug 17, 2021
Inventor: William Ho Chang et al
External Links: UPSTO, Google Patents
Technical Fields
Abstract
Information apparatus specifications that include voice activated command functions are disclosed and enabled. The information apparatus may include a touch sensitive screen, a digital camera, a wireless communication unit, 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 information apparatus operating system supports an application programming interface (API). A user can install additional applications. The information apparatus may further include a microphone and a speaker for interacting via voice commands with the user. In some examples, the user may take a picture with the digital camera included in the information apparatus and transfer or synchronize the picture to a wireless output device. In other examples, the information apparatus may further wirelessly play, print, stream, or mirror digital content, via the touch sensitive screen, to an output device.
Sample Claim
1. An information apparatus supporting both touch sensitive screen interface and voice activated command interface for interacting with a user, the information apparatus being a mobile and wireless information apparatus, the information apparatus including one or more applications with access to digital content, the information apparatus comprising:
a digital capturing device for capturing data, the digital capturing device being at least a digital camera for taking pictures or a video camera for capturing at least video, a touch sensitive screen, a graphical user interface over the touch sensitive screen for interacting with the user, a voice activated command function for receiving voice commands from the user for outputting or playing at least part of the digital content, one or more processors, memory or storage storing at least a portion of the digital content, and one or more wireless communication units that include circuitry, one or more radio frequency controllers for radio frequency wireless communication, and at least one antenna, the one or more wireless communication units being compatible, at least in part, with at least a protocol within IEEE 802.11 wireless standards or within Bluetooth specifications; and
wherein the one or more applications are installed or preinstalled in the information apparatus, the one or more applications include: an e-mail application, a digital imaging application, an audio application,a video application, a document editing application, and an Internet browsing application; and wherein the information apparatus further includes operating system software supporting an object model or an application programming interface (API) to facilitate operation of the one or more applications included in the information apparatus; and
wherein the information apparatus is operable to allow the user to install additional applications for running on the operating system software to further expand functionalities of the information apparatus; and wherein the information apparatus is further operable to:
(1) capture, using the digital capturing device included in the information apparatus, the data;
(2) couple, using the one or more wireless communication units of the information apparatus, the information apparatus to a wireless local area network;
(3) wirelessly discover, using the one or more wireless communication units of the information apparatus, one or more wireless output devices that are available in the wireless local area network coupled in (2);
(4) display, on the touch sensitive screen of the information apparatus, one or more items that are related to the one or more wireless output devices that are wirelessly discovered in (3) to be available in the wireless local area network coupled in (2), the one or more wireless output devices being distinct devices from the information apparatus;
(5) receive, from the user and using the touch sensitive screen of the information apparatus, selection of an item, which is related to a selected wireless output device, from among the one or more items that are displayed on the touch sensitive screen in (4) for user selection; and
(6) wirelessly transfer, using the one or more wireless communication units of the information apparatus and over the wireless local area network coupled in (2), from the information apparatus to the wireless output device selected in (5), at least part of the data captured by the digital capturing device of the information apparatus in (1); and wherein the information apparatus is a mobile and wireless information apparatus that is at least one of a smart phone, an information pad, a digital pad, an ebook, an Internet appliance, or a digital camera, individually or in any combination; and wherein the wireless transfer of at least part of the data in (6) is based, at least in part, on the information apparatus having received, using the touch sensitive screen of the information apparatus and from the user, the selection of the item related to the selected wireless output device in (5); and wherein at least part of the data captured by the digital capturing device of the information apparatus in (1) includes image data or video data or audio data.