Cellular phone with keystroke entry nullification concurrent with vehicular motion
OwnerAlfred Marcuminventor
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Abstract
A wireless communication device such as a cell phone with a screen with a portrait mode and a landscape mode and a motion sensor to disable the portrait mode while in a vehicle in motion to prevent texting and vehicle operation at the same time. The novel wireless communication device includes a continuous grasp and retention device along with an active control device and a passive control device to distinguish between a driver and passenger and prevent vehicle operator texting while allowing passenger texting while the vehicle is in motion.
Claims20
A wireless communications device having a screen with a portrait mode and a landscape mode with an ability to distinguish between a driver and a passenger comprising:
- (a) a communications device housing having a back portion and landscape end portions and wherein the screen is disposed on the front of the housing;
- (b) a proactive on board Micro-Electronic Mechanical (MEM) system having a plurality of motion detection devices disposed entirely within the communications device communicating with each other to detect motion above a predetermined rate;
- (c) a portrait mode disablement device coupled to the proactive on board Micro-Electronic Mechanical (MEM) system to immediately block and disable the portrait mode keypad or input device and mandate the landscape mode with a landscape mode keypad upon detection of the motion above the predetermined rate to provide a first restricted use or blocking state;
- (d) a continuous grasp and retention detection device that requires at least one finger of each hand on the landscape end portions and on the back portion of the communications device housing to enter data on the screen and permit or enable operation of the communication device in response to the first restricted use or blocking state when the proactive on board Micro-Electronic Mechanical device detects the motion above the predetermined rate;
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- (e) a vehicular and/or highway rhythmic vibration detection device coupled to the continuous grasp and retention device to detect vehicular and/or highway body undamped vibration and disable the input of data on the landscape mode keypad and display on the screen to provide a second restricted use or blocking state.
A restrictive technology data entry device to distinguish between a driver and a passenger and to prevent a driver from texting while driving comprising:
- (a) a case or housing having a screen with a portrait display keypad and a landscape display keypad and a communications device disposed inside the case or housing;
- (b) a motion sensor in the case or housing coupled to the communications device to disable the portrait display keypad and mandate the landscape mode with a landscape mode keypad at a predetermined rate of motion to provide a first restricted use or blocking state;
- (c) a continuous grasp and retention device disposed on the case or housing to require a continuous grasp and retention by at least one finger of each hand to allow an input of data on the screen in the landscape mode and permit or enable operation of the communication device in response to the first restricted use or blocking state;
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- (d) a rhythmic vehicular or highway vibration detection device to disable the input of data on the landscape display on the screen upon detection of undamped vehicular or highway vibration to provide a second restrictive use or blocking state.
A cellular telephone apparatus with a restrictive data entry device to distinguish between a driver and a passenger using the cellular telephone apparatus comprising:
- (a) a cellular telephone case with a screen having a tabletop or portrait mode keypad and a landscape mode with a landscape mode keypad and a wireless communications device disposed inside the cellular telephone case;
- (b) a proactive motion sensor disposed inside the cellular telephone case connected to the tabletop or portrait mode keypad to disable the tabletop or portrait mode keypad and mandate the landscape mode and the landscape mode keypad upon detecting a predetermined rate of motion to provide a first restricted use or disablement state;
- (c) a continuous grasp and retention device disposed on a back or a back and side of the cellular telephone case adjacent to each end of the landscape mode keypad that requires a continuous grasp by at least one finger of each hand in order to permit or enable the input of data on the landscape mode keypad in response to the first restricted use or disablement state;
- (d) a multi axis accelerometer to disable the input of data by the driver on the landscape mode keypad upon detection of undamped vehicular or highway rhythmic vibrational motion and
- (e) wherein a communication between the continuous grasp and retention device and the multi axis accelerometer or proactive motion sensor distinguishes between the driver and the passenger by comparing damped and undamped vehicular or highway vibration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.