US 2010/0245585 A1 · Headset-Based Telecommunications Platform

Abstract

A hands-free wireless wearable GPS enabled video camera and audio-video communications headset, mobile phone and personal media player, capable of real-time two-way and multi-feed wireless voice, data and audio-video streaming, telecommunications, and teleconferencing, coordinated applications, and shared functionality between one or more wirelessly networked headsets or other paired or networked wired or wireless devices and optimized device and data management over multiple wired and wireless network connections. The headset can operate in concert with one or more wired or wireless devices as a paired accessory, as an autonomous hands-free wide area, metro or local area and personal area wireless audio-video communications and multimedia device and/or as a wearable docking station, hot spot and wireless router supporting direct connect multi-device ad-hoc virtual private networking (VPN). The headset has built-in intelligence to choose amongst available network protocols while supporting a variety of onboard, and remote operational controls including a retractable monocular viewfinder display for real time hands-free viewing of captured or received video feed and a duplex data-streaming platform supporting multi-channel communications and optimized data management within the device, within a managed or autonomous federation of devices or other peer-to-peer network configuration.

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Dependent claims

A communications apparatus, comprising:

a housing comprising an attachment assembly for securely retaining said housing proximate to, and in intimate contact, with a user's head, said housing entirely containing and having integrated therein at least:
a power source;
a video camera;
a cellular telephone;
a laser rangefinder
a standalone, hands-free headset comprising a microphone and an earphone/speaker;
a processor, communicatively coupled to said video camera, said cellular telephone, and said standalone, hands-free headset, said processor comprising software and hardware components configured to effect fully autonomous operation, alone or in any combination, of each of said video camera, said cellular telephone, and said standalone, hands-free headset as an independent, wireless networked multimedia device;
said processor further comprising software and hardware components configured to operate, alone or in any combination, of each of said video camera, said cellular telephone, and said standalone, hands-free headset to capture, record, and stream in real-time, two-way and multi-feed voice, data, and audio-video communications;
and
said processor further comprising software and hardware components configured to operate, alone or in any combination, any of each of said video camera, said cellular telephone, and said standalone, hands-free headset as a transceiver via any of a plurality of wired and wireless connections.

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An apparatus, comprising:

a pair of sunglasses having integrated therein:
a processor comprising hardware and software components configured to provide Bluetooth multimedia functions;
OLED or micro-projector lenses comprising displays for binocular, embedded, see-through media display of left and right digital zoom cameras;
a microphone;
embedded and removable flash storage;
a flash Wi-Fi expansion card comprising hardware and software components configured for any of local area networking, interactive real-time VoIP, data and audio-video streaming, and telecommunications via the Internet;
and left and right eye sensors configured to monitor eye and facial movements for eye-to-camera synced automated zoom and hands-free camera control.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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