Coupling an electronic skin tattoo to a mobile communication device

A system for providing auxiliary voice input to a mobile communication device (MCD), comprising:

• an electronic skin tattoo capable of being applied to a throat region of a body;
• the electronic skin tattoo further comprising:
• a microphone embedded in the electronic skin tattoo;
• a transceiver that enables wireless communication with the mobile communication device;
• a signal processor comprising circuitry for receiving vocal signals and comparing to a predetermined patterned;
• and
• wherein the electronic skin tattoo is configured to provide an initialization signal as a a wake-up sequence to the MCD based on an audio stream, having the predetermined pattern, as picked up from the throat region of the body.

A method for providing auxiliary voice input to a mobile communication device (MCD), comprising:

• receiving an initialization signal at an electronic skin tattoo embedded with a microphone and transceiver;
• activating acoustic circuitry for the electronic skin tattoo;
• receiving an audio signal from the embedded microphone;
• converting audio signal to digital signal;
• and
• transmitting the digital signal to the MCD.

A method for providing an auxiliary voice input to a mobile communication device (MCD), comprising:

• receiving an audio signal from an embedded microphone within an electronic skin tattoo placed on a throat region of a body;
• converting the audio signal to a digital signal;
• determining whether the audio signal matches a first predetermined pattern;
• and
• sending an initialization signal to the MCD when the audio signal matches the first predetermined pattern;
• and
• transmitting the digital signal to the MCD.