Patent ID: 9651992
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: A44C,G06F,H04M

Claim:
1. A finger-wearable computing device comprising: a processor, and a memory; a ring-type holder having a wall extending circumferentially around a longitudinally extending axis, wherein the wall extends longitudinally of the axis between a first open end and a second open end positioned in an opposed relationship relative to the first open end, wherein the wall defines an open interior bore extending between the first open end and the opposed second open end, wherein the open interior bore is sufficiently sized as to slidably receive a wearer's index finger therein and wherein the wall is correspondingly sized to overlie and matingly engage with the wearer's index finger positioned in the open interior bore so as to retain the ring-type holder in a user-selected position overlying the wearer's index finger, and wherein the wall defines an inner surface so exposed to the open interior bore as to contact the wearer's index finger received therein; a first display operatively coupled with the processor and the memory to display an output therefrom, wherein the first display is resiliently flexible, wherein the first display comprises a first microphone-speaker and a second microphone-speaker at opposite ends of the first display, wherein the first microphone-speaker is at a first end of the first display, when worn on a wearer's left hand, that is toward a proximal end of a wearer's left index finger and, when worn on a wearer's right hand, that is toward a distal end of a wearer's right index finger, wherein the second microphone-speaker is at a second end of the first display, when worn on the wearer's left hand, that is toward a distal end of the wearer's left index finger and, when worn on the wearer's right hand, that is toward a proximal end of the wearer's right index finger, and wherein the processor is configured to operate the first microphone-speaker as a microphone and the second microphone-speaker as a speaker when the finger-wearable computing device is worn on the wearer's left hand for up-to-the-ear phone use, and is configured to operate the first microphone-speaker as a speaker and the second microphone-speaker as a microphone when the finger-wearable computing device is worn on the wearer's right hand for up-to-the-ear phone use; and a second display operatively coupled with the processor and the memory to display an output therefrom and defining a user input device positioned outward of the wall and in opposed relationship to a wearer's thumb when the wearer's index finger is matingly engaged within the open interior bore defined by the wall, wherein the user input device is operatively coupled with the processor and the memory to permit a wearer to invoke machine executable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to perform a selected task, and wherein the first display is relatively larger than the second display and is operatively coupled with the second display so as to reproduce a display output from the second display on the first display and to provide an indicator of a relative location of the wearer's thumb in relation to a surface of the user input device; wherein the first display is flexibly coupled to the wall of the ring-type holder and configured to pivot between an open position in which the output on the first display and the output on the second display are viewable by the wearer and a closed position in which the first display covers the output on the second display and conforms to a shape of the wall.