Source: https://patents.justia.com/patent/20110159920
Timestamp: 2019-10-16 06:46:39
Document Index: 412717542

Matched Legal Cases: ['Application No. 61', 'Application No. 61', 'Application No. 61', 'Application No. 61', 'Application No. 61', 'Application No. 61', 'Application No. 61', 'Application No. 61', 'Application No. 61']

US Patent Application for METHOD AND SYSTEM TO MINIMIZE RADIATION EXPOSURE FROM MOBILE PHONES AND DEVICES Patent Application (Application #20110159920 issued June 30, 2011) - Justia Patents Search
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This application is a non-provisional application claiming priority of co-pending provisional applications: Application No. 61/290,492 entitled METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RADIO WAVE SHIELDING THROUGH INCORPORATION OF DIELECTRIC MATERIAL WAVE BARRIER IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE filed Dec. 28, 2009; Application No. 61/290,493 entitled METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RADIO WAVE SHIELDING THROUGH INCORPORATION OF A TRANSPARENT, SEMI-TRANSPARENT, OR OPAQUE DIELECTRIC filed Dec. 28, 2009; Application No. 61/290,854 entitled METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RADIO WAVE SHIELDING THROUGH INCORPORATION OF A TRANSPARENT, SEMI-TRANSPARENT, OR OPAQUE OR SOLID DIELECTRIC WAVE BARRIER FOR THE FACEPLATE OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICES, INCLUDING CELLULAR TELEPHONE, PORTABLE TELEPHONE, AND HANDHELD RADIO AND ENTERTAINMENT DEVICES filed Dec. 29, 2009; Application No. 61/312,060 entitled HINGED FOLD-OVER SWITCH ACTIVATING DISTANCE INSERTION DEVICE filed Mar. 9, 2010; Application No. 61/312,159 entitled SPRING-LOADED SWING-OUT ARM DISTANCE INSERTION DEVICE FOR APPLICATION TO CELLULAR TELEPHONES filed Mar. 9, 2010; Application No. 61/315,316 entitled SONIC-SWITCH DISTANCE WARNING DEVICE FOR APPLICATION TO CELLULAR TELEPHONES filed Mar. 18, 2010; Application No. 61/316,778 entitled DEPTH OF FIELD TUNED AND PATTERN RECOGNITION PROXIMITY WARNING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR APPLICATION TO CELLULAR TELEPHONES AND OTHER RADIO TRANSMISSION EQUIPMENT filed Mar. 23, 2010; Application No. 61/332,021 entitled PROXIMITY WARNING SOFTWARE FOR CELLULAR TELEPHONES APPLICATIONS filed May 6, 2010; and Application No. 61/377,824 entitled ANGLE OF INCIDENCE MEASUREMENT BASED WARNING DEVICE FOR CELL TELEPHONES filed Aug. 27, 2010. The entirety of each referenced provisional application is incorporated herein by reference.
This application is also co-pending and claims priority benefit of non-provisional application Ser. No. ______ entitled METHOD AND SYSTEM TO SHIELD MOBILE PHONES AND DEVICES TO MINIMIZE RADIATION EXPOSURE filed Dec. 23, 2010. The entirety of which is also incorporated herein by reference.
Scientific studies [i.e., H. Lai et al, from the University of Washington, 1984, 1988, and as presented in 1998, Vienna, Austria, and 2009 in Stavanger, Norway; O. Johansson, Associate Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, and Professor, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, as presented in 2009 at Stavanger, Norway; Carl F. Blackman a founder of the Bioelectromagnetics Society, as presented in 2009, at Stavanger, Norway; Martin Blank, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Columbia University, as presented in 2009 Stavanger, Norway, Franz Adlkofer, M.D., doctorate from the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry as presented at Stavanger Norway, 2009, also the following presenters at the International EMF Conference 2009 at Stavanger, Norway: Lukas h. Margaritis, Ph.D., Greece; Elihu D. Richter, M D, M.P.H., Israel; Alvaro Agusto A. de Salles, Ph.D., Brazil; Fredrik Soderqvist, Ph.D., Sweden, Yuri G. Grigoriev M.D. Sci., Russia; Anton V. Merkulov Ph.D., Russia] have shown potential health risks, in some instances showing DNA breakage, as associated with human exposure to non-ionizing radio wave sources, including but not limited to those emitted from mobile telephone devices and handsets, including but not limited to cellular telephones, satellite telephones, cordless telephones, and also portable computers, including those equipped with wi fi connectivity capacity. Continuing research supports that such health risks as may be associated with proximity to non-ionizing radiation will be reduced if level of exposure is reduced.
The use of resident auto-focus image acquisition chip equipment and circuitry with a mobile device or similar device, where a micro-processor is used to define a focus level, through comparison with an electronically stored database of suitable physical characteristics/aspects of the user such that through encounter of a predefined image sharpness level, corresponding to a desired and programmed depth of field, so that a range of distance may be determined to be within desired parameters for the initiation of a warning signal to the end user. If desired a time-in-contact parameter may also be incorporated, such that when a desired level of proximity to the head is encountered, such warning or broadcast signal interruption occurs to be within a safe limit The use of a simple fixed depth of field camera device, such as a CMOS module, but including all manner of lens, such that when a particular mixture of colors (such as corresponding to ranges of human head coloration near the ear), or when a particular level of shadings (such as corresponding to ranges of human head coloration near the ear) is encountered (recognized) by said image obtainment device, and a switch or series of microprocessor switches is there, by such image recognition at such passive depth of field so activated, that an audible warning thereby does arise, and, in the instance of prolonged exposure beyond such passively set depth of field, or within two or more such programmed depths of field as a range, broadcast signal may be thereby interrupted, thereby reducing the exposure of the end user of a cellular or similar device to micro-wave or other wave lengths of radio broadcast signal.
1. A method to alert a user of a mobile device that a safe threshold of absorbed radiation has been exceeded, comprising
establishing angles of incident of the mobile device corresponding with its use by the user for communication;
monitoring the angle of incident of the mobile device for the established angles of incident;
accruing the time during which the angle of incident of the mobile device is within the established angles of incident;
determining a value based at least in part on the accrued time and a transmit power level of the mobile device; and,
comparing the value with a predetermined threshold and if the value exceeds the predetermined threshold alerting the user.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the alert is an audio signal emitted by the mobile device speaker.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the alert is a visual signal emitted by the mobile device display.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the alert is a vibratory response by the mobile device.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of establishing angles of incident includes monitoring angle of incident during communication sessions.
6. The method of claim 5, further comprising monitoring angles of incident during communications sessions over a predetermined control period.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein said transmit power level of the mobile device is selected from one of the group consisting of average transmit power of the mobile device, peak transmit power, a measure of transmit power during the accrued time, a maximum transmit power level during the accrued time, and a running average of the power level.
8. A method of preventing excessive exposure of a user from a mobile device during communication with a mobile device comprising
Comparing the proximity to a predetermined threshold and alerting the user if the threshold is exceeded.
9. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of alerting the user comprises an audio signal, a visual signal, a vibratory, tactile, thermal, electrical or interruption of communication.
10. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of alerting the user further comprises adjusting an intensity of the alert based on the degree to which the threshold is exceeded.
11. The method of claim 8, wherein the emitted wave is an electromagnetic wave outside the visible light spectrum or a sound wave outside the audible spectrum.
12. The method of claim 8, wherein the threshold is a function of accrued exposure
13. The method of claim 8, wherein the threshold is a function of instantaneous exposure.
a radio transmitter and a radio receiver for radio communications;
a speaker and a microphone operationally connected to the transceiver to allow for voice communication a wave source and a wave receiver;
a switch for disabling the transmitter;
a processor operably connected to the wave source and wave receiver,
said processor causing the wave source to emit a wave and determining if a proximity of the mobile device has exceeded a threshold based on the emitted wave and a reflected wave detected by the receiver and controlling a switch based on whether the threshold is exceeded.
15. The mobile device of claim 14, wherein the wave source and the wave receiver are the radio transmitter and radio receiver respectively.
16. The mobile device of claim 14, wherein the wave source and the wave receiver are the speaker and microphone respectively.
17. The mobile device of claim 14, further comprising an override circuit preventing the transmitter for being disabled for a predetermined period subsequent to the threshold being exceeded.
18. A method of preventing excessive exposure of a user from a mobile device during communication with a mobile device comprising
obtaining an image proximate to the speaker of the mobile device
determining characteristics of the image and comparing the determined characteristics with one or more stored characteristics from a database
determining a proximity of the mobile device to the user based on the comparison of the determined and stored characteristics;
wherein the step of comparing the determined characteristics with one or more stored characteristics comprises pattern recognition processing.
wherein the obtaining an image proximate to the speaker of the mobile device further comprises activating an auto focus module to determine a depth of field range and taking an image at the depth of field range.
21. The method of claim 18, wherein the image is obtained when the mobile device is within an angular range corresponding to a handset to ear orientation for speech.
22. The method of claim 18, wherein the characteristics are selected from the group consisting of aspect ratio, color, refraction, spectrum or thermal.
23. A mobile device for wireless communication comprising:
a transmitter broadcasting electromagnetic waves; the receiver and the transmitter enabling wireless voice communication from a user;
a transmitting antenna in operably connected to the transmitter
a ear piece and a mouth piece;
a physical barrier defining a predetermined distance between the transmitting antenna of the mobile device and a user's head during normal voice communication via the mobile device;
a switch operable connected to the transmitter and configured to allow or disallow the operation of the transmitter;
wherein the predetermined distance is reflective of at least the transmitting power level of the device and a predetermined safe exposure limit;
wherein the physical barrier is positionable in one of two position, a first position during normal voice communication and a second position; and
wherein said physical barrier engages the switch while in said first position to allow the operation of the transmitter or engages the switch while in the second position to disallow operation of the transmitter.
24. The mobile device of claim 23, wherein physical barrier automatically position in the first position upon dialing, answering or powering on the mobile device.
25. The mobile device of claim 23, wherein the physical barrier comprises two or more physical barriers together defining the predetermined distance.
26. The mobile device of claim 23, wherein the switch is depressed to allow transmission.
27. The mobile device of claim 23, wherein the switch is depressed to disallow transmission.
28. The mobile device of claim 23, wherein the physical barrier is automatically positioned by bias springs in the first or second position.
29. The mobile device of claim 28, wherein the physical barrier is locked in the first or second position by friction.
Patent Grant number: 9191055
Application Number: 12/978,142