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Bioacoustic control system, method and apparatus

Granted 19 Jul 2016 · 6 office actions

Current assignee: AT&T Services · originally AT&T Company

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Inventors: Loren Gilbert Terveen, William Colyer Hill, Brian Amento · Examiner: William Boddie · AU 2625 · TC 2600

Application
11/586,142
filed 25 Oct 2006
Publication
Not published
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US 9,395,819
granted 19 Jul 2016

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Abstract

Bioacoustic sensors and wireless technologies are used for the control of electronic devices, such as wireless telephones, pagers, music/media players or personal laptops and personal digital assistant (PDA) devices. Such control is implemented with certain systems, methods and apparatus which include bioacoustic sensors, a processor coupled to the bioacoustic sensors, and a transmitter coupled to the processor. The present invention is operative to detect particular hand and/or finger gestures, and to transmit control signals corresponding to the gestures for operative control of an electronic device.

Claims

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Classifications

3 codes
IPC · International Patent Classification
Section G — Physics
  • G06F3/01
  • G09G5/00
  • G06F3/0346

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Pendency
9.7 y
3,555 days filing → grant
Office actions
3
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Responses
3
1 RCE
Appeals
1
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Examiner
William Boddie
art unit 2625 · TC 2600
Citations: 190 back · 0 forward

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Priority chain

1 priority documents
Priority
6 Jul 2000
earliest claimed
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provisionalUS 602162076 Jul 2000

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