公开(公告)号：US20190155385A1

公开(公告)日：2019-05-23

申请号：US16308610

申请日：2016-08-08

Applicant: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC

Inventor： BING QIN LIM ,  CHONG KEAT CHUA ,  WAI KUEN GOH ,  KHAY LOON HENG ,  WOOI PING TEOH

IPC: G06F3/01 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W4/10 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: A smart ring (100) provides multi-mode control in a personal area network (PAN). The smart ring has a fingerprint sensor (106) for identifying upon which finger and which finger segment the smart ring is being worn. A controller (902) of the smart ring (100) enables a predetermined PAN device and PAN control function in response to identified finger and finger segment information (1, 2, 3) matching pre-stored fingerprint information. One of the PAN devices is thus selectively enabled and a predetermined function is controlled, based on identification of the finger and finger segment location of the smart ring (100). Several different PAN devices (narrowband radio, body-worn camera, sensors, gun holster, remote speaker microphone, broadband device, to name a few) can be selectively controlled and varied via rotation of the smart ring (100), making the smart ring well suited for public safety applications.