FIELD OF THE INVENTION:

[0001] The invention relates to portable electronic devices and, more specifically, to a personal electronic device that includes a personal alarm.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION:

[0002] Some Personal electronic devices generate alerts when a panic button is pressed. However Panic Alerts generated by a panic button are easily reproducible.
So another user can easily generate a false panic alarm because the panic buttons are defined. Also some devices are having programmable key combinations. These key combinations are programmed by the user. However, it is difficult to press the key combination in panic situations.
Also it is difficult to generate the panic alarm by pressing key combinations without the notice of the personal around.
[0003] Products with shake option are another method to generate panic alerts. In these types of products shake sensitivity can be adjusted to avoid false trigger but all types of shakes above that threshold will generate panic alerts by the electronic device.
Falling of the mobile in the ground, user activities like jumping, running and jogging while keeping the electronic device with the user may trigger the false panic alarm. Also another user can easily generate false panic alarms by shaking the device above set threshold level of shake sensitivity.
[0004] Therefore, there is a need for a fool proof personnel alarm integrated with a personal electronic device.

OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION:

[0005] One of the objects of the invention is to provide a system to generate panic alerts in a personal electronic device by detecting a predefined shake pattern and send text messages to predefined telephone numbers.
[0006] Another object of the invention is to provide a cellular phone capable of voice communication to a remote device.
[0007] Another object of the invention is to capture the location information from GPS and sends to predefined numbers with time stamp during panic alert generation.
[0008] Yet another more object of the invention is to obtain Location Area Code and CelllD when GPS information is not available and perform the reverse geo-coding to get the appropriate place name of the area where the user triggered the panic alert.
[0009] One more object of the invention is to capture images during panic alert generation and send to the predefined numbers.
[00010] Another object of the invention is to capture videos during panic alert generation and send to the predefined numbers.
[00011] Yet another object of the invention is to provide a system which will connect to the police control room during panic alert and speak out pre-recorded voice along with the place name and user personal information.
[00012] Yet another object of the invention is to provide a system which connects to one of the predefined numbers and send sounds in surroundings during the generation of panic alert.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION:
In accordance with one aspect, the present invention, which achieves the objectives, relates to an integrated electronic apparatus for fool proof panic alert system comprising a cellular telephone having electronic circuitry necessary to operate telephone;
a motion sensor circuitry to identify shake pattern of said electronic apparatus; a means for voice communication to a remote device; a means for storing an users defined shake pattern; a GPS System to find its location information; a LCD panel with touch screen to display the actions and outputs;
a camera capable of taking still images and video; a means for sending text message to predefined telephone numbers; and a detachable battery whereby the said apparatus generates a personal alarm when device is shaken similar to the user defined pattern with which it is already trained and sends predefined text messages to predefined numbers with time stamp during panic alert generation.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[00013] The features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the ensuing detailed description of the invention taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
[00014] Figure 1 depicts some of the shake patterns
[00015] Figure 2 depicts a personal electronic device, in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
[00016] Figure 3 shows one of the artificial neural network architecture
[00017] Figure 4 shows the architecture of the system related to the invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[00018] A preferred embodiment of the invention is now described in detail. The architecture of the system related to the invention is shown in Figure 4.

[00019] As shown in the Figure 2, personal electronic device includes a cellular telephone having electronic circuitry necessary to operate telephone. The telephone circuitry is also capable to transfer the data to a remote place.
This data transfer may be achieved with the help of GPRS, 3G or similar technologies. In normal operation, the electronic device is connected to one of the mobile service providers to perform voice or data transfer.
The telephone circuitry of the personal electronic device will transfer the voice of the user or surroundings with the help of a MIC attached with the electronic circuitry in the electronic device.
The telephone circuitry of the personal electronic device will receive the voice from a remote place and reproduce in the speaker attached with the telephone circuitry available in the device.
[00020] The personal electronic device also consists of an electronic circuitry with a motion sensor to identify the movement of the electronic device in X, Y, Z axis.
The motion sensor electronic circuitry provides the values corresponding to the three axis movement of the personal electronic device.
The software in the memory of the personal electronic device can capture the values corresponding to the movement of the device.
The values coming from the motion can distinguish the pattern of movement of the personal electronic device in X, Y and Z axis by the software residing in the memory of the personal electronic device.
[00021] The above mentioned electronic device also consists of a camera to take pictures of the nearby surrounding as still images or videos.
The camera can be operated either by the software in the personal device or by the user with a few key presses. The telephone circuitry and associated software can transfer the image(s) or video from the camera to a remote location.
[00022] The personal electronic device also consists of a GPS system to find its position when there are three or more GPS satellite views in the sky.
The software in the memory of the personal electronic device is capable of taking the values from the GPS system and converts into latitude longitude of the present position of the personal electronic device.
[00023] The personal electronic device also consists of an LCD panel which is used to display the actions and outputs from the software residing in the memory.
The LCD panel is also attached with the touch panel to accept the user input actions which is option to the key presses.
[00024] A detachable battery is electrically coupled to the telephony circuitry, motion sensor circuitry, GPS system, camera, memory, keypad and LCD panel of the personnel electronic device.
[00025] The personal electronic device generates panic alerts by detecting a predefined shake pattern and send text messages to predefined telephone numbers.
These preferred telephone numbers are preconfigured by the user. The text message contains the information that there is a panic situation for the user, present location and the time at which the panic alert generated.
The current position of the user is captured from the GPS system attached with the personal electronic device. If there is no GPS fix due to lack of visibility of GPS satellites alternate method will be used to capture the position.
[00026] As an alternate method, Location Area code and Cell ID provided by the service provider will be read from the telephonic circuitry by the software residing in the memory of the personal electronic device.
These data are less accurate than the GPS coordinates but sufficient to locate the area where the user is presently available.
[00027] If there is no mobile network available at the time of generating the panic alert, the software will store the information along with the present GPS coordinates.
Once the mobile network is available software will forward this information to the intended users. If there is no GPS information available at the time of generating alerts, it will use the alternate method as mentioned above prior to forward the information.

[00028] The software informs the user to train the personal electronic device for the preferred shake pattern.
[00029] When the user shakes the personal electronic device, a set of time varying values will be generated from the motion sensor circuitry.
These values are captured by the software residing in the memory of the personnel electronic device for further processing. The time varying values will be generated from the motion sensor circuitry depends on the shake pattern.
[00030] As shown in Figure 1, the user can select a specific pattern which is easy to remember like shake in one plane then shake in a perpendicular plane with a short duration, move the mobile like the shape of a cross in the air, move the phone in air with the shape of a preferred digit like 4 or 6 etc., move the phone in air as if writing one of user's preferred alphabets in his/her language etc.
[00031] Since the shake pattern is generated by the human being it is difficult to represent it using a system with a set of mathematical equations.
Hence it is difficult to identify the similarities or differences in patterns generated by the user of the personal electronic device using conventional computer algorithms.
Artificial Neural network is one of the appropriate models to solve the problems such as to identify the similarity in patterns generated by the user. Artificial neural network uses the time varying data generated from the motion sensor.
The weights connecting between neurons of the artificial neural network system are adjusted based on the preferred output for the given pattern. The number of output nodes decides the required pattern variations to be stored.
[00032] Artificial neural Network is used to recognize the pattern generated by the personal electronic device while the user shakes the device in a particular way.
The user has to generate the pattern sufficient number of times to train the software.
During the training the weights of the connected links between neurons of the artificial neural network is adjusted to get a desired output.
The weights are adjusted such a way that to trigger the same output node when the pattern of shaking of the personal electronic device is similar. Figure 3 shows one of the artificial neural network architecture.
[00033] If the training data is not sufficient or the user is not able to generate similar patterns subsequently the software will report that there is insufficient data for the training of the artificial neural network system.
Then the user has to select another pattern which is easily reproducible or the user has to carefully reproduce similar patterns sufficient number of times.
[00034] The software in the memory of the personal electronic device lets the user to test the panic alert feature.
The software identifies the shake pattern and shows the success of generation of panic alert if the user is able to generate a similar pattern that is used for training.
[00035] When the personal electronic device is subjected to a shake pattern similar to the trained one a series of actions will be performed.
The software in the memory of the electronic device reads the location information from the GPS system attached with the device. It also reads the current time from the electronic device and composes a predefined text message with current location from GPS and the time stamp.
If there is no GPS fix alternatively the software reads Location Area Code (LAC) and Cell ID provided by the network service provider.
[00036] If there is no mobile network, the software stores the text message in a temporary location in the memory of the personal electronic device. In such cases, the location area code and Cell ID will not be available.
These values will be fetched when the mobile network is available and forward the text message stored in the personnel electronic device to the predefined mobile numbers.
Once it is successfully transferred, the used temporary locations in the memory of the personal electronic device will be erased to make space for future use.
[00037] If there is mobile network the composed text message or the message already stored will be forwarded to all predefined mobile numbers. Personal electronic device also turns the camera and captures the images in front of the camera.
The camera will be turned on only after the shake completed to get clear pictures. One or many images will be captured by the software and send to the predefined mobile numbers.
MMS or similar technology may be used to transfer images to predefined numbers. If the mobile network is not available, the images will be stored locally in the temporary memory of the personal electronic device.
When the mobile network is available, all stored images available in the temporary locations in the memory of the personal electronic device will be forwarded to the intended remote location. Once it is successfully transferred, the used temporary locations in the memory of the personal electronic device will be erased to make space for future use.

[00038] The Personal electronic device will do video capture if the user turned on the settings in the option.
The captured video will transfer to a remote location via video streaming. To perform a high speed data transfer, 3G or similar technologies may be used. If the mobile network is not available, the software in the memory of the personal electronic device will store it in a temporary location in the memory subjected to allowable size.
When the mobile network is available, all stored information from the temporary locations in the memory of the personal electronic device will be transferred to the intended remote locations. Once it is successfully transferred, the used temporary locations in the memory of the personal electronic device will be erased to make space for future use.
[00039] The personal electronic device reads the latitude and longitude information from the GPS system attached and submits to a Webservice to perform the reverse geo-coding.
The Webservice then provides the appropriate place name in text format to the personal electronic device. If the GPS fix is not there, in indoor or not direct view to the GPS satellites, the personal electronic device will read the location area code (LAC) and Celled and submit to a Webservice hosted in a remote computer.
web service will perform the reverse geo-coding and provide the place name to the personnel electronic device. If the user settings prefer to do so, the personal electronic device connects to the police control room and speaks out the pre-recorded voice along with the place name and latitude/longitude or LAC and CelllD.
This prerecorded voice may also contains the information such as name of the user, Social Security Number, "I am in trouble" or "Please help me". This is similar to 911 features but automatically speak out all relevant information to the police control room for their immediate action.

[00040] Then the software will make a voice call to the predefined numbers in the order so that if it fails to connect to the first number it will try with the second predefined mobile number and so on.
This step will continue till the personal electronic device will be able to connect one of the predefined numbers.
Once the personal electronic device connects to the remote device, it will capture the voice from the surrounding and sends to the remote device.
The user of the remote device will be able to hear the sound in the surroundings so that to know more about the panic situation.

[00041] The software in the memory of the personal electronic device provides the user defined setup to enable or disable voice alerts, police control room alerts, image and video capture as well as the mobile numbers to be contacted and send text messages.

[00042] While my above description contains many specificities, these should not be construed as limitations on the scope of the invention.
It should be appreciated that the embodiments described are for purpose of illustration only, and that numerous alterations and modifications may be practiced by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
It is intended that all such modifications and alterations be included insofar as they come within the scope of the invention as claimed or the equivalents thereof.
[00043] Accordingly, the scope of the invention should be determined not by the embodiments illustrated, but by the appended claims and their legal equivalents.
We claim:
1. An integrated electronic apparatus for fool proof panic alert system comprising:
a) a cellular telephone having electronic circuitry necessary to operate telephone;
b) a motion sensor circuitry to identify shake pattern of said electronic apparatus;
c) a means for voice communication to a remote device;
d) a means for storing an users defined shake pattern;
e) a GPS System to find its location information;
f) a LCD panel with touch screen to display the actions and outputs;
g) a camera capable of taking still images and video;
h) a means for sending text message to predefined telephone numbers; and
i) a detachable battery

Whereby the said apparatus generates a personal alarm when device is shaken similar to the user defined pattern with which it is already trained and sends predefined text messages to predefined numbers with time stamp during panic alert generation.
2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 further comprising Location Area Code and Cellld to allow ge-coding to obtain location information when GPS information is not available.
3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a camera which captures images and/or videos during panic alert generation.
4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a means for connecting to the police control room during panic alert and speaking out pre-recorded voice along with the place name and user personal information
5. The apparatus as claimed in claimed 1 further comprising a mic which connects to one of the predefined numbers and sends sounds in surroundings during the generation of panic alert.
6. A process for providing a fool proof panic alert system which comprises the steps of:
a) training a personal electronic device for a preferred shake pattern;
b) generating a set of time varying values from a motion sensor circuitry based on the shake pattern;
c) saving the values in a software residing in the memory of the electronic device;
d) monitoring the personal electronic device for any similar shake patterns using artificial neural network;
e) using GPS or alternate methods to determine location of the device;
f) sending predefined text message with current location and time stamp to predefined mobile numbers.
7. The process as claimed in claim 6 which further comprises reading Location Area Code (LAC) and Cell ID to determine location of the device
8. The process as claimed in claim 6 which further comprises capturing video and/or images for transmission to predefined mobile numbers.