General-Purpose Wearable Computing in everyday life: World's first wristwatch videophone Steve Mann, 1998, June 1999, July 2000 LINUX in Canadian Intellectual Office propriété Patent Details Getting o

General-Purpose Wearable Computing in everyday life:
World's first wristwatch videophone
Steve Mann, 1998, June 1999, July 2000
LINUX in
Canadian Intellectual
Office propriété
Patent Details
Getting out
ivi
Property Office
intellectuelle Canada
Canada
An Agency of
Industry Canada
organisme
d'Industrie Canada
(72) Inventors (Country):
MANN, STEVE (Canada)
Canadian Patents Database
(45) Issued:
2000-10-24
GNU Opens the Door
Patent Summary
1999-06-29
Windows
(22) Filed Date:
MEDUSA
12) Patent:
11) 2275784
(41) Open to Publi:
1999-12-29
Inspection:
for Security
(54) English Title:
WRISTWATCH-BASED VIDEOCONFERENCING SYSTEM
UNDERSTUDY
Examination requested:
1999-06-29
SYSTEME VIDEOCONFERENCE SUR MONTRE-
Clustering Backups
(54) French Title:
BRACELET
30) Availability о!
Yes
licence:
PCI SYMPHONY
JOURN
Networking
The Monthly Magazine of the Linux Communigy
(30) Application Priority Data:
MAPPING
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PREDICT
LIGHTNING
a precision tool
satellite tracking
Application No.
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Date
storm morphology
for technical
goes open-
550
—three spatial
illustration
source
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2,237,939
Canada
1998-06-29
dimensions of
helps coastal
to meteorologists
dwellers
2,247,649
Canada
1998-10-13
battling electrons
510
2,248,473
Canada
1998-10-29
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when the public will be able to buy a "Dick Tracy"
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style watch for Christmas, with estimates ranging
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from almost immediately to not within the next decade.
on
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Steve Mann, a professor at the University of Toronto,
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was hailed as the father of the wearable computer and
tomorrow?
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the ISSCC's first virtual panelist, moderator
4 25
Woodward Yang of Harvard University (Cambridge Mass.)
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A GNU/Linux Wristwatch Videophone
JU+LINUX)
Jul 01, 2000 Steve Mann
in Audio/Video
USA $5.00 CAN $6.50
FIG. 5a: WRISTWATCH VIDEOPHONE
CLOCKFACE
This fully fuctioning prototype, designed and built
Steve Mann in 1998, was demonstrated in 1999, and later used to
deliver a videoconference at ISSCC 2000.
Steve Mannion the
Cite/Reference the above patent and 2000 article:
earComp Project
Title "A GNU/Linux Wristwatch Videophone", Steve Mann, Linux Journal, Issue 75, July, 2000, 86-91+Cover.