INTELLIGENT PERSONAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE
An intelligent personal communication device, such as a cellular phone, integrates and interfaces an array of sensors to detect the components in the air so that information regarding the objects or materials that produced the air components can be quickly available to the user of the intelligent personal communication device.
1 . An intelligent personal communication device, comprising:
a sensor module configured to detect air component information of a scent in a user environment;
a communication module being configured:
to send the air component information to a remote computer system for searching in a database to obtain scent identification information associated with the air component information, and
to receive the scent identification information associated with the air component information; and
a display module for displaying the scent identification information.
2 . The intelligent personal communication device of claim 1 , in which the scent identification information indicates an object or material that produced the scent.
3 . The intelligent personal communication device of claim 1 , in which the sensor module comprises an array of semiconductor gas sensors.
4 . The intelligent personal communication device of claim 1 , in which the intelligent personal communication device comprises a cellular phone, wireless phone, satellite phone, smart phone, and/or microwave phone.
5 . A computer system to provide information to a user of a personal communication device, comprising:
a memory device; and
at least one processor coupled to the memory device, the at least one processor being configured:
to receive position information of an entity and entity information from the entity;
to receive position information of the personal communication device from the personal communication device;
to derive a distance between a position of the entity and a position of the personal communication device; and
to send the information about the entity to the personal communication device when the distance is less than a predetermined value.
6 . The computer system of claim 5 , in which the personal communication device comprises a cellular phone, wireless phone, satellite phone, smart phone, and/or microwave phone.