System of enabling or disabling a communication device and related methods
View Patent ↗The disclosed technology contemplates use of a communication device in public without a user's voice being overheard by the public. In certain situations, public use of a communication device, even when the conversation is private, may not be appropriate. So, a preferred embodiment of the disclosed technology involves a system of enabling or disabling a communication device. Some embodiments may include computer hardware and memory with voice-recognition software that is configured to receive a user's spoken voice during a test conversation, analyze the voice for its hertz spectrums evident in the test conversation, and subsequently employ the data during active noise cancelation. Suitably, this voice recognized noise cancelation or active noise cancelation via voice algorithm can be used to actively noise cancel a user's voice in a manner that is specifically tailored to the user by directing the sound source to provide an inverted signal that is 180 degrees out of phase with the user's actual voice. In one embodiment, the voice algorithm allows a digital CPU to anticipate the manner, including tonality, rhythm, and cadence, of a user's speaking and predict an appropriately inverted signal so that noise is substantially canceled.
1. A method of privately communicating comprising the steps of:
obtaining a telephone handset or headset comprising—
a suppressor or anechoic chamber disposed at a first point of the handset or headset, said suppressor chamber featuring a mouth opening for engaging in a mouth of a user,
an ear chamber disposed at a second point of the handset or headset with an ear opening for engaging the ear of a user;
an on-phone controller;
simultaneously engaging the mouth opening and ear opening with a mouth and ear respectively;
communicating via the mouth so that air is captured via the suppressor chamber;
employing a wireless remote control to disable the telephone handset or headset via an encrypted radio frequency signal communicated to the on-phone controller.
2. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of vibrating the wireless control as a notification that the handset is disabled.