Mobile Phone Docks with Multiple Circulating Phone Connectors

Abstract

According to embodiments of the invention, systems, methods and devices are directed to a docking assembly for recharging a number of docking phones. The docking phones are complementary to each other to act as dynamic IP cameras with each position of the phones being automatically adjusted in view of obstructing objects moving in front of the docking assembly. As a result, images are produced having the widest field of view angles, thereby eliminating blocking effects from the obstructing objects. The docking assembly may have additional features such as using a round base structure having docking connectors disposed on a circular track around the base structure such that any docking phones, when connected, can be moved freely along the circular track. The phones may work in unison to produce a flat, stitched image by connecting individual images produced by the connected phones.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]This invention is generally related to phone docking assemblies. With more specificity, the phone docking assemblies in this invention can be used for charging as well as using the connecting phones to maximize effectiveness of monitoring the on-going activities of the surrounding environment.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]Accessories of mobile phones, including phone docking assemblies, are becoming ever increasingly popular. A basic phone docking assembly allows a mobile phone connected to the phone docking assembly through a docking connector fixed on the phone docking assembly. When connected to the phone docking assembly, the battery inside the mobile phone can be recharged.[0003]At the same time, the phone docking assembly may include loudspeakers that can be used to play music installed in the mobile phone. The more advanced phone docking assembly may include 2 connectors for charging multiple phone like devices. One good example is a dual dockin...

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Benefits of technology

[0005]According to embodiments of the invention, systems, methods and devices are directed to a docking assembly for recharging a number of docking phones. The docking phones are complementary to each other to act as dynamic IP cameras with each position of the phones be automatically adjusted in view of obstructing objects moving in front of the docking assembly in order to produce images of widest field of view angles eliminating blocking effects from the obstructing objects in form of a flat, combined image. Further in some embodiments, the docking assembly has additional features such as using a round base structure to base docking connectors on a circular track around the base structure so that any docking phones, when connected, can be moved freely along the circular track. In one embodiment, after the phones are inserted onto each docking connector manually by the user, the control unit prompts the digital compass included in each docking connector to determine the current location of the docking connector within the circular track by reporting the direction of the connected mobile phone is facing. In another embodiment, the sensor size and the present focal length from each mobile phone for the control unit is used to compute a summed, entire field of view angle from each view angle from the three connected mobile phones. In yet another embodiment, an image from each lens of the mobile phones for the control unit can be embedded in the rounded base structure to consolidate all the images from all the connected mobile phones. The objective of the embodiment can be used to produce a flat, combined image by connecting the images produced by the connected phones adjacently in order to yield a combined image with the widest area.

[0006]In an embodiment of the disclosed invention, a docking assembly is used for recharging a number of docking phones while the docking phones are complimentary to each other to act as dynamic IP cameras with each position of the phones automatically adjusted in view of obstructing objects moving in front of the docking assembly in order to produce images having the widest field of view angles thereby eliminating blocking effects from the obstructing objects in form of a flat, combined image.

Problems solved by technology

The above uses of mobile phone assemblies are limited to charging batteries and phone speakers.

These uses have undermined the value of using the phone docking assembly as a console to control connected mobile phones as home surveillance systems.

Current home surveillance systems, on the other hand, are too inflexible, rigid, fixed in a location, and more importantly, too noticeable and thus too sustainable to having the suspecting objects to avoid the present cameras of the home surveillance systems.

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