Mobile telephone dog training tool and method

摘要

A mobile telephone adapts to use as a gundog training tool by interfacing with a dog collar using a wireless communication device, such as a WWAN text or IP interface, a WLAN interface or a radio transceiver that couples to the mobile telephone and is accessible to a training application running on the mobile telephone. The dog collar includes a GPS receiver to provide position information to the mobile telephone and a shock device to provide training stimulus to the dog. A wireless headset interfaces with the mobile telephone to provide audible indications of position to an end user, such as a dog point and tone indicators of directions to the dog. A wireless handset interfaces with the mobile telephone to accept inputs for application to the collar, such as training stimulus.

主权项

1. A dog training tool comprising:
a mobile telephone having a processor, memory, GPS receiver and a communication module operable to establish a WWAN interface with a mobile telephone circuit, a WPAN interface with a WPAN and a WLAN interface with a WLAN; an adapter having a controller, a WPAN interface and a VHF transceiver, the adapter communicating with the mobile telephone through the WPAN interface; a collar adapted to couple to a dog, the collar having a VHF transceiver operable to communicate with the adapter, an accelerometer operable to detect movement of the collar and having a GPS receiver operable to detect a GPS position, the VHF transceiver configured to send the GPS position to the adapter upon detection of movement by said accelerometer of the dog collar by a predetermined distance from the GPS position at which the VHF transceiver last sent a GPS position, and to send the GPS position after a predetermined time elapses if the detection of movement of the dog collar by the predetermined distance does not take place before the predetermined time elapses; and a training application stored in memory of the mobile telephone and operable to execute on the processor of the mobile telephone, the training application operable to present the GPS position received by the adapter through the adapter VHF transceiver and forwarded from the adapter to the mobile telephone through the WPAN interface, the training application present the GPS position on a display of the mobile telephone.