Smartphone gloves
Abstract
The present invention discloses a glove that allows operating an electronic device having a touch interface while wearing the glove. The glove comprises a glove body and digits coupled to the glove body. At least one of the digits comprises a removably coupled sleeve or cap adapted to cover the tip of thumb and/or finger. Removing of the sleeve exposes the thumb or fingertip for operating the touch interface of electronic device. The invention is advantageous allowing use of naked finger and/or thumb tips while wearing the glove for interacting with touch interface or registering thumb or fingerprints for biometric identification.
Claims
exact text as granted — not AI-modifiedI claim:
1 . A smartphone glove for use with a mobile electronic device having a capacitive touch screen, wherein the glove allows a wearer to interact with capacitive touch screen of a device without removing the glove.
2 . The smartphone glove claimed in claim 1 , wherein the glove includes a traditional glove body configured to cover the palm and back of the hand and finger & thumb sheaths to cover the fingers and thumb.
3 . The smartphone glove claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one of the finger or thumb sheaths is provided with detachable tip opening to allow the tip of finger or thumb to touch the smartphone of the screen in real and develop a conductive transmission for operating the smartphone with ease during extreme weather conditions.
4 . The smartphone glove claimed in claim 1 , wherein the gloves allow quick access to smartphones when users need to wear gloves, by allowing quick thumb and finger access for touch ID authentication, navigation and typing.
5 . The smartphone claimed in claim 1 , wherein the thumb part of the glove remains intact with the rest of the glove by elastic straps that can be easily and quickly retracted back after the use of smartphone.Join the waitlist — get patent alerts
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