INTRODUCTION

You often hear people using the phrase "as blind as a bat"but if bats
could talk, would they criticize us for being "as deaf as a human"? We may
think we're good at hearing things but our ears can detect only a relatively
narrow band of frequencies (sounds of different pitch) centered on the
human voicethe sound we most need to hear. Bats, moths, dolphins, and
various other creatures can hear much higher frequencies of sound beyond
the range of human hearing, which is known as ultrasound.
Human ears can hear sound waves that vibrate in the range from
about 20 times a second (a deep rumbling noise) to about 20,000 times a
second (a high-pitched whistling). (Children can generally hear higherpitched sounds than their parents, because our ability to hear high
frequencies gets worse as we get older.) Speaking more scientifically, we
could say that the sounds we can perceive have a frequency ranging from
2020,000 hertz (Hz).
Suppose you could somehow hit a drum-skin so often that it vibrated
more than 20,000 times per second. You might be able to see the skin
vibrating (just), but you certainly couldn't hear it. No matter how hard you hit
the drum, you wouldn't hear a sound. The drum would still be transmitting
sound waves, but your ears wouldn't be able to recognize them. Bats, dogs,
dolphins, and moths might well hear them, however. Sounds this like, with
frequencies beyond the range of human hearing, are examples of ultrasound.
Ultrasound waves have higher frequencies than normal sound waves,
but they also have shorter wavelengths. In other words, the distance
between one ultrasound wave traveling through the air and the one following
on behind it is much shorter than in a normal sound wave. This has an
important practical effect: ultrasound waves reflect back from things much
better than ordinary sound waves, and that makes them very useful indeed.
Methods and systems for using wireless communication based on
ultrasonic signals, are harmless sound waves. Ultrasonic communication
enable effective and noise free short-range communication for reducing or
even annihilating the hazardous electromagnetic radiation a user is exposed
to when using communication devices having wireless capabilities such as
mobile phones and/or headsets, wireless modems and the like based on
radio frequency (RF) communication.

There is provided a system for reducing user's exposure to

electromagnetic radiation such as RF based radiation when using a
communication device by using ultrasonic signals for short-range
communication. The system includes a transmission module, operatively
associated with a wireless system or device and a receiving module
operatively associated with one or more output devices.
The ultrasonic signals are wirelessly propagated through any one or
more mediums such as air, walls, doors, etc.