Data transmission system and wearable communication device

• US 20040155790A1
• Filed: 01/16/2004
• Published: 08/12/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tomoharu Tsuji
• Original Assignee: Tomoharu Tsuji
• Inventors: Tsuji, Tomoharu
• Application Number:
  US10/759,355
• Publication Number:
  US 20040155790A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/825.21
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/16 in which the return channel carries supervisory signals, e.g. repetition request signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/08 the synchronisation signals recurring cyclically
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0216 using a pre-established activity schedule, e.g. traffic indication frame
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0219 where the power saving management affects multiple terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/00 Synchronisation arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/04 Scheduled access hybrid access H04W74/02
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A data transmission system for transmitting data among a plurality of electronic apparatuses each having a communication function, in which power consumption of the electronic apparatuses can be reduced, and data transmission among the electronic apparatuses can be surely carried out. In a communication standby state, an information processing unit transmits a synchronous signal at given intervals of X seconds, a biological information processing unit has a reception period corresponding to a timing synchronous with the synchronous signal, and the information processing unit and the biological information processing unit are synchronized with each other. In this state, after the information processing unit transmits a data request signal, the biological information processing unit transmits data Log1 to Log3 which have respective predetermined lengths and which are obtained through a division process. After the end of the data transmission, the operation state returns back to the communication standby state again, in which the information processing unit and the biological information processing unit are synchronized with each other.

Claims

1. A data transmission system comprising:

a first electronic apparatus to transmit a synchronous signal at given intervals;

a second electronic apparatus which has reception periods synchronous with the respective synchronous signals, and which receives the synchronous signal for each of the reception periods.

2. A data transmission system according to claim 1,

wherein the second electronic apparatus comprises communication means for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless manner, and storage means for storing therein at least identification information,

wherein the communication means, when receiving the synchronous signal containing therein the identification information stored in the storage means, sets in itself a reception period corresponding to a timing synchronous with the synchronous signal.

3. A data transmission system according to claim 2,

wherein the communication means, when receiving the synchronous signal by carrying out a scanning operation continuous in terms of time, sets in itself a reception period corresponding to a timing synchronous with the synchronous signal.

4. A data transmission system according to claim 2,

wherein the communication means, when receiving the synchronous signal by carrying out a scanning operation plural times at given intervals, sets in itself a reception period corresponding to a timing synchronous with the synchronous signal.

5. A data transmission system according to claim 2,

wherein the first electronic apparatus transmits a data request signal at a timing synchronous with the synchronous signal;

the storage means of the second electronic apparatus stores data to be transmitted; and

the communication means, in response to the data request signal received for the reception period, transmits the data stored in the storage means.

6. A data transmission system according to claim 5,

wherein the first electronic apparatus, after receiving a data transmission end signal transmitted from the second electronic apparatus and then transmitting a verification signal to the second electronic apparatus, transmits the synchronous signal at the given intervals, and the communication means of the second electronic apparatus, after end of the transmission of the data, transmits the data transmission end signal, and after receiving the verification signal, sets in itself the reception period synchronous with the synchronous signal.

7. A wearable communication device, comprising:

communication means for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless manner; and

storage means for storing therein at least identification information;

wherein the communication means, when receiving the synchronous signal containing therein the identification information stored in the storage means, sets in itself a reception period corresponding to a timing synchronous with the synchronous signal.

8. A wearable communication device according to claim 7,

wherein the communication means, when receiving the synchronous signal by carrying out a scanning operation continuous in terms of time, sets in itself a reception period corresponding to a timing synchronous with the synchronous signal.

9. A wearable communication device according to claim 7,

wherein the communication means, when receiving the synchronous signal by carrying out a scanning operation plural times at given intervals, sets in itself a reception period corresponding to a timing synchronous with the synchronous signal.

10. A wearable communication device according to claim 7,

wherein the storage means stores data to be transmitted, and the communication means, in response to the data request signal received for the reception period, transmits the data stored in the storage means.

11. A wearable communication device according to claim 10,

wherein the communication means, after end of the transmission of the data, transmits the data transmission end signal, and after receiving the verification signal, sets in itself the reception period synchronous with the synchronous signal.