Via-Human-Body Information Transmission System and Transmitter-Receiver

• US 20080045843A1
• Filed: 12/07/2005
• Published: 02/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Instruments Incorporated (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Instruments Incorporated (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Tsuji, Tomoharu
• Application Number:
  US11/663,104
• Publication Number:
  US 20080045843A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/481
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0006 ECG or EEG signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0028 Body tissue as transmission medium, i.e. transmission systems where the medium is the human body
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 13/005 Transmission systems in which the medium consists of the human body

Abstract

In a via-human-body information transmission system, there is made so as to be capable of more stably transmitting a signal.

An electrode (104) of a transmitter-receiver (102) contacting with or capacitance-connected to a human body (101) and an electrode (108) of a receiver (106) contacting with or capacitance-connected to the human body (101) are electrically connected through the human body (101) (mainly, a chest part and a left arm). An electrode (105) of the transmitter-receiver (102) contacting with or capacitance-connected to the human body (101) and an electrode (109), of the receiver (106), having been disposed while being directed to an outside of the human body (101) are electrically connected by a capacitance connection. A communication between the transmitter-receiver (102) and the receiver (106) is performed through a path passing the electrodes (104, 105, 108, 109) and the human body (101) and a path by the capacitance connection.

Claims

1. A via-human-body information transmission system performing an information transmission between plural communication means through a human body, comprising:

a first communication means which has first and second electrodes contacting with or capacitance-connected to the human body and which is used while being attached to the human body, and

a second communication means which has a third electrode contacting with or capacitance-connected to the human body and a fourth electrode having been disposed while being directed to an outside of the human body and which is used while being attached to the human body,

characterized in that a communication is performed between the first and second communication means by the facts that the first electrode and the third electrode are electrically connected through the human body, and that the second electrode and the fourth electrode are electrically connected by a capacitance connection.

2. A via-human-body information transmission system according to claim 1, characterized in that an organism information of the human body is transmitted between the first communication means and the second communication means, and the first and second electrodes of the first communication means are used both for an electrode detecting the organism information of the human body and for an electrode performing a transmission of the organism information.

3-7. -7. (canceled)

8. A transmitter-receiver characterized by having a filter through which a signal of a predetermined frequency in a signal having been received by an electrode contacting with or capacitance-connected to a human body passes and which outputs it, a heartbeat detecting section detecting a heartbeat signal from an output signal of the filter, a processor section calculating a heartbeat number on the basis of the heartbeat signal having been detected in the heartbeat detecting section to thereby output a heartbeat number data signal denoting the heartbeat number, a modulating section modulating and outputting the heartbeat number data signal, and a data transmitting section outputting the heartbeat number data signal having been modulated in the modulating section from the electrode.

9. A transmitter-receiver according to claim 8, characterized in that a frequency of a carrier signal that the modulating section uses for modulating the heartbeat number data signal is a frequency within a range of 5 MHz-45 MHz.