System and Components Thereof for Carrying Out Signal Processing Operations Including a Synthetic Aura Suitable for Presence Detection

• US 20080088413A1
• Filed: 11/23/2005
• Published: 04/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: IDENT Technology AG (Microchip Technology Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: IDENT Technology AG (Microchip Technology Incorporated)
• Inventors: Richter, Wolfgang
• Application Number:
  US11/720,003
• Publication Number:
  US 20080088413A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.72
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 25/2027 with data signals passing through the human body
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00793 by Hertzian waves
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2209/64 using a proximity sensor
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00309 operated with bidirectional data transmission between data carrier and locks

Abstract

The invention relates to a system and to the components thereof for carrying out signal processing operations including a synthetic aura which is suitable for presence detection and which the invention is to provide solutions enabling improvements in handling and user security to be obtained synergetically while producing comfort-increasing keyless access circuit systems. This aim is achieved, according to a first aspect of the invention, by means of a system for carrying out signal processing operations, taking into signals which are indicative of an area intrusion. Said system comprises means for generating the signals which are indicative of an area intrusion, based on electrical field interaction effects and circuit provisions, for automatic initiation of operations according to signals which are indicative of an area intrusion.

Claims

1. A remote key access system with:

a radio key that can be activated by a switch device in order to output a radio signal, and

a signal-processing device constructed in the region of the radio key for activation of the switch device,

wherein the signal-processing device includes a receiving device for receiving a signal sequence that can be coupled via a modulated electrical alternating field into a user wearing or carrying the radio key, and wherein further the signal-processing device is configured in such a way that it undertakes activation of the switch device as a function of a data content that can be extracted from the received signal sequence.

2. A remote key access system with a circuit device to be worn or carried by the user and a circuit device provided on the vehicle side, wherein the two circuit devices are constructed in such a way that, upon penetration of limbs of a user into a zone relevant to a switching sequence control, there is generated a switching signal and, based on this switching signal, there is initiated the execution of an authorization routine for communication of a signal sequence used for verification of authorization to the circuit on the vehicle side.

3. A remote key access system according to claim 2, characterized in that a plurality of electrode devices is provided in the zone on the vehicle side, wherein at least one of these electrodes is provided in such a way that it permits detection of the presence of limbs of a living being in zones relevant to danger.

4. A system for executing signal-processing sequences by taking into consideration signals indicative of zone intrusions, wherein this system comprises means for generation of the signals indicative of zone intrusions on the basis of electric-field interaction effects, and circuitry is provided for automatic sequence initiation on the basis of the signals indicative of zone intrusions.

5. A system according to claim 4, characterized in that the system comprises an electrode device for generation of a modulated, quasi-static electric field as well as for obtaining the signal indicative of zone intrusions by way of interaction effects caused by that modulated quasi-static electric field.