Dmb Receiver and Receiving Method Using Human Body Antenna

• US 20080158432A1
• Filed: 03/13/2006
• Published: 07/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Kang, Sung Weon, Hwang, Jung Hwan, Hyoung, Chang Hee, Park, Duck Gun, Kim, Jin Kyung, Sung, Jin Bong
• Application Number:
  US11/914,070
• Publication Number:
  US 20080158432A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/725
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/24 with receiving set
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/273 Adaptation for carrying or wearing by persons or animals
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/44 using equipment having another main function to serve additionally as an antenna , e.g. means for giving an antenna an aesthetic aspectH01Q1/27 - H01Q1/34 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 9/32 Vertical arrangement of element H01Q9/40 takes precedence

Abstract

Provided is a T-DMB receiver and receiving method using a human body as an antenna. The T-DMB receiver includes: an electrode making contact with a human body; a low frequency amplifier receiving via the electrode a current flowing through the human body due to a DMB broadcasting signal emitted by a terrestrial relay station and amplifying the received current; and an impedance matching circuit located between the electrode and the low frequency amplifier and matching an impedance of the human body with an impedance of the low frequency amplifier. Accordingly, a T-DMB receiver easy to carry without a separate antenna can be implemented.

Claims

1. A terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) receiver using a human body as an antenna, the T-DMB receiver comprising:

an electrode making contact with the human body;

a low frequency amplifier receiving via the electrode a current flowing through the human body due to a DMB broadcasting signal emitted by a terrestrial relay station and amplifying the received current; and

an impedance matching circuit located between the electrode and the low frequency amplifier and matching an impedance of the human body with an impedance of the low frequency amplifier.

2. The T-DMB receiver of claim 1, wherein the low frequency amplifier has a gain characteristic of more than a specific value by which loss of the antenna can be compensated for.

3. The T-DMB receiver of claim 1, wherein the impedance matching circuit is implemented using small-sized lumped elements comprising an inductor and a capacitor.

4. The T-DMB receiver of claim 1, further comprising:

an antenna terminal with which a receiving antenna for DMB broadcasting is combined; and

a signal selection switch for selecting one of a DMB broadcasting signal received through the receiving antenna for DMB broadcasting combined with the antenna terminal and a DMB broadcasting signal amplified by the low frequency amplifier.

5. A terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) relay apparatus using a human body as an antenna, by which T-DMB data is relayed to a T-DMB receiver comprising a high frequency receiver receiving a signal of a high frequency band higher than a frequency of the T-DMB data, the T-DMB relay apparatus comprising:

an electrode making contact with the human body;

a low frequency amplifier receiving via the electrode a current flowing through the human body due to a DMB broadcasting signal and amplifying the received current;

an impedance matching circuit located between the electrode and the low frequency amplifier and matching an impedance of the human body with an impedance of the low frequency amplifier;

a frequency up-converter converting the current amplified by the low frequency amplifier to a high frequency signal corresponding to the high frequency receiver of the T-DMB receiver; and

a transmitting antenna for transmitting the converted signal of high frequency band.

6. The T-DMB relay apparatus of claim 5, wherein in a watch shaped structure, the electrode is located on a bottom surface of the watch-shaped structure, and the low frequency amplifier, the impedance matching circuit, and the frequency up-converter are located inside the watch-shaped structure.

7. A terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) receiver using a human body as an antenna, the T-DMB receiver comprising:

a first receiver receiving a current, which flows through the human body due to a DMB broadcasting signal, via an electrode making contact with the human body, amplifying the received current, and matching impedance with the human body;

a second receiver receiving a DMB broadcasting signal converted to a high frequency signal by a predetermined T-DMB relay apparatus; and

a signal selection switch for selecting a DMB broadcasting signal received through one of the first receiver and the second receiver according to a pre-determined selection signal.

8. The T-DMB receiver of claim 7, wherein the first receiver comprises:

an electrode making contact with the human body;

a low frequency amplifier receiving via the electrode a current flowing through the human body due to a DMB broadcasting signal and amplifying the received current; and

an impedance matching circuit located between the electrode and the low frequency amplifier and matching an impedance of the human body with an impedance of the low frequency amplifier.

9. The T-DMB receiver of claim 7, wherein the second receiver comprises:

a receiving antenna for receiving a DMB broadcasting signal converted to high frequency and transmitted from the T-DMB relay apparatus;

a high frequency amplifier amplifying the DMB broadcasting signal of high frequency; and

a frequency down-converter converting the amplified DMB broadcasting signal to a frequency band of an original DMB broadcasting signal.

10. A terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting (T-DMB) receiving method using a human body, in which a T-DMB signal is received through a T-DMB receiver comprising a predetermined receiving circuit, the method comprising:

matching an impedance of the T-DMB receiver with an impedance of the human body;

measuring a current flowing the human body due to a DMB broadcasting signal after the impedance matching; and

amplifying the measured current.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving a DMB broadcasting signal converted to high frequency and transmitted from a predetermined T-DMB relay apparatus; and

selecting a signal output from the amplifying or the receiving according to a pre-determined selection signal.