BODY-COUPLED COMMUNICATION BASED ON USER DEVICE WITH TOUCH DISPLAY

• US 20140313154A1
• Filed: 03/14/2012
• Published: 10/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Bengtsson, Henrik, Kalogeropoulos, Sarandis, Karlsson, Peter, Svensson, Magnus, Lonnblad, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US13/823,319
• Publication Number:
  US 20140313154A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/174
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 13/005 Transmission systems in which the medium consists of the human body

Abstract

A user device comprising a touch display; one or more memories to store instructions; and one or more processing systems to execute the instructions and cause the touch display to induce a body-coupled signal, in relation to a user of the user device, pertaining to a transmission of data.

Claims

1. A user device comprising:

a touch display;

one or more memories to store instructions; and

one or more processing systems to execute the instructions and cause the touch display to;

induce a body-coupled signal, in relation to a user of the user device, pertaining to a transmission of data.

2. The user device of claim 1, further comprising:

a transmitter to transmit data to be carried by the induced body-coupled signal.

3. The user device of claim 1, wherein the one or more processing systems further execute the instructions and cause the touch display to:

detect a body-coupled signal, in relation to the user of the user device, pertaining to a reception of data carried by the detected body-coupled signal.

4. The user device of claim 3, wherein the touch display comprises a projected capacitance touch architecture, and the user device further comprising:

a receiver to receive data carried by the detected body-coupled signal.

5. The user device of claim 4, wherein the touch display uses mutual capacitance.

6. The user device of claim 1, further comprising:

a recognition component that recognizes at least one of a voice command or a gesture pertaining to a body-coupled communication, wherein the one or more processing systems further execute the instructions and cause the touch display to;

induce the body-coupled signal pertaining to the transmission of data based on the recognition component recognizing the at least one of the voice command of the user or the gesture of the user.

7. The user device of claim 1, wherein the user device comprises a mobile communication device and the touch display is capable of at least one of touch operation or touchless operation.

8. A method comprising:

storing data by a user device;

transmitting the stored data to a touch display of the user device; and

inducing a body-coupled signal, in relation to a user, via the touch display.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the touch display comprises a capacitive-based touch display, and the inducing comprises:

transmitting a current to a driving circuit of the touch display, wherein the current is representative of the stored data.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

detecting a body-coupled signal based on the touch display;

generating a signal based on the detected body-coupled signal; and

restoring data carried by the detected body-coupled signal based on the signal.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the detecting comprises:

detecting capacitive changes via the touch display that are indicative of a body-coupled signal.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

transmitting the signal to a receiver of the user device; and

decoding the signal.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the touch display comprises a projected capacitance touch architecture.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the body-coupled signal comprises payment information.

15. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

recognizing at least one of a voice command or a gesture, and wherein the transmitting comprises;

transmitting the stored data to the touch display of the user device based on a recognition of the at least one of the voice command or the gesture; and

inducing the body-coupled signal, in relation to the user, via the touch display.