Information processing apparatus

• US 7,667,657 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2005
• Issued: 02/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Holdings Incorporated (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Koshiji, Fukuro
• Primary Examiner(s): CHEN, SHIH CHAO
• Application Number:
  US11/791,621
• Publication Number:
  US 20080129621A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,572 Days
• Field of Search: 343/718, 343/741, 343/793, 343/872, 343/702, 343/878, 343/893
• US Class Current: 343/718
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0242 adapted to measure environmental factors, e.g. temperature, pollution
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/411 Detecting or monitoring allergy or intolerance reactions to an allergenic agent or substance
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6822 Neck
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 13/005 Transmission systems in which the medium consists of the human body

Abstract

The subject is to provide an information processing apparatus serving as a wearable device, which makes it possible not only to reduce the divergence of data toward the peripheral spaces, but also to eliminate the electrode to be contacted to the surface of the living body when wearing it, and further, which is superior in the transmitting efficiency. The information processing apparatus is provided with information processing section 101 to conduct various kinds of information processing; wearing section 170 to make the information processing section wearable onto a living body, by surrounding a part of the living body; antenna section 180 formed in the wearing section and serving as either a loop antenna or a dipole antenna; and communicating section 160 to conduct a wireless communication with an external device by transmitting data, processed by the information processing section, to the external device through the antenna section, or by feeding data, received from the external device through the antenna section, into the information processing section.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

an information processing section to conduct various kinds of information processing;

a wearing section to surround a part of a living body, so as to make the information processing section wearable onto the living body;

an antenna section that serves as one of a loop antenna and a dipole antenna, integrally formed in the wearing section; and

a communicating section to at least one of transmit data, processed in the information processing section, to an external device through the antenna section, and receive data, sent from the external device and to be fed into the information processing section, in order to implement wireless communication with the external device;

wherein data transmitting operations are conducted between the information processing apparatus and another information processing apparatus, both of which are worn on the same living body.

2. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the wearing section is formed in a closed annulus shape.

3. The information processing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the wearing section is formed in any one of a one-side open rectangular shape, a character “

C”

shape and a character “

U”

shape.

4. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an information processing section to conduct various kinds of information processing;

a wearing section to surround a part of a living body, so as to make the information processing section wearable onto the living body;

an antenna section that serves as one of a loop antenna and a dipole antenna, integrally formed in the wearing section;

a communicating section to at least one of transmit data, processed in the information processing section to a external device through the antenna section, and receive data, sent from the external device and to be fed into the information processing section, in order to implement wireless communication with the external device; and

a sensor to detect at least one of living body information in regard to the living body and environmental information in regard to a peripheral space;

wherein the at least one of the living body information and the environmental information, detected by the sensor, are processed in the information processing section, and the processed data is transmitted to the external device through the communication section and the antenna section.