Channel adaptive human body communication system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9948404-B2
Application number	US-201715402039-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 9, 2017
Priority date	Jan 19, 2016
Publication date	Apr 17, 2018
Grant date	Apr 17, 2018

Abstract

Provided is a human body communication system including a master device configured to output a first signal based on a first data signal and a signal having a pattern in which a waveform of a first carrier wave and a waveform of a second carrier wave are repeated; and a slave device configured to receive the first signal to determine a carrier wave having a low level of attenuation among the first carrier wave and the second carrier wave, and output a second signal based on the determined carrier wave and a second data signal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A human body communication system comprising:
a master device configured to output a first signal comprising a repeating sequence of a first carrier wave carrying first data and a second carrier wave carrying the first data; and
a slave device configured to receive the first signal, to determine a carrier wave having a lowest level of attenuation among the first carrier wave and the second carrier wave, and to output a second signal in which a second data signal is encoded on the carrier wave with the lowest level of attenuation.

2. The human body communication system of claim 1 , wherein a frequency of the first carrier wave is higher than a frequency of the second carrier wave.

3. The human body communication system of claim 1 , wherein the master device comprises:
a first transmission module configured to output the first signal based on the first data signal and a signal having a pattern in which the waveform of the first carrier wave and the waveform of the second carrier wave are repeated, according to a first transmission control signal;
a first reception module configured to receive the second signal and to output a first reception control signal and a first reception data signal; and
a first control device configured to determine a carrier wave having a low attenuation level based on the first reception control signal.

4. The human body communication system of claim 3 , wherein the first control device is configured to adjust the first transmission control signal to output the first signal based on the determined carrier wave.

5. The human body communication system of claim 3 , wherein the first control device is configured to
output the first data signal based on a first input signal, and
output a first output signal based on the first reception data signal.

6. The human body communication system of claim 3 , wherein the first transmission module comprises:
a local oscillator configured to output a carrier wave that has a high frequency;
a switching circuit configured to select output electrodes to which ground of the first transmission module is connected, according to the first transmission control signal;
a modulation signal generation circuit configured to output a modulation signal according to the first transmission control signal and the first data signal;
a driver circuit configured to amplify and output the modulation signal to have a power level suitable for communication; and
a signal application electrode configured to be attached to a human body and deliver the amplified modulation signal to inside of the human body,
wherein the output electrodes comprise a contact ground electrode that is configured to be attached to the human body, and an external coupling electrode that is configured to be connected to reference ground.

7. The human body communication system of claim 6 , wherein the modulation signal generation circuit comprises:
a divider configured to output the carrier wave without a change or to output the carrier wave after a decrease in frequency of the carrier wave according to the first transmission control signal; and
a modulator configured to output the modulation signal based on an output signal from the divider and the first data signal.

8. The human body communication system of claim 3 , wherein the first reception module comprises:
a filter circuit configured to remove a noise signal from the received second signal;
an envelope detection circuit configured to detect an envelope signal from the received second signal; and
an attenuation detection circuit configured to detect attenuation information in relation to a frequency according to the envelope signal from the received second signal, and output the detected attenuation information as the first reception control signal.

9. The human body communication system of claim 1 , wherein the slave device comprises:
a second transmission module configured to output the second signal according to a second transmission control signal;
a second reception module configured to receive the first signal to output a second reception control signal and a second reception data signal; and
a second control device configured to determine a carrier wave having a lower attenuation level among the first carrier wave and the second carrier wave based on the second reception control signal.

10. The human body communication system of claim 9 , wherein the second control device is configured to
output the second data signal based on a second input signal, and
output a second output signal based on the second reception data signal.

11. The human body communication system of claim 9 , wherein the second control device is configured to
adjust the second transmission control signal to output the second signal based on a signal having a pattern in which the waveform of the first carrier wave and the waveform of the second carrier wave are repeated, and
comprise and output attenuation information determined through the second reception control signal in the second data signal.

12. The human body communication system of claim 11 , wherein the second transmission module outputs the second signal based on the second data signal and the second transmission control signal.

13. The human body communication system of claim 12 , wherein the first reception module outputs a first reception data signal and a first reception control signal based on the second signal, wherein the first reception control signal comprises attenuation information determined through the second control device and attenuation information in relation to a frequency of the second signal detected by the first reception module.

14. The human body communication system of claim 13 , wherein the second control device is configured to
receive the first reception control signal to compare the attenuation information determined by the second control device with the attenuation information in relation to the frequency of the second signal detected by the first reception module, and
adjust the first transmission control signal to output the first signal based on a carrier wave having a low attenuation level in a case where as a result of the comparison, there is a match.

15. The human body communication system of claim 14 , wherein the second control device adjusts the second transmission control signal to output the second signal based on a carrier wave having the low attenuation level in a case where the first signal is generated based on the carrier wave having the low attenuation level.

16. The human body communication system of claim 14 , wherein the second control device adjusts the first transmission control signal to allow the first signal to have a pattern in which a waveform of a signal generated based on the first carrier wave and a waveform of a signal generated based on the second carrier wave are repeated in a case where as a result of the comparison, there is a mismatch.

17. A human body communication system comprising:
a slave device configured to output an output signal corresponding to a first signal to an external device, to receive the first signal to determine a carrier wave having a low attenuation level, and to output a second signal based on the determined carrier wave and carrier wave data corresponding to the determined carrier wave; and
a master device configured to receive an input signal and the second signal to output the first signal,
wherein the first signal has a pattern in which a first carrier wave having a first frequency and a second carrier wave having a second freq

Assignees

• Electronics & Telecommunications Res Inst

Inventors

• Hyoung Chang Hee

Classifications

• H04W4/008

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04B13/005 Primary

  Transmission systems in which the medium consists of the human body · CPC title

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title