Data transmission apparatus and data reception apparatus
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsShigeru Tajima, Chisato Numaoka
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Abstract
A user 100 wears a bracelet-type data reception apparatus 200. When the user touches a contact point 402 on an information plate 300, the user receives data via the human body from a data transmission apparatus 200 associated with the information plate 300. The bracelet-type data reception apparatus 200 is provided with a full-color LED 209. Indications on this full-color LED 209 are used for notifying initiation of data reception, data reception in process, completion of data reception, and the like. A similar full-color LED 402 is installed on the information plate for notifying initiation of data transmission, data transmission in process, completion of data transmission, and the like.
Claims11
A data transmission apparatus appropriate to a system for transmitting and receiving signals using a human body as a transmission path, comprising:
- a contact point for data transmission through contact with a human body;
- means for initiating data transmission in response to contact between said contact point and said human body;
- and
- means for notifying completion of data transmission.
A data reception apparatus appropriate to a system for transmitting and receiving signals using a human body as a transmission path, comprising:
- a contact point for data reception through contact with a human body;
- means for initiating data reception in response to contact between said contact point and said human body;
- and
- means for notifying completion of data reception.
A data transmission/reception apparatus having a data transmission apparatus to transmit data through contact with a human body and a data reception apparatus to receive data through contact with a human body for transmitting and receiving signal through the use of a human body as a transmission path, wherein said data transmission apparatus comprising:
- a contact point for data transmission through contact with a human body;
- means for initiating data transmission in response to contact between said contact point and said human body;
- and
- means for notifying completion of data transmission,
- and wherein said data reception apparatus comprising:
- a contact point for data reception through contact with a human body;
- means for initiating data reception in response to contact between said contact point and said human body;
- and
- means for notifying completion of data reception.
A data transmission apparatus appropriate to a system for transmitting and receiving signals using a human body as a transmission path, comprising:
- a contact point for data transmission through contact with a human body;
- and
- means for notifying states of data transmission using said contact point and said human body.
A data reception apparatus appropriate to a system for transmitting and receiving signals using a human body as a transmission path, comprising:
- a contact point for data reception through contact with a human body;
- and
- means for notifying states of data reception using said contact point and said human body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.