US 12,242,678 B2
System for transmitting object related data from a base unit to a mobile unit through a person's body
Valentin Stoia, Bucharest (RO)
Assigned to Microchip Technology Incorporated, Chandler, AZ (US)
Filed by Microchip Technology Incorporated, Chandler, AZ (US)
Filed on Jul. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/228,084.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/397,246, filed on Aug. 11, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0053839 A1, Feb. 15, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 3/0362 (2013.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0362 (2013.01) [G06F 3/16 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04101 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04108 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a base unit associated with a human-selectable actuator, the base unit including:
a base unit capacitive coupling element to provide a base unit-human capacitive coupling between the base unit and a person;
a touch/proximity detection device provided at or proximate the human-selectable actuator to detect touch/proximity events by the person, including a respective touch/proximity event by the person that does not actuate the human-selectable actuator;
a base unit processor; and
base unit transmitter circuitry;
a mobile unit including a mobile unit capacitive coupling element to provide a mobile unit-human capacitive coupling between the mobile unit and the person, a mobile unit processor, and mobile unit receiver circuitry;
wherein the base unit-human capacitive coupling and the mobile unit-human capacitive coupling enable a data transmission connection between the base unit and the mobile unit and passing through the person's body;
the base unit processor to, in response to the touch/proximity detection device detecting the respective touch/proximity event that does not actuate the human-selectable actuator, cause the base unit transmitter circuitry to transmit actuator related data via the data transmission connection passing through the person's body, the actuator related data comprising information identifying an actuator function associated with the human-selectable actuator;
the mobile unit receiver circuitry to receive the actuator related data via the data transmission connection; and
the mobile unit processor to cause an output device to output human-perceptible signals based on the received actuator related data.