公开(公告)号：US10349212B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-09

申请号：US14859131

申请日：2015-09-18

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Robert Scott Tartz ,  Jay Steven King ,  Aniket Arun Vartak ,  Virginia Walker Keating

IPC: A61B5/00 ,  A61B5/01 ,  A61B5/06 ,  H04B1/38 ,  H04W4/02 ,  A61B5/024 ,  H04B13/00 ,  H04M1/725

Abstract: An electronic device is operated by determining its location on a body of a human or an animal, as an ending point of a path from another electronic device. The path is predetermined by measuring at multiple frequencies, a property indicative of loss of an AC signal that propagates through the body along the path between the pair of electronic devices, to obtain measurements. The multiple measurements are thereafter used to select a particular path through the body, from among a group of paths through the body which are characterized in one or more training phases, e.g. by use of a classifier. After a particular path through the body is identified, based on an ending point of the particular path, an electronic device at that ending point is configured, e.g. by turning on or turning off a specific sensor, or by setting a rate of transmission of data.

公开(公告)号：US20170086023A1

公开(公告)日：2017-03-23

申请号：US14859131

申请日：2015-09-18

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Robert Scott Tartz ,  Jay Steven King ,  Aniket Arun Vartak ,  Virginia Walker Keating

IPC: H04W4/02 ,  H04B13/00 ,  H04M1/725 ,  H04B1/38

CPC classification number: H04W4/023 ,  A61B5/0028 ,  A61B5/01 ,  A61B5/02416 ,  A61B5/06 ,  A61B2562/0219 ,  H04B1/38 ,  H04B13/005 ,  H04M1/72569

Abstract: An electronic device is operated by determining its location on a body of a human or an animal, as an ending point of a path from another electronic device. The path is predetermined by measuring at multiple frequencies, a property indicative of loss of an AC signal that propagates through the body along the path between the pair of electronic devices, to obtain measurements. The multiple measurements are thereafter used to select a particular path through the body, from among a group of paths through the body which are characterized in one or more training phases, e.g. by use of a classifier. After a particular path through the body is identified, based on an ending point of the particular path, an electronic device at that ending point is configured, e.g. by turning on or turning off a specific sensor, or by setting a rate of transmission of data.