Patent ID: 9692526
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: H04B

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented design tool for designing a body coupled communication apparatus, comprising: a transmitter to generate a transmission signal and coupled to a pair of mutually opposed transmitter plates to transmit the signal via a human body; a receiver coupled to a pair of mutually opposed receiver plates to receive the transmission signal via said human body; a data input to receive parameter values for a set of parameters of a first type and parameter values for a set of parameters of a second type; a data output; and a computation engine to calculate output data and to provide the output data indicative for a predicted performance to the data output, wherein the set of parameters of a first type specify a propagation environment for the signal to be transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver, including at least one of a distance between the human body and the transmitter plates, a distance between the human body and the receiver plates, and signal transmission properties of the human body, wherein the set of parameters of a second type includes at least one design choice relating to one or more of a transmit voltage, a receiver sensitivity, dimensions of the transmission plates, a first area (A