IRDA converter tag

• US 10,026,377 B2
• Filed: 11/12/2015
• Issued: 07/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hand Held Products Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hand Held Products Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Inventors: Smith, Taylor
• Primary Examiner(s): Haupt, Kristy A
• Application Number:
  US14/939,012
• Publication Number:
  US 20170140731A1
• Time in Patent Office: 978 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0702 the arrangement including a battery
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/00 Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 23/04 using light waves, e.g. infrared
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2330/02 Details of power systems and of start or stop of display operation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/18 Use of optical transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/005 Adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/47 using RFID associated with sensors
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2209/50 using a mobile data collecting device, e.g. walk by or drive by
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

An infrared converter tag device is disclosed. A housing contains an infrared receiver that is ported through the housing to receive infrared encoded data and provide an electrical signal representing the encoded infrared data as an output. A display or a radio transmitter is provided and a processor is programmed to receive the electrical signal output from the infrared receiver and convert the output to a signal that is provided to the display where the display represents the signal as a visual image or provide a signal that is transmitted as an RF signal.

Claims

1. A device, comprising:

a housing containing;

an infrared receiver that is ported through the housing to receive infrared encoded data and provide an electrical signal representing the encoded infrared data as an output;

a display; and

a processor that is programmed to receive the electrical signal output from the infrared receiver and convert the output to a signal that is provided to the display where the display represents the signal as a visual image.

2. The device according to claim 1, where the processor is programmed to convert the electrical signal to a signal that is represented on the display as a visual image of a bar code.

3. The device according to claim 1, where the processor is programmed to convert the electrical signal to a signal that is represented on the display as alphanumeric characters.

4. The device according to claim 1, further comprising a radio transmitter;

and

where the processor is further programmed to convert the electrical signal to a signal that is transmitted by the radio transmitter.

5. The device according to claim 4, where the radio transmitter transmits radio signals that are compliant with at least one of BlueTooth standard, Near Field Communications, Wireless Local Area Network;

Wireless Wide Area Networks and Radio Frequency Identifiers.

6. The device according to claim 1, further comprising an attachment mechanism that is used to attach the housing to a legacy device so as to permit infrared signals to pass to the infrared receiver.

7. The device according to claim 6, further comprising an infrared pass-through that permits the infrared signal to pass through the housing so that the infrared signal can be read by an infrared reader.

8. The device according to claim 7, further comprising a battery that powers the infrared receiver, the display and the processor.

9. The device according to claim 8, further comprising a battery that powers the infrared receiver, the display and the processor.

10. A device, comprising:

a housing containing;

an infrared receiver that is ported through the housing to receive infrared encoded data and provide an electrical signal representing the encoded infrared data as an output;

a radio transmitter; and

a processor that is programmed to convert the electrical signal to a signal that is transmitted by the radio transmitter.

11. The device according to claim 10, where the radio transmitter transmits radio signals that are compliant with at least one of BlueTooth standard, Near Field Communications, Wireless Local Area Network;

Wireless Wide Area Networks and Radio Frequency Identifiers.

12. The device according to claim 10, where the processor is further programmed to receive the electrical signal output from the infrared receiver and convert the output to a signal that is provided to the display where the display represents the signal as a visual image.

13. The device according to claim 12, where the processor is programmed to convert the electrical signal to a signal that is represented on the display as a visual image of a bar code.

14. The device according to claim 12, where the processor is programmed to convert the electrical signal to a signal that is represented on the display as alphanumeric characters.

15. The device according to claim 10, further comprising an attachment mechanism that is used to attach the housing to a legacy device so as to permit infrared signals to pass to the infrared receiver.

16. The device according to claim 10, further comprising an infrared pass-through that permits the infrared signal to pass through the housing so that the infrared signal can be read by an infrared reader.

17. A device, comprising:

a housing containing;

an infrared receiver that is ported through the housing to receive infrared encoded data and provide an electrical signal representing the encoded infrared data as an output;

a radio frequency transmitter;

a display;

an attachment mechanism that is used to attach the housing to a legacy device so as to permit infrared signals to pass to the infrared receiver;

a processor that is programmed to;

receive the electrical signal output from the infrared receiver,

convert the output to a signal that is provided to the display where the display represents the signal as a visual image, and

convert the electrical signal to a signal that is transmitted by the radio transmitter; and

a battery that powers the infrared receiver, the radio frequency transmitter, the display, and the processor.

18. The device according to claim 17, where the processor is programmed to convert the electrical signal to a signal that is represented on the display as a visual image of a bar code or of alphanumeric characters.

19. The device according to claim 17, where the radio transmitter transmits radio signals that are compliant with at least one of BlueTooth standard, Near Field Communications, Wireless Local Area Network;

Wireless Wide Area Networks and Radio Frequency Identifiers.

20. The device according to claim 17, further comprising an infrared pass-through that permits the infrared signal to pass through the housing so that the infrared signal can be read by an infrared reader.