MOBILE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE WITH HUMAN INTERFACE DIVERSITY ANTENNA AND RELATED METHODS
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Abstract
A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable handheld housing, and a wireless transceiver carried by the housing. A pair of an antennas are positioned in side-by-side relation preferably in the upper portion of the portable handheld housing. A human interface diversity controller is connected to the wireless transceiver to preferentially operate with the plurality of antennas based upon a relative position of the portable handheld housing with respect to a hand of a human user. The device can select or weight the antennas based upon the position of the device when being held by a user.
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50 Claims
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26. A mobile wireless communication device comprising:
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a portable handheld housing;
a wireless transceiver carried by said portable handheld housing;
a circuit board carried by said portable handheld housing;
a plurality of antennas positioned in side-by-side relation in said portable handheld housing;
each antenna comprising a conductive loop branch on said circuit board to define an open loop antenna configuration, and at least one conductive feed branch on said circuit board and connected to said conductive loop branch to define at least one feed point; and
a human interface diversity controller connected to said wireless transceiver to preferentially operate with the plurality of antennas based upon a relative position of said portable handheld housing with respect to a hand of a human user. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A mobile wireless communication device comprising:
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a portable handheld housing having opposing parallel front and back surfaces;
a wireless transceiver carried by said portable handheld housing;
a circuit board carried by said portable handheld housing;
a plurality of antennas arranged in side-by-side relation in an upper portion of the portable handheld housing and extending in a plane parallel to the front and back surfaces thereof;
each antenna comprising a conductive loop branch on said circuit board to define an open loop antenna configuration, and at least one conductive feed branch on said circuit board and connected to said conductive loop branch to define at least one feed point; and
a human interface diversity controller connected to said wireless transceiver to preferentially weight transmit signals to the plurality of antennas based upon received signal strength. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43, 44)
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45. A method of operating a mobile wireless communications device to account for different human interface, the mobile wireless communications device including a portable handheld housing and a wireless transceiver therein, and a pair of antennas side-by-side in an upper portion of the portable handheld housing and connected to the wireless transceiver, each antenna comprising a conductive loop branch on a circuit board to define an open loop antenna configuration, and at least one conductive feed branch on the circuit board and connected to the conductive loop branch to define at least one feed point, the method comprising:
controlling the wireless transceiver to preferentially operate with the pair of antennas based upon a relative position of the portable handheld housing with respect to a hand of a human user. - View Dependent Claims (46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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