Wireless communication terminal and method for controlling power and using channel by adjusting channel bandwidth of wireless communication terminal

• US 20070265011A1
• Filed: 11/22/2006
• Published: 11/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Young-hwan, Han, Sang-min
• Granted Patent: US 7,706,752 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/437
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/327 Received signal code power [RSCP]

Abstract

A wireless communication terminal and a method for controlling power and using a channel by adjusting a channel bandwidth of the wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal generates a plurality of channels by dividing at least part of a frequency band for ultra-wideband communications to a plurality of frequency bands, receives a chaotic signal having a plurality of frequency components in the channels, and adjusts a frequency bandwidth which forms the channel when a certain condition is satisfied. Accordingly, since the chaotic carrier is transmitted and received in the narrow frequency band by adjusting the frequency bandwidth, the power consumption can be reduced drastically and the high-quality communications are feasible between the portable terminal and the wireless headset in the optimized channel environment. Furthermore, a greater number of portable terminals and wireless headsets can execute the radio communications in a certain wireless communication range.

Claims

1. A wireless communication terminal which generates a plurality of channels by dividing at least part of a frequency band for ultra-wideband communications into a plurality of frequency bands, the wireless communication terminal comprising:

a transmission circuit and a reception circuit which respectively transmit and receive a chaotic signal having a plurality of frequency components in a channel of the plurality of channels channels, and

a channel changing circuit which adjusts a frequency bandwidth which forms the channel when a certain condition is satisfied.

2. The wireless communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the certain condition is a power level of the chaotic signal.

3. The wireless communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the channel changing circuit comprises a power sensor which detects a power level of the chaotic signal.

4. The wireless communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the channel changing circuit comprises:

a filter which changes a frequency bandwidth by adjusting a filtered band of the chaotic signal.

5. The wireless communication terminal of claim 4, wherein the filter is a band pass filter.

6. The wireless communication terminal of claim 4, further comprising:

a controller which generates a control signal to vary a filtered band of the filter according to a power level of the chaotic signal.

7. The wireless communication terminal of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of channels includes a plurality of sub-channels that are a plurality of frequency sub-bands.

8. The wireless communication terminal of claim 7, wherein a controller determines whether to use the sub-channels of a selected channel according to a power level of the received chaotic signal.

9. The wireless communication terminal of claim 8, wherein the controller increases a number of the sub-channels in the selected channel if the power level of the received chaotic signal is lower than a threshold.

10. The wireless communication terminal of claim 7, wherein a controller generates a control signal to increase a number of the sub-channels in use if the chaotic signal is not received within a preset time.

11. The wireless communication terminal of claim 6, wherein the controller linearly increases or decreases the frequency bandwidth according to the power level of the chaotic signal.

12. The wireless communication terminal of claim 6, wherein the controller increases the frequency bandwidth if the power level of the received chaotic signal is low.

13. The wireless communication terminal of claim 1, wherein a guard band of a certain width is formed between neighboring channels, and the chaotic signal is not transmitted and received in the guard band.

14. The wireless communication terminal of claim 1, wherein, if all of the channels within a certain wireless communication range are in use, an available sub-channel of the channels is temporarily allocated to a wireless communication terminal which enters the certain wireless communication range.

15. The wireless communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication terminal is one of a portable terminal, a computer, an MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 player, a radio frequency transceiver, a television, an audio, a personal music player, a personal data assistant, a wireless headset, a wireless mouse, and a computer peripheral.

16. The wireless communication terminal of claim 1, wherein the chaotic signal is received from one of a portable terminal, a computer, an MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, a radio frequency transceiver, a television, a personal music player, a personal data assistant, a wireless headset, a wireless mouse, a computer peripheral, and a speaker.

17. A channel bandwidth adjusting method of a wireless communication terminal, the method comprising:

generating a plurality of channels by dividing at least part of a frequency band for ultra-wideband communications to a plurality of frequency bands, and transmitting a chaotic signal having a plurality of frequency components in a channel of the plurality of channels;

determining communication state of the channel by detecting energy of the chaotic signal;

determining whether to change a frequency bandwidth in the channel according to the channel communication state; and

transmitting and receiving the chaotic signal in a certain frequency band of the channel.

18. The channel bandwidth adjusting method of claim 17, wherein the transmitting of the chaotic signal comprises:

generating a plurality of sub-channels by dividing each of the plurality of channels into a plurality of frequency bands.

19. The channel bandwidth adjusting method of claim 18, wherein the transmitting of the chaotic signal comprises:

transmitting the chaotic signal with the bandwidth of at least one sub-channel of the channel.

20. The channel bandwidth adjusting method of claim 17, wherein the channel communication state is determined by detecting a power level of the received chaotic signal.

21. The channel bandwidth adjusting method of claim 18, wherein the determining whether to change the frequency bandwidth of the channel changes a number of the sub-channels in a selected channel according to a power level of the chaotic signal.

22. The channel bandwidth adjusting method of claim 18, wherein the determining whether to change the frequency bandwidth increases the number of the sub-channels in the selected channel if the chaotic signal is not received within a preset time.

23. The channel bandwidth adjusting method of claim 18, wherein the determining whether to change the frequency bandwidth increases the number of the sub-channels if a power level of the chaotic signal received from a receiver terminal is below a specific level.

24. The channel bandwidth adjusting method of claim 17, wherein the determining whether to change the frequency bandwidth comprises:

linearly increasing or decreasing the frequency bandwidth according to a power level of the received chaotic signal.

25. The channel bandwidth adjusting method of claim 17, wherein the determining whether to change the frequency bandwidth comprises:

increasing the frequency bandwidth when the power level of the received chaotic signal is lower than a threshold.

26. The channel bandwidth adjusting method of claim 17, wherein the determining whether to change the frequency bandwidth comprises:

adjusting the passband bandwidth of a bandpass filter or controlling a signal bandwidth of the chaotic signal generated by a chaotic generator.

27. The channel bandwidth adjusting method of claim 26, wherein the filter is a band pass filter.

28. The channel bandwidth adjusting method of claim 18, further comprising:

temporarily allocating an available sub-channel of the channels to a wireless communication terminal which enters a certain wireless communication range if all the channels within the certain wireless communication range are in use.