WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE

• US 20090237218A1
• Filed: 06/05/2008
• Published: 09/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Nam Yun
• Application Number:
  US12/375,713
• Publication Number:
  US 20090237218A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.300
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0723 the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0726 the arrangement including a circuit for tuning the resonance frequency of an antenna on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/48 Transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication

Abstract

Embodiments relate to a wireless communication device. The embodiment provides a wireless communication device comprising: a reception signal processor demodulating a received signal; a first signal state detector detecting a reception state of a first signal from the received signal; a second signal state detector detecting a reception state of a second signal from the received signal; a transmission signal processor modulating a transmission signal; and a controller controlling a change of a frequency of a channel transmitted to the transmission signal processor depending on a reception state of at least one of the first signal of the first signal state detector and the second signal of the second signal state detector.

Claims

1. A wireless communication device comprising:

a reception signal processor demodulating a received signal;

a first signal state detector detecting a reception state of a first signal from the received signal;

a second signal state detector detecting a reception state of a second signal from the received signal;

a transmission signal processor modulating a transmission signal; and

a controller controlling a change of a frequency of a channel transmitted to the transmission signal processor depending on a reception state of at least one of the first signal of the first signal state detector and the second signal of the second signal state detector.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, comprising:

a reception signal power controller controlling power of a signal received from a reception antenna; and

a first switch unit outputting an output signal of the reception signal power controller to at least one of the reception signal processor, the first signal state detector, and the second signal state detector.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, comprising:

a phase synchronizer generating a local frequency signal in response to a control signal of the controller; and

a first phase shifter supplying the local frequency signal of the phase synchronizer as a first local frequency signal of the same phase to the first signal state detector, and supplying a second local frequency signal of a quadrature phase to the second signal state detector.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the first signal comprises an I signal, and the second signal comprises a Q signal, and

the first signal state detector comprises:

a first mixer mixing the received signal with the first local frequency signal of the same phase to output a baseband first signal;

a first amplifier amplifying the baseband first signal under control of the controller; and

a first attenuator attenuating the baseband first signal under control of the controller.

5. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the second signal state detector comprises:

a second mixer mixing the received signal with the second local frequency signal of the quadrature phase to output a baseband second signal;

a second amplifier amplifying the baseband second signal under control of the controller; and

a second attenuator attenuating the baseband second signal under control of the controller.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, comprising a second switch unit selectively outputting states of the first signal and the second signal detected by the first signal state detector and the second signal state detector to the controller.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller comprises:

a reception state analysis module analyzing a state of at least one of the first signal of the first signal state detector and the second signal of the second signal state detector to output control information; and

a channel multiplexing module changing a frequency of a transmission channel and multiplexing the channel using the control information of the reception state analysis module.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the controller comprises:

a phase control module controlling a phase of a transmission signal in response to the control information of the reception state analysis module;

a phase-locked loop (PLL) control module outputting a control signal to generate a plurality of local frequencies for a channel frequency changed by the channel multiplexing module; and

a reception sensitivity control module controlling reception sensitivities of the first signal state detector and the second signal state detector.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller analyzes at least one of a voltage level, signal power, a signal phase, a recognition distance to a tag device, and whether crosstalk between channel signals occurs using the reception states input from the first signal state detector and the second signal state detector.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmission signal processor comprises:

a digital-to-analog converter converting the transmission signal to an analog signal;

a third phase shifter outputting a third local frequency signal of the same phase and a fourth local frequency signal of a quadrature phase;

a third mixer mixing the analog signal with the third local frequency signal to output a first RF signal;

a fourth mixer mixing the analog signal with the fourth local frequency signal to output a second RF signal;

a signal synthesizer synthesizing the first RF signal and the second RF signal; and

an amplifier amplifying power of a signal synthesized by the signal synthesizer to deliver the signal to an antenna.

11. A wireless communication device comprising:

a mixer converting a received signal into a baseband first signal and a baseband second signal;

a plurality of first signal processors sequentially amplifying the baseband first signal and cutting the signal to a predetermined level to output a positive square wave;

a plurality of second signal processors sequentially amplifying the baseband second signal and cutting the signal to a predetermined level to output a negative square wave;

a summer summing the positive and negative square wave signals output from the plurality of first signal processors and second signal processors to output corresponding digital signals; and

a controller recognizing the digital signals of the summer as reception information.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the mixer comprises:

a first mixer converting the received signal into the baseband first signal; and

a second mixer converting the received signal into the baseband second signal, and

the summer comprises;

a first summer summing outputs from the first signal processors to output a first digital signal; and

a second summer summing outputs from the second signal processors to output a second digital signal.

13. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein each of the first signal processors comprises:

a voltage gain amplifier amplifying the baseband first signal or the previously cut baseband first signal;

a limiter cutting the signal amplified by the voltage gain amplifier to a predetermined voltage level; and

a detector detecting a positive component from the signal cut by the limiter to output the same to the summer.

14. The apparatus according to claim 11, comprising:

a first filter located at the first signal processor to remove a noise mixed with the baseband first signal; and

a second filter located at the second signal processor to remove a noise component mixed with the baseband second signal.

15. A wireless communication device comprising:

a first mixer mixing a signal corresponding to an operation section of a tag device with a first local frequency signal to output an energy signal;

a second mixer mixing a signal corresponding to an operation section of a reader device with a second local frequency signal to output a data signal; and

a synthesizer synthesizing the energy signal of the first mixer and the data signal of the second mixer to output a reader device signal.

16. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the signals in the operation section of the tag device and the operation section of the reader device comprise an electronic product code (EPC) generation-2 ultra high frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) protocol.

17. The apparatus according to claim 15, comprising:

a first phase synchronizer supplying the first local frequency signal in an industrial scientific and medical (ISM) band to the first mixer; and

a second phase synchronizer supplying the second local frequency signal in an ultra high frequency (UHF) band to the second mixer.

18. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the signal in the operation section of the tag device comprises at least one of a first time interval T1 during which communication authority is transferred to the tag device;

a second time interval T2 taken for the tag device to demodulate a reader signal;

a third time interval T3 which is a standby time after the communication authority is transferred to the tag device; and

a continuous wave (CW) transmitted during a fourth time interval T4 secured as a minimum time between reader commands.

19. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the signal in the operation section of the reader device comprises at least one of command data delivered during a ready state, an arbitrate state, a reply state, and an acknowledged state, and an open state.

20. The apparatus according to claim 15, comprising:

a controller outputting a first signal and a second signal as the signal in the operation section of the tag device, and outputting a first signal and a second signal as the signal in the operation section of the reader device;

a first summer summing the first and second signals output in the operation section of the tag device to output to the first mixer; and

a second summer summing the first and second signals output in the operation section of the reader device to output to the second mixer.