RFID Tags, RFIG Transmission Methods And RFID Devices

• US 20110156874A1
• Filed: 07/12/2010
• Published: 06/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: National Taiwan University of Science & Technology (Government of Taiwan)
• Original Assignee: National Taiwan University of Science & Technology (Government of Taiwan)
• Inventors: LIU, Hsin-Chin, LIN, Wang-Chi
• Application Number:
  US12/834,586
• Publication Number:
  US 20110156874A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07749 the record carrier being capable of non-contact communication, e.g. constructional details of the antenna of a non-contact smart card
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07767 the first and second communication means being two different antennas types, e.g. dipole and coil type, or two antennas of the same kind but operating at different frequencies
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10346 the antenna being of the far field type, e.g. HF types or dipoles

Abstract

A radio frequency identification tag for multi-path transmission is provided, including: a plurality of antennas, receiving a wireless signal transmitted by a reader and generating an antenna signal, respectively, and backscattering an encoded and modulated backscatter signal to the reader, in which the polarizations of the plurality of antennas are different; a demodulator, demodulating the antenna signal, to generate a plurality of demodulated signals corresponding to the antenna signal; a signal processor, selecting one of the plurality of demodulated signals or combining the plurality of demodulated signals for processing according to characteristics of the plurality of the demodulated signals to read data and generating a backscatter signal; and a space-time code encode and modulator, encoding and modulating the backscatter signal according to a space-time code to generate the encoded and modulated backscatter signal.

Claims

1. A radio frequency identification tag for multi-path transmission, comprising:

a plurality of antennas, receiving a wireless signal transmitted by a reader and generating an antenna signal, respectively, and backscattering an encoded and modulated backscatter signal to the reader, in which the polarizations of the plurality of antennas are different;

a demodulator, demodulating the antenna signal, to generate a plurality of demodulated signals corresponding to the antenna signal;

a signal processor, selecting one of the plurality of demodulated signals or combining the plurality of demodulated signals for processing according to characteristics of the plurality of the demodulated signals to read data and generating a backscatter signal; and

a space-time code encoding modulator, encoding and modulating the backscatter signal according to a space-time code to generate the encoded and modulated backscatter signal.

2. The radio frequency identification tag of claim 1, wherein the polarizations of the plurality of antennas are mutually orthogonal.

3. The radio frequency identification tag of claim 1, wherein the space-time code is selected from the group consisting of space-time black code (STBC) and space-time trellis code (STTC).

4. The radio frequency identification tag of claim 1, wherein the characteristics of the plurality of the demodulated signals comprise signal power and signal quality.

5. The radio frequency identification tag of claim 1, wherein the demodulator down converts the antenna signal to a baseband signal.

6. The radio frequency identification tag of claim 1, wherein the demodulator further converts the antenna signal in analog to a digital signal.

7. The radio frequency identification tag of claim 1, wherein the plurality of antennas comprises a first antenna and a second antenna, and the polarizations of the first antenna and the second antenna are mutually orthogonal.

8. The radio frequency identification tag of claim 1, wherein the demodulator comprises a first sub-demodulator and a second sub-demodulator, and the first sub-demodulator and the second sub-demodulator demodulate the antenna signal, respectively, to generate the demodulated signals.

9. The radio frequency identification tag of claim 1, wherein the space-time code encoding modulator modulates the retransmission signal by backscatter.

10. The radio frequency identification tag of claim 1, further comprising a power harvester or a battery.

19. A reader for transmitting a wireless signal to said radio frequency identification tag as claimed in claim 1, comprising:

a read antenna, receiving the encoded and modulated backscatter signal transmitted, respectively, by the plurality of antennas;

a channel estimator, estimating a plurality of channel information according to the encoded and modulated backscatter signal; and

a maximum ratio combining device, processing the encoded and modulated backscatter signal according to the encoded and modulated backscatter signal and the plurality of channel information.

11. A radio frequency identification transmission method used for a radio frequency identification system, comprising:

receiving a wireless signal transmitted by a reader by a plurality of antennas and generating an antenna signal, respectively, in which the polarizations of the plurality of antennas are different;

demodulating the antenna signal, respectively, to generate a plurality of demodulated signals corresponding to the antenna signal;

selecting one of the plurality of demodulated signals or combining the plurality of demodulated signals for processing according to characteristics of the plurality of the demodulated signals to read data, and generating an backscatter signal;

encoding and modulating the backscatter signal according to a space-time code to generate the encoded and modulated backscatter signal; and

backscattering the encoded and modulated backscatter signal to the reader, respectively, by the plurality of antennas.

12. The radio frequency identification transmission method of claim 11, wherein the polarizations of the plurality of antennas are mutually orthogonal.

13. The radio frequency identification transmission method of claim 11, wherein the space-time code is selected from the group consisting of space-time black code (STBC) and space-time trellis code (STTC).

14. The radio frequency identification transmission method of claim 11, wherein the characteristics of the plurality of the demodulated signals comprise signal power and signal quality.

15. The radio frequency identification transmission method of claim 11, wherein the demodulating step is by down converting the antenna signal to a baseband signal.

16. The radio frequency identification transmission method of claim 11, wherein the demodulating step further comprises converting the antenna signal in analog to a digital signal.

17. The radio frequency identification transmission method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of antennas comprises a first antenna and a second antenna, and the polarizations of the first antenna and the second antenna are mutually orthogonal.

18. The radio frequency identification transmission method of claim 11, wherein the encoding and modulating step comprises modulating the retransmission signal by backscatter.