REMOTE CONTROL APPARATUS USING RFID AND METHOD THEREOF

• US 20110285534A1
• Filed: 05/04/2011
• Published: 11/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LSIS Co. Ltd. (LS Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LSIS Co. Ltd. (LS Corporation)
• Inventors: Park, Hun, Im, Jae Hwan, SEO, Hak Min
• Application Number:
  US13/101,091
• Publication Number:
  US 20110285534A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/572.1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/042 using digital processors G05B19/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/23051 Remote control, enter program remote, detachable programmer
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/25187 Transmission of signals, medium, ultrasonic, radio
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2615 Audio, video, tv, consumer electronics device
• 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 19/07345 by activating or deactivating at least a part of the circuit on the record carrier, e.g. ON/OFF switches
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/30 Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for improving the carbon footprint of the management of residential or tertiary loads, i.e. smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the buildings sector, including also the last stages of power distribution and the control, monitoring or operating management systems at local level
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/20 End-user application control systems

Abstract

Disclosed is a remote control apparatus using an RFID, capable of controlling an object equipment on the basis of control information according to a user input, including a transmitter that includes a plurality of RFID tags that sends control information, to control the object equipment, selected by the user input, and a receiver that includes an RFID reader to receive the control information from the RFID tags and transfers the control information to the object equipment. There are advantages that a problem caused by using a battery in a remote controller can be solved, and a structure of the remote controller becomes simple since a function related with control information input can be mounted internally in or externally on the object equipment.

Claims

1. A remote control apparatus using an RFID, capable of controlling object equipment on the basis of control information according to a user input, the apparatus comprising:

a transmitter that includes a plurality of RFID tags that sends control information, to control the object equipment, selected by the user input; and

a receiver that includes an RFID reader to receive the control information from the RFID tags and transfers the control information to the object equipment.

2. The remote control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the transmitter includes:

a plurality of contact switches; and

a plurality of RFID tags that are electrically connected to the plurality of contact switches, respectively, and send the control information stored in correspondence to each contact switch connected by the user input.

3. The remote control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the contact switches are electrically connected to a plurality of input keys, respectively, the plurality of input keys being used to obtain the user input.

4. The remote control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the contact switches are piezo-electric elements that generate electrical signals by pressure.

5. The remote control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the RFID tags modulate RF signals that are periodically generated by the RFID reader and send the modulated signals as return signals.

6. The remote control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the RFID tags include a power generating unit to generate driving power using the RF signal that is periodically generated by the RFID reader.

7. The remote control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the receiver includes:

an RFID reader that receives control information from the RFID tags; and

a signal processor that converts the control information transferred by the RFID reader and transfers the converted control information to the object equipment.

8. The remote control apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the receiver further includes a synchronizer to perform synchronization between the RFID reader and the signal processor.

9. The remote control apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the RFID reader periodically generates the RF signal in order to receive the control information from the RFID tags, and transmits the control information to the signal processor when the control information is received from the RFID tags.

10. A remote control method using an RFID, capable of controlling object equipment on the basis of control information according to a user input, the method comprising:

(a) sending, by an RFID reader, an RF signal periodically in order that the RFID reader receives control information from RFID tags;

(b) sending, by the RFID tags, the control information according to the user input; and

(c) converting, by the RFID reader, the control information received from the RFID tags and transmitting the converted control information to the object equipment.

11. The remote control method according to claim 10, wherein the step (b) includes sending, by the RFID tags, the control information stored in correspondence to each contact switch connected by a user input.

12. The remote control method according to claim 10, wherein the RFID tags generate driving power using an RF signal that is periodically generated by the RFID reader.

13. The remote control method according to claim 11, wherein the contact switches are piezo-electric elements that generate an electrical signal by pressure.