Mobile Electronic Device and Data Process System Utilizing the Same

• US 20120052820A1
• Filed: 03/14/2011
• Published: 03/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Inventors: Lin, Hsien-Chang, Chen, Hsi-Chuan
• Application Number:
  US13/047,598
• Publication Number:
  US 20120052820A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/90.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3838 Arrangements for reducing RF exposure to the user, e.g. by changing the shape of the transceiver while in use

Abstract

A portable electronic device switches between antennas in order to decrease specific absorption rate (SAR). When the portable electronic device performs wireless communication, a sensor detects a distance between an object under test and the portable electronic device. The sensor sends a message to a control circuit, and the control circuit switches to a different antenna to decrease SAR.

Claims

1. A portable electronic device, comprising:

a first antenna;

a second antenna;

a detector, detecting a distance between the detector and an object, and generating a message according to the distance; and

a control circuit, receiving the message, and selecting the first antenna or the second antenna to transmit or receive a signal according to the message.

2. The portable electronic device as in claim 1, wherein the first antenna and the second antenna have different radiation patterns.

3. The portable electronic device as in claim 1, wherein the first antenna and the second antenna have different antenna efficiencies.

4. The portable electronic device as in claim 1, wherein the distance between the first antenna and the object is smaller than the distance between the second antenna and the object, wherein the control circuit selects the second antenna when the distance between the first antenna and the object is smaller than a predetermined distance, and the control circuit selects the first antenna when the distance between the first antenna and the object is larger than the predetermined distance.

5. The portable electronic device as in claim 1, wherein the first antenna and the second antenna have the same radio frequency radiation powers.

6. A method for switching between antennas in a portable electronic device having a first antenna and a second antenna, comprising:

detecting a distance from the portable electronic device;

generating a message according to the distance; and

selecting either the first antenna or the second antenna to transmit or receive a signal according to the message.

7. The method as in claim 6, wherein the first antenna and the second antenna have different radiation patterns.

8. The method as in claim 6, wherein the first antenna and the second antenna have different antenna efficiencies.

9. The method as in claim 6, wherein the distance between the first antenna and the object is smaller than the distance between the second antenna and the object, wherein the message indicates that the second antenna should be selected when the distance between the first antenna and the object is smaller than a predetermined distance, and the message indicates that the first antenna should be selected when the distance between the first antenna and the object is larger than the predetermined distance.

10. The method as in claim 6, wherein the first antenna and the second antenna have the same radio frequency radiation powers.

11. A portable electronic device, comprising:

an active antenna, comprising a plurality of child antennas to transmit or receive a signal;

a detector, detecting a distance between the active antenna and an object, and generating a message according to the distance; and

a control circuit, receiving the message, and selecting a first child antenna or the second child antenna among the plurality of child antennas of the active antenna to transmit or receive a signal according to the message.

12. The portable electronic device as in claim 11, wherein the first child antenna and the second child antenna have different radiation patterns.

13. The portable electronic device as in claim 11, wherein the first child antenna and the second child antenna have different antenna efficiencies.

14. The portable electronic device as in claim 11, wherein the first child antenna and the second child antenna have the same radio frequency radiation powers.

15. A portable electronic device, comprising:

a plurality of antennas;

a plurality of detectors, detecting distances, each of which is between each of the plurality of antennas and an object, and generating messages according to the distances; and

a control circuit, receiving the message, and selecting one of the plurality of antennas to transmit or receive a signal according to the message.

16. The portable electronic device as in claim 15, wherein the plurality of antennas have different radiation patterns.

17. The portable electronic device as in claim 15, wherein the plurality of antennas have different antenna efficiencies.

18. The portable electronic device as in claim 15, wherein the control circuit selects one of the plurality of antennas which has the longest distance from the object.

19. The portable electronic device as in claim 15, wherein the plurality of antennas have the same radio frequency radiation powers.