COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE HAVING MULTIPLE ANTENNAS, AND METHOD OF OPERATING COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE

• US 20160134354A1
• Filed: 11/05/2015
• Published: 05/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: KIM, Seong Yeon, KIM, Hong In
• Application Number:
  US14/933,424
• Publication Number:
  US 20160134354A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0802 using antenna selection H04B7/0868 takes precedence; antenna beam directivity switching H01Q3/24
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

A communications device includes: antennas; and a communications controller configured to control each of the antennas to have a plurality of transmission and reception intervals, respectively, and to transmit or receive a plurality of signals according to the transmission or reception intervals.

Claims

1. A communications device, comprising:

antennas; and

a communications controller configured to control each of the antennas to have a plurality of transmission or reception intervals, and to transmit and receive a plurality of signals according to the transmission or reception intervals.

2. The communications device of claim 1, wherein the communications controller is configured to control the antennas to transmit and receive different signals in adjacent transmission or reception intervals.

3. The communications device of claim 2, wherein the communications controller is configured to control the antennas to transmit or receive different signals in transmission or reception intervals corresponding to each other.

4. The communications device of claim 1, wherein:

the antennas include a first antenna and a second antenna;

the plurality of signals includes a first signal and a second signal; and

each of the first antenna and the second antenna alternately transmits or receives the first signal and the second signal in the plurality of transmission or reception intervals.

5. The communications device of claim 4, wherein the first antenna initially transmits or receives the first signal, and the second antenna initially transmits or receives the second signal.

6. The communications device of claim 1, further comprising a signal processor configured to convert the plurality of signals.

7. The communications device of claim 6, wherein the signal processor comprises a plurality of signal processors corresponding in number to the antennas.

8. The communications device of claim 6, wherein the signal processor comprises:

a Bluetooth signal processor configured to convert a signal, among the plurality of signals, according to a Bluetooth communications standard; and

a wireless LAN (WLAN) signal processor configured to convert another signal, among the plurality of signals, according to a WLAN communications standard.

9. The communications device of claim 1, further comprising a channel information processor configured to process channel information of the antennas.

10. The communications device of claim 9, wherein the channel information processor is configured to process the channel information from preamble signals or pilot signals received by the antennas.

11. The communications device of claim 9, wherein the channel information comprises at least one of quality of service (QoS), noise, interference, loss, fading, or correlation.

12. The communications device of claim 9, wherein the communications controller includes:

a signal modulator configured to modulate the plurality of signals on the basis of the channel information; and

an antenna controller configured to control the antennas to transmit and receive the plurality of signals modulated by the signal modulator which are divided according to the transmission or reception intervals.

13. The communications device of claim 12, wherein the antenna controller is configured to control the antennas to transmit or receive different signals in adjacent transmission or reception intervals.

14. The communications device of claim 13, wherein the antenna controller is configured to control the antennas to transmit or receive different signals in transmission or reception intervals corresponding to each other.

15. The communications device of claim 1, wherein the communications controller is configured to control a copy of the plurality of signals and is configured to allow the copied signals to be repeatedly transmitted.

16. A method of operating a communications device, comprising:

controlling, by a communications controller, at a first transmission or reception interval, a first antenna to transmit or receive a signal of a first communications standard;

controlling, by the communications controller, at the first transmission or reception interval, the second antenna to transmit or receive a signal of a second communications standard;

controlling, by the communications controller, at a second transmission or reception interval, the first antenna to transmit or receive the signal of the second communications standard; and

controlling, by the communications controller, at the second transmission or reception interval, the second antenna to transmit or receive the signal of the first communications standard.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

controlling, by the communications controller, at a third transmission or reception interval, the first antenna to transmit or receive the signal of the first communications standard; and

controlling, by the communications controller, at the third transmission or reception interval, the second antenna to transmit or receive the signal of the second communications standard.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the first communications standard is one of Bluetooth and WLAN and the second communications standard is the other of Bluetooth and WLAN.