Information processing system connected by radio communication

• US 5,606,314 A
• Filed: 06/07/1995
• Issued: 02/25/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Onodera, Ken, Mitsuhashi, Shunya
• Primary Examiner(s): ZIMMERMAN, BRIAN A
• Application Number:
  US08/487,563
• Time in Patent Office: 629 Days
• Field of Search: 340/825.71, 340/825.72, 340/825.73, 340/825.69, 340/825.76
• US Class Current: 340/13.29
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/387 for adaptation of different data processing systems to different peripheral devices, e.g. protocol converters for incompatible systems, open system
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/28 with simultaneous transmission of different frequencies each representing one code element
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/005 Data network PoA devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

To control an information processing system in which a host unit is connected by radio communication to a slave unit, the host unit transmits data and carrier waves both containing ID information selecting a specific information process, and the slave unit recognizes the ID information, thus performing its operation accordingly. A difference in frequencies of the carrier waves is regarded as a type of ID information. The slave unit identifies a frequency, receives data corresponding to the frequency, and performs the specific information process on the basis of the data received at this frequency. The information processing system, especially that composed of a slave unit and host units, thus constructed and controlled is capable of operating efficiently, without wasting electricity.

Claims

1. A data processing apparatus comprising:

receiving means for receiving a carrier wave which is modulated by data;

identifying means for identifying a frequency of the received carrier wave;

extracting means for extracting the data by demodulating the received carrier wave;

a plurality of data interpreting means; and

table means for storing a correspondence of each data interpreting means to a frequency of the carrier wave,

wherein said apparatus selects one of said plurality of data interpreting means in accordance with the frequency of the received carrier wave identified by said identifying means and a content of said table means, and causing the selected one of said plurality of data interpreting means to interpret the extracted data.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of data interpreting means correspond to a plurality of language systems respectively and the carrier wave is modulated by data having a language system which corresponds to the frequency thereof.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein each of said plurality of data interpreting means has an interpreting program.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising output means for outputting the interpreted data.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said output means prints an image.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said identifying means comprises;

scanning means for repeatedly or non-repeatedly scanning the frequency of the received carrier wave; and

detecting means for detecting a reception level of a scanned frequency.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said receiving means comprises a plurality of receiving sections each of which receives one of a plurality of different frequency carrier waves.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said carrier wave is an electric wave or a sound wave.

9. A data processing method comprising the steps of:

identifying a frequency of a carrier wave upon receipt of the carrier wave modulated by data;

selecting one of a plurality of data interpreting means in accordance with the frequency of the received carrier wave identified in said identifying step, a selection being made by using a table which previously stored a correspondence of each data interpreting means to a frequency of a carrier wave; and

interpreting data obtained by demodulating the received carrier wave utilizing a selected data interpreting means.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein said plurality of data interpreting means corresponds to a plurality of language systems respectively, and the carrier wave is modulated by data having a language system which corresponds to the frequency thereof.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein each of said plurality of data interpreting means has an interpreting program.

12. The method according to claim 9 further comprising the step of outputting the interpreted data.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein in said outputting step, an image is printed out.

14. The method according to claim 9, wherein said identifying step comprising the steps of:

scanning the frequency of the received carrier wave repeatedly or non-repeatedly; and

detecting a reception level of a scanned frequency.

15. The method according to claim 9, wherein said identifying step, a plurality of receiving sections receive carrier waves, each of which carrier waves has a different frequency.

16. The method according to claim 9, wherein said carrier wave is an electric wave or a sound wave.

17. The method according to claim 9 further comprising a step of selecting and transmitting one of plural carrier waves from a transmitting apparatus, wherein each of said carrier waves has one of a plurality of frequencies.