Infrared transmitter

• US 8,320,776 B2
• Filed: 01/19/2010
• Issued: 11/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Audio-technica
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Audio-technica
• Inventors: Harima, Tatsuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Dzung
• Application Number:
  US12/689,935
• Publication Number:
  US 20100183317A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,043 Days
• Field of Search: 398182-201
• US Class Current: 398/201
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 10/1141 One-way transmission

Abstract

An infrared transmitter transmits a signal via an infrared ray. The infrared transmitter includes: a signal converter for converting the signal into an infrared signal; an oscillator for oscillating a carrier frequency of the infrared signal; a controller for adjusting a cutoff frequency of a filter according to the carrier frequency; and the filter provided between the oscillator and the signal converter to reduce a spurious signal of a carrier wave. The cutoff frequency of the filter is adjusted by the controller.

Claims

1. An infrared transmitter for transmitting a signal via an infrared ray, the infrared transmitter comprising:

a signal converter for converting the signal into an infrared signal;

an oscillator for oscillating a carrier frequency of the infrared signal;

a controller for adjusting a cutoff frequency of a filter according to the carrier frequency; and

the filter provided between the oscillator and the signal converter, the filter having the cutoff frequency adjusted by the controller,

wherein the filter includes a variable capacitance diode so that the cutoff frequency is adjusted in a non-step manner as the controller adjusts a voltage applied to the variable capacitance diode, and

the signal converter comprises an infrared light-emitting diode (IRLED).

2. The infrared transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the filter is a low-pass filter.

3. The infrared transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the filter is a band pass filter.

4. The infrared transmitter according to claim 1, further comprising:

an amplifier which is coupled to an output of the filter and to an input of the signal converter and amplifies the filtered signal,

wherein the IRLED is configured to convert the signal amplified by the amplifier into the infrared signal.