Radio communication device, radio communication system, program and radio communication method

• US 8,479,059 B2
• Filed: 10/02/2008
• Issued: 07/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kohno, Michinari, Yamane, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): TRIMMINGS, JOHN P
• Application Number:
  US12/741,536
• Publication Number:
  US 20100257421A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,734 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 714/712
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 11/06 using intensity measurements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0009 by adapting the channel coding H04L1/1812 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0014 by adapting the source coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0017 where the mode-switching is based on Quality of Service requirement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/206 for modulated signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/762 at the source reformatting of additional data in video distribution servers H04N21/2355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/04 Protocols for data compression, e.g. ROHC
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds

Abstract

Provided is a radio communication device for performing radio communication with another radio communication device includes a control unit that controls to prepare for data loss during radio communication of transmission data and a transmission unit that transmits the transmission data by radio according to the control of the control unit. One of the radio communication device and the other radio communication device estimates a distance from the other based on a field intensity of a radio signal which is judged to satisfy a certain requirement regarding noise component among received radio signals received from the other of the radio communication device and the other radio communication device. The control unit performs a control of a content according to the distance estimation result.

Claims

1. A radio communication device comprising:

a control unit that controls to prepare for data loss during radio communication of transmission data; and

a transmission unit that transmits the transmission data by radio to another radio communication device according to the control of the control unit,

wherein one of the radio communication device and the other radio communication device comprises;

a reception unit configured to receive a radio signal from the other ratio communication device;

a measurement unit configured to measure a field intensity and an associated noise component from the received radio signal;

a judgment unit configured to judge whether the noise component satisfies a certain requirement; and

an estimation unit configured to estimate a distance between the radio communication device and the other radio communication device based on the field intensity whose corresponding noise component satisfies the certain requirement, and

wherein the control unit performs a control of a content according to the estimated distance, and

wherein the estimation unit;

calculates an average value of a plurality of field intensities of the radio signals which are judged to satisfy the certain requirement by the judgment unit,

judges whether the average value is included in any one of classified average value ranges, and

estimates that the distance from the other radio communication device is a distance corresponding to the average value range to which the average value is included.

2. The radio communication device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a data processing unit that adds error correction data to the transmission data,

wherein the control unit controls a data amount of the error correction data, with respect to the transmission data, which is to be added by the data processing unit according to the estimated distance.

3. The radio communication device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit increases the data amount of the error correction data with respect to the transmission data when the estimated distance is a long distance.

4. The radio communication device according to claim 1,

wherein the judgment unit judges that the noise component of the radio signal satisfies the certain requirement when the noise component is greater than a lower limit set value and lower than an upper limit set value.

5. The radio communication device according to claim 1, wherein:

the reception unit receives device information, from the other radio communication device in advance, which indicates a transmitting power of the radio signal of the other radio communication device, and

the estimation unit estimates the distance from the other radio communication device using the device information.

6. A radio communication device comprising:

a control unit that controls to prepare for data loss during radio communication of transmission data;

a reception unit that receives data transmitted by radio;

a transmission unit that transmits the transmission data by radio to another radio communication device according to the control of the control unit,

wherein one of the radio communication device and the other radio communication device estimates a distance from the other based on a field intensity of a radio signal which is judged to satisfy a certain requirement regarding noise component among radio signals received from the other of the radio communication device and the other radio communication device, and wherein the other of the radio communication device and the other radio communication device transmits a retransmission request for requesting retransmission of data, which is not correctly received by the reception unit, according to the control of the control unit,

wherein the control unit performs a control of a content according to the estimated distance, and

wherein the control unit controls the number of the retransmission requests to be transmitted by the transmission unit according to the estimated distance.

7. The radio communication device according to claim 6, wherein the control unit increases the number of the retransmission requests when the estimated distance is a longer distance.

8. A radio communication system comprising:

a first radio communication device comprising;

a control unit that controls to prepare for data loss during radio communication of transmission data with a second radio communication device; and

a transmission unit that transmits the transmission data by radio to the second radio communication device according to the control of the control unit,

wherein one of the first radio communication device and the second radio communication device comprises;

a reception unit configured to receive a radio signal from the second ratio communication device;

a measurement unit configured to measure a field intensity and an associated noise component from the received radio signal;

a judgment unit configured to judge whether the noise component satisfies a predetermined condition; and

an estimation unit configured to estimate a distance between the first radio communication device and the second radio communication device based on the field intensity whose corresponding noise component satisfies the predetermined condition,

wherein the first radio communication device is configured to receive one or more requests for retransmission of the transmission data from the second radio communication device, wherein the number of the one or more requests for retransmission depends on the estimated distance, and

wherein the control unit performs a control of a content according to the estimated distance.

9. The radio communication system according to claim 8, wherein the first radio communication device further comprises a data processing unit configured to add error correction data to the transmission data, wherein the amount of the added error correction data varies depending on the estimated distance.

10. The radio communication system according to claim 8, wherein the judgment unit judges that the noise component of the radio signal satisfies the predetermined condition when the noise component is greater than a lower limit set value and lower than an upper limit set value.

11. The radio communication system according to claim 8, wherein the estimation unit:

calculates an average value of a plurality of field intensities of the radio signals which are judged to satisfy the predetermined condition by the judgment unit,

judges whether the average value is included in any one of classified average value ranges, and

estimates that the distance between the first and second radio communication devices is a distance corresponding to the average value range to which the average value is included.

12. A radio communication method comprising:

receiving a radio signal from a transmission source device;

measuring a field intensity and an associated noise component of the received radio signal;

judging whether the noise component associated with the field intensity satisfies a certain requirement;

estimating a distance from the transmission source device based on the field intensity whose corresponding noise component is judged to satisfy the certain requirement;

controlling to prepare for data loss during transmission of transmission data to the transmission source device by using a content according to the estimated distance;

transmitting the transmission data by radio to the transmission source device according to the control; and

receiving one or more requests for retransmission of the transmission data from the transmission source device, wherein the number of the one or more requests for retransmission depends on the estimated distance.

13. The radio communication method according to claim 12, further comprising adding error correction data to the transmission data, the amount of added error correction data being dependent upon the estimated distance.

14. The radio communication method according to claim 12, wherein judging whether the noise component associated with the field intensity satisfies a certain requirement comprises judging that the noise component satisfies the certain requirement when the noise component is greater than a lower limit set value and lower than an upper limit set value.

15. The radio communication method according to claim 12, wherein estimating the distance comprises:

calculating an average value of a plurality of field intensities whose corresponding noise components are judged to satisfy the certain requirement,

judging whether the average value is included in any one of classified average value ranges, and

estimating that the distance from the transmission source device is a distance corresponding to the average value range to which the average value is included.

16. A non-transitory, computer-readable medium for use on a computer for a radio communication device, the computer-readable medium including computer-executable instructions for performing a method for controlling to prepare for data loss during radio communication of transmission data using a content, the method comprising:

receiving a radio signal from a transmission source device;

measuring a field intensity and an associated noise component of the received radio signal;

judging whether the noise component associated with the field intensity satisfies a certain requirement;

estimating a distance from the transmission source device based on the field intensity whose corresponding noise component is judged to satisfy the certain requirement;

controlling to prepare for data loss during transmission of transmission data to the transmission source device by using a content according to the estimated distance;

transmitting the transmission data by radio to the transmission source device according to the control; and

receiving one or more requests for retransmission of the transmission data from the transmission source device, wherein the number of the one or more requests for retransmission depends on the estimated distance.

17. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises adding error correction data to the transmission data, the amount of added error correction data being dependent upon the estimated distance.

18. The non-transitory, computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein estimating the distance comprises:

calculating an average value of a plurality of field intensities whose corresponding noise components are judged to satisfy the certain requirement,

judging whether the average value is included in any one of classified average value ranges, and

estimating that the distance from the transmission source device is a distance corresponding to the average value range to which the average value is included.