Method of performing operation related to other device via near field communication and apparatus therefor

• US 9,912,378 B2
• Filed: 10/03/2016
• Issued: 03/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Jeong-hun
• Primary Examiner(s): WEST, LEWIS G
• Application Number:
  US15/283,843
• Publication Number:
  US 20170026086A1
• Time in Patent Office: 519 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/21 for calibration; for correcting measurements
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/318 Received signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/00 Near-field transmission systems, e.g. inductive or capacitive transmission systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]

Abstract

A method of performing an operation related to a second device, performed by a first device, via near field wireless communication, and an apparatus therefore. When a signal for wireless communication is received from the second device, the method includes calibrating the strength of the received signal; comparing the strength of the calibrated signal with operation signal information that is a result of calibrating a range of strengths of signals which are for the wireless communication and which are received from the second device moving between a plurality of points set to be within a predetermined distance from the first device; and as a result of the comparison, selectively performing the operation related to the second device.

Claims

1. A method of performing, by a first device, an operation related to a second device via near field wireless communication, the method comprising:

receiving, by the first device, a signal for wireless communication transmitted from the second device within a communication enabled zone of the first device and the second device;

determining, by the first device, based on a determination that a strength of the received signal from the second device satisfies a predetermined signal strength range, whether the second device is within an operation zone within the communication enabled zone;

determining, by the first device, based on a type of the second device, an operation to be performed among a plurality of operations if it is determined that the second device is within the operation zone within the communication enabled zone; and

performing, by the first device, the operation with the second device,

wherein the plurality of operations comprise at least one of content reception, content transmission, content output, and data synchronization.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation is pre-set in the first device and is automatically performed by the first device if the determined strength of the signal received from the second device by the first device is within a predetermined range of the strengths of the signals.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a distance at which the operation is performed is set by the first device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the operation performed by the first device is determined by the type of the second device that has transmitted the signal to the first device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the signal for the wireless communication is a Bluetooth signal or a Wi-Fi signal.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the strength of the received signal is stored by the first device as a sample.

7. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program to execute the method of claim 1.

8. A first device to perform an operation related to a second device via wireless communication, the first device comprising:

a communication unit configured to receive signals for wireless communication; and

a processor configured to;

control the communication unit to receive a signal for wireless communication transmitted from the second device within a communication enabled zone of the first device and the second device,

determine, based on a determination that a strength of the received signal from the second device satisfies a predetermined signal strength range, whether the second device is within an operation zone within the communication enabled zone,

determine, based on a type of the second device, an operation to be performed among a plurality of operations if it is determined that the second device is within an operation zone which is within the communication enabled zone, and

perform the operation with the second device,

wherein the plurality of operations comprise at least one of content reception, content transmission, content output, and data synchronization.

9. The first device of claim 8, wherein the operation is pre-set in the first device and is automatically performed by the first device if the determined strength of the signal received from the second device is within a predetermined range of the strengths of the signals.

10. The first device of claim 8, wherein a distance at which the operation is performed is set by the first device.

11. The first device of claim 8, wherein the operation performed by the first device is determined by the type of the second device that has transmitted the signal to the first device.

12. The first device of claim 8, wherein the signal for the wireless communication is a Bluetooth signal or a Wi-Fi signal.