Wireless transmission system, wireless communication device, and wireless communication method

• US 9,912,502 B2
• Filed: 12/16/2016
• Issued: 03/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kawasaki, Kenichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Bayard, Emmanuel
• Application Number:
  US15/381,409
• Publication Number:
  US 20170155531A1
• Time in Patent Office: 445 Days
• Field of Search: 375242, 375260, 375219-222, 375257, 375259
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/40 Circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/04 Modulator circuits; Transmitter circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/122 using digital generation of carrier signals digital function generators G06F1/02, H04L17/10; generating pulses having stepped portions using digital techniques H03K4/026
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/20 Modulator circuits; Transmitter circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/365 Modulation using digital generation of the modulated carrier (not including modulation of a digitally generated carrier)

Abstract

A wireless transmission system includes: a communication unit for transmission; and a communication unit for reception. The communication units for transmission and reception are housed in a housing of the same electronic apparatus, or the communication unit for transmission is housed in a housing of first electronic apparatus and the communication unit for reception is housed in a housing of second electronic apparatus and a wireless signal transmission path enabling wireless information transmission between the communication units is formed between the communication units when the first and the second electronic apparatus are disposed at given positions to be integrated with each other. The communication unit for transmission includes a first carrier signal generating unit and a first frequency converter, and the communication unit for reception includes a second carrier signal generating unit, and a second frequency converter.

Claims

1. A transmission system comprising:

a first communication device configured to generate a carrier wave and to modulate information onto said carrier wave, a modulated carrier wave being said carrier wave modulated with said information;

a second communication device configured to receive said modulated carrier wave from said first communication device and to extract said information from said modulated carrier wave, said first communication device and said second communication device being within a housing of an electronic apparatus;

a transmission path configured to transfer said modulated carrier wave from said first communication device to said second communication device, said transmission path being within said housing of the electronic apparatus,

wherein said transmission path is a dielectric material, wherein a relative dielectric constant of the dielectric material is in a range between 2 and 10 inclusive, and a dielectric loss tangent of the dielectric material is in a range between 0.00001 and 0.01 inclusive.

2. The transmission system according to claim 1, wherein the relative dielectric constant of the dielectric material is in a range between 3 and 6 inclusive.

3. The transmission system according to claim 1, wherein the dielectric loss tangent is in a range between 0.00001 and 0.001 inclusive.

4. The transmission system according to claim 2, wherein the dielectric loss tangent is in a range between 0.00001 and 0.001 inclusive.

5. The transmission system according to claim 1, wherein the dielectric material is a polymer or resin.

6. The transmission system according to claim 1, wherein the dielectric material is a polymer.

7. The transmission system according to claim 1, wherein the modulated carrier wave is a millimeter wave.

8. A wireless transmission system comprising:

a transmission path configured to wirelessly transfer a modulated carrier wave from a first communication device to a second communication device wherein said transmission path is a dielectric material, wherein a relative dielectric constant of the dielectric material is in a range between 2 and 10 inclusive, and a dielectric loss tangent of the dielectric material is in a range between 0.00001 and 0.01 inclusive.

9. The wireless transmission system according to claim 8, wherein the relative dielectric constant of the dielectric material is in a range between 3 and 6 inclusive.

10. The wireless transmission system according to claim 8, wherein the dielectric loss tangent is in a range between 0.00001 and 0.001 inclusive.

11. The wireless transmission system according to claim 9, wherein the dielectric loss tangent is in a range between 0.00001 and 0.001 inclusive.

12. The wireless transmission system according to claim 8, wherein the dielectric material is a polymer or resin.

13. The wireless transmission system according to claim 8, wherein the dielectric material is a polymer.

14. The wireless transmission system according to claim 8, wherein the transmission path is between a first antenna and a second antenna, the second antenna being configured to receive the modulated carrier wave from the first antenna.

15. The wireless transmission system according to claim 8, wherein the modulated carrier wave is a millimeter wave.

16. The wireless transmission system according to claim 8, further comprising:

a solid-state imaging device mounted onto an imaging board, the second communication device is mounted onto the imaging board.

17. The wireless transmission system according to claim 8, wherein the first communication device is configured to generate a carrier wave and to modulate information onto the carrier wave.

18. The wireless transmission system according to claim 17, wherein the second communication device is configured to receive the modulated carrier wave from the first communication device and to extract the information from the modulated carrier wave.

19. The wireless transmission system according to claim 17, wherein the first communication device is configured to use amplitude shift keying to modulate the information onto the carrier wave.

20. The wireless transmission system according to claim 17, wherein the first communication device is configured to use frequency shift keying to modulate the information onto the carrier wave.