Communication portable device and communication method

• US 9,992,611 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2015
• Issued: 06/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NXP B.V. (NXP Semiconductors NV)
• Original Assignee: NXP B.V. (NXP Semiconductors NV)
• Inventors: Pignorel, Arnaud, Watine, Alexis
• Primary Examiner(s): Maung, Nay A
• Assistant Examiner(s): FLEMING-HALL, ERICA L
• Application Number:
  US14/791,224
• Publication Number:
  US 20160007143A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,069 Days
• Field of Search: 455 411, 455 412, 340 101- 103, 235435, 235439
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/04 including near field communication means, e.g. RFID
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A method for managing the communication between a communication portable device (200) including a NFC device and a NFC tag (100) including a plurality of information, comprises comprising determining a position and/or orientation of the communication portable device (200) and enabling the communication portable device to read a portion of the plurality of information units, depending on the position and/or orientation of the communication portable device.

Claims

1. A method for managing communication between a communication portable device including a Near Field Communication (NFC) device and a NFC tag including a plurality of information units, the method comprising:

determining an orientation of an axis of the communication portable device;

recognizing an angular sector toward which the axis of the communication portable device is oriented by measuring an absolute angular distance from an angular zero reference;

and

enabling the communication portable device to read a selected portion of the plurality of information units, wherein the selected portion depends on the recognized angular sector and the orientation of the axis of the communication portable device.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

discretizing a round angle in a plurality of angular sectors, a number of the plurality of angular sectors being equal to a number of the plurality of information units comprised in the NFC tag;

associating each angular sector to one information unit;

reading only a particular information unit associated to the recognized angular sector.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the step of recognizing the angular sector further comprises:

acquiring an angular zero reference from the NFC tag.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the angular zero reference is a physical mark on the NFC tag.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the angular zero reference is acquired by orienting the communication portable device parallel to one edge of the NFC tag.

6. The method according to claim 3, wherein the angular zero reference is a vertical axis of a location where the NFC tag is installed.

7. A communication portable device comprising:

a NFC device configured to read a plurality of information units from a NFC tag;

a sensor configured to determine an orientation of an axis of the communication portable device; and

a controller, associated with the NFC device, configured to enable said NFC device to recognize an angular sector toward which the axis of the communication portable device is oriented by measuring an absolute angular distance from an angular zero reference, and read a selected portion of the plurality of information, wherein the selected portion depends on the recognized angular sector and the orientation of the axis of the communication portable device.

8. A communication system including the communication portable device according to claim 7 and the NFC tag including the plurality of information units.