Wireless Processing System, Wireless Processing Method, and Wireless Electronic Device

• US 20100081378A1
• Filed: 12/11/2007
• Published: 04/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kawamura, Hirofumi
• Granted Patent: US 8,229,356 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.100
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/90 involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0044 specially adapted for holding portable devices containing batteries H02J7/0045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/00 Near-field transmission systems, e.g. inductive or capacitive transmission systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/0037 for power transfer
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/0081 with antenna coils loop aerials H01Q7/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/26 using coils
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/79 for data transfer in combination with power transfer

Abstract

A power supply system 100 according to the present invention includes, as shown in FIG. 2, a power supply device 1 that includes an antenna coil 113 having a predetermined directivity and an display function unit 12 on a device mounting surface and performs wireless communication processing and a portable telephone 2a that includes an antenna coil 211 having a predetermined directivity, has terminal information used for achieving matching between antennas and used for achieving matching for the antenna coil 211 with respect to the antenna coil 113, and performs wireless communication processing. The power supply device 1 receives the terminal information from the portable telephone 2a and displays an outer-shape image Pa of the portable telephone 2a on the display function unit 12 in accordance with this terminal information. Matching can be optimally achieved between wireless processing points of two wireless electronic devices. Moreover, a predetermined power can be supplied from one wireless electronic device to another wireless electronic device or desired communication processing can be executed between two wireless electronic devices.

Claims

1. A wireless processing system that achieves matching between antennas of two wireless electronic devices and performs wireless processing, characterized by comprising:

a first wireless electronic device that includes an antenna having a predetermined directivity and a display unit on a device mounting surface and performs wireless communication processing; and

a second wireless electronic device that includes an antenna having a predetermined directivity, has terminal information used for achieving matching between antennas and used for achieving matching for the antenna with respect to the antenna of the first wireless electronic device, and performs wireless communication processing,

wherein the first wireless electronic device

receives the terminal information from the second wireless electronic device, and

displays an outer-shape image of the second wireless electronic device on the display unit in accordance with the terminal information.

2. The wireless processing system according to claim 1, characterized in that:

the terminal information

is stored in the second wireless electronic device, and

is outer-shape information for displaying a relationship between an outer-shape image and an antenna directivity of the second wireless electronic device in a position coordinate system used when matching is to be achieved for the antenna with respect to the antenna of the first wireless electronic device.

3. The wireless processing system according to claim 1, characterized in that:

the terminal information

is stored in the second wireless electronic device, and

is identification information used to read outer-shape information for displaying a relationship between an outer-shape image and an antenna directivity of the second wireless electronic device in a position coordinate system used when matching is to be achieved for the antenna with respect to the antenna of the first wireless electronic device, and

the first wireless electronic device

includes a storage unit that stores, on a per-model basis, a plurality of items of outer-shape information that are read using the identification information received from the second wireless electronic device.

4. The wireless processing system according to claim 1, characterized in that:

the second wireless electronic device is mounted so as to be aligned with the outer-shape image displayed on the display unit of the first wireless electronic device.

5. The wireless processing system according to claim 1, characterized in that:

the first wireless electronic device has a power supply function, and

displays the outer-shape image of the second wireless electronic device on the display unit on the device mounting surface in accordance with the terminal information, and supplies power to the second wireless electronic device in a noncontact manner if the second wireless electronic device is mounted on the device mounting surface.

6. The wireless processing system according to claim 5, characterized in that:

the terminal information

includes outer-shape information regarding the second wireless electronic device and coordinate information that informs the first wireless electronic device of an optimal power supply point, and

the first wireless electronic device

obtains the outer-shape information and the coordinate information from the second wireless electronic device and displays the outer-shape image of the second wireless electronic device on the device mounting surface.

7. The wireless processing system according to claim 5, characterized in that:

the terminal information

is identification information used to identify a model of the second wireless electronic device,

the first wireless electronic device

includes a storage unit that stores outer-shape information and coordinate information regarding the second wireless electronic device corresponding to the identification information, and

the first wireless electronic device

obtains the identification information from the second wireless electronic device, and

reads the outer-shape information and the coordinate information regarding the second wireless electronic device from the storage unit in accordance with the identification information, and displays the outer-shape image of the second wireless electronic device on the display unit on the device mounting surface.

8. The wireless processing system according to claim 1, characterized in that:

each of the first wireless electronic device and the second wireless electronic device has a function of performing data communication, and

the first wireless electronic device

displays the outer-shape image of the second wireless electronic device on the display unit on the device mounting surface in accordance with the terminal information, and executes data communication to the second wireless electronic device in a noncontact manner if the second wireless electronic device is mounted on the device mounting surface.

9. The wireless processing system according to claim 8, characterized in that:

the terminal information

includes outer-shape information regarding the second wireless electronic device and coordinate information that informs the first wireless electronic device of a predetermined data communication point, and

the first wireless electronic device

obtains the outer-shape information and the coordinate information from the second wireless electronic device and displays the outer-shape image of the second wireless electronic device on the device mounting surface.

10. The wireless processing system according to claim 8, characterized in that:

the terminal information

is identification information used to identify a model of the second wireless electronic device,

the first wireless electronic device

includes a storage unit that stores outer-shape information and coordinate information regarding the second wireless electronic device corresponding to the identification information, and

the first wireless electronic device

obtains the identification information from the second wireless electronic device,

reads the outer-shape information and the coordinate information regarding the second wireless electronic device from the storage unit in accordance with the identification information and displays the outer-shape image of the second wireless electronic device on the display unit on the device mounting surface.

11. The wireless processing system according to claim 9, characterized in that:

the second wireless electronic device

stores coordinate information that indicates a predetermined power supply point and coordinate information that indicates a predetermined data communication point as the same value, and

displays an outer-shape image that indicates the power supply point and an outer-shape image that indicates the data communication point as one image on the display unit on the device mounting surface of the first wireless electronic device.

12. The wireless processing system according to claim 9, characterized in that:

the second wireless electronic device

stores each of coordinate information that indicates a predetermined power supply point and coordinate information that indicates a predetermined data communication point, and

displays an outer-shape image that indicates the power supply point and an outer-shape image that indicates the data communication point individually on the display unit on the device mounting surface of the first wireless electronic device.

13. The wireless processing system according to claim 12, characterized in that:

the outer-shape image that indicates the power supply point and the outer-shape image that indicates the data communication point are differentiated from each other by different colors and displayed.

14. A wireless processing method for achieving matching between two antennas of a first wireless electronic device and a second wireless electronic device and performing wireless processing, the first wireless electronic device including an antenna having a predetermined directivity and a display unit on a device mounting surface and performing wireless communication processing and the second wireless electronic device including an antenna having a predetermined directivity, having terminal information used for achieving matching between antennas and used for achieving matching for the antenna with respect to the antenna of the first wireless electronic device, and performing wireless communication processing, characterized in that:

when matching is to be achieved between the antennas,

the second wireless electronic device

sends the terminal information to the first wireless electronic device, and

the first wireless electronic device

receives the terminal information from the second wireless electronic device and

displays an outer-shape image of the second wireless electronic device on the display unit in accordance with the terminal information.

15. A wireless electronic device that is applicable to a system that achieves matching between antennas of two wireless electronic devices and performs wireless processing, characterized by comprising:

an antenna having a predetermined directivity;

a display unit provided on a device mounting surface and used when matching is to be achieved for the antenna; and

a wireless processing unit that performs wireless communication processing to and from another wireless electronic device mounted on the display unit,

wherein if information for displaying a relationship between an outer-shape image and an antenna directivity of the other wireless electronic device in a position coordinate system used when matching is to be achieved for the antenna of the wireless electronic device is treated as outer-shape information,

the wireless processing unit

receives the outer-shape information from the other wireless electronic device, and

displays the outer-shape image of the other wireless electronic device based on the outer-shape information on the display unit.

16. A wireless electronic device that is applicable to a system that achieves matching between antennas of two wireless electronic devices including a wireless electronic device provided with a display unit on a device mounting surface and performs wireless processing, characterized by comprising:

an antenna having a predetermined directivity;

a storage unit that stores outer-shape information for displaying a relationship between an outer-shape image and the directivity of the antenna of the wireless electronic device in a position coordinate system used when matching is to be achieved for the antenna with respect to an antenna of the wireless electronic device provided with the display unit; and

a wireless processing unit that performs wireless communication processing in accordance with the outer-shape information read from the storage unit,

wherein the wireless processing unit,

when matching is to be achieved between the antennas,

sends the outer-shape information to the wireless electronic device provided with the display unit.

17. A wireless electronic device that is applicable to a system that achieves matching between antennas of two wireless electronic devices and performs wireless processing, characterized by comprising:

an antenna having a predetermined directivity;

a display unit provided on a device mounting surface and used when matching is to be achieved for the antenna;

a wireless processing unit that performs wireless communication processing to and from another wireless electronic device mounted on the display unit; and

a storage unit that stores, if information for displaying a relationship between an outer-shape image and the directivity of the antenna of the wireless electronic device in a position coordinate system used when matching is to be achieved for the antenna with respect to an antenna of the other wireless electronic device is treated as outer-shape information and information used to read the outer-shape information is treated as identification information, the outer-shape information,

the wireless processing unit

receives the identification information from the other wireless electronic device,

reads outer-shape information regarding the other wireless electronic device based on the identification information from the storage unit, and

displays an outer-shape image of the other wireless electronic device on the display unit in accordance with the outer-shape information.

18. A wireless electronic device that is applicable to a system that achieves matching between antennas of two wireless electronic devices including a wireless electronic device provided with a display unit on a device mounting surface and performs wireless processing, characterized by comprising:

an antenna having a predetermined directivity;

a storage unit that stores identification information used to read outer-shape information for displaying a relationship between an outer-shape image and the directivity of the antenna of the wireless electronic device in a position coordinate system used when matching is to be achieved for the antenna with respect to an antenna of the wireless electronic device provided with the display unit; and

a wireless processing unit that performs wireless communication processing in accordance with the identification information read from the storage unit,

wherein the wireless processing unit,

when matching is to be achieved between the antennas,

sends the identification information to the wireless electronic device provided with the display unit.