Signal generating method, signal generating unit, and non-transitory recording medium storing computer program

    公开(公告)号:US10326831B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-18

    申请号:US15647300

    申请日:2017-07-12

    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a signal generating method for generating a visible light signal. A signal generating method includes: a step SD11 of determining, as a method for transmitting a visible light signal from a transmitter, one of a single-frame transmitting method for transmitting data as one frame and a multiple-frame transmitting method for transmitting the data while dividing the data into a plurality of frames; a step SD12 of, when the multiple-frame transmitting method is determined, generating partition type information indicating a type of data to be transmitted, and generating combination data by adding the partition type information to the data to be transmitted; a step SD13 of generating the plurality of frames each of which includes each of a plurality of data parts by dividing the combination data into the plurality of data parts; and a step SD14 of generating the visible light signal by adding a preamble to a head of each of the plurality of frames.

    Information communication method
    88.
    发明授权
    Information communication method 有权
    信息通信方式

    公开(公告)号:US09443423B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-09-13

    申请号:US14583356

    申请日:2014-12-26

    CPC classification number: G08C23/04 H04B10/116 H04B10/60

    Abstract: An information communication method for use in a portable terminal, e.g., a wristwatch, to obtain information includes a light receiving step of, by at least one of plural solar cells incorporated in the portable terminal and having respective directivities, receiving visible light that is emitted in a direction corresponding to the directivity of the relevant solar cell, and an information acquisition step of obtaining information by demodulating a signal that is specified by the received visible light.

    Abstract translation: 一种用于便携式终端(例如手表)中获得信息的信息通信方法包括:光接收步骤,通过结合在便携式终端中的多个太阳能电池中的至少一个并具有各自的方向性,接收发射的可见光 在与相关太阳能电池的方向性相对应的方向上,以及信息获取步骤,通过解调由所接收的可见光指定的信号来获得信息。

    Communication device
    89.
    再颁专利

    公开(公告)号:USRE46108E1

    公开(公告)日:2016-08-16

    申请号:US14482538

    申请日:2014-09-10

    Abstract: The communication device can easily serve as an extended user interface such as a remote controller of a target apparatus without causing any complicated operations to a user. The communication device includes the following units. An apparatus information obtainment unit (203) obtains apparatus information from an apparatus. A position information obtainment unit (206) obtains position information of the communication device (102). An operation information obtainment unit (212) obtains operation information based on the apparatus information. A storage unit (213) stores the position information as apparatus position information indicating as a position of the apparatus, in association with the operation information. A direction sensor unit (207) detects direction of the communication device (102). A directional space calculation unit (208) calculates a directional space of the communication device (102). A selection unit (209a) specifies the apparatus existing in the directional space based on the apparatus position information and selects the operation information associated with the specified apparatus. An operation information transmission unit (215) transmits, based on the selected operation information, a control signal to the specified apparatus so as to allow the communication device to operate the apparatus.

    Information communication method
    90.
    发明授权
    Information communication method 有权
    信息通信方式

    公开(公告)号:US09407368B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-08-02

    申请号:US14979655

    申请日:2015-12-28

    CPC classification number: H04B10/116 H04B10/541 H04L12/2803 H04L2012/2841

    Abstract: An information communication method is provided for transmitting a signal using a change in luminance. The method includes determining a pattern of the change in luminance by modulating the signal to be transmitted, and transmitting the signal by a light emitter changing in luminance according to the determined pattern, wherein the pattern of the change in luminance is a pattern in which one of two different luminance values occurs in each arbitrary position in a predetermined duration. In the determining, the pattern of the change in luminance is determined so that a luminance change position in the duration is different for each of different signals to be transmitted, the luminance change position being a position at which the luminance rises or a position at which the luminance falls.

    Abstract translation: 提供了一种使用亮度变化来发送信号的信息通信方法。 该方法包括通过调制要发送的信号来确定亮度变化的模式,并且根据所确定的图案通过以亮度变化的发光器发送信号,其中亮度变化的图案是其中一个 在预定持续时间内的每个任意位置发生两个不同的亮度值。 在确定中,确定亮度变化的图案,使得持续时间中的亮度变化位置对于要发送的不同信号中的每个不同,亮度变化位置是亮度上升的位置, 亮度下降。

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