Method and apparatus for radio communications in a wireless local area network
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorHideyuki Nakagawa
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a radio communications apparatus that can monitor a radio environment and can display the level of interference of radio waves of the band assigned to the apparatus. The apparatus has a monitoring unit, a system control unit and an LED unit. The monitoring unit determines a radio-environment level from the strength of radio waves received. From the radio-environment level thus determined, the level of radio interference can be evaluated. The system control unit causes the LED unit to display the radio-environment level, i.e., the results of monitoring the radio environment.
Claims10
A radio communications apparatus comprising:
- a receiving unit which receives radio waves;
- a detecting unit which detects the strength of the radio waves received by the receiving unit;
- a monitoring unit which monitors the radio-wave strength detected by the detecting unit, and which determines a radio-interference level from the strength of radio waves;
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- a display unit which displays data representing the radio-interference level determined by the monitoring unit.
A method of monitoring a radio environment, for use in a radio communications apparatus which transmits and receives radio waves, the method comprising:
- detecting the strength of radio waves received;
- determining a radio-environment level from the detected strength of radio waves, said radio-environment level corresponding to a level of interference of the radio waves;
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- displaying data representing the radio-environment level.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.