Wireless communication device
AssigneeNEC Casio Mobile Communications, Ltd.
InventorToshiya Todoroki
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Abstract
A wireless communication device includes: a master terminal that includes an antenna element, an RF circuit, a control unit, and a MIMO processing unit connected with the RF circuit; and a slave terminal that includes an antenna element and an RF circuit. The slave terminal is connected with the master terminal via an interface that includes a high-frequency transmission path. The control unit can control the MIMO processing unit and each RF circuit, and controls the MIMO processing unit to perform a MIMO reception process based on an RF signal that is received by the master terminal and an RF signal that is received by the slave terminal and transmitted to the master terminal.
Claims10
A wireless communication device that communicates with a base station, comprising:
- a plurality of terminals each including an antenna element and an RF circuit, one of said plurality of terminals being a master terminal and remaining terminal being a slave terminal,
- wherein each said slave terminal is connected to said master terminal by an interface that includes at least a high-frequency transmission path,
- wherein said master terminal further includes a control unit and a MIMO processor to which said RF circuit is connected, and
- wherein said control unit is capable of controlling said MIMO processor, said RF circuit of said master terminal, and said RF circuit of each said slave terminal and causing said MIMO processor to execute MIMO reception processing based on an RF signal that is received by said antenna element of said master terminal and an RF signal that is received by said antenna element of each said slave terminal and transmitted in to said master terminal by way of said high-frequency transmission path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.