Wireless communication device and wireless communication control method
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorHisao NAKANO
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Abstract
A wireless communication device 1 carries out wireless communications using different wireless communication schemes through antennas independent of each other. When it decides that a party on the other end is a wireless communication device using a single antenna system, it switches to a simultaneous operation that carries out wireless LAN and Bluetooth wireless communication in parallel, and when it does not decide that the party on the other end is a wireless communication device using a single antenna system, it switches to a time-division operation that carries out the wireless LAN and Bluetooth wireless communication in time division.
Claims10
A wireless communication device including wireless communicators each carrying out wireless communication using different wireless communication schemes through antennas independent of each other, the wireless communication device comprising:
- a decider to decide whether or not a party on the other end is a wireless communication device with a single antenna system, which carries out wireless communication in time division using the different wireless communication schemes through a common antenna;
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- a controller to control the individual wireless communicators, and switches between a simultaneous operation and a time-division operation, the simultaneous operation carrying out wireless communication using the different wireless communication schemes in parallel, and the time-division operation carrying out the wireless communication using the different wireless communication schemes in time division, wherein
- when the decider decides that the party on the other end is the wireless communication device with the single antenna system, the controller switches to the simultaneous operation by controlling the individual wireless communicators, and when the decider does not decide that the party on the other end is the wireless communication device with the single antenna system, the controller switches to the time-division operation by controlling the individual wireless communicators.
A wireless communication control method executed by a wireless communication device including wireless communicators each carrying out wireless communication using different wireless communication schemes through antennas independent of each other, a decider and a controller, the wireless communication control method comprising the steps of:
- deciding by the decider whether or not a party on the other end is a wireless communication device with a single antenna system, which carries out wireless communication in time division using the different wireless communication schemes through a common antenna;
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- switching by the controller to a simultaneous operation that carries out wireless communications using the different wireless communication schemes in parallel by controlling the individual wireless communicators when the decider decides that the party on the other end is the wireless communication device with the single antenna system, and switching to a time-division operation that carries out the wireless communications using the different wireless communication schemes in time division by controlling the individual wireless communicators when the decider does not decide that the party on the other end is the wireless communication device with the single antenna system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.