Receiver and associated mobile communications device
AssigneeThe University Court of the University of Edinburgh
InventorsMohamed Sufyan Islim, Harald Haas
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Abstract
An optical wireless communications receiver for a portable communications device, the receiver being configured to receive radiation signals on which communication data is encoded, wherein the receiver is comprised in or on or configured for mounting to at least part of a periphery or edge of the device. Advantageously, the optical wireless communications comprises a plurality of, receiver elements distributed along or around the receiver and/or comprises an optical guide configured to receive radiation and convey at least part of the radiation along the optical guide to at least one of the receiver elements.
Claims21
1-21. (canceled)
An optical wireless communications receiver for a portable communications device, the receiver being configured to receive radiation signals on which communication data is encoded, wherein:
- the receiver is comprised in or on or configured for mounting to at least part of a periphery or edge of the device.
A method of receiving communications data using an optical wireless communications receiver, the method comprising receiving a different radiation signal or a different data stream of a radiation signal by at least one of a plurality of receiver elements of a receiver to the radiation signal or data stream of a radiation signal received at one or more other receiver elements of the plurality of receiver elements.
A non-transient computer program product on a physical computer readable medium that, when run on at least one processor causes the at least one processer to receive different signals or different data streams or portions of signals from different receiver elements of a plurality of receiver elements of an optical wireless communications receiver, and to combine the received signals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.