Apparatus for the detection of labels employing subtraction of background signals

Abstract

An apparatus for the detection of labels used for preventing theft of goods and provided with an electric resonant circuit [(21) and] having a resonant frequency [(fr)] in the MHz range [comprises] has a transmitter [(1)] and a receiver [(2)]. The transmitter [(1)] generates a transmitting signal sequence, whose frequency is wobbled in wobble cycles over and beyond the given resonant frequency of the labels and [radiates] which is radiated by means of a transmitting antenna [(11)]. Signal generation in the transmitter [(1)] takes place digitally and with coinciding phase position with respect to each wobble cycle. In the receiver [(2)] the signals received by means of a receiving antenna [(12)] are scanned and digitized synchronously with signal generation in the transmitter [(1)]. From the digitized signal values of n wobble cycles a background is formed and subtracted from the digitized signal values of the in each case last wobble cycle. A long-term and a short-term background can be formed and the latter is subtracted from the former. By background subtraction it is in particular possible to [discriminate time] eliminate relatively [stationary] time stationary interference, such as is particularly caused by transmitting signal diffractions and reflections on objects present in the vicinity of the transmitting and/or receiving antenna.

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