RFID reader cancelling leakage signal
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsIl-Jong Song, Si-Gyoung Koo, Jin-Hun Koo, Young-Hoon Min
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Abstract
A radio frequency identification (RFID) recorder for cancelling a leakage signal includes a digital unit calculating and storing an amplitude and a phase of the leakage signal, and a leakage cancellation circuit generating a leakage cancellation signal to cancel the leakage signal in response to a control of the digital unit.
Claims10
A radio frequency identification (RFID) reader for cancelling a single antenna return loss and a leakage signal of the RFID reader, comprising:
- a digital unit configured to calculate and store an amplitude and a phase of the single antenna return loss and the leakage signal based upon baseband signals received by the digital unit during an initial non-tag operation;
- a leakage cancellation circuit configured to generate a single antenna return loss and leakage cancellation signal to cancel the single antenna return loss and leakage signal in response to a control of the digital unit,
- a first directional coupler configured to transmit to a single antenna transmit signal from a transmitter coupled to the digital unit;
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- a second directional coupler configured to receive the single antenna return loss and leakage cancellation signal from the leakage cancellation circuit and to cancel the single antenna return loss and leakage signal from the first directional coupler,
- wherein the leakage cancellation circuit is between the first directional coupler and the second directional coupler, and
- wherein the digital unit is configured to control the leakage cancellation circuit using the stored amplitude and phase without using an error signal fed back to the leakage cancellation circuit based upon a sensed downconverted tag signal, a sensed downconverted tag signal from a downconverter/demodulator, or a feedback signal from a detector comprising a Schottky diode, low-pass filter and a buffer amplifier coupled to the second directional coupler wherein the feedback signal is received either during a tag operation or an initial non-tag operation.
A method for canceling a single antenna return loss and a leakage signal in a radio frequency identification (RFID) reader comprising:
- calculating and storing an amplitude and a phase of the single antenna return loss and the leakage signal based upon baseband signals received by a digital unit during an initial non-tag operation;
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- generating a single antenna return loss and leakage cancellation signal to cancel the single antenna return loss and leakage signal based upon the calculated amplitude and phase of the single antenna return loss and leakage signal,
- wherein the leakage signal is a leakage signal that leaks from a directional coupler coupled to single antenna of the RFID reader during a tag operation,
- wherein the single antenna return loss and leakage cancellation signal is provided by a leakage cancellation circuit between the first directional coupler and a second directional coupler coupled to a receiver, and
- wherein the digital unit is configured to control the leakage cancellation circuit using the stored amplitude and phase without using an error signal fed back to the leakage cancellation circuit based upon a sensed downconverted tag signal, a sensed downconverted tag signal from a downconverter/demodulator, or a feedback signal from a detector comprising a Schottky diode, low-pass filter and a buffer amplifier coupled to the second directional coupler wherein the feedback signal is received either during a tag operation or an initial non-tag operation.
The method of 6, further comprising receiving the transmit signal of a transmitter to generate the single antenna return loss and leakage cancellation signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.