Object finder
AssigneeFavepc Inc.
InventorsHung-Cheng Chen, Keng-Hao Chang
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Abstract
A receiver of an object finder includes an antenna to receive a signal from a transmitter associated with the receiver, a PIN diode having a first terminal coupled with the antenna, and having a resistance that increases as a current flows therethrough decreases, and vice versa, a variable resistor coupled with the first terminal of the PIN diode to control the amount of a current flowing into the PIN diode, and a radio frequency integrated circuit (RF IC) having a first pin electrically coupled with second terminal of the PIN diode to receive the signal from the antenna via the PIN diode.
Claims10
A receiver of an object finder, the receiver comprising:
- an antenna to receive a signal from a transmitter associated with the receiver;
- a PIN diode having a first terminal coupled with the antenna, and having a resistance that increases as a current flows therethrough decreases, and vice versa;
- a variable resistor coupled with the first terminal of the PIN diode to control the amount of a current flowing into the PIN diode;
- a radio frequency integrated circuit (RF IC) having a first pin electrically coupled with the second terminal of the PIN diode to receive the signal from the antenna via the PIN diode;
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- a micro controller unit (MCU) electrically coupled with a second pin of the RF IC and a second terminal of the PIN diode, and configured to receive data from the RF IC and to extract information on a next transmission time of the transmitter from the data,
- wherein the MCU is configured to provide a first voltage signal to disable the RF IC, the first voltage signal pulling high a voltage level at the second terminal of the PIN diode, and to provide a second voltage signal to enable the RF IC, the second voltage signal pulling a low voltage level at the second terminal of the PIN diode, and the MCU being configured to enter a sleep mode after the data are received and configured to set a time to wake up from the sleep mode based on the information extracted from the data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.