Abstract:
An antenna device for magnetic field communication may include: a first coil; a second coil; a third coil; a first capacitor connected to a 1-1 terminal of the first coil; a second capacitor connected to a 2-1 terminal of the second coil; a third capacitor connected to a 3-1 terminal of the third coil; and an input port including a first input terminal connected to a 1-2 terminal of the first coil, a 2-2 terminal of the second coil, and a 3-2 terminal of the third coil, and a second input terminal connected to the first capacitor, the second capacitor, and the third capacitor.
Abstract:
Provided is an apparatus for calibrating a transmission path, the apparatus including one or more couplers to separate, by one or more paths, one or more input signals input from an input terminal of one or more antennas, a power detector to detect amplitude of one or more path signals separated by the one or more paths, a power distributor to distribute any one of the one or more path signals, one or more mixers to mix a distribution signal distributed by the power distributor with the one or more path signals, a low-pass filter to remove a high-frequency component of a mixed signal mixed by the one or more mixers; and a voltage detector to detect amplitude of one or more filter pass signals with the high-frequency component removed.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an apparatus for harvesting leakage energy. The apparatus for harvesting leakage energy includes: an energy harvesting unit configured to harvest energy leaked while energy radiated from a transmitting unit of an energy transmitting apparatus is transmitted to a receiving unit of an energy receiving apparatus; and a harvesting circuit module configured to supply energy harvested by the energy harvesting unit to a load. In accordance with the embodiment of the present invention, energy efficiency of overall system can be increased by harvesting the leakage energy without affecting performance of a wireless power transmission system.
Abstract:
A method for calculating an altitude of a target through an apparatus for calculating an altitude of the target, which comprises a plurality of MIMO radar virtual antennas, may comprise: receiving electromagnetic waves reflected from the target through a pair of virtual antennas classified into an upper antenna and a lower antenna and alternately arranged in two columns linearly; obtaining range information and phase information of the target from the pair of virtual antennas by analyzing the electromagnetic waves; and calculating altitude information of the target from position information of the pair of virtual antennas, and the range information and the phase information.
Abstract:
A method of transmitting and receiving an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signal for radio detection and ranging (radar) applications, and apparatuses performing the method are disclosed. The method includes receiving an OFDM signal in which a cyclic prefix (CP) is not included and converting the received OFDM signal to a received discrete time-domain signal through an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), selecting sub-carrier symbols to be input to a fast Fourier transform (FFT) from among all sub-carrier symbols included in the received discrete time-domain signal by performing windowing on the received discrete time-domain signal by a window that is based on an estimated value of a maximum delay that occurs potentially in a channel, converting the received discrete time-domain signal to a received frequency-domain signal by inputting the selected sub-carrier symbols to the FFT, and performing channel estimation based on the received frequency-domain signal.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a circular array antenna. The circular array antenna includes: an input/output unit receiving electromagnetic waves from a transmitter and distributing the received electromagnetic waves to the antenna; a primary feeder connected with the input/output unit and placed at the center of the circular array antenna; a plurality of secondary feeders radially connected to the primary feeder; a plurality of patch units connected to the respective secondary feeders to generate an electric field radially; and a plurality of length controllers formed at terminals of the respective secondary feeders in a direction to extend the lengths of the respective secondary feeders, of which the lengths are controllable.
Abstract:
Provided is an apparatus for calibrating a transmission path, the apparatus including one or more couplers to separate, by one or more paths, one or more input signals input from an input terminal of one or more antennas, a power detector to detect amplitude of one or more path signals separated by the one or more paths, a power distributor to distribute any one of the one or more path signals, one or more mixers to mix a distribution signal distributed by the power distributor with the one or more path signals, a low-pass filter to remove a high-frequency component of a mixed signal mixed by the one or more mixers; and a voltage detector to detect amplitude of one or more filter pass signals with the high-frequency component removed.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a wireless communication method of improving frequency efficiency based on a channel function in a wireless communication system and an apparatus thereof. The wireless communication system using a digital modulation scheme, includes: a transmitting apparatus which modulates a data signal to generate a modulation symbol, generates a channel symbol function corresponding to the modulation symbol, combines the modulation symbol with the channel symbol function to generate a transmission symbol to transmit the generated transmission symbol through a transmission antenna; and a receiving apparatus which receives the transmission symbol through a reception antenna, estimates a channel symbol function included in the transmission symbol, and extracts the data signal based on the modulation symbol included in the transmission symbol.
Abstract:
An operation method performed by an apparatus for detecting multiple targets may comprise transmitting first signals using Mt transmit antennas included in the apparatus; receiving the first signals reflected by the multiple targets through Mr receive antennas included in the apparatus; generating a first function for estimating a velocity and an azimuth of each of the multiple targets using the first signals and the reflected first signals; estimating a velocity and an azimuth that maximize a result of the first function as a velocity and an azimuth of a first target closest to the apparatus among the multiple targets; generating a second function by cancelling interference caused by the first target from the first function; and estimating a velocity and an azimuth that maximize a result of the second function as a velocity and an azimuth of a second target among the multiple targets.
Abstract:
Disclosed are a communication method and communication apparatus using an ambient backscatter communication. A transmission apparatus may include generating a plurality of bitsets by fragmenting data based on a predetermined bitset length, mapping the plurality of bitsets to a plurality of switching patterns based on a data size, and controlling a reflection of a background radio frequency (RF) signal based on a corresponding mapped switching pattern, a total number of the plurality of switching patterns may be determined based on the bitset length, and each of the plurality of switching patterns may have a different length.