System and method for operating a system including a first communications unit and a second communications unit

US11349568B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG · DE

Inventors

• Zhidong Hua · Bruchsal, DE
• Manuel Hoffmann · Brackenheim, DE
• Viktoriya Zavalishka · Mannheim, DE
• Thomas Schäfer · Karlsdorf-Neuthard, DE
• Michael Lindenfelser · Bruchsal, DE
• Andreas Wanjek · Waghäusel, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 23, 2019
• Grant date: May 31, 2022
• Expiry date: Aug 23, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04B10/60
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system includes a first communications unit, e.g., a transmitter, and a second communications unit, e.g., a receiver. The first communications unit has a controllable illumination device, which emits light modulated according to a predefined data flow, and the second communications unit has a camera, including an optical element and an image sensor. A light-sensitive surface of the image sensor has a plurality of lines of light-sensitive elements, and the image sensor is arranged such that the image of the illumination device projected onto the light-sensitive surface of the image sensor by the optical element is unsharply imaged and/or covers more than half of the light-sensitive surface and is scanned line by line, e.g., so that the image has stripes of different brightness and/or that the brightness profile induced transversely to the line direction spatially indicates the time characteristic of the data flow.