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Contactless data processing apparatus

US5354975A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 3, 1993
Grant dateOct 11, 1994
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Expiry dateJun 3, 2013

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG07B15/02
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

When a control section of a data carrier discriminates a command from a reader/writer, either one of two kinds of pseudo random signals is returned in accordance with a bit 0 or 1 of response data. When two autocorrelation values obtained by correlation arithmetic operations are simultaneously equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, the reader/writer determines that a communication has been executed with two or more data carriers, so that an error warning, an access stop, a retry, or the like is executed. The reader/writer compares the autocorrelation peak value obtained from the pseudo random signal from the data carrier with a threshold value. When it is equal to or greater than the threshold value, the reading operation is executed. In the reading operation of continuous data bits from the data carrier, the reader/writer selects the minimum value from among the autocorrelation peak values of the bits obtained by the correlation arithmetic operations and stores the selected minimum value. When the minimum memory value is smaller than a threshold value, it is determined that data could not correctly be read, so that an error is indicated.

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