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RF communication module and RF communication system

US8068013B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 14, 2007
Grant dateNov 29, 2011
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Expiry dateSep 27, 2030

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG08C2201/92
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A RF communication system includes a RF communication module capable of controlling either an IR communication system-controlled device or a controlled device not equipped with a reception circuit for receiving IR signals remotely with RF signals. The RF communication module is equipped with an antenna for receiving RF signals, a RF communication circuit for demodulating the remote control data from the RF signal received by the antenna, a UART interface for outputting bit stream remote data to a device-side microcomputer of the controlled device, and a communication control unit having two types of communication interfaces in a pulse signal interface that outputs a pulse modulated signal, having been pulse modulated with remote control data, to a pulse modulated signal input port of the device-side microcomputer, so that remote control data transmitted by RF signals is output freely, as either bit stream or pulse modulated signals, to a device-side microcomputer of the controlled device.

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