CN102611787A - Electronic device and method for controlling wireless communication module - Google Patents

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CN102611787A
CN102611787A CN2011100450279A CN201110045027A CN102611787A CN 102611787 A CN102611787 A CN 102611787A CN 2011100450279 A CN2011100450279 A CN 2011100450279A CN 201110045027 A CN201110045027 A CN 201110045027A CN 102611787 A CN102611787 A CN 102611787A
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The invention discloses an electronic device and a method for controlling a wireless communication module in the electronic device, which can reduce high-frequency radiation energy absorbed by a user when the wireless communication module transmits signals and reduce potential harm to a human body caused by the high-frequency radiation energy. The electronic device includes: the device comprises a sensing unit, a wireless communication module and a control unit. The sensing unit is used for generating a sensing result according to the received radiation energy change, and the sensing result indicates a current spacing distance between the electronic device and a user. The control unit is coupled to the sensing unit and the wireless communication module, and changes the operating characteristics of the wireless communication module according to the sensing result. The invention can effectively reduce the high-frequency radiation energy absorbed by a user when the user uses the electronic device.

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Electronic installation and the method for controlling wireless communication module
Technical field
The present invention relates to radio communication, refer to a kind of electronic installation especially, it can foundation adjusts the operating characteristic and the correlation technique of inner wireless communication module with user's present spacing distance.
Background technology
Wireless communication technology is widely used in all types of electronic installations at present, to carry out transfer of data or voice transfer.As a rule; The wireless communication module that the electronic installation utilization accords with the specific wireless transmission specification carries out wireless transmission; For example: IEEE 802.11, WCDMA (wide band code division multiple access; WCDMA) or radio universal serial bus (wireless universal serial bus, Wireless USB) etc.Yet,, transmit the appreciable high frequency radiation energy that causes what carry out that transfer of data produced no matter be the wireless transport module of which kind of type.Although do not confirm clearly as yet medically this high frequency radiation energy can cause the harm of which kind of degree to human body at present actually.But for fear of this potential risks, electronic installation before actual selling, all must through human absorptivity test (Specific absorption rate, SAR), to lower the risk that the high frequency radiation energy causes user health.Therefore, as far as designer and manufacturer, how under various environments for use, the high frequency radiation energy is reduced to the minimum important problem that just become to the risk that health caused.
Summary of the invention
In view of this; One of the object of the invention is to provide a kind of electronic installation, wherein, and when the user presses close to this electronic installation use; This electronic installation can reduce the high-frequency energy of radiation to user's body effectively, and it is mainly reached through the operating characteristic that changes wireless communication module.Another object of the present invention is then for to provide a kind of method of controlling the wireless communication module in the electronic installation, and final result also can make the high-frequency energy of radiation to user's body be lowered.Put it briefly, utilization of the present invention detects to the responsive sensing unit (as: heat sensor or infrared ray sensor) of body temperature whether electronic installation is quite near human body, for example: as user during in operating electronic devices, and certain part of electronic installation being pressed close to health.Then; Through the testing result that sensing unit produced; Just can learn electronic installation and user's present spacing distance, and then the operating characteristic (as: signal emission characteristics) of the wireless communication module of adjustment electronic installation, to alleviate the high frequency radiation energy that user's body is absorbed.
One embodiment of the invention provide a kind of electronic installation, and this electronic installation comprises: a sensing unit, a wireless communication module and a control unit.This sensing unit is in order to produce a sensing result, and wherein this sensing result represents the present spacing distance between this electronic installation and the user.This control unit is coupled to this sensing unit and this wireless communication module, and changes the operating characteristic of this wireless communication module according to this sensing result.
Another embodiment of the present invention provides a kind of method of control one wireless communication module, and this method comprises: produce a sensing result, wherein this sensing result represents the present spacing distance between this wireless communication module and the user; And the operating characteristic that changes this wireless communication module according to this sensing result.
The present invention can effectively reduce the high frequency radiation energy that the user is absorbed when using electronic installation.
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Fig. 1 is the application sketch map of electronic installation of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is the function block schematic diagram of an embodiment of electronic installation of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is the enforcement sketch map of an embodiment of electronic installation of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is the flow chart of an embodiment of the inventive method.
Wherein, description of reference numerals is following:
100 electronic installations
110 sensing elements
120 control units
130 wireless communication modules
140 display screens
132 power amplifiers
134 Anneta modules
S410, S420 step
S_Result sensing result
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In the middle of specification and claim, used some vocabulary to censure specific element.Those skilled in the art should understand, and hardware manufacturer may be called same element with different nouns.This specification and claim are not used as distinguishing the mode of element with the difference of title, but the criterion that is used as distinguishing with the difference of element on function.Be an open term mentioned " comprising " in the middle of specification and the claim in the whole text, so should be construed to " comprise but be not limited to ".In addition, " couple " speech and comprise any indirect electrical connection means that directly reach at this.Therefore, be coupled to one second device, then represent this first device can directly be electrically connected on this second device, or be electrically connected to this second device through other devices or the intersegmental ground connection of connection hand if describe one first device in the literary composition.
At first, please refer to Fig. 1, it is the application sketch map of electronic installation of the present invention.Wherein, when the user with electronic installation 100, when the thigh that is close to health used, the operating characteristic of the wireless communication module in the middle of electronic installation 100 can change about detailed operating principle, was asked for an interview following.Be noted that so application shown in Figure 1 is not restriction of the present invention only in order to illustrate notion of the present invention.For instance, when use at other positions that the user is close to its health with electronic installation 100, the operating characteristic of the wireless communication module in the middle of electronic installation 100 also may change.
Please refer to Fig. 2, it is the function block schematic diagram of the embodiment of electronic installation 100.As shown in the figure, electronic installation 100 includes (but being not limited to) sensing unit 110, a control unit 120 and a wireless communication module 130.Wherein, Sensing unit 110 is in order to produce sensing S_Result as a result, and wherein, sensing unit 100 is mainly according to electronic installation 100 during near user (as shown in Figure 1); Cause that sensing unit 100 received energy change, produce sensing S_Result as a result whereby.Therefore, sensing as a result S_Result can point out the present spacing distance D of one between electronic installation 100 and the user.Wherein, sensing unit 100 possibly be heat sensor (as: infrared ray sensor).In general; Any have the object that is higher than absolute zero and more or less can the width of cloth penetrate infrared ray; And the principle of infrared ray sensor (passive infrared transducer) promptly is to work as the emittance (that is, infrared energy) that received when changing, and produces electric charge; Thus, can cause the voltage of the transducing signal of output to change.In general, in red line outer sensor change in electrical charge and variations in temperature certain proportionate relationship is arranged.
And when if sensing unit 110 is implemented with infrared ray sensor, infrared ray sensor just capable of using changes responsive characteristic to emittance, differentiates whether human body is near electronic installation 100.When human body during near electronic installation 100; Can receive muchly more more by the sensing unit 110 that infrared ray sensor constituted, and then produce more electric charge, to produce bigger sensed values by the infrared ray that human body gave off; And when human body away from the time during electronic installation 100; Then sensing unit 110 can receive less comparatively speaking infrared ray, and therefore such variation can cause sensing unit 110 to produce less electric charge, makes sensed values reduce.Based on such notion, the present spacing distance between an electronic installation 100 and the user is judged in the variation of sensing unit 110 sensed values capable of using of the present invention.
In the enforcement, sensing unit 110 possibly be arranged at not homonymy with the display screen of electronic installation 100.As shown in Figure 3, display screen 140 is arranged at the front of electronic installation 100, and sensing unit 110 then is arranged at the back side of electronic installation 100.Moreover control unit 120 is coupled to sensing unit 110 and wireless communication module 130, and according to sensing as a result S_Result change the operating characteristic of wireless communication module 130.Preferably, control unit 120 according to sensing as a result S_Result change the signal emission characteristics of wireless communication module 130.In addition, wireless communication module 130 possibly not carry out wireless transmission according to standards such as IEEE 802.11, WCDMA or Wireless USB (yet these standards are the present invention's restriction).
Particularly; Electronic installation 100 possibly be a mobile phone, and palmtop PC (Personal Digital Assistant, PDA), panel computer (Tablet Personal Computer; Tablet PC); Mobile network apparatus (Mobile Internet Device, MID), super removable computer (Ultra-Mobile PC, UMPC), device such as multimedia personal player or notebook computer.Yet, should be noted in the discussion above that except that above-mentioned possible electronic installation, any other electronic installations that possess wireless communication module, and possess function and operate the circuit element of similar sensing element 110 with control unit 120, all belong to covering scope of the present invention.
If sensing S_Result as a result points out that present spacing distance D falls within the particular range (body part that can be considered this user is near electronic installation 100); At this moment, control unit 120 energy that transmits that will control that wireless communication module 130 reduces that it produces.Through changing the energy that this transmits, can effectively reduce the high frequency radiation energy that is absorbed by this user.In different embodiments of the invention, provide different modes to reduce this concept of energy that transmits with concrete realization.Wherein, in one embodiment of the invention, when sensing as a result S_Result point out that present spacing distance D falls within this particular range, control unit 120 just reduces a yield value of power amplifier 132, to reduce the energy that this transmits.In addition, in another embodiment of the present invention, 120 signal emission characteristicss that change wireless communication module 130 through adjustment Anneta module 134 of control unit.Wherein, when sensing as a result S_Result point out that present spacing distance D falls within this particular range, control unit 120 is just adjusted a resistance value of Anneta module 134, to reduce the energy that this transmits.In detail, since this energy intensity that transmits of being produced of Anneta module 134 to be relevant to the impedance matching of Anneta module 134 and front-end circuit (like, power amplifier 132) relevant.Therefore, when impedance did not match, the signal energy that has part was reflected back toward front-end circuit.In this case, the energy when this energy that transmits that Anneta module 134 is produced can be lower than impedance matching so the present invention expressly is adjusted to unmatched situation with impedance, reduces the energy that this transmits whereby.
Except above two kinds through changing the high frequency radiation energy that this energy that transmits reduces to be absorbed by the user, in another embodiment of the present invention, reach identical purpose through changing Anneta module 134 pairing antenna directivities.Further; When but Anneta module 134 is timing (as: aerial array) in the gain of different directions; Can be through increasing the yield value of the direction that Anneta module is positioned in a receiving terminal, and the yield value that reduces other directions reduces the high frequency radiation amount that is absorbed by the user.This receive end maybe for a wireless receiver (wireless access point, WAP) or a mobile communication base station.Through the mode of such adjustment, the high frequency radiation energy that also can reduce the user equally and absorbed.
Special attention should be that with " embodiment " mentioned in the preceding text, " another embodiment " or " another embodiment " representative and be contained at least one execution mode of the present invention to the described special characteristic of this embodiment, structure or property bag.Therefore, although preamble has been mentioned various structure characteristic or method property characteristic when describing different embodiment, these different characteristics still can be through carrying out suitable modification to execution mode and being implemented in simultaneously in a certain specific embodiment.For instance; The embodiment of the antenna directivity of adjustment Anneta module 134 can mutually combine with the embodiment of the resistance value of adjusting Anneta module 134 mutually; Thus, both can reduce of the harm of high frequency radiation energy, can guarantee the line quality and the reliability of wireless transmission again human body.
Based on aforesaid notion, one embodiment of the invention provide the method for a kind of control one wireless communication module (as: wireless communication module 130), and the flow chart of this method is as shown in Figure 4.Wherein, in step S410, the inventive method changes according to the emittance that this wireless communication module received and produces a sensing result, and wherein this sensing result points out the present spacing distance between this wireless communication module and the user.Then, in step S420, the inventive method changes the operating characteristic of this wireless communication module again according to this sensing result.Preferably, the operating characteristic of this wireless communication module is the signal emission characteristics.Moreover; The step S420 that changes the operating characteristic of this wireless communication module also includes: fall within the particular range energy that transmits of controlling that this wireless communication module reduces that this wireless communication module produces when this sensing result points out this present spacing distance.Further, realize that the mode that reduces this energy that transmits that this wireless communication module produced possibly be one of following dual mode:
Reduce a yield value of a power amplifier (as: power amplifier 132) of this wireless communication module;
Perhaps
Adjust a resistance value of an Anneta module (as: Anneta module 134) of this wireless communication module, to reduce the energy that this transmits.
In addition, the inventive method also can be reached the purpose that reduces the high frequency radiation energy that this user absorbed through the directive property that changes this Anneta module.Therefore, in an embodiment of the inventive method, step S420 possibly include: fall within the particular range when this sensing result points out this present spacing distance, control the antenna directivity that this wireless communication module is adjusted an Anneta module wherein.Preferably, method of the present invention increases this Anneta module in a yield value of a specific direction, and this specific direction points to a receiving terminal.
Likewise, the embodiment of the antenna directivity of adjustment Anneta module can mutually combine with the embodiment of the resistance value of adjusting Anneta module mutually, so can reduce the harm of high frequency radiation energy to human body, can guarantee the line quality and the reliability of wireless transmission again.
In summary, whether electronic installation approaches user's body part through sensing in the present invention, adjusts the signal emission characteristics of wireless communication module, and then minimizing high frequency radiation energy maybe be to the risk that user health brought.
The above is merely the preferred embodiments of the present invention, and all equalizations of doing according to claim of the present invention change and modify, and all should belong to covering scope of the present invention.

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1. an electronic installation is characterized in that, comprises:
One sensing unit produces a sensing result in order to change according to the emittance that is received, and this sensing result points out the present spacing distance between this electronic installation and the user;
One wireless communication module; And
One control unit is coupled to this sensing unit and this wireless communication module, and changes the operating characteristic of this wireless communication module according to this sensing result.
2. electronic installation as claimed in claim 1; It is characterized in that; When this sensing result points out that this present spacing distance falls within the particular range, the energy that transmits that this wireless communication module of this control unit control reduces that this wireless communication module produces.
3. electronic installation as claimed in claim 2; It is characterized in that; This wireless communication module includes a power amplifier; And when this sensing result pointed out that this present spacing distance falls within this particular range, this control unit reduced a yield value of this power amplifier, to reduce the energy that this transmits.
4. electronic installation as claimed in claim 2; It is characterized in that; This wireless communication module includes an Anneta module; And when this sensing result pointed out that this present spacing distance falls within this particular range, a resistance value of this this Anneta module of control unit adjustment was to reduce the energy that this transmits.
5. electronic installation as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, when this sensing result pointed out that this present spacing distance falls within the particular range, this this wireless communication module of control unit control was adjusted an antenna directivity of this wireless communication module.
6. electronic installation as claimed in claim 5; It is characterized in that; This wireless communication module includes an Anneta module; And when this sensing result pointed out that this present spacing distance falls within this particular range, this control unit increased this Anneta module in a yield value of a specific direction, and this specific direction points to a receiving terminal.
7. electronic installation as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that, this sensing unit is a heat sensor.
8. the method for control one wireless communication module is characterized in that, comprises:
Change to produce a sensing result according to the emittance that this wireless communication module received, wherein this sensing result points out the present spacing distance between this wireless communication module and the user; And
Change the operating characteristic of this wireless communication module according to this sensing result.
9. electronic installation as claimed in claim 8 is characterized in that, the step that changes the operating characteristic of this wireless communication module includes:
When this sensing result points out that this present spacing distance falls within the particular range, the energy that transmits of controlling that this wireless communication module reduces that this wireless communication module produces.
10. method as claimed in claim 9 is characterized in that this wireless communication module includes a power amplifier, and the step that reduces this energy that transmits that this wireless communication module produces includes:
Reduce a yield value of this power amplifier, to reduce the energy that this transmits.
11. method as claimed in claim 9 is characterized in that, this wireless communication module includes an Anneta module, and the step that reduces this energy that transmits that this wireless communication module produces includes:
Adjust a resistance value of this Anneta module, to reduce the energy that this transmits.
12. electronic installation as claimed in claim 8 is characterized in that, wireless communication module includes an Anneta module, and the step that changes the operating characteristic of this wireless communication module includes:
Fall within the particular range when this sensing result points out this present spacing distance, control the antenna directivity that this wireless communication module is adjusted this Anneta module.
13. method as claimed in claim 12 is characterized in that, the step of adjusting an antenna directivity of this Anneta module includes:
Increase the yield value of this Anneta module, and this specific direction points to a receiving terminal in a specific direction.
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