CN111800159B

CN111800159B - Control method and electronic equipment

Info

Publication number: CN111800159B
Application number: CN202010617734.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 许玉玲; 莫达飞; 沈小准
Original assignee: Lenovo Beijing Ltd
Current assignee: Lenovo Beijing Ltd
Priority date: 2020-06-30
Filing date: 2020-06-30
Publication date: 2021-12-24
Anticipated expiration: 2040-06-30
Also published as: CN111800159A

Abstract

The application relates to a control method and electronic equipment, aiming at a first antenna used for operating in a first network in the electronic equipment, under the condition that the performance of the first antenna does not meet the condition due to the influence of factors such as environment and the like, a second antenna used for operating in a second network in the electronic equipment is called, and the called second antenna is controlled to operate in at least the first network, so that the second antenna used for operating in the second network is used for receiving and transmitting wireless signals in the first network. When the first antenna running in the first network cannot meet the performance requirement during communication, the second antenna running in the second network is timely borrowed to receive and transmit wireless signals in the first network, so that the performance deficiency of the first antenna in the first network caused by performance reduction or signal blind areas and other reasons can be effectively overcome, the signal receiving and transmitting performance of the antenna in the first network is ensured, and the communication function of the user equipment cannot be influenced.

Description

Control method and electronic equipment

Technical Field

The present application belongs to the field of antenna control, and in particular, relates to a control method and an electronic device.

Background

Antennas in electronic equipment, such as Wi-Fi antennas in mobile terminals, may be affected by environmental factors or components of the equipment itself to cause performance degradation of the antennas or to cause the antennas to be in signal blind areas, and the performance degradation of the antennas or the antennas being in the signal blind areas easily cause phenomena such as call drop or download jamming of the equipment, which is not favorable for the electronic equipment to provide normal communication functions, and also causes poor user experience.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above, the present application provides a control method and an electronic device, so as to improve the performance of an antenna, overcome the problem of signal blind area, and maximize the radiation of the antenna under the influence of at least environmental factors or components of the device itself.

Therefore, the application discloses the following technical scheme:

a control method, comprising:

obtaining current performance parameter data of a first antenna in electronic equipment; the first antenna is used for operating in a first network;

determining whether the antenna performance of the first antenna represented by the performance parameter data meets a performance condition;

if not, calling a second antenna in the electronic equipment, controlling the called second antenna to operate in at least a first network, and at least utilizing the called second antenna to receive and transmit wireless signals in the first network;

the second antenna is configured to operate in a second network different from the first network, and the operating frequency band applicable to the second antenna includes at least a part of the operating frequency band applicable to the first antenna.

Preferably, the obtaining of the current performance parameter data of the first antenna in the electronic device includes:

under the condition of transmitting and receiving data by using a first antenna, obtaining a current throughput value and/or an effective transmitting and receiving power value of the first antenna;

the determining whether the antenna performance characterized by the performance parameter data meets the performance condition includes:

and determining whether the throughput value and/or the effective transceiving power value reach a set throughput threshold value and/or an effective transceiving power threshold value, if so, the antenna performance of the first antenna meets the performance condition, and if not, the antenna performance of the first antenna does not meet the performance condition.

In the above method, preferably, the number of the first antennas and the number of the second antennas included in the electronic device are plural;

the invoking a second antenna in the electronic device, comprising:

determining at least one target first antenna of the plurality of first antennas that satisfies a channel closing condition; connecting the data transmission channels of the at least one target first antenna to at least one second antenna respectively;

the controlling the invoked second antenna to operate in at least a first network includes:

detecting the working states of a plurality of second antennas in the electronic equipment at the called moment;

if the plurality of second antennas are in the non-running state, controlling the called at least one second antenna to run in the first network, and keeping the other non-called second antennas in the non-running state;

if the plurality of second antennas are in the operation state of operating in the second network, maintaining the invoked at least one second antenna in the operation state of operating in the second network, and controlling the invoked at least one second antenna to simultaneously operate in the first network, and maintaining the other second antennas which are not invoked in the operation state of operating in the second network;

the transceiving of wireless signals in the first network using at least the invoked second antenna comprises:

if all the antennas in the plurality of first antennas meet the channel closing condition, utilizing the called at least one second antenna to receive and transmit wireless signals in the first network;

and if part of the first antennas meet the channel closing condition, transmitting and receiving wireless signals in the first network by using the first antennas which do not meet the channel closing condition and the called at least one second antenna.

Preferably, the method for maintaining the invoked at least one second antenna in an operating state of operating in the second network and controlling the invoked at least one second antenna to operate in the first network at the same time includes:

detecting an operating frequency band used by the called at least one second antenna in the second network at the called moment;

determining whether the used working frequency band and the working frequency band of the first antenna meet the same frequency condition;

if the same-frequency condition is met, controlling and calling the at least one second antenna to simultaneously operate in the first network and the second network by adopting a time division duplex mode;

and if the same-frequency condition is not met, controlling the at least one second antenna to operate in the first network and the second network simultaneously by adopting a frequency division duplex mode or a time division duplex mode.

In the above method, preferably, the data transmission channel of the first antenna includes: the radio frequency control device comprises a first modem, a first radio frequency transceiving unit electrically connected with the first modem, a first radio frequency front-end circuit electrically connected with the first radio frequency transceiving unit, and a first radio frequency switch electrically connected with the first radio frequency front-end circuit; wherein the first radio frequency switch is electrically connected with the first antenna;

the connecting the data transmission channels of the at least one target first antenna to the at least one second antenna respectively comprises:

cutting off the electric connection between at least one target first antenna and the first radio frequency switch thereof, and electrically connecting the at least one first radio frequency switch after cutting off the electric connection to at least one second antenna;

the first antenna or the called second antenna is electrically connected with the first radio frequency switch through the matching circuit of the corresponding frequency band.

In the method, preferably, the plurality of second antennas include a main antenna and at least one auxiliary antenna;

the electrically connecting the at least one first radio frequency switch after cutting off the electrical connection to the at least one second antenna includes:

selecting at least one target second antenna which meets the antenna condition from a plurality of second antennas of the electronic equipment; electrically connecting the at least one first radio frequency switch after the electrical connection is cut off to the at least one target second antenna;

alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

acquiring setting information, and electrically connecting the at least one first radio frequency switch after the electric connection is cut off to at least one target second antenna indicated by the setting information; wherein, in a case where the plurality of second antennas are in an operating state of operating in a second network, the at least one target second antenna indicated by the setting information includes at least one secondary antenna of the plurality of second antennas.

An electronic device, comprising:

a first antenna for operating in a first network;

a second antenna for operating in a second network; the second network is different from the first network, and the working frequency band applicable to the second antenna comprises at least part of the working frequency band applicable to the first antenna;

a memory for storing at least one set of instructions;

a processor for invoking and executing the set of instructions in the memory, by executing the set of instructions:

obtaining current performance parameter data of a first antenna in electronic equipment;

and if not, calling a second antenna in the electronic equipment, controlling the called second antenna to operate in at least a first network, and at least utilizing the called second antenna to receive and transmit wireless signals in the first network.

In the electronic device, preferably, the number of the first antennas and the number of the second antennas included in the electronic device are plural;

the processor invokes a second antenna in the electronic device, comprising:

determining at least one target first antenna of the plurality of first antennas that satisfies a channel closing condition;

connecting the data transmission channels of the at least one target first antenna to at least one second antenna respectively;

the processor controls the invoked second antenna to operate in at least a first network, comprising:

the processor at least utilizes the called second antenna to transmit and receive wireless signals in the first network, and the method comprises the following steps:

In the electronic device, preferably, the processor maintains the invoked at least one second antenna in an operating state of operating in the second network, and controls the invoked at least one second antenna to operate in the first network at the same time, and the method includes:

In the electronic device, preferably, the data transmission channel of the first antenna includes: the radio frequency control device comprises a first modem, a first radio frequency transceiving unit electrically connected with the first modem, a first radio frequency front-end circuit electrically connected with the first radio frequency transceiving unit, and a first radio frequency switch electrically connected with the first radio frequency front-end circuit; wherein the first radio frequency switch is electrically connected with the first antenna; the processor connects the data transmission channels of the at least one target first antenna to at least one second antenna respectively, and includes:

the first antenna or the called second antenna is electrically connected with the first radio frequency switch through the matching circuit of the corresponding frequency band; the plurality of second antennas include a main antenna and at least one auxiliary antenna, and the at least one second antenna electrically connected to the data transmission channel of the first antenna includes: at least one target second antenna which is selected from a plurality of second antennas of the electronic equipment and meets the antenna condition, or at least one target second antenna indicated by the setting information; in a case where the plurality of second antennas are in an operating state of operating in a second network, the at least one target second antenna indicated by the setting information includes at least one secondary antenna of the plurality of second antennas.

As can be seen from the above solutions, according to the control method and the electronic device provided in the present application, for a first antenna of the electronic device, which is used to operate in a first network, when the first antenna is not satisfied with performance due to influences of factors such as environment, a second antenna of the electronic device, which is used to operate in a second network, is called, and the called second antenna is controlled to operate in at least the first network, so that a wireless signal is transmitted and received in the first network through the second antenna used to operate in the second network. When the first antenna running in the first network cannot meet the performance requirement during communication, the second antenna running in the second network is timely borrowed to receive and transmit wireless signals in the first network, so that the performance deficiency of the first antenna in the first network caused by performance reduction or signal blind areas and other reasons can be effectively overcome, the signal receiving and transmitting performance of the antenna in the first network is ensured, and the communication function of the user equipment cannot be influenced.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present application or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly introduced below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only embodiments of the present application, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the provided drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic flow chart of a control method provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is another schematic flow chart diagram of a control method provided by an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of data transmission channels of a first antenna and a second antenna according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of an antenna unit provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of a data transmission channel of a Wi-Fi antenna and a 5G antenna provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of two corresponding matching circuits of a 5G antenna provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device provided in an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

An antenna in an electronic device may be affected by environmental factors or components of the device itself to cause performance degradation of the antenna or to be in a signal blind area, for example, in a terminal device such as a notebook, a folding screen mobile phone with a rotating shaft, a dual-screen mobile phone, and the like, because of being affected by all-metal appearance requirements, in order to avoid signal shielding of a metal housing, a Wi-Fi antenna is usually designed to be hidden in a hinge or close to the hinge, the antenna has a certain directivity in a specific environment, particularly, the directivity of a high frequency band is more obvious, a Wi-Fi antenna in the environment is likely to be in the signal blind area due to the influence of a shield when a flip cover of the device is turned over, and therefore performance degradation of the antenna is caused, and for example, when a user uses an electronic device such as a mobile phone, shielding of a body part such as a hand is likely to cause performance degradation of the antenna; in addition, the performance defects of the antenna may also be caused by unreasonable design of the device itself or problems of the antenna itself, for example, the signal transceiving performance of the antenna is poor due to the unreasonable antenna position layout and the influence of the metal housing to a certain extent, and a certain antenna (two Wi-Fi antennas are usually provided in one device) in the Wi-Fi antennas is damaged; when the antenna of the terminal device is in a signal blind area or the performance of the terminal device is degraded, phenomena such as call drop or downloading pause easily occur, the normal communication function of the device is affected, and poor user experience is caused.

In order to solve the above problems, the present application provides a control method and an electronic device, and the following detailed description is provided by specific embodiments.

In an alternative embodiment of the present application, a control method is provided, which may be applied, but not limited to, in a PC such as a notebook, a desktop, a kiosk, or the like, or may also be applied in a portable terminal such as a smart phone (a non-folding screen or folding screen phone), a tablet computer, a laptop computer, a personal digital assistant, a smart band, or the like.

The electronic device to which the control method of the embodiment of the application is applied at least includes a first antenna for operating in a first Network and a second antenna for operating in a second Network, for example, the first antenna for operating in the first Network may specifically be a Wi-Fi antenna for operating in a WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network), the second antenna for operating in the second Network may specifically be a 5G antenna for operating in a 5G (5th generation mobile communication technology) Network, of course, the 5G antenna for operating in the 5G Network may be used as the first antenna for operating in the first Network, and the Wi-Fi antenna for operating in the WLAN may be used as the second antenna for operating in the second Network, in addition to the first Network/the second Network, the first antenna/the second antenna, but may be other networks or antennas than those described above and is not limited thereto.

As shown in fig. 1, the control method may include the following steps:

step 101, obtaining current performance parameter data of a first antenna in electronic equipment; the first antenna is used for operating in a first network.

In terminal equipment such as a notebook computer or a folding screen mobile phone with a rotating shaft, due to the influence of all-metal appearance requirements, a Wi-Fi antenna is usually designed to be hidden in a hinge or close to the hinge, so that the Wi-Fi antenna in an actual application scene is more prone to have the problems of signal blind areas, performance degradation and the like caused by shielding and the like.

In case the first antenna is a Wi-Fi antenna, the first network is correspondingly a WLAN.

The number of the first antennas in the electronic device may be one or more, two Wi-Fi antennas are usually set in one electronic device such as a smart phone, a tablet computer, or a notebook computer, and the two Wi-Fi antennas may be applied to corresponding working modes based on design or requirements, for example, the two Wi-Fi antennas may be applied to a signal enhancement mode to simultaneously receive or transmit the same data, or may be applied to a block transceiving mode of data to respectively receive or transmit different block contents of the same data.

In this step, obtaining the current performance parameter data of the first antenna in the electronic device may refer to obtaining, by taking each (one or more) first antennas as a whole, relevant parameter data that can be used to represent antenna performance, such as a throughput value and/or an effective transmit-receive power value of the current whole, when the first antenna is used to transmit and receive data; in this implementation, performance data such as a throughput value and/or an effective transceiving power value of each first antenna may be first obtained, and a throughput value and/or an effective transceiving power value of each first antenna as a whole may be obtained based on the throughput value and/or the effective transceiving power value of each first antenna, where the throughput value of each first antenna as a whole may be regarded as a sum of the throughput values of each first antenna, and the effective transceiving power value of each first antenna as a whole may be regarded as an average of the effective transceiving power of each first antenna.

Alternatively, in another embodiment, when the first antennas are used to transmit and receive data, only performance data such as throughput values and/or effective transmission and reception power values of each of the first antennas may be obtained, and the first antennas may not be taken as a whole.

And step 102, determining whether the antenna performance of the first antenna represented by the performance parameter data meets a performance condition.

The performance condition here corresponds to the performance parameter and is a condition set for the performance parameter.

In a case where the overall performance parameter data of each first antenna is obtained as a whole, the performance condition is a condition set for the performance parameter data of each whole first antenna, and for example, the obtained performance parameter data is taken as an example of throughput and/or effective transceiving power of each whole first antenna, the performance condition may specifically be set as:

the sum of the throughputs of the first antennas reaches a set throughput threshold;

and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

the average value of the effective transceiving power of each first antenna reaches a set power threshold value.

The throughput threshold may be predetermined or based on historical throughput data generated during actual use of the user equipment.

When performance data such as throughput values and/or effective transmit/receive power values of each first antenna are obtained, the performance conditions are correspondingly set as conditions for performance parameter data of each first antenna, and the performance conditions corresponding to each first antenna may be the same or different, taking the obtained performance parameter data as the throughput and/or the effective transmit/receive power of each first antenna as an example, in this case, the performance conditions may be specifically set as:

the throughput of the single first antenna reaches a set throughput threshold;

and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,

the effective transceiving power of the single first antenna reaches a set power threshold.

After performance parameter data such as the overall throughput value and/or the effective transceiving power value of each first antenna is obtained, or performance parameter data such as the throughput value and/or the effective transceiving power value of each first antenna is obtained, the performance parameter data is compared with corresponding performance conditions configured in advance in the electronic device, so that whether the performance parameter data of the first antenna (namely, the performance parameter data of the overall first antennas or the performance parameter data of a single first antenna) meets the performance conditions is judged. Specifically, it may be determined whether the obtained throughput value and/or the effective transceiving power value reaches a set throughput threshold and/or an effective transceiving power threshold, if so, the antenna performance of the first antenna (the whole first antenna or the single first antenna) satisfies the performance condition, and if not, the antenna performance of the first antenna (the whole first antenna or the single first antenna) does not satisfy the performance condition.

Under the conditions that the performance of the antenna is reduced or the antenna is in a signal blind area and the like due to the influence of environmental factors or self components of the equipment, such as hand shielding, equipment flip cover overturning shielding, antenna damage, signal shielding of a metal shell and the like, the performance parameters of the antenna can be judged based on configured performance conditions, and the condition that the performance of the antenna cannot meet the requirements due to the performance reduction can be effectively detected.

103, if the radio signal does not meet the requirement, calling a second antenna in the electronic equipment, controlling the called second antenna to operate in at least a first network, and at least utilizing the called second antenna to receive and transmit the radio signal in the first network;

if the performance parameter data of each first antenna as a whole does not meet the performance condition, it indicates that, on the whole, each first antenna cannot meet the transceiving requirement of the device system on the wireless signal in the first network. The implementation method is mainly used for judging whether each first antenna meets the performance requirement of the equipment system in the first network from the overall perspective, for example, taking two Wi-Fi antennas in a mobile phone/notebook as an example, if one Wi-Fi antenna in the two Wi-Fi antennas is influenced by holding of a user hand or is blocked by turning over of a flip cover, throughput is reduced, but if the throughput sum value of the influenced Wi-Fi antenna and the other Wi-Fi antenna can reach the throughput threshold value set in the performance condition, in such a case, the two Wi-Fi antennas are still considered to meet the performance requirement of the equipment system.

In another embodiment, the performance of each single first antenna is determined based on the performance parameter data of each first antenna, and this embodiment focuses on determining each single first antenna individually, where the performance parameter condition of any one first antenna does not satisfy the corresponding performance condition, and this step determines that the antenna performance of the first antenna does not satisfy the performance condition.

In the embodiment of the present application, a technical idea for operating a second antenna in a second network in a first network-borrowed electronic device, that is, controlling a second antenna originally used for operating the second network to operate in at least a first network, and performing wireless signal transceiving in the first network by using the borrowed second antenna to play a role of the first antenna is provided, in order to avoid communication problems such as call drop or downloading blocking of the device due to the fact that the antenna performance is reduced or the antenna is in a signal blind area under the condition that the antenna performance of the first antenna does not meet the performance condition based on any of the above implementation manners. The second antenna in the second network is borrowed from the first network to make up the performance deficiency caused by the reason that the first antenna is in the first network due to performance reduction or in a signal blind area, and the like, thereby achieving the purpose of improving the wireless signal transceiving performance of the electronic equipment in the first network.

On the contrary, under the condition of meeting the performance condition, the first antenna can meet the wireless data transceiving requirement in the first network, so that the second antenna does not need to be borrowed and operated in the first network.

It is easy to understand that the working frequency band applied by the second antenna should include at least a part of the working frequency band applied by the first antenna, so as to ensure that the second antenna can successfully play the role of the first antenna when the second antenna is tuned in the first network, and perform normal wireless signal transceiving in the first network based on the working frequency band of the first antenna. Preferably, the working frequency band suitable for the second antenna covers all the working frequency bands of the first antenna.

Taking the first antenna as a Wi-Fi antenna for operating in the WLAN as an example, the second antenna may be, but is not limited to, a 5G antenna for operating in a 5G network, a common wireless router generally operates in a 2.4GHz band, and a dual-frequency wireless router has two selectable 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, so that the working bands of the Wi-Fi antenna may include 2.4GHz and 5GHz, and the working bands applicable to the 5G antenna cover these bands, when the Wi-Fi antenna on a terminal device such as a mobile phone is in a signal blind area due to being turned over by a flip cover or being blocked by a hand or performance is degraded due to loss of the Wi-Fi antenna, the 5G antenna in the terminal device may be borrowed to operate in the WLAN, and wireless signals are transmitted and received in the WLAN based on the working band of the Wi-Fi antenna by means of the called 5G antenna, so that wireless signals are transmitted and received in the WLAN by means of the called 5G antenna, the wireless signal transceiving quality of the electronic equipment WLAN can be ensured as much as possible.

In the control method provided by this embodiment, for a first antenna in an electronic device, the second antenna in the electronic device is invoked to operate in a second network when the first antenna is not satisfied with performance due to environmental influences and other factors, and the invoked second antenna is controlled to operate in at least the first network, so that the second antenna in the second network is used to transmit and receive wireless signals in the first network. When the first antenna running in the first network cannot meet the performance requirement during communication, the second antenna running in the second network is timely borrowed to receive and transmit wireless signals in the first network, so that the performance deficiency of the first antenna in the first network caused by performance reduction or signal blind areas and other reasons can be effectively overcome, the signal receiving and transmitting performance of the antenna in the first network is ensured, and the communication function of the user equipment cannot be influenced.

In an optional implementation of the present application, the number of the first antenna and the second antenna included in the electronic device is multiple; in this case, referring to another flowchart of the control method shown in fig. 2, the step 103 of the control method for invoking the second antenna in the electronic device may be implemented as the following processing procedures:

step 1031, determining at least one target first antenna which meets a channel closing condition in the plurality of first antennas;

step 1032, the at least one target first antenna is respectively connected to at least one second antenna in the electronic device corresponding to the data transmission channel of the first network.

In practical applications, the first antenna and the second antenna are usually respectively multiple, and each first antenna or each second antenna respectively corresponds to a corresponding data transmission channel in each network.

Optionally, the above-mentioned channel closing condition may be set as, but not limited to:

worst performance among the plurality of first antennas;

or, the performance is at a set percentage of the end of performance in the plurality of first antennas; for example, assuming that 4 antennas are provided in total, and if it is set that the channel of 50% of antennas with poor performance is closed when the overall antenna performance of each first antenna does not satisfy the performance condition, 2 antennas at the end of performance among the 4 antennas may be determined to satisfy the channel closing condition based on the channel closing condition;

or, the corresponding performance parameter data does not satisfy the performance condition set for the single respective first antenna; for example, when the throughput and/or the effective transceiving power corresponding to a certain first antenna is lower than the throughput and/or the effective transceiving power threshold set for the first antenna, the first antenna is considered to satisfy the channel closing condition.

In view of the above, when at least one target first antenna satisfying the channel closing condition is determined from the plurality of first antennas, in order to avoid the phenomena of call drop or download jamming of the device due to the performance degradation of the antenna or the antenna being in a signal blind area, and the like, the at least one second antenna for operating in the second network may be borrowed from the first network, specifically, the data transmission channels of the at least one target first antenna may be respectively connected to the at least one second antenna to realize the borrowing of the at least one second antenna, and the borrowed at least one second antenna is respectively connected to the corresponding data transmission channels of the at least one target first antenna in the first network, the borrowed at least one second antenna can at least operate in the first network and can transmit and receive wireless signals in the first network by using the data transmission channel of the first antenna based on the frequency band of the first antenna.

In an implementation, after at least one target first antenna satisfying the channel closing condition is determined from the plurality of first antennas, a data transmission channel of the at least one target first antenna in the electronic device corresponding to the first network may be cut off, and the data transmission channel of the at least one target first antenna may be connected to at least one second antenna respectively on the basis of completing the cutting operation.

Taking the first antenna as a Wi-Fi antenna and the second antenna as a 5G antenna as an example, when one of the two Wi-Fi antennas of the electronic device meets the above-mentioned channel closing condition, the connection between the Wi-Fi antenna and the data transmission channel thereof may be cut off, and one 5G antenna of the electronic device is accessed to the data transmission channel that is cut off from the Wi-Fi antenna, so that the Wi-Fi antenna, whose performance cannot meet the requirements, is replaced by the called 5G antenna to perform wireless signal transceiving in the WLAN.

In the above-mentioned implementation, for at least one target first antenna among the plurality of first antennas that meets the channel closing condition, the data transmission channel of each target first antenna in the first network may not be cut off, that is, after each called second antenna is accessed to the corresponding data transmission channel of the at least one target first antenna that meets the channel closing condition, the connection between the at least one target first antenna and the corresponding data transmission channel thereof is still maintained, so that the at least one target first antenna and the borrowed second antenna can both implement wireless signal transceiving in the first network through the correspondingly connected data transmission channel in the first network, although the at least one target first antenna may affect the wireless signal transceiving quality due to poor performance, because each data transmission channel corresponding to the at least one target first antenna has access to the second antenna at the same time, therefore, the normal receiving and sending of the wireless signals of the corresponding data transmission channel can be ensured based on the accessed second antenna.

Referring to fig. 2 again, the step 103 of the control method controls the called second antenna to operate in at least the first network, and may specifically be implemented by the following processing procedures:

step 1033, detecting working states of a plurality of second antennas in the electronic equipment at the called moment;

specifically, whether a plurality of second antennas in the electronic equipment are in an operating state or a non-operating state at the called moment is detected.

In general, the electronic device operates in a specific network at a specific time, that is, for the case of being capable of operating in both the first network and the second network, the electronic device operates in either the first network and utilizes the first antenna to transmit and receive wireless signals in the first network, or operates in the second network and utilizes the second antenna to transmit and receive wireless signals in the second network, taking the first antenna and the second antenna as Wi-Fi antenna and 5G antenna as examples, the user may select to turn on one of the WLAN and 5G network to operate the device in the selected network, or even if both the WLAN and 5G network are turned on, the electronic device may control the actual operation of the device in one of the WLAN and 5G network based on the actual network environment where the electronic device is located and in combination with the default configuration, for example, in the electronic device, the electronic device may operate in one of the WLAN and 5G network, The 5G is in an on state, if the electronic device is in a signal range of the WLAN with the authority to have valid access, the device is generally operated in the WLAN by default without enabling the 5G network, and the 5G network is only enabled when the electronic device is not in the signal range of the WLAN with the authority.

In this case, at the time of invoking the second antenna, since the electronic device is already operating in the first network, that is, the electronic device performs wireless signal transceiving based on the first antenna, the second antenna is normally not operated, and accordingly, it is detected that the plurality of second antennas in the electronic device are not operated at the time of invoking.

In some specific application scenarios, the electronic device may operate in the first network and the second network simultaneously, for example, in a case that the electronic device turns on the hotspot function as a hotspot to provide wireless access service to other devices, the electronic device may enable the 5G network and the WLAN at the same time, so as to obtain wireless data from the 5G network and provide wireless data service function to the other devices accessed based on the WLAN.

In this case, at the time of invoking the second antenna, it is detected that a plurality of second antennas in the electronic device are in an operating state at the invoked time.

Step 1034, if the plurality of second antennas are in the non-operating state, controlling the called at least one second antenna to operate in the first network, and maintaining the non-operating state of the other non-called second antennas;

if it is detected that a plurality of second antennas in the electronic device at the calling time are in an inoperative state, at least one called second antenna is directly controlled to operate in the first network, and other second antennas which are not called maintain the inoperative state.

Step 1035, if the plurality of second antennas are in the operating state of operating in the second network, maintaining the invoked at least one second antenna in the operating state of operating in the second network, and controlling the invoked at least one second antenna to simultaneously operate in the first network, and the other un-invoked second antennas to maintain the operating state of operating in the second network;

on the contrary, if it is detected that the plurality of second antennas in the electronic device at the invocation time are in the operating state, at least one second antenna to be invoked needs to be controlled to operate in both the first network and the second network, and the operating state of the second antenna to be invoked in the second network is maintained for the second antenna not to be invoked. For example, when the electronic device turns on the hot spot function, when it is detected that a plurality of 5G antennas are simultaneously operating in the 5G network at the time of invoking the 5G antenna in the WLAN, the invoked 5G antenna needs to be controlled to operate in the WLAN and maintain operating in the original 5G network.

Specifically, when at least one second antenna to be controlled and invoked operates in both a first network and a second network, in order to ensure normal operation of the at least one invoked second antenna in the two networks, a working frequency band of the at least one invoked second antenna used in the second network at the time of being invoked may be first detected, and it is determined whether the working frequency band used in the second network and the working frequency band of the first antenna satisfy a common-frequency condition; if the same-frequency condition is met, controlling and calling at least one second antenna to simultaneously operate in a first network and a second network by adopting a Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode so as to avoid the called second antenna from generating conflict when wireless signals are received and sent in the first network and the second network; if the same-Frequency condition is not met, the at least one second antenna which can be invoked by adopting either a Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) mode or a time Division Duplexing (tdd) mode is controlled to operate in the first network and the second network simultaneously.

In an implementation, the common-frequency condition may be specifically set to be that the current working frequency band of the second antenna in the second network is the same as the current working frequency band of the first antenna in the first network, or that a difference between the current working frequency band of the second antenna in the second network and the current working frequency band of the first antenna in the first network is smaller than a predetermined threshold. Taking the current working frequency band of the Wi-Fi antenna as the first antenna as 2.4G as an example, the same frequency condition may be set as a condition that the difference between the current working frequency band of the second antenna in the second network and 2.4G is smaller than a predetermined threshold value, such that the current working frequency band of the second antenna in the second network is 2.4G, or the current working frequency band of the second antenna in the second network is 2.3-2.6, and the like, so that the current working frequency band and the 2.4G are closer to each other, and the specific setting condition of the same frequency condition is not limited herein.

Correspondingly, as shown in fig. 2, the step 103 of the control method may be implemented by performing the transceiving of the wireless signal in the first network by using at least the called second antenna, and by the following processing procedures:

step 1036, if all antennas of the plurality of first antennas meet a channel closing condition, performing transceiving of wireless signals in the first network by using the invoked at least one second antenna;

step 1037, if a part of the antennas in the plurality of first antennas meet the channel closing condition, performing transceiving of the wireless signal in the first network by using the first antenna that does not meet the channel closing condition in the plurality of first antennas and the at least one second antenna that is invoked.

In this embodiment, when the first antenna operating in the first network cannot meet the communication requirement, the second antenna operating in the second network is borrowed in time, the borrowed second antenna is accessed to the data transmission channel of the first antenna satisfying the channel closing condition in the first network, and the second antenna accessed to the corresponding data transmission channel in the first network is controlled to perform wireless signal transceiving in the first network, so that performance deficiency caused by performance degradation or signal blind areas and other reasons of the first antenna in the first network can be effectively compensated, the antenna signal transceiving performance in the first network is ensured, and the communication function of the user equipment is not affected.

In an alternative embodiment of the present application, referring to fig. 3, which shows a schematic structural diagram of data transmission channels of a first antenna and a second antenna, the data transmission channel of the first antenna includes: the system comprises a first modem for carrying out signal modulation and demodulation in a first network, a first radio frequency transceiving unit connected with the first modem and used for carrying out transceiving of radio frequency signals, a first radio frequency front-end circuit connected with the first radio frequency transceiving unit and used for carrying out processing such as filtering and amplification on signals, and a first radio frequency switch connected with the first radio frequency front-end circuit; the first radio frequency switch is connected with an antenna unit of the first antenna.

Similarly, the data transmission channel of the second antenna includes: the second modem is responsible for signal modulation and demodulation in a second network, the second radio frequency transceiving unit is connected with the second modem and is responsible for transceiving radio frequency signals, the second radio frequency front-end circuit is connected with the second radio frequency transceiving unit and is used for filtering, amplifying and the like signals, and the second radio frequency switch is connected with the second radio frequency front-end circuit; and the second radio frequency switch is connected with the antenna unit of the second antenna.

And the first modem and the second modem are respectively connected with a system CPU, and the first antenna or the second antenna transmits data received from the first network or the second network to the CPU based on the corresponding data transmission channel or transmits the data to be transmitted to the first network or the second network in the CPU.

Referring to fig. 4, an antenna unit includes an antenna body and a matching circuit corresponding to the antenna, the antenna matching circuit is a functional unit for assisting the antenna in debugging the performance of the antenna, and the antenna and the matching circuit thereof can be regarded as a whole under a specific environment corresponding to practical application, and the antenna performance (such as throughput and effective transceiving power) can be optimized under the combined action of the antenna and the matching circuit.

Based on the above-mentioned structure of the data transmission channels respectively corresponding to the first antenna and the second antenna in the electronic device, in step 1032 of the control method, respectively connecting the data transmission channels of the at least one target first antenna to the at least one second antenna may include:

and cutting off the electric connection between the at least one target first antenna and the first radio frequency switch thereof, and electrically connecting the at least one first radio frequency switch after cutting off the electric connection to the at least one second antenna. The first antenna or the called second antenna is electrically connected with the first radio frequency switch through the matching circuit of the corresponding frequency band.

Specifically, for example, the first antenna is a Wi-Fi antenna, and the second antenna is a 5G antenna, as shown in fig. 5, the electrical connection between the WLAN antenna unit where the Wi-Fi antenna satisfying the channel closing condition is located and the first radio frequency switch may be cut off, and the electrical connection between the first radio frequency switch and the second radio frequency switch may be opened, so that the first radio frequency switch electrically connected to the corresponding Wi-Fi antenna after being cut off is electrically connected to the corresponding 5G antenna.

In practical applications, the number of the first antennas and the number of the second antennas are usually multiple, for example, two Wi-Fi antennas of an electronic device such as a mobile phone are generally available, and the Wi-Fi antennas can operate in a signal enhancement mode or a data block transceiving mode; the 5G antennas generally include 4 antennas, including a main antenna, an auxiliary antenna, and MIMO (multiple Input multiple Output) 1 and MIMO2 antennas, where the main antenna is used for transmitting and receiving wireless signals in the 5G network, the auxiliary antenna, i.e., a diversity antenna Aux, is only responsible for signal reception, and the MIMO1 and MIMO2 may be used for transmitting signals. The auxiliary antennas Aux, MIMO1, MIMO2 may all be understood as auxiliary antennas of the 5G main antenna.

In implementation, for each first antenna or each second antenna, a corresponding data transmission channel as shown in fig. 3 may be designed for the first antenna or each second antenna, and when a certain first antenna meets a channel closing condition and needs to invoke a corresponding second antenna, the first antenna is electrically disconnected from its corresponding first radio frequency switch, and the first radio frequency switch is correspondingly electrically connected to the second antenna that needs to be invoked, so that the invoked second antenna is used to replace the first antenna to perform wireless signal transceiving in the first network.

As described above, the antenna matching circuit is a functional unit for assisting the antenna to adjust its performance, and the antenna and the matching circuit thereof can be regarded as a whole under a specific environment corresponding to practical application, and both of them work together to optimize the antenna performance (such as throughput and effective transceiving power). In the embodiment of the present application, a matching circuit (e.g., 5G full-band matching circuit 2 in fig. 6) corresponding to a 5G network full band and a matching circuit (e.g., 5G antenna matching circuit 1 in fig. 6) corresponding to a Wi-Fi antenna operating band (e.g., 2.4G &5G) in a WLAN are designed for a 5G antenna, and the 5G antenna correspondingly uses the 5G full-band matching circuit 2 without being called by the WLAN, so that the performance is optimal in the full band corresponding to the 5G network; and when a certain 5G antenna is called in the WLAN so that the 5G antenna is used as a Wi-Fi antenna, the 5G antenna is changed to the use matching circuit 1, so that the 5G antenna has the optimal performance in the 2.4G &5G working frequency band corresponding to the Wi-Fi antenna. It is easy to understand that if a certain 5G antenna is invoked in the WLAN while maintaining the operation of the 5G antenna in the 5G network, the 5G antenna may employ the matching circuit 1 in the WLAN, and the matching circuit 2 in the 5G network.

When electrically connecting the at least one first rf switch electrically disconnected from the corresponding first antenna to the at least one second antenna, the at least one second antenna to be invoked needs to be determined from the plurality of second antennas, and as an optional implementation, at least one target second antenna meeting the antenna condition may be selected from the plurality of second antennas of the electronic device, and the at least one first rf switch electrically disconnected from the corresponding first antenna is electrically connected to the at least one target second antenna meeting the antenna condition.

The antenna condition may be, but is not limited to: and at least one second antenna which has the throughput or the effective transceiving power reaching the set throughput threshold or the effective transceiving power threshold, or at least one second antenna which has the throughput or the effective transceiving power in the plurality of second antennas sorted in descending order and ranked k before (k is a natural number).

As another embodiment, a pairing strategy for selecting an optimal antenna may be manually set in advance, for example, when the performance of a WLAN1 antenna in a Wi-Fi antenna is affected in advance and thus a channel closing condition is satisfied, a MIMO1 antenna in 5G is selected as an alternative antenna to be invoked, when the performance of a WLAN2 antenna in a Wi-Fi antenna is affected and thus the channel closing condition is satisfied, an auxiliary antenna Aux in 5G is selected as an alternative antenna to be invoked, and the like, so that when a second antenna needs to be invoked, preset setting information may be obtained, and at least one first radio frequency switch that is electrically connected to a corresponding first antenna is electrically connected to at least one target second antenna indicated by the setting information; in a case that the plurality of second antennas are in an operating state of operating in the second network, preferably, the at least one target second antenna indicated by the setting information includes at least one auxiliary antenna (e.g., an auxiliary antenna Aux, a MIMO1, or a MIMO 2) in the plurality of second antennas, so as to enable the 5G main antenna to operate only in the second network as much as possible, and avoid a great influence on the wireless signal transceiving quality of the second antenna in the second network.

As another embodiment, when the second antenna needs to be called, the second antenna whose antenna performance such as throughput or effective transmit/receive power can meet the requirement may be determined from the plurality of second antennas based on the polling method, and the determination method of the second antenna that needs to be called is not limited in this embodiment.

In a practical application scenario, for the system CPU, it can distinguish whether the wireless data in the communication scenario is the first network data or the second network data based on the encapsulation format of the data, for example, whether the data is WLAN data or 5G data can be identified based on the WLAN data format or the 5G data format, for the case of invoking a 5G antenna in WLAN, the present embodiment proposes to perform two-layer format encapsulation, for example, it may be first encapsulated in data format using WLAN format, and then encapsulated in 5G format outside WLAN format, etc., and accordingly, if the invoked 5G antenna is operating in WLAN while remaining operating in 5G network, the data transceived by the 5G antenna in the WLAN and the data transceived in the 5G network can be distinguished based on whether the data of the 5G antenna is in a two-layer encapsulation format or a one-layer encapsulation format, so as to form a split stream of the data of the 5G antenna in different networks.

Corresponding to the control method, the embodiment of the application also discloses an electronic device, which can be a PC such as a notebook, a desktop, an all-in-one machine, or can be a portable terminal such as a smart phone (a non-folding screen or a folding screen mobile phone), a tablet computer, a laptop, a personal digital assistant, and a smart bracelet.

Referring to fig. 7, a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device is shown, the electronic device including:

a first antenna 701 for operating in a first network;

a second antenna 702 for operating in a second network; the second network is different from the first network, and the working frequency band applicable to the second antenna comprises at least part of the working frequency band applicable to the first antenna;

a memory 703 for storing at least one set of instructions;

a processor 704 configured to invoke and execute the set of instructions in the memory, by executing the set of instructions:

In an optional implementation manner of the embodiment of the present application, in obtaining the current performance parameter data of the first antenna in the electronic device, the processor 704 is specifically configured to:

In an optional implementation manner of the embodiment of the present application, the electronic device includes a plurality of first antennas and a plurality of second antennas;

the processor 704, in invoking the second antenna in the electronic device, is specifically configured to:

the processor 704, in controlling the invoked second antenna to operate in at least the first network, is specifically configured to:

the processor 704 is specifically configured to, in terms of utilizing at least the invoked second antenna to perform transceiving of wireless signals in the first network:

In an optional implementation manner of the embodiment of the present application, in maintaining the invoked at least one second antenna in an operating state of operating in the second network, and controlling the invoked at least one second antenna to operate in the first network at the same time, the processor 704 is specifically configured to:

In an optional implementation manner of the embodiment of the present application, the data transmission channel of the first antenna includes: the radio frequency control device comprises a first modem, a first radio frequency transceiving unit electrically connected with the first modem, a first radio frequency front-end circuit electrically connected with the first radio frequency transceiving unit, and a first radio frequency switch electrically connected with the first radio frequency front-end circuit; wherein the first radio frequency switch is electrically connected with the first antenna;

the processor 704 is specifically configured to, in terms of connecting the data transmission channels of the at least one target first antenna to the at least one second antenna respectively:

In an optional implementation manner of the embodiment of the present application, the plurality of second antennas include a main antenna and at least one auxiliary antenna;

the processor 704, in electrically connecting the at least one first rf switch after disconnecting the electrical connection to the at least one second antenna, is specifically configured to:

alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

For the electronic device disclosed in the embodiment of the present application, since it corresponds to the control method disclosed in the corresponding embodiment above, the description is relatively simple, and for the relevant similarities, please refer to the description of the control method in the corresponding embodiment above, and the detailed description is omitted here.

It should be noted that, in the present specification, the embodiments are all described in a progressive manner, each embodiment focuses on differences from other embodiments, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments may be referred to each other.

For convenience of description, the above system or apparatus is described as being divided into various modules or units by function, respectively. Of course, the functionality of the units may be implemented in one or more software and/or hardware when implementing the present application.

From the above description of the embodiments, it is clear to those skilled in the art that the present application can be implemented by software plus necessary general hardware platform. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present application may be essentially or partially implemented in the form of a software product, which may be stored in a storage medium, such as a ROM/RAM, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, etc., and includes several instructions for enabling a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to execute the method according to the embodiments or some parts of the embodiments of the present application.

Finally, it is further noted that, herein, relational terms such as first, second, third, fourth, and the like may be used solely to distinguish one instance or operation from another instance or operation without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such instances or operations. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising a … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

The foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present application and it should be noted that those skilled in the art can make several improvements and modifications without departing from the principle of the present application, and these improvements and modifications should also be considered as the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A control method, comprising:

the second antenna is used for operating in a second network different from the first network, and the working frequency band applicable to the second antenna comprises at least part of the working frequency band applicable to the first antenna; the second antenna corresponds to a corresponding matching circuit, and the matching circuit corresponding to the second antenna comprises: the matching circuit corresponds to the frequency band covered by the second network and the matching circuit corresponds to the frequency band covered by the first network;

and if the called second antenna is in the running state of running in the second network at the called moment, maintaining the called second antenna in the running state of running in the second network, and controlling the called second antenna to run in the first network at the same time.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining current performance parameter data for a first antenna in an electronic device comprises:

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the electronic device comprises a plurality of first antennas and a plurality of second antennas;

the invoking a second antenna in the electronic device, comprising:

4. The method of claim 3, the maintaining the invoked at least one second antenna in an operational state operating in a second network and controlling the invoked at least one second antenna to operate in a first network simultaneously, comprising:

5. The method of claim 4, the data transmission path of the first antenna comprising: the radio frequency control device comprises a first modem, a first radio frequency transceiving unit electrically connected with the first modem, a first radio frequency front-end circuit electrically connected with the first radio frequency transceiving unit, and a first radio frequency switch electrically connected with the first radio frequency front-end circuit; wherein the first radio frequency switch is electrically connected with the first antenna;

6. The method of claim 5, the plurality of second antennas comprising one primary antenna and at least one secondary antenna;

alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,

7. An electronic device, comprising:

a first antenna for operating in a first network;

a second antenna for operating in a second network; the second network is different from the first network, and the working frequency band applicable to the second antenna comprises at least part of the working frequency band applicable to the first antenna; the second antenna corresponds to a corresponding matching circuit, and the matching circuit corresponding to the second antenna comprises: the matching circuit corresponds to the frequency band covered by the second network and the matching circuit corresponds to the frequency band covered by the first network;

a memory for storing at least one set of instructions;

8. The electronic device according to claim 7, wherein the electronic device includes a plurality of the first antennas and a plurality of the second antennas;

the processor invokes a second antenna in the electronic device, comprising:

9. The electronic device of claim 8, the processor maintaining the invoked at least one second antenna in an operational state operating in a second network and controlling the invoked at least one second antenna to operate in a first network concurrently, comprising:

10. The electronic device of claim 9, the data transmission channel of the first antenna comprising: the radio frequency control device comprises a first modem, a first radio frequency transceiving unit electrically connected with the first modem, a first radio frequency front-end circuit electrically connected with the first radio frequency transceiving unit, and a first radio frequency switch electrically connected with the first radio frequency front-end circuit; wherein the first radio frequency switch is electrically connected with the first antenna;

the processor connects the data transmission channels of the at least one target first antenna to at least one second antenna respectively, and includes: