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Granted Patent B2
US 11,095,368 · App. 16/916,672 · Granted Aug 17, 2021

Transmission device, reception device, communication system, transmission method, reception method, and communication method

Inventor: Yutaka Murakami (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
H04B10/116H04W48/08H04W48/16H04W76/11H04W84/12H04B10/1141H04B10/1149H04L63/083H04L63/0823
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,095,368
App. No.
16/916,672
Granted
Aug 17, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is a device, which is a transmission device that can improve performance, that includes: a light source; and a transmitter that generates a modulated signal based on an input signal and transmits the modulated signal from the light source as visible light by changing a luminance of the light source in accordance with the modulated signal. The transmitter includes, in the modulated signal, a plurality of items of information related to service set identifiers (SSIDs) of a plurality of mutually different access points in a wireless local area network (LAN), and transmits the modulated signal from the light source.

Claims (18)

1. A transmission apparatus, comprising

a signal processor that, in operation, generates a plurality of control frames each including control data having an identifier field indicating an identifier for identifying one wireless communication apparatus selected from two or more wireless communication apparatuses; and

a transmitter that, in operation, transmits light signals generated from the plurality of control frames, wherein

from among the plurality of control frames, a control frame first received by a terminal causes the terminal to establish a wireless connection with one wireless communication apparatus specified by the control frame first received by the terminal,

the plurality of control frames include a first control frame including a first identifier in the identifier field and a second control frame including a second identifier in the identifier field,

the first control frame is transmitted in a first time interval, and

the second control frame is transmitted in a second time interval.

2. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the identifier indicated in the identifier field is a service set identifier (SSID).

3. The transmission apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein two or more of the first control frames are transmitted in the first time interval, and two or more of the second control frames are transmitted in the second time interval.

4. A transmission method, comprising

generating a plurality of control frames each including control data having an identifier field indicating an identifier for identifying one wireless communication apparatus selected from two or more wireless communication apparatuses; and

transmitting light signals generated from the plurality of control frames, wherein

from among the plurality of control frames, a control frame first received by a terminal causes the terminal to establish a wireless connection with one wireless communication apparatus specified by the control frame first received by the terminal,

the plurality of control frames include a first control frame including a first identifier in the identifier field and a second control frame including a second identifier in the identifier field,

the first control frame is transmitted in a first time interval, and

the second control frame is transmitted in a second time interval.

5. The transmission method according to claim 4 , wherein the identifier indicated in the identifier field is a service set identifier (SSID).

6. The transmission method according to claim 4 , wherein two or more of the first control frames are transmitted in the first time interval, and two or more of the second control frames are transmitted in the second time interval.

Continuity (5)
Division 16380458 · Apr 10, 2019
Continuation PCTJP2017036597 · Oct 10, 2017
Provisional Application 62411035 · Oct 21, 2016
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