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Inside Contactless

Verimatrix, Inc.

Ledger

Bruno Charrat

Nicolas Cordier

Florian Pernisek

Frédéric Bernard

Jacek A Kowalski

Philippe Martineau

Michel Martin

Eric Bouyoux

Gary Chew

Didier Serra

Pierre Pic

Sean Commercial

Bruno Benteo

Michael Martin

Olivier Carron

Claire Allard

François Lepron

Nicolas Pangaud

Pernisek Florian

A method for generating an image signal of an object by way of a display device including a display screen including light-emitting diodes arranged in rows and columns, the method including displaying a series of images each representing one respective pattern leading to the emission of a light beam that may be identical or different to the preceding light beam depending on whether the displayed pattern is identical or different to the pattern of the preceding image, acquiring a plurality of measurements of the power consumption of the display device during the display of each image while each light beam scans a surface of the object, acquiring a plurality of measurements of the variations in the power consumption of the display device and delivering an image signal of the object.

Auxiliary-channel-based method for capturing images using a display screen

In a general aspect, a method can include producing, by an inductive antenna circuit, a first periodic signal that is based on an alternating external magnetic field; producing, by an oscillator circuit, a second periodic signal that is based on the first periodic signal; and transmitting, in correspondence with a data-carrying modulation signal, a sequence of data bits. The transmitting can include sequentially and repetitively: applying, with the oscillator circuit operating in a free oscillation mode, the second periodic signal to the inductive antenna circuit; and inhibiting, with the oscillator circuit operating in a synchronous oscillation mode, application of the second periodic signal to the inductive antenna circuit. The synchronous oscillation mode of the oscillator circuit can cause the second periodic signal to be synchronized to the first periodic signal.

Method and device for modulating an active load

A method for sending data by inductive coupling includes: extracting an antenna signal from an antenna circuit, extracting from the antenna signal a first periodic signal, producing a second periodic signal by way of a synchronous oscillator, placing the oscillator in a free oscillation mode and applying to the antenna circuit the second periodic signal, modifying the impedance of the antenna circuit, restoring the amplitude of the antenna signal, then resynchronizing the oscillator on the first periodic signal.

A near field transaction system includes a first transaction device having near field communication circuitry, and a portable device having near field communication circuitry. The system also includes at least one transaction server having a memory area with at least one application program, and a mechanism for establishing a data link between the server and the near field communication circuitry of the portable device. The application program is configured to perform a transaction with the first transaction device, using the near field communication circuitry of the portable device as a proximity relay to communicate with the first transaction terminal.

NFC transaction server

A method for performing a transaction between a portable device and a transaction terminal includes establishing a communication channel between the portable device and the transaction terminal; establishing a first data link between the transaction terminal and the transaction server; and using an application program in the transaction server to perform the transaction with the transaction terminal through the data link, on behalf of the portable device.

Method and system for NFC transaction

In a general aspect, an electronic device can include a device configured to transmit data by intracorporeal current. The device configured to transmit data by intracorporeal current can include a first electrode configured to be capacitively coupled with a body of a user or capacitively coupled in an intracorporeal current conduction path of the electronic device. The electronic device can further include a circuit configured to electrically bias the first electrode. The circuit can include an electric coil arranged near the first electrode. The electric coil can be configured to, in response to an alternating-current (AC) signal, generate an alternating magnetic field having field lines incident on the first electrode. The field lines incident on the first electrode can induce a current in the first electrode, where the current induces an electric field that generates an intracorporeal current.

Electronic device for transmitting data by inductive coupling and intracorporeal current

In a general aspect, a portable electronic device can include a digital display including a first electrically conductive plane. The first electrically conductive plane can be configured to neutralize electromagnetic radiation produced by the digital display. The portable electronic device can also include a data transmission device configured to transmit data by intracorporeal current. The data transmission device can include a first electrode that is configured to be capacitively coupled with a body of a user and a second electrode that includes the first electrically conductive plane. The first electrically conductive plane can be electrically coupled with an electrical ground of the data transmission device. The portable electronic device can further include a printed circuit including a second electrically conductive plane. The second electrically conductive plane can be included in the second electrode of the data transmission device.

Portable device including an electrode for transmitting data by intracorporeal current

In a general aspect, a method for transmitting data between an NFC card and an external NFC device via a selected interface (e.g., contact or contactless), and further via a contactless interface of the NFC module when the contact interface of the NFC card is selected can include using an NFC card that includes an antenna circuit having an antenna coil with a magnetic axis and an electrically conductive screen extending near the antenna coil. The magnetic axis of the antenna coil can be substantially parallel to a plane defined by the NFC card and not cross the conductive screen. The contactless interface of the NFC card, when selected by the NFC card, can emit data by emitting bursts of magnetic field from the antenna coil, so as to compensate for effects of the conductive screen on a maximum distance for transmitting data by load modulation.

Communication method between a dual interface NFC card inserted into an NFC terminal, and an NFC device

The present invention relates to a contactless communication method between an NFC card with a contact and contactless dual interface, installed in a communication terminal, and an external NFC device, the terminal including an NFC module coupled to the contact interface of the card and including a contactless communication interface, the method including the steps of: selecting one or the other of the contact and contactless interfaces of the card, transmitting signals between the card and the NFC device through the selected interface, and if the contact interface of the card is selected, through the contactless interface of the NFC module, and detecting by the card the presence of the NFC module connected to its contact interface, the selection of one or the other of the contact and contactless interfaces of the card being performed by the card depending on the result of the detection of the NFC module presence.

Method and device for modulating an active load with damping of auto oscillation

The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a microcircuit card, including steps of: forming a first antenna coil in a card, the first antenna coil having a part following the edge of the card, forming a module having a microcircuit and a second antenna coil around and connected to the microcircuit, and implanting the module into the card at a precise position in relation to the edge of the card, the first antenna coil being coupled by induction to the second antenna coil, the first antenna coil being pre-formed in such a way that only one part of the second antenna coil is at a distance from the first antenna coil of less than 5% of the width of the second antenna coil.

Antenna system for contactless microcircuit

An antenna circuit for near-field communications includes a planar active winding, connected between a first and a second access terminal; an auxiliary winding coplanar with the active winding and connected by a first end to the first access terminal; and a tuning capacitor connected to the second end of the auxiliary winding. The turns of the active and auxiliary windings are interleaved.

NFC antenna with interleaved coils

A contactless integrated circuit includes modulation and demodulation circuits configured to connect to an HF antenna circuit to emit and receive HF signals by inductive coupling in a reader mode, modulation and demodulation circuits configured to connect to a UHF antenna to emit and receive UHF signals by electric coupling in a reader mode, a data processing circuit connected to the modulation and demodulation circuits, and configured to provide data to be emitted to the modulation circuits, and to process received signals, transmitted by the demodulation circuits, the demodulation circuits including a common demodulation circuit to equally process signals received by the UHF and HF antennas.

Contactless integrated circuit having NFC and UHF operating modes

A data emission/reception device by inductive coupling includes an inductive antenna circuit in which an antenna signal appears, a mechanism configured to for extracting a first periodic signal from the antenna signal, a synchronous oscillator receiving the first periodic signal and supplying a second periodic signal, and an active load modulation circuit configured to apply bursts of the second periodic signal to the antenna circuit. The device is configured to place the oscillator in the synchronous oscillation mode before each application of a burst of the second periodic signal to the antenna circuit, then place the oscillator in the free oscillation mode.

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Aix-en-Provence, France

Bruno Charrat