Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Tetsuo Saitoh

Tsuneshi Yokota

Seiji Ohura

Takanobu Ishibashi

Hiroyasu Uchida

Masumi Oyama

An information processing apparatus has a transmission antenna and a reception antenna and performs radio transmission/reception with a radio card via the two antennas, thereby performing predetermined information processing. Each of the transmission antenna and reception antenna is formed of a loop antenna. Both antennas are made to overlap each other by a predetermined length so as to prevent mutual electromagnetic interference and are situated in substantially the same plane. Accordingly, even if the transmission antenna and reception antenna are situated close to each other, a signal radiated from the transmission antenna is prevented from interfering with the reception antenna. Thus, the reception antenna can surely receive only a signal radiated from the radio card or an object of communication.

Information processing apparatus

A first full-wave rectifier circuit generates a power supply voltage from a received modulated radio wave signal and a second full-wave rectifier circuit binarizes the voltage to obtain a binary signal. A continuous clock signal is generated from the binary signal. The modulated radio wave signal is also binarized and demodulated using the continuous clock signal. This demodulation is performed simultaneously with the generation of the power supply voltage. A command can be received continuously and data can be read or written continuously. Therefore, the reception of power or the reception/transmission of data need not be performed intermittently, but rather a large amount of data can be received or transmitted continuously at high speed.

Data storage medium

A read request signal containing a command, an address, etc. is subjected to two-phase modulation with the first carrier of a first frequency and the resultant signal is then transmitted to a radio card. After the transmission of the read request signal, the first carrier is kept transmitted to the radio card. Upon reception of the read request signal, the radio card generates a power supply voltage and an operation clock and sends response data to the read request signal to a radio card reader/writer. Unlike in the prior art, therefore, the reception of power or the reception/transmission of data need not be performed intermittently so that a large amount of data can be received or transmitted continuously at a high speed.

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Yokohama, Japan

Tetsuo Saitoh