Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Yukihisa Oda

Kiyoshi Kumata

Kazuhito Nagura

Mitsuru Hosoki

Seiichiro Kihara

Zenpei Tani

Mitsuo Kobachi

Hajime Kashida

Kiyoshi Ebina

Nobumasa Ono

Atsushi Murayama

Masahiro Morita

Hirohumi Sindo

An optoelectronic device for sensing an object without any contact, the optoelectronic device being adapted to be connected to a control device which is capable of sending an identification code to the optoelectronic device, the optoelectronic device includes an optoelectronic element (110, 111) for receiving an input signal and for converting the received signal into an electrical signal, an address memory (121) for storing a self identification code, a determining unit (126) connected to the address memory (121) for determining a coincidence between the self identification code stored in the address memory (121) and the identification code sent from the control device, and an activating unit (127) connected to the determining unit (126) for driving the optoelectronic element (110, 111) at a time when the self identification code coincides with the identification code.

Optoelectronic device, information apparatus and data transmission

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Kitakatsuragi, Japan

Yukihisa Oda