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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
May. 24, 2007
Yahiro Koezuka, Kyoto, JP;
Yahiro Koezuka, Kyoto, JP;
Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
Embodiments disclose communication processors, processing devices, and methods of performing communications with communication devices. A communication processor, adapted to perform communications with a plurality of communication devices each of which is provided with identifying information, has an instruction transmitter configured to transmit an instruction designating a first segment number indicative of a total number of communication segments to be used to perform communications with the communication devices, a collision number identifier configured to identify a collision number indicative of how many of the communication segments detect a collision between the communication devices when the communications are performed with the communication devices under a condition that each of the communication devices is allocated to one of the communication segments, a segment number identifier configured to identify a second segment number, and a segment number updater configured to update the first segment number with the second segment number.