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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2007
Hee-chan Choi, Suwon-si, KR;
Seung-bum Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Dong-woo Lee, Suwon-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, , KR;
Abstract
Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for improving the receive (Rx) sensitivity of a portable Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID). The portable RFID reader/writer is equipped with a variable phase shifter which is connected between an antenna and a directional coupler and then changes an impedance in the direction of the antenna in response to controlling a phase shift, a level of a reflection signal if a transmit (Tx) signal of the portable RFID reader/writer reflected by the antenna flows into an Rx path is measured, and then the phase shift of the variable phase shifter is controlled in such a manner as to minimize the measured level of the reflection signal. Therefore, calibration is implemented so that an antenna impedance changing in response to a position in which contact is made by a user's hand may have an adaptively optimal antenna reflection coefficient, thereby improving the Rx sensitivity.