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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2007
Applicant:
Hyo Jin Lee, Seoul, KR;
Inventor:
Hyo Jin Lee, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
LG Uplus Corp., Seoul, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 3/12 (2006.01); H04W 36/36 (2009.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A beam switching antenna method and apparatus for controlling a beam switching antenna system including an antenna element for forming a beam, at least one conductive reflector for reflecting the beam, and a ground switch for applying a reference voltage to the least one conductive reflector, the method including selectively configuring the beam switching antenna system for a current-directional beam pattern to receive a first signal and for a non-directional beam pattern to receive a second signal; comprising the first and second signals; and controlling, using the ground switch; the beam based on the comparison of the first and second switching.