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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2009
Applicant:
Tetsuya Naruse, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Tetsuya Naruse, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An electric field communication apparatus includes: a plurality of electric field communication antennas for carrying out electric field communication; a detecting unit that detects the electric field communication antenna in connected state where at least electric field communication may be carried out with an electric field communication antenna of another electric field communication apparatus, from among the plurality of electric field communication antennas; and a control unit that controls an operation of the host electric field communication apparatus in response to the result detected by the detecting unit.