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Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 22, 2013
Applicant:

Symbol Technologies, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);

Inventor:

Timothy B. Austin, Stony Brook, NY (US);

Assignee:

Symbol Technologies, LLC, Holtsville, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 5/22 (2006.01); G06K 7/00 (2006.01); G08C 19/16 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G01S 13/84 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/10108 (2013.01); G01S 13/84 (2013.01);
Abstract

Determining movement of a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag first establishes a phase difference/frequency model comprising a set of phase-wrapped local rates-of-change and an intercept point. RFID tag readings are then made to measure phase differences between the interrogation signal and the tag response at different frequencies. A correlation is determined between the measured phase differences versus frequency and the phase-wrapped local phase rates-of-change of the phase difference/frequency model. If the correlation is better than or equal to a predetermined limit, the tag is stationary, or if the correlation is worse than the predetermined limit, the tag is moving.


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