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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2013
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/116 (2013.01); H04L 7/00 (2006.01); H04B 10/11 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/116 (2013.01);
Abstract
A controller is configured, by decreasing light quantity in only a first slot that is any one of a plurality of slots into which a unit time is divided equally, and increasing light quantity in all the remaining slots except the first slot of the plurality of slots, to assign information to the first slot of the plurality of slots. The controller is furthermore configured to decrease light quantity in second slots that are three or more continuous slots starting from a head of a preamble, which indicates a frame start point, of a frame of an optical-communication signal and to increase light quantity in a slot immediately before the preamble.