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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2014
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Takehiro Ito, Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Kikugawa, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A power supply system wirelessly transmits power from a power transmission device to a power receiving device, in which the power transmission device includes a calculation unit configured to calculate a distance from the power transmission device to the power receiving device, a storage unit configured to store a preset relationship between a power transmission efficiency and a distance from the power transmission device to the power receiving device, and a wireless transmission unit configured to wirelessly transmit the distance calculated by the calculation unit and the relationship stored in the storage unit to the power receiving device, and the power receiving device includes a receiving unit configured to wirelessly receive the distance and the relationship from the power transmission device and a notification unit configured to notify a user of the distance and the relationship received by the receiving unit.