A wireless data communication accessory is disclosed, which is configured for attachment to a drug delivery device and comprises an interface for data exchange between the accessory and the drug delivery device, wireless communication means configured to communicate with an external device paired with the wireless communication means via wireless communication, and a controller coupled to the interface and the wireless communication means and being configured to control operation of the interface and the wireless communication means such that data received from the drug delivery device via the interface are processed for transmission to the external device via the wireless communication.

There is described an RFID device, comprising: a transmitter, a matching device, and a receiver.

The transmitter is hereby coupled via the matching device to the receiver. The transmitter is configured to transmit a transmitter signal through the matching device, thereby obtaining a calibration signal. The receiver is configured to receive the calibration signal and estimate a phase shift of the calibration signal. Further, the RFID device is configured to adjust at least one of a transmitter phase shift and a receiver phase shift in order to compensate for the estimated phase shift.

Further, a method of calibrating a phase shift in an RFID device is described.

The present invention relates to a control circuit system of a pair of mobile terminals comprising a first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminal. The first mobile terminal comprises a first display unit, a first fastening unit, a proximity sensor for recognizing a connection with the second mobile terminal, and a first control circuit including a first near-field communication module and a first signal aggregator for transmitting/receiving a signal to and from the second mobile terminal. The second mobile terminal comprises a second display unit, a second fastening unit connected to the first fastening unit, and a second control circuit including a second near-field communication module and a second signal aggregator for transmitting/receiving a signal to and from the first mobile terminal. A signal transmitted from the first near-field communication module is received by the second near-field communication module and displayed on the second display unit.

Eyewear that is configured to be wirelessly charged and also wirelessly communicate with a case charger having a battery using time gating power transfer. In one example, wireless charging and bidirectional communication of the eyewear can be performed using a unidirectional communication protocol, such as the Qi baseline power profile (BPP) which is only suited for unidirectional communication. The eyewear has a processor configured to send data to the wireless power charger that instructs the wireless power charger to stop wireless charging for a time period that is correlated to a state of charge (SOC) of the wireless power charger battery. The wireless power charger resumes charging of the eyewear battery after the time period, and the eyewear determines the SOC of the wireless power charger battery to be a percentage that correlates to the time period.

A small home appliance includes a coil for power reception and communication, a communication unit which performs wireless communication with a wireless power transmission device by using the coil, and a controller which receives wireless power from the wireless power transmission device by the coil, receives a zero crossing interrupt signal from the wireless power transmission device, and determines a communication period of the communication unit according to the zero crossing interrupt signal.

Disclosed is a card clock recovery system for use in an NFC card transceiver couplable to an NFC reader. The card clock recovery system has: a phase lock loop having: a phase/frequency detector, which is configured to receive a reference signal provided at an RX port of a matching network during a receiving mode of the NFC transceiver or to receive a reference signal provided at the RX port of the matching network during a transmission mode of the NFC transceiver, to receive a loop feedback signal, and to provide a phase error signal that represents a phase difference between the reference signal and the loop feedback signal; a loop filter configured to receive a corrected phase error signal that is derived from the phase error signal, and to provide a filtered corrected phase error signal; a controllable oscillator, which is configured to receive the filtered corrected phase error signal and to provide a controlled frequency output signal, which is provided as the card clock generation control signal to a card clock generation unit of an NFC card transceiver, and as the loop feedback signal, via the loop feedback line, to the phase/frequency detector. The card clock recovery system further has a phase offset correction unit, which is configured to receive the phase error signal provided by the phase/frequency detector and to provide the corrected phase error signal to the loop filter, and which has a phase error sampling unit, a phase offset computation unit, and a phase subtractor unit.

The invention relates to an antenna device configured to superimpose a plurality of electromagnetic modes in the near field, with a multilayer structure comprising, in a vertical stacking direction: a first power supply layer comprising a first dielectric on an application-specific integrated circuit and on a lower part of a DC power supply circuit, a second power supply layer comprising an upper part of a DC power supply circuit, a third layer comprising a second dielectric on a metal plane, a fourth layer comprising at least one planar radiating element, the metal plane acting as a grounding plane, a fifth layer comprising a radome, the antenna device comprising at least one feed line extending from the first to the fourth layer.

One example discloses a first near-field device, including: a controller configured to establish a near-field communications link with a second near-field device; wherein the controller is configured to monitor a characteristic of the near-field communications link; wherein the controller is configured to select a first modulation encoding for transmitting a near-field signal if the characteristic is greater than a first characteristic threshold; and wherein the controller is configured to select a second modulation encoding for transmitting the near-field signal if the characteristic is less than the first characteristic threshold but greater than a second characteristic threshold.

Disclosed is a backscatter communication method. The method includes: a terminal device sending first indication information to a network device, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate that the terminal device has the ability to receive a backscatter communication signal. Further disclosed are another backscatter communication method, an electronic device and a storage medium.

A processing system of a carrier transport vehicle including at least one processor may obtain a notification of a luggage item to be placed in a stowage bin of the carrier transport vehicle, the notification including an identifier of the luggage item, detect, via the identifier of the luggage item, that the luggage item is proximate to the stowage bin, where the identifier of the luggage item is obtained via a wireless signal from the luggage item, and present at least one visual indicator associated with the stowage bin, in response to the detecting that the luggage item is proximate to the stowage bin.