A method for recognizing an object located in an object space includes emitting a distance measuring pulse into the object space by a signal time-of-flight based distance measuring unit. The object is provided with a marker which, in response to the influence of the distance measuring pulse, emits electromagnetic marker radiation in which object information for the object recognition is stored. The method further includes recording the marker radiation by an electrical radiation detector and the object information for object recognition being assigned to the object.

The subject of the invention Is a method of processing a signal of a passive RFID chip (1) with a reader (2) in order to amplify the useful signal. A method of processing a signal of a passive RFID chip (1) with a reader (2) comprising an antenna (3), an operational amplifier (4), an AD converter (5) and a first DA converter (6) and a second DA converter (7) or a source of constant voltage consists of steps of transmitting the source signal of the antenna (3), receiving the source signal of the antenna (3) by the RFID chip (1), transmitting the RFID chip (1) signal and receiving the RFID chip (1) signal by the antenna (3), wherein the received RFID chip (1) signal and the output of the first DA converter (6) is fed to the inverting input of the operational amplifier (4) and the output of the second DA converter (7) or the output of the source of constant voltage is fed to the non-inverting input of the operational amplifier (4). After converting the signal by the AD converter (5) the amplitude of two consecutive peaks belonging to a single wave is subtracted, wherein the individual signals are temporarily stored in the buffer (12) before subtraction.

In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder is provided, comprising: at least one functional component configured to perform a function of the RFID transponder; a charge pump configured to supply an output voltage to said functional component, wherein said charge pump comprises a plurality of charge pump stages; a charge pump controller configured to control a number of charge pump stages which contribute to the output voltage. In accordance with a second aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding method of operating an RFID transponder is conceived.

In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder is provided, comprising: at least one functional component configured to perform a function of the RFID transponder; a charge pump configured to supply an output voltage to said functional component, wherein said charge pump comprises a plurality of charge pump stages; a charge pump controller configured to control a number of charge pump stages which contribute to the output voltage. In accordance with a second aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding method of operating an RFID transponder is conceived.

The invention relates to a transponder system having at least one passive transponder, which has a resonant circuit having a variable resonant frequency, and having a readout device, wherein the readout device is designed to modify a frequency of the readout signal to the variable resonant frequency of the resonant circuit. The invention additionally relates to a method for readout of a passive transponder, which has a resonant circuit having a variable resonant frequency.

A method for recognizing an object located in an object space includes emitting a distance measuring pulse into the object space by a signal time-of-flight based distance measuring unit. The object is provided with a marker which, in response to the influence of the distance measuring pulse, emits electromagnetic marker radiation in which object information for the object recognition is stored. The method further includes recording the marker radiation by an electrical radiation detector and the object information for object recognition being assigned to the object.

An optical communication device can address these and other issues by utilizing a system and method in which an optical device emits a series of laser pulses that trace a spiral path over a coverage area. Each laser pulse containing a packet of information modulated at a relatively rate to help mitigate adverse effects from device movements, scintillation, and the like. The beam width of the laser, speed of the scan (along the spiral path), and number of laser pulses can be configured such that corresponding response pulses (e.g., retro-modulated pulses) received from an illuminated tag within the coverage may have a variety of different amplitudes, increasing the likelihood that at least one of the response pulses will have power characteristics that facilitate a proper decoding of the response pulse.

An optical writing device driving a light-emitting element array, modulating light according to a screening pattern that expresses a dithered image, and performing optical writing by focusing light emitted from the light-emitting element array through a lens array onto a photoreceptor. The optical writing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a write start position for writing to the photoreceptor in a main scanning direction and a control unit that performs a control when the write start position corresponds to an i-th light-emitting element from a reference position that corresponds to a first light-emitting element in the main scanning direction, i being a positive integer greater than 1, wherein the control unit supplies pixel values to the i-th light-emitting element onwards, the pixel values being assigned from pixels of the screening pattern from an i-th pixel onwards, from a leading pixel of the screening pattern in the main scanning direction.

An optical communication device can address these and other issues by utilizing a system and method in which an optical device emits a series of laser pulses that trace a spiral path over a coverage area. Each laser pulse containing a packet of information modulated at a relatively rate to help mitigate adverse effects from device movements, scintillation, and the like. The beam width of the laser, speed of the scan (along the spiral path), and number of laser pulses can be configured such that corresponding response pulses (e.g., retro-modulated pulses) received from an illuminated tag within the coverage may have a variety of different amplitudes, increasing the likelihood that at least one of the response pulses will have power characteristics that facilitate a proper decoding of the response pulse.

Disclosed are a high speed wide range RFID tag capable of improving a data transmission speed and a recognition distance between an RFID tag and an RFID reader by controlling a reflected power as multi levels through adjustment of a reflection coefficient in the RFID tag, and a method of controlling the same. The RFID tag includes a data converting unit configured to convert stored RFID serial tag data into a number of multi-level parallel data according to a request of an RFID reader, a reflection coefficient adjusting unit configured to generate a plurality of reflection coefficients corresponding to a number of the converted parallel data, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit a number of the multi-level parallel data according to the generated plurality of tag reflection coefficients through an antenna to the RFID reader.