Patent ID: 8526886
Filing Date: 2013-09-03
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication device capable of controlling the direction of beams to be transmitted, the wireless communication device comprising: an adaptive array antenna; and a controller that controls the directions of the beams radiating from the adaptive array antenna, wherein the controller controls the order of transmission of the beams toward at least three correspondent wireless communication devices based on the directions of the beams corresponding to the correspondent wireless communication devices, the wireless communication devices include a first wireless communication device, a second wireless communication device, and a third wireless communication device, the first, second, and third wireless communication devices corresponding to a first direction, a second direction, and a third direction, respectively, and the transmitted beams are directed, in sequence, to the first, second, and third directions where the shifted beam-width from the first direction to the second direction is less than the shifted beam-width from the first direction to the third direction.