Patent ID: 10491270

Abstract:
One example discloses a near-field device, configured to receive a non-propagating quasi-static near-field signal from a near-field antenna, comprising: a tuning circuit including a set of impedance tuning banks; and a controller configured to, identify a set of impedance values for the impedance tuning banks corresponding to an initial resonance frequency, bandwidth and/or quality factor of the near-field antenna and near-field device combination; detect a change in the resonance frequency, bandwidth and/or quality factor; access a pre-stored set of specific resonance frequency, bandwidth and/or quality factor changes corresponding to a set of specific conductive structures; identify a conductive structure from the set of conductive structures corresponding to the detected change; access a pre-stored set of specific near-field device actions corresponding to the set of conductive structures; and effect a set of specific actions from the set of near-field device actions corresponding to the identified conductive structure.