Patent ID: 8073421

Claim:
A radio signal receiver device comprising: a receiver antenna for receiving a radio signal transmitted from a radio signal transmitter device; restoring means configured to restore, by processing a received signal produced by the receiver antenna, data transmitted from the radio signal transmitter and included in the received signal; control means configured to execute control processing in correspondence to transmitted data restored by the restoring means; first detection means configured to detect reception of the radio signal based on a signal level of the received signal of the receiver antenna; second detection means configured to have a radio signal detection sensitivity lower than that of the first detection means and to start up the control means by detecting reception of the radio signal based on a signal level of the received signal at a later time than the first detection means; time difference counting means configured to count a time difference between detections of the reception of the radio signal by the first detection means and the second detection means; and the control means being configured to detect a reception start time of the radio signal by the receiver antenna based on the time difference counted by the time difference counting means, after being started up by the second detection means, and execute the control processing based on the reception start time.