Patent ID: 8903666

Claim:
A local average absorbed power measuring method for measuring, with an electric and/or magnetic probe, electric field strength or magnetic field strength of radio waves emitted from a radio device to a phantom, which simulates dielectric properties of a human body, the electric and/or magnetic probe being disposed in the phantom, the radio device having a plurality of antennas that emit radio waves of an identical frequency, the local average absorbed power measuring method comprising: an individual measurement step of measuring amplitude and phase of the electric field or magnetic field of each one of the plurality of antennas at measurement points disposed two-dimensionally in a plane at a given distance from a surface of the phantom; and a calculation step comprising: a combination sub-step of combining the amplitudes and phases of the electric fields or magnetic fields of the individual antennas obtained in the individual measurement step, with predetermined weights applied thereto; and a local average absorbed power candidate calculation sub-step of calculating a distribution of absorbed power in three-dimensional space on the other side of the antennas, as viewed from the two-dimensional plane, in the phantom from the combined amplitudes and phases of the electric field or magnetic field obtained in the combination sub-step, and obtaining a local average absorbed power in the absorbed power distribution, which corresponds to the weights, as a local average absorbed power candidate; and repeating the combination sub-step and the local average absorbed power candidate calculation sub-step while varying the predetermined weights to obtain a plurality of local average absorbed power candidates.