US 12,277,472 B2
RFID tag quantity estimation system, RFID tag quantity estimation method
Zhe Li, Suzhou (CN); and Wei Deng, Suzhou (CN)
Assigned to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY, Suzhou (CN)
Filed by SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY, Suzhou (CN)
Filed on Dec. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/543,631.
Application 18/543,631 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/437,590, abandoned, previously published as PCT/CN2021/079839, filed on Mar. 9, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 202010342199.1 (CN), filed on Apr. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0135121 A1, Apr. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. G06K 7/10 (2006.01); H04B 7/02 (2018.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01)
CPC G06K 7/10366 (2013.01) [H04B 7/028 (2013.01); H04B 7/0831 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for estimating the quantity of RFID tags using an estimation system comprises;
a transmitting antenna for transmitting RFID reader signals with carrier component;
multiple receiving antennas for receiving RF tag signals;
a down-conversion module for down-converting the RF tag signals received by the receiving antennas to baseband signals;
a carrier cancellation module for removing the carrier component from the received RF tag signals; and
a tag quantity estimation module for estimating the quantity of tags;
wherein the method comprises the following steps:
S00: obtaining multiple information blocks of the RE tag signals as reference data for the RFID tag quantity estimation;
S10: converting the received RF tag signals to baseband signals based on the down-conversion module;
S20: removing the carrier components based on the carrier cancellation module to obtain a digitized baseband signal and denoting the baseband signal by complex number;
S30: estimating the observed noise power in the complex baseband signal with the carrier component removed and normalize the estimate by noise normalization module;
S40: processing the normalized complex baseband signals through tag signal preference module, the tag signal preference module being preset with a tag power threshold, selecting baseband signals that are greater than the preset power threshold;
S50: processing the selected complex baseband signals into high-dimensional tensor generation module, wherein real part and imaginary part are taken for the complex baseband signals respectively, and the dimension of the tensor generated by the high-dimensional tensor generation module is two times the quantity of the input;
S60: calculating the quantity of high-dimensional clusters formed by the high-dimensional tensor based on adaptive clustering discrimination module;
S70: process the quantity of high-dimensional clusters obtained by the adaptive cluster resolution module into temporary tag count module and record the output of the temporary tag count module as the result of temporary tag count calculation;
S80: if current tag power threshold reaches a maximum power of the tag, all temporary tags quantity calculation results recorded are passed through the tag quantity estimation module to obtain final tags quantity;
S90: if the current tag power threshold does not reach the maximum power of the tag, the power threshold is adjusted upward and proceeds to step S40.