ANTENNA DEVICE, POWER SUPPLYING DEVICE, AND POWER SUPPLYING METHOD
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February 29, 2024
An antenna device capable of transmitting power that allows a power receiving device to efficiently receive power even at a short distance is provided. An antenna device includes an array antenna; an adjustment unit to adjust a phase of a power transmission signal supplied to a plurality of antenna elements in a first axis direction; an image obtainment unit to obtain an image through a fisheye lens; a derivation unit to convert a first position of a marker included in the image, into a second position in polar coordinates on a first plane including the first axis and the second axis; an obtainment unit to obtain, based on the second position, an elevation angle of a position obtained by projecting the first position onto a second plane including the first axis and a third axis, with respect to the third axis in the second plane; a storage unit to store a plurality of sets of phase data corresponding to a plurality of elevation angles, the phase data representing a plurality of phases when power is transmitted from the plurality of antenna elements to a power receiving device, the plurality of phases received by the power receiving device from the plurality of antenna elements being adjusted to be aligned; and a control unit to read the phase data corresponding to the elevation angle obtained by the elevation angle obtainment unit from the storage unit, and control the adjustment unit based on the read phase data so as to make a direction of a beam radiated by the array antenna become the elevation angle in the second plane.
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