Visible light communication using dual camera on one smartphone

• DOI: 10.1364/oe.26.034609
• Publication Date: 2018-12-20T16:34:27Z
• Authors: Y. Q. Xu; J. Hua; Z. Gong; W. Zhao; Z. Q. Zhang; C. Y. Xie; Z. T. Chen; J. F. Chen
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

Dual camera is becoming increasingly prevalent among smartphone camera schemes these days. This paper demonstrates a system prototype by using the color and monochrome cameras on one smartphone simultaneously for visible light communication. To achieve this, we propose a novel dual-modulation scheme. The baseband signal is firstly modulated by color ratio modulation-color shift keying (CRM-CSK) to broadcast color ratio information that can be distinguished by the color camera. Next to it, gray level modulation (GLM) is utilized to generate CRM symbols with gray levels that can be distinguished by the monochrome camera. Our experiment shows a significant improvement in the downlink data rate of the optical camera communication (OCC) using a single light source.