A method of transmitting power by a
wireless power
transmitter, the method including receiving a plurality of packets including a
foreign object detection (FOD) status packet from a
wireless power
receiver; determining whether a
foreign object is present in a charging area of the
wireless power
transmitter on the basis of the FOD status packet; and transmitting, to the wireless power
receiver, a response
signal indicating whether the
foreign object is present in the charging area of the wireless power
transmitter on the basis of a result of the determination, wherein the response
signal is determined using a measured peak frequency of a power
signal transmitted by the wireless power transmitter and a reference peak frequency included in the FOD status packet received from the wireless power
receiver, wherein the plurality of packets further include at least one of a
signal strength packet, an end power transfer packet, a
power control hold-off packet, a
control error packet, a renegotiation packet, an eight-bit received power packet, and a charging status packet, to which a
byte encoding technique is applied, and wherein the
byte encoding technique is a technique of inserting a start bit, a stop bit, and a
parity bit into an encoded binary bit
stream of a packet having a length of eight bits.