Invention Grant
- Patent Title: GNSS signal modeling
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Application No.: US17008897Application Date: 2020-09-01
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Publication No.: US11531118B2Publication Date: 2022-12-20
- Inventor: Imad Jean Fattouch , Arastoo Zabolestani Moradi , Frank Van Diggelen , Zifei Tong , Mohammed Khider , Stefano Maggiolo , David Orendorff
- Applicant: Google LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Honigman LLP
- Agent Brett A. Krueger
- Main IPC: G01S19/22
- IPC: G01S19/22 ; G01S19/37 ; G01S19/39 ; H04W4/029 ; G01S19/06 ; G01S19/24

Abstract:
A method of processing signal paths includes receiving an estimated location for a GNSS receiver in an environment. The method also includes generating a plurality of candidate positions about the estimated location where each candidate position corresponds to a possible actual location of the GNSS receiver. The method further includes, for each available satellite at each candidate position, modeling a plurality of candidate signal paths by ray-launching a raster map of geographical data Here, the plurality of candidate signal paths includes one or more reflected signal paths. At each candidate position, the method also includes comparing, the plurality of candidate signal paths modeled for each available satellite at the respective candidate position to measured GNSS signal data from the GNSS receiver and generating a likelihood that the respective candidate position includes the actual location of the GNSS receiver based on the comparison.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220066040A1 GNSS Signal Modeling Public/Granted day:2022-03-03
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