METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING REMOTE UNIT LOCATION USING PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA ELEMENTS
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    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING REMOTE UNIT LOCATION USING PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA ELEMENTS 有权
    的方法和一种用于确定一个远程单元的位置下的使用对照组的天线元件相的

    公开(公告)号:EP1232571A4

    公开(公告)日:2004-03-24

    申请号:EP00959723

    申请日:2000-08-31

    申请人: MOTOROLA INC

    CPC分类号: H04W64/00 G01S5/12 H04B7/086

    摘要: An apparatus (100) and method dynamically allocates radio frequency receive path resources as required by a programmable location engine (112). The programmable location engine (112) employs cascaded time of arrival and direction of arrival algorithms to determine per remote unit location data. The apparatus (100) employs a phased array antenna (104) and a programmable receiver switching apparatus (108). A plurality of radio frequency receivers (102a-102n) receive a plurality of different carriers, such as CDMA carriers, on each of a different phased array antenna element (106a-106d). An RF switching matrix (126) and mobile location shared resource controller (110) dynamically switch the plurality of radio frequency receivers (102a-102b) to not only receive the different carriers on each of the different phased antenna radio elements to determine time of arrival information, but alternately receive a same carrier signal over all or a portion of the phased array antenna elements to determine direction of arrival information.