公开(公告)号：US10079435B1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-18

申请号：US13431024

申请日：2012-03-27

申请人： Glenn Alex Minko

发明人： Glenn Alex Minko

IPC分类号： H01Q3/00 ,  H01Q15/14 ,  H01Q19/18 ,  G01S5/02 ,  G01S5/14

CPC分类号： H01Q15/14 ,  G01S3/14 ,  G01S5/02 ,  G01S5/0215 ,  G01S5/0221 ,  G01S5/0273 ,  G01S5/12 ,  G01S5/14 ,  G01S11/04 ,  H01Q15/144 ,  H01Q15/148 ,  H01Q17/001 ,  H01Q19/18

摘要： Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with reflectors are described. One example system comprises a collection antenna. The system also comprises a reflector configured to reflect a designated signal to the collection antenna and configured to reflect a non-designated signal away from the collection antenna.

公开(公告)号：US20180156888A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-07

申请号：US15803768

申请日：2017-11-04

申请人： Golba LLC

发明人： Mehran Moshfeghi

IPC分类号： G01S5/02 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W4/02

CPC分类号： G01S5/0252 ,  G01S5/0236 ,  G01S5/0273 ,  H04W4/027 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W64/006

摘要： Some embodiments use scanning devices to characterize radio signals received at a number of locations within a geographical area of interest. The signal characteristics along with the location information associated with the characteristics are stored in a centralized reference database. A mobile device characterizes signals it receives at a certain location and compares the characteristics with the signal characteristics stored in the reference database to obtain accurate location information of the certain location.

公开(公告)号：US09860866B2

公开(公告)日：2018-01-02

申请号：US15179842

申请日：2016-06-10

申请人： NextNav, LLC

发明人： Andrew Sendonaris

IPC分类号： G01S5/02 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W4/02 ,  G01S5/10

CPC分类号： H04W64/00 ,  G01S5/0273 ,  G01S5/10 ,  H04W4/023 ,  H04W4/025

摘要： Systems and methods for estimating a position of receiver using sets of two or more transmitters that share one or more common characteristics with each other. The systems and methods may estimate the position of the receiver using signals that were transmitted from a different transmitter in a set of co-located transmitters.

公开(公告)号：US09860705B2

公开(公告)日：2018-01-02

申请号：US14804575

申请日：2015-07-21

申请人： Sony Corporation

发明人： Magnus Persson ,  Erik Bengtsson

IPC分类号： H04W4/02 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04B7/0413 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W24/10 ,  G01S5/02

CPC分类号： H04W4/029 ,  G01S5/0252 ,  G01S5/0273 ,  H04B7/0413 ,  H04L5/0048 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W64/006

摘要： The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for determining a location of a device on a massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) network. An exemplary method comprises receiving, from a device, a first signal and a second signal at a base station; measuring a first signal characteristic for the first signal and a second signal characteristic for the second signal; comparing and matching the first measured signal characteristic to a first reference signal characteristic for a first reference signal and the second measured signal characteristic to a second reference signal characteristic for a second reference signal; and determining a location of the device based on the first measured signal characteristic and the second measured signal characteristic.

公开(公告)号：US20170361726A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-21

申请号：US15586144

申请日：2017-05-03

申请人： QUALCOMM Incorporated

发明人： Hans Peter Widmer ,  Andreas Daetwyler

IPC分类号： B60L11/18 ,  G01D5/20 ,  G01S19/45

CPC分类号： B60L11/1833 ,  B60L11/182 ,  B60L11/1829 ,  G01D5/20 ,  G01S5/0273 ,  G01S13/06 ,  G01S17/06 ,  G01S19/42 ,  G01S19/45 ,  H02J7/025 ,  H02J50/90

摘要： Methods and apparatus are disclosed for positioning a vehicle. An apparatus for determining positioning information for a vehicle may comprise a plurality of receive coil circuits and a hardware processor. The plurality of receive coil circuits is configured to generate voltage signals from a magnetic field. The hardware processor is configured to generate position estimates of a position of the magnetic field generator with respect to a position of the plurality of receive coils. Each of the first sequence of position estimates is determined based upon a corresponding voltage vector derived from the voltage signals and at least one of a plurality of reference vectors. The hardware processor is configured to update the plurality of reference vectors based upon the first sequence of position estimates and a second sequence of position estimates generated based upon a source different from the plurality of receive coil circuits.

公开(公告)号：US09813867B2

公开(公告)日：2017-11-07

申请号：US15289033

申请日：2016-10-07

申请人： PoLTE Corporation

发明人： Truman Prevatt

IPC分类号： H04W24/00 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H01Q1/24 ,  G01S5/02 ,  G01S3/74 ,  G01S5/14 ,  G01S13/22 ,  G01S13/24 ,  G01S13/76 ,  G01S13/87 ,  G01S13/46

CPC分类号： H04W4/023 ,  G01S3/74 ,  G01S5/0205 ,  G01S5/0215 ,  G01S5/0252 ,  G01S5/0257 ,  G01S5/0263 ,  G01S5/0273 ,  G01S5/14 ,  G01S13/222 ,  G01S13/24 ,  G01S13/767 ,  G01S13/878 ,  G01S2013/466 ,  G01S2013/468 ,  H01Q1/241 ,  H01Q1/246 ,  H01Q21/28 ,  H04L5/0048

摘要： Systems and methods for determining user equipment (UE) locations within a wireless network using reference signals of the wireless network are described. The disclosed systems and methods utilize a plurality of in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) samples generated from signals provided by receive channels associated with two or more antennas of the wireless system. Based on received reference signal parameters the reference signal within the signals from each receive channel among the receive channels is identified. Based on the identified reference signal from each receive channel, an angle of arrival between a baseline of the two or more antennas and incident energy from the UE to the two or more antennas is determined. That angle of arrival is then used to calculate the location of the UE. The angle of arrival may be a horizontal angle of arrival and/or a vertical angle of arrival.

公开(公告)号：US09778369B2

公开(公告)日：2017-10-03

申请号：US14309985

申请日：2014-06-20

申请人： Intel Corporation

发明人： Peter Fleming ,  Geraint Ffoulkes-Jones ,  Gerald Whitworth

IPC分类号： G01S19/42 ,  G01S5/02 ,  G01S19/22 ,  G01S19/26 ,  G01S19/28 ,  G01S19/52 ,  G01S19/46 ,  G01S19/47

CPC分类号： G01S19/428 ,  G01S5/0273 ,  G01S19/22 ,  G01S19/26 ,  G01S19/28 ,  G01S19/46 ,  G01S19/47 ,  G01S19/52

摘要： A positioning system operates by first determining that a user is pedestrian, and then estimating a speed of the user. Having tracked a first signal from one radio transmitter whose position is known, the system attempts to detect additional signals from the one transmitter, in a search space such that the first signal and the or each additional signal are consistent with the estimated speed of the user and with one or more of the signals having been reflected off a reflector in the vicinity of the user. One or more detected additional signals from the one transmitter are then tracked, and candidate measurements, derived from the first signal and the one or more detected additional signals, are provided for use when estimating the position and/or velocity of the user.

公开(公告)号：US09743254B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-22

申请号：US14850725

申请日：2015-09-10

申请人： Mist Systems, Inc.

发明人： Robert Friday ,  Neal Dante Castagnoli ,  Randall Wayne Frei

IPC分类号： H04B7/00 ,  H04W4/04 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04W52/24 ,  H04B17/373 ,  H04W64/00

CPC分类号： H04W4/043 ,  G01S5/0273 ,  G01S5/0278 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04B17/373 ,  H04W52/242 ,  H04W64/00

摘要： Methods and apparatus relating to use of actual and/or virtual beacons are described. Virtual beacons are virtual in that an actual beacon need not be transmitted but a rather a virtual beacon transmitter at a desired location maybe considered to transmit virtual beacons. In some embodiments a set of beacon transmitter information for one or more beacons is supplied to devices in a communications system. The beacon transmitter information indicates transmission power and location of actual and virtual beacon transmitters as well as information to be communicated by virtual beacons. Devices with access to beacon information can determine based on the location of a wireless terminal whether the wireless terminal is within coverage area of a virtual beacon and report reception of the virtual beacon to the wireless terminal or a component of the wireless terminal which acts upon receiving an indication of beacon reception.

公开(公告)号：US20170212210A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-27

申请号：US15326112

申请日：2015-07-17

申请人： Origin Wireless, Inc.

发明人： Yan CHEN ,  Hung-Quoc Duc LAI ,  Yi HAN ,  Chen CHEN ,  Zhung-Han WU ,  K.J. Ray LIU

IPC分类号： G01S5/06 ,  G01S5/02

CPC分类号： G01S5/06 ,  G01S5/0226 ,  G01S5/0252 ,  G01S5/0273

摘要： A time-reversal positioning system includes a storage storing first data representing channel impulse responses derived from probe signals sent from a plurality of positions and second data representing coordinates of the positions. A data processor determines a position of a terminal device based on the stored channel impulse responses and a time-reversed signal determined based on a time-reversed version of a channel impulse response that is estimated based on a channel probing signal sent from the terminal device.

公开(公告)号：US20170171857A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-15

申请号：US15325964

申请日：2016-03-22

申请人： LG ELECTRONICS INC.

发明人： Hyunho LEE ,  Hanjun PARK ,  Bonghoe KIM

IPC分类号： H04W72/04 ,  G01S13/16 ,  G01S5/02 ,  G01S7/02 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W24/10

CPC分类号： H04W72/0413 ,  G01S5/00 ,  G01S5/0273 ,  G01S7/02 ,  G01S13/16 ,  G01S13/765 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W72/1284

摘要： A method for reporting a measurement result for determining a position in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, is performed by a terminal and may comprise the steps of: receiving positioning reference signal (PRS)-related information comprising a position identifier of each of a plurality of base stations; performing a measurement on the PRSs transmitted by each of the plurality of base stations; if the position identifier of each of the plurality of base stations are identical to each other, selecting at least one measurement result among the measurement results for the PRSs; and reporting the selected measurement result to a serving base station.