AoX multipath detection
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11635483B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-25

    申请号:US17347069

    申请日:2021-06-14

    IPC分类号: G01S3/02 G01S5/02 G01S5/04

    摘要: A system and method for detecting a multipath environment is disclosed. A first pseudospectrum based on azimuth angle and elevation angle is created. The result of this first pseudospectrum are used to create a second pseudospectrum based on polarization and field ratio. The sharpness of the results for these two pseudospectrums is determined and may be used to detect whether a multipath environment exists. If a multipath environment is believed to exist, the results from this device are ignored in determining the spatial position of the object.

    Compression of location information during backhaul communications of a wireless location system

    公开(公告)号:US11044631B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-22

    申请号:US16229052

    申请日:2018-12-21

    摘要: A wireless locator that facilitates determining a location of a nearby wireless asset including an antenna array with multiple antennas, at least one wireless transceiver that receives a location signal from the nearby wireless asset and that takes multiple samples from the location signal including a set of samples for each antenna, and a processor that compresses the samples to generate location information associated with the nearby wireless asset. The wireless locator may be part of a wireless location system including multiple wireless locators distributed in the area and a central processing system. Various compression methods are disclosed, including averaging of the samples, bit reduction of the samples, converting the samples to corresponding phase values, and combining corresponding samples of multiple sample supplemental sets. Combinations of the various compression methods are also disclosed.

    DYNAMIC SWITCH PATTERN SELECTION FOR ANGLE OF ARRIVAL

    公开(公告)号:US20210396833A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-23

    申请号:US16904945

    申请日:2020-06-18

    摘要: A device and method for improving the accuracy of angle of arrival and departure computations is disclosed. The device and method rely on manipulation of the antenna switching pattern to achieve an improved calculation of arrival angle. In one embodiment, the device calculates an estimate angle of arrival using conventional methods. The device then determines which of a plurality of different antenna switching pattern yields the more accurate results at this estimated angle of arrival. The AoA measurement is then repeated using the preferred antenna switching pattern. In another embodiment, the device captures the amplitude and/or phase of the signal from each antenna element. The device then sorts these antenna elements and defines a preferred antenna switching pattern based on the sort list. The AoA measurement is then performed using the preferred antenna switching pattern. In another embodiment, neural networks may be utilized to determine the preferred antenna switching pattern.

    Angle of arrival using machine learning

    公开(公告)号:US11415657B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-16

    申请号:US16587221

    申请日:2019-09-30

    摘要: A system and method of determining the angle of arrival or departure using a neural network is disclosed. The system collects a plurality of I and Q samples as a packet containing a constant tone extension is being received. The I and Q samples are used to form I and Q arrays, which are used as the input to the neural network. The neural network produces a first output representative of the azimuth angle and a second output representative of the elevation angle. In certain embodiments, the neural network is capable of detecting a plurality of angles, where, for each angle, there are three outputs, a first output representative of the azimuth angle, a second output representative of the elevation angle and a third output representative of the relative amplitude. In some embodiments, the neural network is configured to determine the carrier frequency offset of an incoming signal as well.

    Optimization For Angle Of Arrival And Angle Of Departure Detection

    公开(公告)号:US20200309891A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-01

    申请号:US16364482

    申请日:2019-03-26

    摘要: An optimized system and method for determining an angle of arrival or angle of departure is disclosed. A coarse pre-search is performed to identify the general location of the incoming signal. Based on this information, a high-resolution search is performed at the general location identified in the coarse pre-search. This multi-stage approach significantly reduces the number of computations that must be performed by the device, and also reduces the amount of memory that is required to store the results of the computations. For example, a full scan may require the computations to be performed over 32,000 times. Through use of this approach, the number of computations may be reduced by over 97%. This is a similar reduction in computation time and in the amount of memory consumed by this method.