322results about "Beacon systems" patented technology

An embodiment provides a server UE, especially UE acting as positioning session coordinator, having a transceiver and a controller,wherein the transceiver is configured to receive positioning request (from its higher layers or from a second entity),wherein the controller is configuredto initiate and / or maintain a positioning session for a target UE, wherein the positioning session has at least a measurement between the target UE and an anchor UE; to select out of a plurality of UEs at least one anchor UE fulfilling one or more anchor UE selection criteria; andto coordinate assignment of the configuration associated with at least one resource for transmission and / or for reception with the target UE and the anchor UE involved in the positioning session.

Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described for handling positioning reference signals in a wireless communication system. The positioning reference signals may be assigned priorities that may be used to facilitate various operations of a wireless transmit / receive unit (WTRU) such as positioning related services, collision avoidance, measurement and reporting, etc. The WTRU may be configured with multiple muting patterns associated with the positioning reference signals and may switch between different muting patterns based on the priorities of the positioning reference signals and / or other downlink (DL) or uplink (UL) transmissions that may overlap or collide with the positioning reference signals.

A method comprising receiving a positioning reference signal request, determining positioning requirements associated with the received positioning reference signal request, determining capabilities of a terminal device, determining an antenna array radiation pattern beam width for a position reference signal based, at least partly on the determined positioning requirements and the determined capabilities of the terminal device, obtaining a value for a compensation parameter based on the determined antenna array radiation pattern beam width, performing beam steering towards a target access node, and performing a timing compensation using the compensation parameter with the obtained value.

Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to group resource allocation enhancements for SL positioning. A UE may be configured to receive a request to perform group-assisted sidelink (SL) positioning and to transmit, to a configuration device, a request for SL positioning time-frequency resources for a SL positioning group. The UE may be configured to receive, from the configuration device, a response comprising an allocation of a plurality of SL positioning time-frequency resources for the SL positioning group and to perform group-assisted SL positioning using the allocated plurality of SL positioning time-frequency resources.

Embodiments include methods for a user equipment (UE) configured for positioning in a radio access network (RAN). Such methods include receiving, from a positioning node, a configuration of a plurality of positioning reference signal (PRS) resources. Each PRS resource is associated with one of a plurality of different carrier frequencies or positioning frequency layers (PFLs) transmitted by a RAN node. The configuration includes one or more aggregation identifiers indicating one or more relationships between the plurality of carrier frequencies or PFLs. Such methods include selectively performing positioning measurements jointly and / or coherently on PRS resources associated with two or more of the carrier frequencies or PFLs, based on one or more of the following: the one or more aggregation identifiers, and an arrangement of the UE's plurality of receiver (Rx) chains. Such methods include sending to the positioning node a report including the positioning measurements.

Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described for handling positioning reference signals in a wireless communication system. The positioning reference signals may be assigned priorities that may be used to facilitate various operations of a wireless transmit / receive unit (WTRU) such as positioning related services, collision avoidance, measurement and reporting, etc. The WTRU may be configured with multiple muting patterns associated with the positioning reference signals and may switch between different muting patterns based on the priorities of the positioning reference signals and / or other downlink (DL) or uplink (UL) transmissions that may overlap or collide with the positioning reference signals.

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose devices, methods and apparatuses for a beam reporting. A first terminal device receives a plurality of sidelink (SL) positioning reference signal (PRS) configurations from a plurality of terminal devices. The first terminal device determines, based on the plurality of SL PRS configurations, whether the plurality of terminal devices select overlapping resources for a plurality of SL PRS transmissions. Based on determining that the plurality of terminal devices select overlapping resources for the plurality of SL PRS transmissions, the first terminal device transmits, to a second terminal device among the plurality of terminal devices, a request to update an SL PRS transmission by the second terminal device.

An operating method of a first device (100) in a wireless communication system is presented. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a second device (200), through a first band, a positioning request including at least one candidate band and information related to positioning; determining, from the at least one candidate band, a second band on the basis of the number of devices present in each candidate band and a value related to the communication range based on the first device (100); transmitting, to the second device (200), through the first band, a positioning response including information related to the determined second band; and transmitting, to the second device (200), through the second band, a first positioning reference signal (PRS) on the basis of the information related to positioning.

Methods and apparatuses for a sidelink (SL) positioning reference signal (PRS) signaling structure in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting, to another UE, a first SL PRS and a first SL control information associated with the first SL PRS and receiving, from the other UE, a second SL control information associated with a second SL PRS. The method further includes determining, based on the second SL control information, resources for the second SL PRS and receiving the second SL PRS on the determined resources.

According to one aspect of this disclosure, a method for a user equipment in a wireless communication system includes the steps of: receiving uplink reference signal (UL RS) configuration information; and transmitting UL RS on UL RS resources configured based on the UL RS configuration information, wherein the UL RS resources include at least one resource element (RE), the at least one RE is configured as N-comb in the frequency domain, determining the start position of each of the at least one RE in the frequency domain based on a comb offset and a preset offset included in the UL RS configuration information, obtaining the preset offset based on the N-comb and at least one orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of the at least one RE, and N is a natural number.

In an aspect, a method of operating a processing device includes obtaining location information of a target device, transmission time information of first one or more beacons transmitted by the target device, or transmission channel information of the first one or more beacons; and configuring a first set of electronic shelf label (ESL) devices to perform a targeted scanning operation based on the location information, the transmission time information, or the transmission channel information. The method of operating the processing device further includes receiving one or more targeted scanning reports from the first set of ESL devices based on the targeted scanning operation, and engaging in a positioning procedure for determining an estimated location of the target device based on the one or more targeted scanning reports.

Various embodiments herein provide techniques related to electronic device. The electronic device may be configured to store one or more broadcast audio signals received from a broadcast transmitter; identify, based on the one or more broadcast audio signals, a location of the electronic device with respect to the broadcast transmitter; and provide an indication of the location of the electronic device. Other embodiments may be described and / or claimed.

The disclosure relates to systems and methods for densifying downlink time difference of arrival networks. A method for an electronic device to join a downlink time difference of arrival (DL-TDoA) network as a self-organizing anchor device is provided. The method comprises the following steps: determining the position of the electronic device; and determining whether a condition for operating as the ad hoc anchor device in the DL-TDoA network is satisfied. The method further includes, in response to the condition being satisfied, sending a request message to a server device to operate as the ad hoc anchor device in the DL-TDoA network.

A method for determining a distance between two devices, which may be wireless devices such as handheld devices. The method performs a two-sided two-way ranging protocol in the two devices. The protocol has the two devices transmit and receive signals using a two-way ranging method for the purpose of determining a distance between the two devices. Here, each of the signals is a composite sound generated as a combination of two waveforms separated in time by a gap to form a bipolar waveform. The gap is a zero or low amplitude signal, contrasting the two waveforms. A particular pattern in the correlation footprint facilitates determining the time of flight. The method can be used to measure social distancing.

A Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) supporting sidelink power allocation method is provided. The method includes: determining base transmission power of a PRS based on PCMAX, PMAX,CBR and PPRS,SL(i); and allocating PRS transmission power for the PRS, wherein the PRS transmission power is larger than or equal to the base transmission power of the PRS; wherein PCMAX is a maximum transmission power of a terminal, PMAX,CBR is a maximum transmission power of the terminal under a given Channel Busy Ratio (CBR) PPRS,SL(i) is path loss compensation power of the PRS at an i-th positioning occasion of transmitting the PRS, and i indicates that the i-th positioning occasion is transmitted.

A device and method for identification of at least one object in an image registered with an image registration device, wherein each of the at least one object is provided with a wireless tag, the device comprising at least one sensor for registering a wireless signal from the wireless tag and for registering at least one direction to the wireless tag. The wireless signal comprises information for identification of the object.

To provide a technique capable of estimating a camera position without having high processing performance.SOLUTION: An optical wireless communication system includes a plurality of light sources, a receiving device including an event camera, and an information processing device. Each of the plurality of light sources transmits an optical wireless communication signal. The receiving device receives the optical wireless communication signal via the event camera. The optical wireless communication signal includes position-related information for identifying a position in an absolute coordinate system of a transmission source of the optical wireless communication signal. The information processing device identifies a signal region of the optical wireless communication signal in an image plane coordinate system of an image plane obtained by the event camera to acquire a light source image position indicating a position at which each of the plurality of light sources is projected in the image plane coordinate system, acquires a light source absolute position indicating a position at which each of the plurality of light sources is located in the absolute coordinate system on the basis of the position-related information included in the optical wireless communication signal, and uses the light source image position and the light source absolute position to estimate a position and a direction of the event camera in the absolute coordinate system.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

A method for transmitting a power headroom, a terminal device, and a network device are provided. The method includes: sending a power headroom PH value of a serving cell to a network device, where the PH value is a first PH value of a first sounding reference signal SRS and / or a second PH value of a second SRS; and the first PH value is obtained based on first configuration information of the first SRS, the first SRS is an SRS used for positioning, and the second SRS is an SRS used for measurement.

An event driven sensor (EDS) (202, 300, 302, 400, 500, 600) is used for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and in particular is used in conjunction with a constellation (208, 306, 402, 502, 602) of light emitting diodes (LED) to simultaneously localize all LEDs and track EDS pose in space. The EDS may be stationary (500) or moveable (400, 600) and can track moveable LED constellations as rigid bodies. Each individual LED is distinguished at a high rate using minimal computational resources (no image processing). Thus, instead of a camera and image processing, rapidly pulsing LEDs detected by the EDS are used for feature points such that EDS events are related to only one LED at a time.

To provide systems and methods for operating a wireless power transmission system.SOLUTION: A wireless power transmission system 100 receives an encoded beacon signal delivered from and initiated by a plurality of wireless power receiver clients 110 to 112 which receive wireless power from the wireless power transmission system. The wireless power transmission system also delivers wireless power to the wireless power receiver clients and simultaneously detects additional encoded beacon signals delivered from and initiated by additional wireless power receiver clients.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

A method includes a mobile device receiving a plurality of first signals from one or more first transmitters in a network. Each first signal has first data including an associated time that is non-synchronized to the time of another first signal of the plurality of first signals. One or more processors synchronizes the associated time of each first signal to a common time scale. One or more processors determines a position of the mobile device using a common time scale of the plurality of first signals.

A wireless device may receive environment information associated with an area. The wireless device may simulate a set of positioning measurements based on the environment information. The wireless device may calculate a positioning environment based on the simulated set of positioning measurements. The wireless device may calculate the positioning environment further based on a set of measured positioning signals obtained by the wireless device. The wireless device may output the positioning environment to train a positioning model. The wireless device may output the positioning environment by training the positioning model at the wireless device based on the positioning environment. The wireless device may output the positioning environment by transmitting the positioning environment to a training entity to train the positioning model.

Embodiments described herein provide for system and methods to crowdsource the location of wireless devices and accessories that lack a connection to a wide area network. One embodiment provides for a data processing system configured to perform operations comprising loading a user interface on an electronic device, the user interface to enable the determination of a location of a wireless accessory that is associated with the electronic device, generating a set of public keys included within a signal broadcast by the wireless accessory, the signal broadcast during a first period, sending the set of public keys to a server with a request to return data that corresponds with a public key in the set of public keys, decrypting the location data using a private key associated with the public key, and processing the location data to determine a probable location for the wireless accessory.

A method for wireless communications performed by a first wireless node is described. The method comprising transmitting (902) a first positioning reference signal, (PRS), at a first time, receiving (904) a second PRS from a second wireless node at a second time, receiving (906), from the second wireless node, a first message indicating a third time when the second wireless node received the first PRS and a fourth time when the second wireless node transmitted the second PRS, estimating (908) a clock error component between the first wireless node and the second wireless node, using the first time, the second time, the third time, and the fourth time and transmitting (910), to a user equipment, (UE), a second message indicating the clock error component.

Provided are a method for wireless communication, and a terminal device. The method comprises: a terminal device sending or receiving a first PSSCH in a first slot, wherein the first slot is also used for transmitting a first reference signal, and the first reference signal is used for sidelink positioning. In the embodiments of the present application, a terminal device can transmit, in a slot for transceiving other sidelink information, a reference signal (i.e., a first reference signal) which is used for sidelink positioning, that is, resources for the first reference signal and resources for the other sidelink information share a resource pool, so as to implement sidelink positioning.

A technique for wireless communication is disclosed. In one aspect, a receiving device receives from a network entity a request to report a power delay profile (PDP) similarity measure for a first positioning frequency layer on a first component carrier and a second positioning frequency layer on a second component carrier; determines a first PDP of a first reference signal received on the first positioning frequency layer and a second PDP of a second reference signal received on the second positioning frequency layer; determines a PDP similarity measure based on the first PDP and the second PDP; and transmits the PDP similarity measure to the network entity.

The present invention relates to a system (100) for determining the location of a number of animals in a group of animals, comprising a first number of first mobile devices (10A - 10C) forming anchor devices, each configured to be attached to an animal of a first subgroup of the group of animals, each first mobile device (10A - 10C) comprising a satellite positioning unit (11) for detecting a precise location of the first mobile device (10A - 10C), and a first radio frequency (RF) unit (12) for transmitting a low power RF signal, a second number of second mobile devices (20A - 20J) forming roaming devices, each configured to be attached an animal of a second subgroup of the group of animals, each second mobile device (20A - 20J) comprising a second radio frequency (RF) unit (21) for receiving one or more RF signals transmitted by the first number of first mobile devices (10A - 10C), and a second controller (22) configured to determine a location or relative location of the second mobile device (20A – 20J) based on the one or more received RF signals utilizing an RF mesh positioning technique.

This disclosure relates to device location finding. The present invention describes an implementation of a device locator application. In one implementation, the inertial sensor and received camera sensor data can be used to receive one or more inertial displacement measurements, a trajectory can be determined based on the one or more inertial displacement measurements, a beacon signal can be received from a target wireless device and at least one signal strength value can be determined based on the beacon signal, at least one proximity value to the target wireless device can be estimated based on the at least one signal strength value corresponding to at least one location along the trajectory, and an indicator of the at least one proximity value to the target wireless device can be displayed in a user interface along the trajectory.