A data processing system for navigation using-spread spectrum signals herein implements causing a transceiver of the data processing system to transmit a first electromagnetic signal; receiving, via the transceiver, second electromagnetic signals associated with a first object responsive to the first electromagnetic signal, the second electromagnetic signals including first spread-spectrum signals and an identification of the first object incorporated into the first spread-spectrum signals, each respective second electromagnetic signal of the second electromagnetic signals being transmitted from a separate location on the first object; analyzing the second electromagnetic signals to obtain the identification of the first object; and determining a first estimated location of the data processing system relative to the first object by calculating a difference between the time of transmission of the first electromagnetic signal and a respective time of receipt of each of the second electromagnetic signals.

A wearable device is described that is configured to alert a subject prior to encountering an obstacle. The subject may be visually-impaired. The device includes: a mobile transceiver tag adapted to be worn by a subject within a designated area (e.g., a swimming pool); three or more stationary transceiver beacons in spaced apart, fixed positions; a wearable signal output device (e.g., headset); and a processor with software that can calculate the subject's position relative to one or more obstacles (e.g., end of swimming lane) and sends a left, right, or reverse signal to the signal output device.

In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may control one or more reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in accordance with one or more RIS schedules that indicate times when the one or more RIS are in an enabled state and times when the one or more RIS are in a disabled state. The UE may request at least one participating UE of one or more participating UEs to transmit at least one positioning reference signal (PRS) in a PRS resource. The UE may measure the at least one PRS from the at least one participating UE in accordance with the RIS schedule to make one or more measurements of the at least one PRS when the one or more RIS are in the disabled state and to make one or more measurements of the at least one PRS when the one or more RIS are in the enabled state.

In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may control one or more reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in accordance with one or more RIS schedules that indicate times when the one or more RIS are in an enabled state and times when the one or more RIS are in a disabled state. The UE may request at least one participating UE of one or more participating UEs to transmit at least one positioning reference signal (PRS) in a PRS resource. The UE may measure the at least one PRS from the at least one participating UE in accordance with the RIS schedule to make one or more measurements of the at least one PRS when the one or more RIS are in the disabled state and to make one or more measurements of the at least one PRS when the one or more RIS are in the enabled state.

The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for improving positioning of a device in a wireless communications network. In some embodiments, a method performed by a measuring device configured to communicate with a positioning device, comprises: determining a cross-correlation between a received signal and a transmitted reference signal; determining a channel impulse response (CIR) of the cross-correlation related to a first lobe detected above a selected threshold in said CIR; and reporting information on a truncated part of the CIR around the first lobe to the positioning device for enabling the positioning device to correct or estimate a measurement related to a distance between a transmitter and the measuring device and/or a distance between at least one reflecting cluster and the measuring device.

The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for improving positioning of a device in a wireless communications network. In some embodiments, a method performed by a measuring device configured to communicate with a positioning device, comprises: determining a cross-correlation between a received signal and a transmitted reference signal; determining a channel impulse response (CIR) of the cross-correlation related to a first lobe detected above a selected threshold in said CIR; and reporting information on a truncated part of the CIR around the first lobe to the positioning device for enabling the positioning device to correct or estimate a measurement related to a distance between a transmitter and the measuring device and/or a distance between at least one reflecting cluster and the measuring device.

A method of operating a wireless communication device (101) attachable to a communications network (100) includes receiving a message (6000, 6002) from the communications network (100), the message (6000, 6002) being indicative of a request for a location report (6009) of the wireless communication device (101), and upon receiving the message (6000, 6002) and based on a positioning measurement, transmitting an uplink message (6003) of a random-access procedure (600) of the wireless communication device (101), the uplink message (6003) comprising the location report (6009).

Disclosed are an information transmission method and device, for determining positioning reference signal resource configuration information and a positioning technical scheme by means of a negotiation process between a positioning server and other nodes, so as to avoid that neighboring base stations may send positioning reference signals on the same time and frequency resources, causing the positioning reference signals of neighboring base stations to interfere with each other, resulting in the degradation of downlink positioning measurement performance, and to enable each base station to optimize the configuration of the positioning reference signal according to the positioning performance requirements of a terminal, thereby improving the positioning performance. The information transmission method provided by the present application comprises: determining positioning reference signal resource configuration information and a positioning technical scheme by means of a negotiation process between a positioning server and other nodes; and notifying the other nodes of the positioning reference signal resource configuration information and the positioning technical scheme.

A positioning method, device, system, terminal, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The positioning method may include: continuously and at intervals sending broadcast packets including at least RSU location information and message sending time to the vehicle-to-everything (V2X) apparatus (100) through at least 3 road side units (RSUs) (RSU1, RSU2, RSU3) with fixed locations; when the positioning system of the V2X apparatus (100) is abnormal, by using the information in the broadcast packets and the information at the time before the abnormality of the positioning system of the V2X apparatus (100), calculating and obtaining the location information of the V2X apparatus (100) in real time.

A positioning method, device, system, terminal, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The positioning method may include: continuously and at intervals sending broadcast packets including at least RSU location information and message sending time to the vehicle-to-everything (V2X) apparatus (100) through at least 3 road side units (RSUs) (RSU1, RSU2, RSU3) with fixed locations; when the positioning system of the V2X apparatus (100) is abnormal, by using the information in the broadcast packets and the information at the time before the abnormality of the positioning system of the V2X apparatus (100), calculating and obtaining the location information of the V2X apparatus (100) in real time.