Patent classifications
G01S5/0244
Organic navigational beacons
Navigation beacons may be trained to receive signals of opportunity from one or more vehicles, to recognize their own position based on such signals, and to transmit information regarding their own position to one or more other vehicles accordingly. The navigation beacons may be of small size and feature a basic construction including one or more transceivers, power sources and the like, and may communicate via a Bluetooth® Low Energy, Ultra Wideband or long-range low-power wireless standard, or any other standard. The navigation beacons may be installed in any location, preferably being mounted to one or more existing fixed structures or facilities (e.g., transportation structures or facilities), and may operate in active and/or passive modes when learning their positions or servicing position information to one or more remote devices.
Systems and methods for identifying a source of radio frequency interference in a wireless network
An interference detection system in a network identifies a first wireless station that has experienced radio frequency (RF) interference from an unknown source on at least one physical resource block (PRB) and identifies one or more second wireless stations that have experienced similar interference on the at least one PRB. A plurality of estimated interference source locations are determined based at least on geographic locations of the first wireless station and the one or more second wireless stations. The plurality of estimated interference source locations are scored based on a comparison of estimate interference to observed interference at the one or more second wireless stations and a geographical map is generated based on the scored plurality of estimated interference source locations, wherein the geographical map includes indicia indicative of the relative scores of the plurality of estimated interference source locations.
ANALYSIS AND MONITORING OF A POSITIONING INFRASTRUCTURE
It is disclosed a method comprising one or more of the following: a first determining whether or not at least one characteristic that has been derived from a coverage map being representative of respective coverage areas of a plurality of beacons deployed in an area is affected at least by a count of the beacons deployed in the area and to their respective positions and affects an accuracy of a positioning of one or more terminals located in the area that is at least based on the coverage map and on respective fingerprints provided by the one or more terminals, is considered at least partially insufficient, and a providing, in case the first determining has come to an affirmative result, of first information on the at least one characteristic considered at least partially insufficient and/or on instances that at least contributed to the at least one characteristic being considered at least partially insufficient; a second determining, at least based on one or more fingerprints received from one or more terminals, whether or not an existing coverage map for an area can still be considered to be representative of respective coverage areas of a plurality of beacons deployed in the area, and a providing, in case the second determining has come to an affirmative result, of second information indicative of the result and/or indicative of why the existing coverage map is no longer considered to be representative of the respective coverage areas of the plurality of beacons deployed in the area; a third determining whether or not a status of a beacon on which information is transmitted by the beacon and received and provided by a terminal is considered improvable, and a providing, in case the third determining has come to an affirmative result, of third information on the beacon and/or on the status of the beacon; a deriving, from a coverage map that is representative of respective coverage areas of a plurality of beacons deployed in an area, of respective positions of one or more of the beacons, and a providing of fourth information representative of one or more of the derived respective positions of the one or more beacons.
Content clustering of new photographs for digital picture frame display
A method for automated routing of pictures taken on mobile electronic devices to a digital picture frame including a camera integrated with the frame, and a network connection module allowing the frame for direct contact and upload of photos from electronic devices or from photo collections of community members. The integrated camera is used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer and can capture gesture-based feedback. The displayed photos are automatically shown and/or changed according to the detected viewers. The photos can be filtered and cropped at the receiver side. Clustering photos by content is used to improve display and to respond to photo viewer desires.
METHODS, APPARATUSES, SYSTEM AND PRODUCT FOR POSITIONING DETERMINATION
A method (700, 800), system (3210) and apparatus (900, 1000) are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method (700) for determining positioning is performed by a wireless device (1000). The method (700) comprising: receiving (720) a reference signal and performing a positioning measurement based on the received reference signal; receiving (730) positioning information based on the received reference signal, wherein the received positioning information comprises a positioning measurement reported by a neighbouring wireless device performed on the reference signal; and determining (740) further positioning information based on the positioning measurement and the received positioning information.
METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING, BY APPARATUS, CPM IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING SIDELINK, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR
Disclosed are, according to various embodiments, a method for transmitting, by a user equipment (UE), a first collective perception message (CPM) in a wireless communication system supporting a sidelink, and an apparatus therefor. Disclosed are the method and the apparatus therefor, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining first object information on surrounding objects through a sensor; receiving a second CPM including second object information; and transmitting the first CPM including the first object information and location information for the UE, wherein the second CPM further includes information on a location reliability of the second object information, the position information of the UE is corrected by applying an offset, based on the first object information and the second object information being object information for the same object, and the offset is determined by applying a ratio between a first position reliability related to the position information of the UE and the second position reliability included in the second CPM to a distance between an object position based on the first object information and an object position based on the second object information.
INTEGRITY FOR RAT DEPENDENT POSITIONING
Systems and methods for generating and configuring integrity parameters associated with positioning measurements and calculations are provided herein. Integrity KPIs can be determined to assess the integrity level of a RAT-dependent positioning estimation. A network node obtains a quality of service (QoS) for a positioning application and determines an integrity key performance indicator (KPI) associated with the QoS. A wireless device receives the KPI associated with the QoS and monitors it while performing positioning measurements.
AUTOMATIC TESTING OF EMERGENCY CALL LOCATION DETERMINATION
A facility for testing location determination for emergency calls is described. Software on a mobile device collects a GPS location from the mobile device, and places an emergency call that encloses information usable by the emergency call processing system to calculate mobile device location. After the system performs this calculation, the call is detected to be a testing call and routed to a computer rather than an emergency dispatcher. The computer sends an SMS or other non-telephony message to the mobile device containing the calculated location. The mobile device stores the collected GPS location and the calculated location received in the non-telephony message together for comparison.
SIDELINK POSITIONING ANCHOR CONFIGURATION
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may receive first information identifying a value for a threshold parameter associated with a sidelink positioning procedure. The mobile station may transmit second information identifying a suitability for anchoring the sidelink positioning procedure, wherein the suitability is associated with the value for the threshold parameter. Numerous other aspects are described.
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POSITIONING
Provided is a positioning apparatus including a communicator including at least three transceivers that are arranged in a first line; and a processor configured to calculate a first phase difference between reference signals received by a first transceiver pair arranged in the first line, a second phase difference between reference signals received by a second transceiver pair arranged in the first line, and a third phase difference between reference signals received by a third transceiver pair arranged in the first line, to determine an integer ambiguity of the second phase difference and an integer ambiguity of the third phase difference based on the first phase difference, and to calculate a position of an apparatus to be positioned based on the second phase difference, the integer ambiguity of the second phase difference, the third phase difference, and the integer ambiguity of the third phase difference.