Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Distributed antenna base station, mobile station, and method of distance measurement
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Application No.: US16462900Application Date: 2017-01-27
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Publication No.: US10649077B2Publication Date: 2020-05-12
- Inventor: Kaoru Tsukamoto
- Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/002922 WO 20170127
- International Announcement: WO2018/138867 WO 20180802
- Main IPC: H04W24/00
- IPC: H04W24/00 ; G01S13/76 ; H04W88/08

Abstract:
There are provided a signal transmitter that generates a signal indicating execution of distance measurement and transmits the signal to a plurality of antennas, a combiner that adds a plurality of received signals that are radio signals including a response signal from the mobile station and each of which is correspondingly received by each of the antennas, a timing detector that detects a timing at which reception power for a signal added by the combiner is maximized and determines a reception timing of the response signal, a base station time calculator that determines a round trip time from transmission of the signal indicating execution of distance measurement to reception of the response signal on the basis of the reception timing and a timing of the transmission of the signal indicating execution of distance measurement, a power detector that identifies one of the antennas that has received a received signal with highest reception power among the plurality of received signals, and a distance calculator that calculates a distance between the distributed antenna base station and the mobile station on the basis of the round trip time, a delay in signal transmission to the antenna identified by the power detector, and a distance to the identified antenna.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200072961A1 DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA BASE STATION, MOBILE STATION, AND METHOD OF DISTANCE MEASUREMENT Public/Granted day:2020-03-05
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