Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Communication device and method using virtual sector forming
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Application No.: US16489356Application Date: 2018-03-16
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Publication No.: US10693551B2Publication Date: 2020-06-23
- Inventor: Felix Fellhauer , Sven Seiler , Dana Ciochina , Nabil Sven Loghin
- Applicant: Sony Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Xsensus LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@1999088e
- International Application: PCT/EP2018/056708 WO 20180316
- International Announcement: WO2018/167284 WO 20180920
- Main IPC: H04B7/02
- IPC: H04B7/02 ; H04B7/06 ; H04B7/0408 ; H04B7/0456 ; H04B7/0491 ; H04B7/08

Abstract:
A communication device for RF-based communication with another communication device comprises antenna circuitry configured to transmit and receive RF signals, and beamforming circuitry configured to perform beamforming and to carry out a beam training procedure for finding a beam for use in transmitting and/or receiving RF signals and/or for channel estimation. The beamforming training procedure comprises at least two stages during which training signals are transmitted using different beams, wherein first beams used in a first stage have a larger beam sector than second beams used in a second stage and wherein the second beams are selected by forming a virtual best sector based on an evaluation of a predetermined metric obtained for the first beams in the first stage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200007219A1 COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD USING VIRTUAL SECTOR FORMING Public/Granted day:2020-01-02
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