Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for optical wireless communication
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Application No.: US16326766Application Date: 2016-08-30
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Publication No.: US11757530B2Publication Date: 2023-09-12
- Inventor: Guilio Bottari , Antonio D'errico
- Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Murphy, Bilak & Homiller, PLLC
- International Application: PCT/EP2016/070416 2016.08.30
- International Announcement: WO2018/041341A 2018.03.08
- Date entered country: 2019-02-20
- Main IPC: H04B10/114
- IPC: H04B10/114 ; H04B10/116 ; H04B10/60 ; H04W24/08 ; H04W88/02

Abstract:
A method (100) for managing Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) in a User Equipment (UE) is disclosed, the UE being configured for Radio Frequency (RF) communication with a network and comprising at least two OWC receivers. The method comprises monitoring a captured luminous flux intensity at the OWC receivers (1 10) and, if a captured luminous flux intensity at at least one of the OWC receivers is above a viability threshold (120), selecting the OWC receiver having the highest captured luminous flux intensity (130) and extracting client data from an optical signal received on the selected OWC receiver (140). Also disclosed are a UE (300, 700) configured for RF communication with a network and for OWC, the UE comprising at least two OWC receivers, and a controller (500, 600) for managing OWC in a UE.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190238227A1 Method and Apparatus for Optical Wireless Communication Public/Granted day:2019-08-01
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