公开(公告)号：US11451928B2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-20

申请号：US16927401

申请日：2020-07-13

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Alexandros Manolakos ,  Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug ,  Sony Akkarakaran ,  Sven Fischer ,  Tao Luo

IPC: H04W4/029 ,  G01S5/14 ,  G01S5/02

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives assistance data for enabling the UE to estimate a location of the UE, the assistance data including a relative location of each of a plurality of transmission points, wherein the relative location is represented as a hierarchy of two or more levels of description, wherein a highest level of description is relative to a fixed reference point, receives, from each of at least a subset of the plurality of transmission points, at least one positioning reference signal, and estimates the location of the UE based on characteristics of reception of the at least one positioning reference signal from each of the subset of the plurality of transmission points and the two or more levels of description and the fixed reference point for each of the subset of the plurality of transmission points.

公开(公告)号：US11419089B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-16

申请号：US17219533

申请日：2021-03-31

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Alexandros Manolakos ,  Sony Akkarakaran ,  Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug ,  Sven Fischer ,  Joseph Binamira Soriaga

IPC: H04W24/10 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  G01S5/02 ,  H04W4/029 ,  G01S1/20

Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for beam group reporting for positioning in new radio (NR) wireless communications systems. In some wireless communications systems, multiple PRS resources, e.g., a beam group, received by a user equipment (UE) from the same network entity may be used to produce a combined Time of Arrival (TOA) measurement for the reference or target to derive an Reference Signal Time Difference (RSTD) estimate. The UE provides to a network entity an indication of the PRS resources in the beam group, which may be specifically or generally identified. Additionally, parameters associated with the beam group are provided, such as a relative quality of the TOA measurement for each PRS resource in the subset, a spread of the TOA measurements in the subset, a relative signal strength of each PRS resource in the subset, or a spread of the signal strength in the subset.

公开(公告)号：US20220150842A1

公开(公告)日：2022-05-12

申请号：US17586419

申请日：2022-01-27

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Alexandros Manolakos ,  Sony Akkarakaran ,  Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug ,  Sven Fischer

IPC: H04W52/14 ,  H04W52/32 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W52/24 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for transmit power control for positioning using non-serving cells are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine that an uplink reference signal may be associated with a positioning procedure. In some cases, the positioning procedure may include transmission, by the UE, of the reference signal to a non-serving cell, which may be farther away from the UE than a serving cell. The UE may determine an absence of a parameter associated with a transmit power for transmitting the reference signal. Based on the absence, the UE may determine the transmit power based on parameters received from a serving cell, based on configuration information, based on a message intercepted from the non-serving cell, or based on other considerations or information. In some cases, the UE may determine the transmit power such that the likelihood of the non-serving cell receiving the reference signal is increased.

公开(公告)号：US20220006586A1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-06

申请号：US17477030

申请日：2021-09-16

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Sony Akkarakaran ,  Alexandros Manolakos ,  Tao Luo ,  Joseph Binamira Soriaga ,  Sven Fischer ,  Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04L29/12 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W64/00

Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques relate to improved methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses that support aperiodic and cross component carrier PRSs. Generally, the described techniques provide for receiving a dynamic trigger indicating that a UE is to monitor for one or more downlink positioning reference signals (PRSs). The UE may generate a timing measurement for the one or more downlink PRSs, and may transmit a measurement report that indicates the timing measurement to a transmission/reception point. A UE may also transmit a capability indicator, indicating that the UE is capable of maintaining phase coherence for a PRS that spans multiple component carriers, receive control signaling that indicates multiple component carries on which the PRS is phase coherent, generate a timing measurement for the PRS based on the control signaling, and transmit a measurement report that indicates the timing measurement to the transmission/reception point.

公开(公告)号：US11202275B1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-14

申请号：US17135461

申请日：2020-12-28

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Mukesh Kumar ,  Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug ,  Siddhant

IPC: H04W64/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04B7/06

Abstract: A mobile device supports positioning with positioning reference signals (PRS) on multiple beam by dividing the PRS processing into two separate modes, an acquisition mode and a tracking mode. In acquisition mode, the mobile device performs a fast scan of all of the beams from a base station transmitting PRS using less than the full set of resources for the PRS, i.e., less than the full bandwidth and/or less than the full number of repetitions of the PRS. The mobile device may select the best beams to use for positioning, e.g., based on signal strength metric. In tracking mode, the mobile device tracks the PRS from only the selected beams using the full set of resources for the PRS. The mobile device may return to acquisition mode after a predetermined number of positioning occasions or if the selected beams are no longer valid due to movement or change in conditions.

公开(公告)号：US11089565B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-10

申请号：US16832273

申请日：2020-03-27

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Alexandros Manolakos ,  Sony Akkarakaran ,  Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug ,  Sven Fischer ,  Joseph Binamira Soriaga

IPC: H04W4/029 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W24/10 ,  G01S5/02 ,  G01S1/20

Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for beam group reporting for positioning in new radio (NR) wireless communications systems. In some wireless communications systems, multiple PRS resources, e.g., a beam group, received by a user equipment (UE) from the same network entity may be used to produce a combined Time of Arrival (TOA) measurement for the reference or target to derive an Reference Signal Time Difference (RSTD) estimate. The UE provides to a network entity an indication of the PRS resources in the beam group, which may be specifically or generally identified. Additionally, parameters associated with the beam group are provided, such as a relative quality of the TOA measurement for each PRS resource in the subset, a spread of the TOA measurements in the subset, a relative signal strength of each PRS resource in the subset, or a spread of the signal strength in the subset.

公开(公告)号：US10588136B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-10

申请号：US15990452

申请日：2018-05-25

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Mukesh Kumar ,  Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug ,  Priyangshu Ghosh

IPC: H04W72/08 ,  H04B17/336 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure are related to a method, apparatus and system for adjusting a processing bandwidth or frequency domain buffer decimation associated with reference signals, for example, positioning reference signals (PRS). By reducing the number of, for example, resource blocks and/or resource elements to be processed, the power involved in processing the reference signal can be reduced. Hence, in some implementations, aspects of the disclosure can enable low-power low-bandwidth devices, such as NarrowBand Internet of Things (IoT) (NBIoT), to decode reference signals such as PRS.

公开(公告)号：US12250171B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-11

申请号：US17510701

申请日：2021-10-26

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Mukesh Kumar ,  Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug ,  Siddhant ,  Pulkit Rajgadiya

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04B17/318 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W72/53

Abstract: Techniques are provided for combining positioning reference signal (PRS) measurements coherently or non-coherently. An example method for combining positioning reference signal resources includes receiving a plurality of positioning reference signals associated with a positioning reference signal resource set or a transmission/reception point, coherently combining resource elements for two or more of the plurality of positioning reference signals received within a period of time, and non-coherently combining resource elements for two or more of the plurality of positioning reference signals received outside of the period of time.

公开(公告)号：US12225630B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-11

申请号：US18336607

申请日：2023-06-16

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Alexandros Manolakos ,  Arash Mirbagheri ,  Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug

IPC: H04W8/24 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04W72/0453 ,  H04W72/21

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) transmits, to a network entity, one or more capability messages indicating one or more capabilities of the UE to process positioning reference signals (PRS), the one or more capabilities indicating at least a duration of PRS that the UE can process within a measurement window without a measurement gap, and performs one or more positioning measurements of one or more PRS resources during the measurement window up to the duration of PRS.

公开(公告)号：US12196868B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-14

申请号：US16990197

申请日：2020-08-11

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Alexandros Manolakos ,  Sony Akkarakaran ,  Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug ,  Sven Fischer ,  Joseph Binamira Soriaga

IPC: G01S3/04 ,  G01S3/10 ,  G01S13/76 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W84/04

Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a base station performs one or more angle-based measurements in a first coordinate system, determines whether to report, to a positioning entity, the one or more angle-based measurements in a local coordinate system (LCS) or a global coordinate system (GCS), and reports the one or more angle-based measurements to the positioning entity in the LCS or the GCS based on the determination. In an aspect, a positioning entity receives, from a base station, one or more angle-based measurements in an LCS of the base station or a GCS, determines whether the one or more angle-based measurements are in the LCS or the GCS, and processes the one or more angle-based measurements based on the determination.