Nextnav, LLC

Qualcomm Incorporated

Andrew Sendonaris

Arun Raghupathy

Norman Franklin Krasner

Parvathanathan Subrahmanya

Mir Hamza Mahmood

Michael Dormody

Chen Meng

Jagadish Venkataraman

Brian Clarke Banister

Jia Tang

Jong Hyeon Park

Da-shan Shiu

Thomas George Wolf

Atul Arvind Salvekar

Shantanu Khare

Tao Cui

Dominic Gerard Farmer

Messay Amerga

Nitin Kasturi

Daisuke Terasawa

Chih-Ping Hsu

Jeremy H Lin

Christopher Cooper Riddle

Deepak Joseph

Ganesh Pattabiraman

Thomas K Rowland

Rajesh Sundaresan

Hyukjun Oh

Sameet Deshpande

Shubham Kumar

Henry Clark

Steven J Willhoff

Thejaswi Bharadwaj Madapushi

David Patterson

Pavathanathan Subrahmanya

Atul A Salvekar

Steven Willhoff

Da-Shan Shiu

Lin Jeremy H H

Determining an altitude error value associated with an estimated altitude of a mobile device. In certain disclosed systems and methods for determining an altitude error value associated with an estimated altitude of a mobile device, a first error value related to systematic error and a second error value related to statistical error are determined, and the altitude error value is determined using the first error value and the second error value.

Systems and methods for determining an altitude error value associated with an estimated altitude of a mobile device

Devices, systems, and methods for sending positional information from transmitters/beacons. In one implementation a transmitter generates a range block including a ranging signal and a hybrid block including positioning data, and sends the range block and hybrid block at different times. A user device may receive signals from a plurality of transmitters and generates position/location information using trilateration and measured altitude information in comparison with transmitter altitude information.

Signaling in a wireless positioning system

Improving an estimated altitude of a receiver by mitigating the effects of transmitter heating. Systems and methods for improving estimates of a receiver's altitude determine a reference pressure at a reference altitude using a temperature measured at a transmitter or another temperature value, an altitude of the transmitter, and a pressure measured by the transmitter or another pressure value. A local reference pressure for a receiver is determined using the reference pressure and other reference pressures from other transmitters. Reference pressures from overheating transmitters may be weighted less than reference pressures from other transmitters when determining the local reference pressure. The local reference pressure is then used to estimate the altitude of the receiver.

Systems and methods for improving an estimate of receiver altitude by mitigating the effects of transmitter heating

Detecting and mitigating the effects of interference in a positioning system. A received signal is divided into a plurality of receive signal time/frequency (RSTF) values. A plurality of threshold values are determined based on expected energy values for the received signal. In one implementation, if a predetermined number of the RSTF values are above the threshold, the received signal is determined to be corrupt.

Interference detection and rejection for wide area positioning systems

Estimating a position of a mobile device. Particular systems and methods for estimating a position of a mobile device using information from two positioning technologies determine different position estimates for the mobile device using different positioning technologies, and determine a final position estimate for the mobile device using a weighted combination of the different position estimates. In some implementations, the weighted combination is a weighted average or a weighted median of the different position estimates. Weights may be determined using respective uncertainty metrics corresponding to the respective position estimates.

Systems and methods for estimating a position of a receiver

Estimating one or more positions of a receiver using one or more anchor points. Systems and methods for estimating a position of a receiver using a particular anchor point may identify an area of interest that includes anchor points, identify the particular anchor point, and then use information about the particular anchor point to estimate the position of the receiver.

Position estimation of a receiver using anchor points

Devices, systems, and methods for improving performance in positioning systems. Performance may be improved using disclosed signal processing methods for separating eigenvalues corresponding to noise and eigenvalues corresponding to one or more direct path signal components or multipath signal components.

Methods and apparatus for improving time of arrival determination

Using estimates of a receiver's altitude to determine where a receiver is located and to refine a positioning system's estimate of a receiver's position. Systems and methods determine whether a receiver is inside or outside a building, and may use the determination to confirm or adjust an initial estimate of the receiver's position. Various approaches for making the determination and for assessing the initial estimate of the receiver's position are described.

Altitude-based indoor or outdoor detection

Described are systems and methods for estimating a position of receiver using ranging signals from different regions in a network of transmitters. In some embodiments, each ranging signal that exceeds a quality criterion is assigned to one of several defined regions based on a characteristic of that ranging signal. A maximum number of ranging signals per region may be selected and used during trilateration.

Directional pruning of transmitters to improve position determination

Systems and methods for estimating a position of a receiver within a venue using localized networks of beacons. Certain aspects relate to different configurations of networks. Other aspects relate to estimating the position of the receiver when the receiver approaches an edge of a localized network of beacons.

Systems and methods for estimating a position of a receiver in a network of beacons

Interference detection and mitigation using maximal ratio combining in the correlation domain. Systems and methods for interference detection and mitigation using maximal ratio combining in the correlation domain may receive a plurality of copies of a positioning signal, compute a plurality of correlation functions using the received positioning signals; weight the plurality of correlation functions using a plurality of weights that are proportional to the quality of the plurality of correlation functions, and generate a combined correlation function by combining the weighted correlation functions.

Interference detection and rejection for wide area positioning systems using maximal ratio combining in the correlation domain

Systems and methods for estimating a position of receiver using sets of two or more transmitters that share one or more common characteristics with each other. The systems and methods may estimate the position of the receiver using signals that were transmitted from a different transmitter in a set of co-located transmitters.

Systems and methods providing transmit diversity to combat multipath effects in position estimation

Systems and methods for generating and transmitting ranging signals and data signals from transmitters in a wireless positioning system, and also for receiving and processing those signals at a mobile device. Different approaches are used, including separately transmitting the ranging signals and the data signals based on time, frequency, code, phase, or any combination thereof.

Separating ranging and data signals in a wireless positioning system

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