Rosum Corporation

Digeo, Inc.

Trueposition, Inc.

Rosom Corporation

Jimmy Kazuhiro Omura

Matthew Rabinowitz

James J Spilker, Jr

Guttorm Ringstad Opshaug

Mark Peting

Michael John Sabin

Steve Dabell

Matthew Dalton Pierce

Andy Lee

Thomas Ross Henderson

An apparatus comprises a receiver to receive a plurality of wireless television signals each representing a television channel, and a measurement circuit to identify the television channels based on the wireless television signals. One or more of a plurality of possible locations of the apparatus are selected based on identities of the television channels identified by the measurement circuit and a plurality of associations each associating one of the possible locations with identities of the television channels expected at one of the possible locations.

Location identification using broadcast wireless signal signatures

The present invention provides a method, system, and apparatus for rapidly acquiring and correlating synchronization codes for a mobile receiver used for position determination purposes. The receiver uses a processing unit to perform the correlation functions. The processing unit first computes, for each segment interval of the received signal, the phase offset of that interval. Each interval is appropriately adjusted to account for the computed phase offset. The processing unit then accumulates the phase-adjusted segment intervals, and may down-convert the accumulated signal to a baseband format from an intermediate frequency. The processing unit then correlates the accumulated signal with a reference signal to produce a correlation peak, from which the time delay of a synchronization code within the interval can be calculated. Ultimately, the receiver's position can be determined based on the calculated time delay.

Rapid acquisition and correlation of synchronization codes for mobile devices with limited memory and computational power

The present invention provides a method and system for generating reference signals that, when correlated with synchronization code signals or other components of broadcast TV signals, yield minimal sidelobes, produce large main peaks, and have minimal couplings to high frequency noise and low frequency disturbance signals. The present invention also provides a method and system for accurate position determination utilizing broadcast TV signals by employing reference signals with improved correlation characteristics of minimal sidelobes, minimal coupling to high frequency noise, minimal coupling to low frequency disturbance signals and a maximal main correlation peak.

Method and system for generating reference signals with improved correlation characteristics for accurate time of arrival or position determination

A method, apparatus, and computer-readable media for determining the position of a user terminal comprises receiving, at the user terminal, a digital audio broadcast signal; and determining a pseudo-range between the user terminal and a transmitter of the digital audio broadcast signal based on a known component of the digital audio broadcast signal; wherein the position of the user terminal is determined based on the pseudo-range between the user terminal and the transmitter of the digital audio broadcast signal and a location of the transmitter of the digital audio broadcast signal.

Position location using digital audio broadcast signals

A DTV signal includes frames, and the frames include data segments. Data segments are replaced by codewords which represent digital data. The DTV signals are broadcast and received by receivers. The receivers recover the digital data from the codewords in the DTV signals, for example by using matched filtering. By using long codewords, the digital data can be broadcast over a longer range and recovered by simpler circuitry in comparison to the television programming contained in the DTV signal. In one implementation, the DTV signal is an American Television Standards Committee (ATSC) DTV signal.

Robust data transmission using broadcast digital television signals

A user terminal comprises a receiver adapted to receive, at the user terminal, a broadcast digital television signal transmitted by a television transmitter and comprising a pseudo-noise code; and a controller adapted to generate a pseudorange based on the pseudo-noise code; wherein the location of the user terminal is determined based on the pseudorange and a location of the television transmitter.

Position location using broadcast digital television signals comprising pseudonoise sequences

A method, apparatus, and computer-readable media for determining the position of a user terminal comprises receiving at the user terminal a broadcast television signal from a television signal transmitter; determining a first pseudo-range between the user terminal and the television signal transmitter based on a known component of the broadcast television signal; receiving at the user terminal a mobile telephone signal from a mobile telephone base station; determining a second pseudo-range between the user terminal and the mobile telephone base station based on a known component of the mobile telephone signal; and determining a position of the user terminal based on the first and second pseudo-ranges, a location of the television signal transmitter, and a location of the mobile telephone base station; wherein the mobile telephone signal is selected from the group consisting of a EDGE (Enhanced Data Rates for Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) Evolution) signal; a Code-Division Multiple Access 2000 (cdma2000) signal; and a Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) signal.

Position location using broadcast television signals and mobile telephone signals

A method, apparatus, and computer-readable media for providing satellite positioning system aiding information to a satellite positioning system receiver configured to determine the position of the satellite positioning system receiver using the satellite positioning system aiding information and the propagation time of a signal transmitted by a satellite in the satellite positioning system comprises providing the satellite positioning system aiding information; providing a digital television signal comprising a plurality of frames, each frame comprising a plurality of data segments; encoding the satellite positioning system aiding information as codewords; replacing data segments within the digital television signal with the codewords; and transmitting the digital television signal; wherein the satellite positioning system receiver receives the digital television signal and recovers the satellite positioning system aiding information.

Using digital television broadcast signals to provide GPS aiding information

A method, apparatus, and computer-readable media for determining the position of a user terminal comprises receiving at the user terminal a broadcast television signal from a television signal transmitter; determining a first pseudo-range between the user terminal and the television signal transmitter based on a known component of the broadcast television signal; receiving at the user terminal a mobile telephone signal from a mobile telephone base station; determining a second pseudo-range between the user terminal and the mobile telephone base station based on a known component of the mobile telephone signal; and determining a position of the user terminal based on the first and second pseudo-ranges, a location of the television signal transmitter, and a location of the mobile telephone base station.

A block-adaptive method of performing equalization on a signal received over a broadcast system, includes providing a set of predetermined symbols that correspond to symbols in a data field synchronization segment of a data field having a plurality of segments wherein a data frame having at least two of these data fields is transmitted over the signal in the broadcast system during a block-time interval, correlating complex samples of the signal with the set of predetermined symbols to extract a corresponding impulse response during the block-time interval, selecting a phase identifying the start of the block-time interval from the correlated complex samples, estimating an equalizer filter using the set of predetermined symbols and an initial data field synchronization segment provided at the start of the block-time interval, updating the equalizer filter using subsequent complex samples of the signal to extract a subsequent impulse response and correlate with a reference segment, wherein the reference segment corresponds to either the predetermined symbol sequence or a partial decision feedback segment.

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