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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 02, 2017
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yoav Feinmesser, Tel-Aviv, IL;

Rafi Vitory, Or-Akiva, IL;

Ariel Landau, Ramat-Gan, IL;

Barak Sagiv, Kochav Yair, IL;

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/707 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/023 (2013.01); H04L 45/24 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments herein relate to using a convolutional neural network (CNN) for time-of-flight estimation in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may receive, from a remote device, wireless communications including a first transmission time value associated with the transmission of the wireless communications. The wireless device may perform a coarse time-of-arrival (TOA) estimation on the wireless communications received from the remote device. The coarse TOA estimation may be used to generate an estimated impulse response, which may be input to a CNN associated with the wireless device to calculate a line-of-sight estimate. The wireless device may determine a range between the wireless device and the remote device based on the transmission time value and the line-of-sight estimate.


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