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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2019
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ahmed Gamal Helmy Mohamed, Mountain View, CA (US);
Krishna Srikanth Gomadam, San Jose, CA (US);
Sam Padinjaremannil Alex, Dublin, CA (US);
Walid Ali-Ahmad, San Carlos, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for grouping antenna elements to enhance an antenna array response resolution, are disclosed. One method includes selecting a plurality of groups of antenna elements from an antenna array, wherein each group includes a plurality of antenna elements of the antenna array, determining an optimal phase setting for a beam directed from each group to a target device, and characterizing each of the groups including adjusting a phase of an electronic signal passing through each of the antenna elements of the group based on the optimal phase setting of the group, adjusting an amplitude aof the electronic signal the passing through each of the antenna elements of the group to compensate for a loss of antenna array gain of the antenna array due to grouping of the antenna elements, and storing the adjusted phase and adjusted amplitude for each of the antenna element.