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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2019
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Glen J. Anderson, Beaverton, OR (US);
Tae Young Yang, Portland, OR (US);
Jason A. Mix, Portland, OR (US);
Chieh-Yih Wan, Beaverton, OR (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A positioning device and positioning method in which a first wireless signal is transmitted along a first signal path having a first signal path angle that changes relative to time; second wireless signal data representing a response of a wireless station to the first wireless signal is received; a third wireless signal is transmitted along a second signal path; and an assumption that an obstruction is between the wireless communication device and the wireless station is generated if the wireless communication device receives a response from the wireless station to the first wireless signal but does not receive a response from the wireless station to the third wireless signal; wherein the second signal path is a linear path.