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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Zhibin Yu, Unterhaching, DE;
Michael Ruder, Pommelsbrunn, DE;
Holger Neuhaus, Munich, DE;
Yeong-Sun Hwang, Oberhaching, DE;
Bertram Gunzelmann, Koenigsbrunn, DE;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A communication device comprises a receiver including at least two receive antennas and configured to receive at least one reference signal of a plurality of reference signals, each reference signal being transmitted from at least one base station at a predefined reference signal transmission time; a controller configured to switch between at least two receive configurations of the at least two antennas during a reception period of the at least one reference signal; and a signal quality determiner configured to determine a parameter indicative of a first signal quality of the received reference signal for each receive configuration.