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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2022
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Nicholas Walker, Cambridge, GB;
Timothy Beard, Cambridge, GB;
Vignesh Raja Karuppiah Ramachandran, Mol, BE;
Oscar Garcia Morchon, Eindhoven, NL;
Harry Michael Cronin, Eindhoven, NL;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The invention proposes a transmitter (such as a gateway or base station, both indoors and outdoors) that actively creates multiple virtual anchors which are associated with certain known reflectors by means of a code, to allow low-capability receivers to be localized more easily. By measuring propagation features, such as, e.g., timing of receipt, of three or more coded beams, low capability receivers—even those with only a single antenna—can be localized, e.g., by the transmitter or by the receivers themselves. The receivers might localize themselves if each beam includes e.g. the location of the anchors, the location of transmitter, and the sending time. This has the advantage that the receivers do not have to send any information back to the transmitter.