US 11,693,081 B2
Method for estimating distance using wireless carrier signal phase measurement
Jaihyung Cho, Daejeon (KR)
Assigned to Locaila, Inc, San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Locaila, Inc, San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/8,942.
Prior Publication US 2022/0069953 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 4/02 (2018.01); G01S 5/00 (2006.01); G01S 19/10 (2010.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/0453 (2023.01)
CPC G01S 5/00 (2013.01) [G01S 5/0009 (2013.01); G01S 19/10 (2013.01); H04L 5/001 (2013.01); H04L 5/0051 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A positioning method performed by a user equipment, the positioning method comprising:
receiving a first reference signal from a first transmitter and receiving a second reference signal from a second transmitter;
acquiring phase information depending on carrier frequencies of the first reference signal and the second reference signal based on received data of the first reference signal measured at a plurality of sample times and received data of the second reference signal measured at the plurality of sample times; and
outputting information about a difference between a travel distance of the first reference signal and a travel distance of the second reference signal based on the phase information depending on the carrier frequencies,
wherein the acquiring of the phase information comprises:
acquiring a first sample vector based on the received data of the first reference signal,
acquiring a second sample vector based on the received data of the second reference signal,
calculating a first phase vector and a second phase vector by performing an inner product operation of a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) coefficient vector for a DFT operation with respect to each of the first sample vector and the second sample vector, and
acquiring the phase information from a conjugate multiplication of the first phase vector and the second phase vector.