US 12,235,376 B2
Determination of position and orientation of an intelligent reflecting surface
Mehmet Izzet Gurelli, San Diego, CA (US); Qiang Wu, San Diego, CA (US); Junyi Li, Fairless Hills, PA (US); Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US); Wooseok Nam, San Diego, CA (US); Yucheng Dai, San Diego, CA (US); Navid Abedini, Basking Ridge, NJ (US); and Ozge Koymen, Princeton, NJ (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/485,051.
Prior Publication US 2023/0098229 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G01S 5/06 (2006.01); G01S 5/10 (2006.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01)
CPC G01S 5/06 (2013.01) [G01S 5/10 (2013.01); H04W 64/006 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a position estimation entity, comprising:
determining a set of position estimates associated with a set of user equipments (UEs);
obtaining first measurement information associated with a set of signals as reflected off of a target intelligent reflecting surface (IRS);
determining a position estimate of the target IRS based on the set of position estimates and the first measurement information; and
determining an orientation, relative to a common orientation reference frame, of the target IRS based on the set of position estimates and at least the first measurement information.