US 12,262,278 B2
Proximity enhanced location query
Tunc Ertan, San Francisco, CA (US); Brent M. Ledvina, San Francisco, CA (US); and Mads N. Paulin, San Mateo, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/603,580
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 15, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/028326
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 13, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/214708, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 22, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/855,963, filed on Jun. 1, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/835,494, filed on Apr. 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0201428 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 4/02 (2018.01); G01S 13/02 (2006.01); G01S 13/76 (2006.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01)
CPC H04W 4/023 (2013.01) [G01S 13/0209 (2013.01); G01S 13/765 (2013.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions to cause one or more processors of a wireless communication device to perform operations comprising:
determining a range and a direction to a target wireless device using one or more wireless ranging operations;
determining a target position estimate for the target wireless device relative to the wireless communication device based on a pose of the wireless communication device, the range and the direction to the target wireless device, wherein the determining the target position estimate comprises aligning range measurements and pose estimates from the wireless communication device;
generating an augmented reality view that includes the target position estimate for the target wireless device; and
presenting the augmented reality view via a display of the wireless communication device.