	US 12,294,418 B2
	Wireless device and related method for controlling a positioning sensor
Hannes Bergkvist, Basingstoke (GB); and Peter Exner, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/732,256.
Claims priority of application No. 2150632-4 (SE), filed on May 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0376800 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H04B 17/27 (2015.01); H04B 17/309 (2015.01); H04B 17/382 (2015.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01)

CPC H04B 17/309 (2015.01) [H04B 17/27 (2015.01); H04B 17/382 (2015.01); H04W 56/0045 (2013.01)]

15 Claims

1. A wireless device comprising a positioning sensor, memory circuitry, a wireless interface, and processor circuitry, wherein the processor circuitry is configured to:

obtain a channel quality parameter indicative of a channel quality of a wireless communication channel between the wireless device and a radio access network node of a wireless communication system;

determine whether the channel quality parameter satisfies a first criterion;

wherein the processor circuitry is configured to, when the channel quality parameter satisfies the first criterion:

determine, by using an activation model, a control parameter based on the channel quality parameter, the control parameter comprising an activation indicator for the positioning sensor, wherein the positioning sensor is a sensor for determining position of the wireless device from signals from a global navigation satellite system; and

control the positioning sensor by selection of an activation state of the positioning sensor based on the control parameter;

wherein the control of the positioning sensor comprises to determine whether the control parameter satisfies a second criterion;

wherein when the control parameter does not satisfy the second criterion, the processor circuitry is configured to obtain positioning data from the positioning sensor;

wherein the processor circuitry is configured to determine an access parameter based on the positioning data; and

wherein the processor circuitry is configured to align, based on the access parameter, first timing data of the positioning data with second timing data of the channel quality parameter.

15. A method, performed by a wireless device, for controlling a positioning sensor of the wireless device, the method comprising:

obtaining a channel quality parameter indicative of channel quality of a wireless communication channel between the wireless device and a radio access network node of a wireless communication system observed by the wireless device;

determining whether the channel quality parameter satisfies a first criterion;

when the channel quality parameter satisfies the first criterion:

determining, by using an activation model, a control parameter based on the channel quality parameter, the control parameter comprising an activation indicator for the positioning sensor, wherein the positioning sensor is a sensor for determining position of the wireless device from signals from a global navigation satellite system; and

controlling the positioning sensor by selection of an activation state of the positioning sensor based on the control parameter;

wherein the controlling of the positioning sensor comprises determining whether the control parameter satisfies a second criterion;

wherein when the control parameter does not satisfy the second criterion, the processor circuitry obtaining positioning data from the positioning sensor;

the processor circuitry determining an access parameter based on the positioning data; and

the processor circuitry aligning, based on the access parameter, first timing data of the positioning data with second timing data of the channel quality parameter.