US 11,985,530 B2
Technologies for proximity sensing with configured gaps
Jie Cui, San Jose, CA (US); Qiming Li, Beijing (CN); Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US); Hong He, San Jose, CA (US); Huaning Niu, San Jose, CA (US); Manasa Raghavan, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Xiang Chen, Campbell, CA (US); and Yang Tang, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/440,664
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed May 4, 2021, PCT No. PCT/CN2021/091806
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 17, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/232961, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 10, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0269615 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 36/08 (2009.01); G01S 7/00 (2006.01); G01S 13/00 (2006.01); G01S 13/04 (2006.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 36/12 (2009.01); H04W 36/14 (2009.01); H04W 36/18 (2009.01); H04W 36/30 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 24/10 (2013.01) [G01S 7/006 (2013.01); G01S 13/003 (2013.01); G01S 13/04 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
identifying a measurement object that configures a measurement gap with a radio frequency (RF) tuning margin and an effective measurement gap length;
performing a body proximity sensing (BPS) operation in a first portion of the RF tuning margin;
tuning RF circuitry from a first frequency layer to a second frequency layer during a second portion of the RF tuning margin; and
performing a measurement during the effective measurement gap length.
 
8. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed, cause processing circuitry to:
identify a measurement gap to be used for a measurement on a target frequency layer;
identify, based on a timing of a reference cell on the target frequency layer, first symbols within the measurement gap that are associated with synchronization signal block (SSB) or channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) transmission; and
perform a body proximity sensing (BPS) operation during one or more symbols in the measurement gap, wherein the one or more symbols do not include the first symbols.
 
15. One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media having instructions that, when executed, cause processing circuitry to:
receive an indication of a capability of a user equipment (UE) to perform body proximity sensing (BPS) operations based on a measurement gap configuration;
determine a threshold number of resources for the UE to perform the BPS operations in a period of time;
determine, based on the capability and the threshold number, that a number of resources available based on the measurement gap configuration is insufficient for the UE to perform the BPS operations in the period of time; and
provide a configuration to the UE based on said determining that the number of resources available based on the measurement gap configuration is insufficient.