US 12,336,006 B2
System and method for combined performing of wireless communication and sensing
Alexander Vogt, Hamburg (DE); Alphons Litjes, Zijtaart (NL); and Cristian Pavao Moreira, Frouzins (FR)
Assigned to NXP B.V., Eindhove (NL)
Filed by NXP B. V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed on Sep. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/932,802.
Claims priority of application No. 21306455 (EP), filed on Oct. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0117789 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 74/0808 (2024.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 72/12 (2023.01); H04W 72/50 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 74/0808 (2013.01) [H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 72/12 (2013.01); H04W 72/50 (2023.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of performing both wireless communications and wireless sensing in combination by way of a wireless system, the method comprising:
sending, from a first antenna device of a base station (BS), a first plurality of wireless transmissions respectively during a first plurality of time periods associated respectively with a first plurality of symbols comprised by a first slot that is a portion of a frame in accordance with a communication standard,
wherein the first plurality of wireless transmissions includes a first wireless communication signal sent during a first one of the first plurality of time periods, and a first wireless sensing signal sent during a second one of the first plurality of time periods;
receiving at the first antenna device a second wireless sensing signal, also during the second one of the first plurality of time periods, wherein the second wireless sensing signal is at least partly a first reflection of the first wireless sensing signal off of a first object;
receiving at the first antenna device a second wireless communication signal during a third one of the first plurality of time periods;
additionally sending, from the first antenna device of the base station (BS), an additional wireless communication signal at an additional time period, the additional time period being associated with an additional symbol either of the first plurality of symbols or of a second plurality of symbols,
wherein the second one of the first plurality of time periods occurs between the additional time period and one or both of the first one and third one of the first plurality of time periods,
whereby one or more wireless sensing operations including the sending of the first wireless sensing signal and receiving of the second wireless sensing activity occur, by way of the first antenna device, in between multiple wireless communication operations including the additional sending of the additional wireless communication signal and one or both of the sending of the first wireless communication signal and the receiving of the second wireless communication signal.