US 11,698,463 B2
Terminal device, infrastructure equipment and methods
Yuxin Wei, Basingstoke (GB); Hideji Wakabayashi, Basingstoke (GB); Anders Berggren, Basingstoke (GB); Vivek Sharma, Basingstoke (GB); and Shinichiro Tsuda, Basingstoke (GB)
Assigned to SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP); and SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 16/763,988
Filed by Sony Corporation, Tokyo (JP); and Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Nov. 9, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/080794
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 14, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/096698, PCT Pub. Date May 23, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 17201963 (EP), filed on Nov. 15, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0278451 A1, Sep. 3, 2020
Int. Cl. G01S 19/05 (2010.01); G01S 19/34 (2010.01); H04W 4/20 (2018.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01)
CPC G01S 19/05 (2013.01) [G01S 19/34 (2013.01); H04W 4/20 (2013.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising:
receiver circuitry configured to receive, from infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network, a signal comprising positioning assistance information for allowing a spatial position of the terminal device to be determined using the positioning assistance information and a predetermined positioning scheme associated with the positioning assistance information, the positioning scheme comprising one or more of instructions and additional information for determining the position of the terminal device using the positioning assistance information, wherein the positioning assistance information is comprised within a system information block (SIB) of the received signal; and
processing circuitry configured:
to determine a characteristic of the SIB and a temporal validity of the received positioning assistance information, and
to determine, at a time at which the received positioning assistance information is temporally valid, the spatial position of the terminal device using the received positioning assistance information and the predetermined positioning scheme,
wherein the positioning assistance information is one of a plurality of different types of positioning assistance information,
wherein each said type of positioning assistance information is associated with a respective temporal validity, and
wherein the characteristic of the SIB of the received signal is the type of positioning assistance information, and the type of the positioning assistance information is associated with a time corresponding to the respective temporal validity for determining the temporal validity of the positioning assistance information of the type to be used with the predetermined positioning scheme in determining the spatial position of the terminal device.