ENHANCED AUTOMOTIVE PASSIVE ENTRY

    公开(公告)号:US20220191644A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-16

    申请号:US17558334

    申请日:2021-12-21

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: H04W4/02 B60R25/24 G07C9/29

    摘要: Methods and devices are provided for allowing a mobile device (e.g., a key fob or a consumer electronic device, such as a mobile phone, watch, or other wearable device) to interact with a vehicle such that a location of the mobile device can be determined by the vehicle, thereby enabling certain functionality of the vehicle. A device may include both RF antenna(s) and magnetic antenna(s) for determining a location of a mobile device relative to the vehicle. Such a hybrid approach can provide various advantages. Existing magnetic coils on a mobile device (e.g., for charging or communication) may be re-used for distance measurements that are supplemented by the RF measurements. Any device antenna may provide measurements to a machine learning model that determines a region in which the mobile device resides, based on training measurements in the regions.

    PRECISE INDOOR LOCALIZATION AND TRACKING OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20210297809A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-23

    申请号:US17340919

    申请日:2021-06-07

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: Methods and devices useful in performing precise indoor localization and tracking are provided. By way of example, a method includes locating and tracking, via a first wireless electronic device, a plurality of other wireless electronic devices within an indoor environment. The method also includes performing front-back detection, performing stationary node detection, performing angle of arrival (AoA) error correction, and performing field of view (FOV) filtering. Performing indoor localization and tracking of the plurality of other wireless electronic devices includes providing an indication of a physical location of the plurality of other wireless electronic devices within the indoor environment.

    Dual frequency angle of arrival estimation

    公开(公告)号:US10094902B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-09

    申请号:US15050153

    申请日:2016-02-22

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G01S3/46

    摘要: Systems, methods, and devices are provided to estimate angle of arrival of wireless signals. An electronic device may include two or more antennas that receive a wireless transmission. The wireless transmission includes a first frequency signal at a first frequency and a second frequency signal at a second frequency. The electronic device includes angle of arrival logic that may determine one or more angles of arrival of the wireless transmission to the electronic device using phase difference on arrival based on each of the first and second frequency signals.

    Ultra Wideband Range Extension
    5.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210051532A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-18

    申请号:US16540301

    申请日:2019-08-14

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: Methods and apparatuses are presented to locate a wireless communication device. A target device may be out of range of a source device for normal ranging communications according to a first radio access technology (RAT), such as ultra wideband (UWB) communications. A source device may therefore modify communications according to the first RAT, to increase the transmit power, while removing the data payload. The target device may utilize the signal strength and angle of arrival of the modified communications to guide the user to move toward the source device, e.g., until the target device is within range to perform normal ranging communications. A second RAT, such as Bluetooth, may be used to communicate between the two devices while the target device is out of range of the first RAT. For example, the target device may use the second RAT to communicate to the source device to start/stop transmitting modified communications.

    Adaptive antenna selection
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10756797B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-08-25

    申请号:US16128867

    申请日:2018-09-12

    申请人: APPLE INC.

    摘要: A user equipment (UE) including at least two antennas configured to allow the UE to communicate via a first connection. The UE selects a connection performance parameter associated with the first connection, generates historical measurement information for the at least two antennas based on the connection performance parameter, for the plurality of antennas, the historical measurement information indicating an expected performance associated with using a selected one of the at least two antennas for a packet transmission and selects, based at least on the historical measurement information, one of the at least two antennas for use in transmitting the packet.

    Enhanced automotive passive entry

    公开(公告)号:US10285013B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-07

    申请号:US15894774

    申请日:2018-02-12

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: H04W4/02 B60R25/24 G07C9/00

    摘要: Methods and devices are provided for allowing a mobile device (e.g., a key fob or a consumer electronic device, such as a mobile phone, watch, or other wearable device) to interact with a vehicle such that a location of the mobile device can be determined by the vehicle, thereby enabling certain functionality of the vehicle. A device may include both RF antenna(s) and magnetic antenna(s) for determining a location of a mobile device relative to the vehicle. Such a hybrid approach can provide various advantages. Existing magnetic coils on a mobile device (e.g., for charging or communication) may be re-used for distance measurements that are supplemented by the RF measurements. Any device antenna may provide measurements to a machine learning model that determines a region in which the mobile device resides, based on training measurements in the regions.

    ENHANCED AUTOMOTIVE PASSIVE ENTRY
    8.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180234797A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-16

    申请号:US15894774

    申请日:2018-02-12

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: H04W4/02 G07C9/00

    摘要: Methods and devices are provided for allowing a mobile device (e.g., a key fob or a consumer electronic device, such as a mobile phone, watch, or other wearable device) to interact with a vehicle such that a location of the mobile device can be determined by the vehicle, thereby enabling certain functionality of the vehicle. A device may include both RF antenna(s) and magnetic antenna(s) for determining a location of a mobile device relative to the vehicle. Such a hybrid approach can provide various advantages. Existing magnetic coils on a mobile device (e.g., for charging or communication) may be re-used for distance measurements that are supplemented by the RF measurements. Any device antenna may provide measurements to a machine learning model that determines a region in which the mobile device resides, based on training measurements in the regions.

    Wireless System with Secure Range Determination

    公开(公告)号:US20170303127A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-19

    申请号:US15468016

    申请日:2017-03-23

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: A wireless network may include devices that wirelessly transmit and receive packets. Each packet may include a preamble, a start-of-frame delimiter, a physical layer header, a sequence of symbols between the start-of-frame delimiter and the physical layer header, and a data payload. The sequence of symbols may have a pattern that is resistant to spoofing attacks. A receiving device may have a correlator that correlates known symbols against the symbols in the sequence using overlapping three-symbol-length correlation windows. Early arrival peaks in the output of the correlator may be used to correct time stamp information in the packets and late arrival peaks corresponding to spoofed signals from an attacker may be ignored. Time stamp information may be processed to determine ranges between transmitting and receiving devices.