Electronic timepiece, information update control method and storage medium

    公开(公告)号:US11747484B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-05

    申请号:US16836999

    申请日:2020-04-01

    摘要: An electronic timepiece includes a radio wave receiver, a communication unit, a memory and a processor. The radio wave receiver receives radio waves from positioning satellites. The communication unit communicates with an external device. The memory stores a program and predicted positional information on the positioning satellites. Based on the program stored in the memory, the processor shifts the timepiece between a normal operation state and a power saving state in which operation of the timepiece is restricted, depending on a status of the timepiece. In response to an elapsed time from a valid period of the predicted positional information exceeding a predetermined reference time during the power saving state, the processor causes the communication unit to receive updated data of the predicted positional information and other information from the external device when shifting the timepiece from the power saving state to the normal operation state.

    Method and system for signal detection including positioning signals

    公开(公告)号:US11709278B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-25

    申请号:US17408909

    申请日:2021-08-23

    发明人: Wensheng Hua

    IPC分类号: G01S19/34 G01S19/25 G01S19/36

    摘要: An assisted satellite positioning system based on detecting signals from a number of satellites includes: (a) a mobile receiver; and (b) a base station communicating with the receiver over a low-power wireless communication network, the base station providing ephemeris data of a selected number of the satellites, but not all, using a compressed data format. The ephemeris data may include data concerning doppler frequency variations or elevation variations of the selected satellites over a predetermined time interval. The doppler frequency variations and the elevation variations may be represented in the compressed format by coefficients of a polynomial function of time. The polynomial function may be weighted to have lesser relative errors in larger doppler frequencies than lesser doppler frequencies, or to have lesser relative errors in lesser elevations than larger elevations. In one implementation, the low-power wireless communication network—such as a LoRa network—that has a range of at least 10 miles.

    Terminal device, infrastructure equipment and methods

    公开(公告)号:US11698463B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-11

    申请号:US16763988

    申请日:2018-11-09

    摘要: A receiver circuitry configured to receive, from infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network, a signal comprising positioning information for allowing a spatial position of the terminal device to be determined using the positioning information and a predetermined positioning scheme associated with the positioning information, the positioning scheme comprising one or more of instructions and additional information for determining the position of the terminal device using the positioning information, wherein the positioning information is comprised within a system information block (SIB) of the received signal; and processing circuitry configured: to determine, based on a characteristic of the SIB, a temporal validity of the received positioning information, and to determine, at a time at which the received positioning information is temporally valid, the spatial position of the terminal device using the received positioning information and the predetermined positioning scheme.