Locating a mobile unit using signals from both mobile beacons and stationary beacons
US6285316A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 2, 2000 |
| Grant date | Sep 4, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 2, 2020 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01S19/12
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method and system for finding the position of a mobile unit with respect to the satellites of a satellite network such as the Global Positioning System and with respect to the base stations of a wireless communications network. Each satellite transmits a signal that consists of a series of frames of a pseudonoise sequence. The frames of a signal received from the satellite network by the mobile unit are arranged as columns of a matrix and are processed coherently to provide estimated pseudoranges and estimated rates of change of pseudoranges for in view satellites. The coherent processing includes performing an orthogonal transform on the rows of the matrix, multiplying the elements of the matrix by Doppler compensation factors, and then, for each satellite in view, convolving the columns of the matrix with the pseudonoise sequence of that satellite. Other pseudoranges are inferred from synchronization burst sequences received by the mobile unit from one or more base stations. If the base stations are not mutually synchronized, reference units are provided to determine the time offsets between the base station clocks and the satellite network clock and to transmit these time offs…
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