Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Position estimation method and position estimation apparatus
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Application No.: US17059092Application Date: 2019-05-23
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Publication No.: US11265841B2Publication Date: 2022-03-01
- Inventor: Masamichi Hosoda , Yasushi Hanakago , Tadashi Mori , Masaru Miyamoto , Tomoki Murakami , Makoto Umeuchi , Hiroshi Sakamoto , Tomoaki Ogawa
- Applicant: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JPJP2018-104037 20180530
- International Application: PCT/JP2019/020546 WO 20190523
- International Announcement: WO2019/230572 WO 20191205
- Main IPC: H04W64/00
- IPC: H04W64/00 ; H04B17/309

Abstract:
An object is to enable high-accuracy position estimation of a wireless terminal station by efficiently performing connection between a wireless base station and the wireless terminal station using multiple distributed antennas. A position estimation apparatus configured to estimate a position of a wireless terminal station between a wireless base station that can perform transmission and reception by switching between a plurality of distributed antennas arranged in a distributed manner via cables with known lengths, and the wireless terminal station configured to communicate with the wireless base station, includes: a means 1 for measuring a no-delay RTT or measuring a statistical processing RTT when the wireless base station exchanges a measurement signal and a response signal with the wireless terminal station in each of the distributed antennas and measures an RTT, which is a round trip time between the wireless base station and the wireless terminal station, a delay time having been removed from the no-delay RTT using a reception time of the measurement signal and a transmission time of the response signal, and the statistical processing RTT being measured using statistical processing for making the delay time constant using a plurality of instances of exchanging a measurement signal and a response signal; and means 2 for estimating the position of the wireless terminal station based on the no-delay RTT or the statistical processing RTT of each of the distributed antennas.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210227487A1 POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD AND POSITION ESTIMATION APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2021-07-22
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