Locating wireless devices
AssigneeCochlear Limited
InventorsHieu Lee, Daniel Ross Smith, Ryan Orin Melman, Ricardo Sarmiento
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Abstract
Techniques for locating a misplaced primary wireless device (within a spatial region. In particular, the techniques presented herein use a secondary wireless device to collect a plurality of multivariate wireless data points within the spatial region. An artificially intelligent search algorithm analyzes the plurality of multivariate wireless data points to estimate the location of the wireless device. Directional instructions that guide the user to the estimated location of the primary wireless device are generated and then provided to the user.
Claims16
A method, comprising:
- receiving, at a hearing device, Bluetooth® data packets from a plurality of wireless devices disposed in a same spatial region as the hearing device;
- determining, at the hearing device, relative directional position information between the hearing device and each of the plurality of wireless devices based on the Bluetooth® data packets;
- and
- analyzing, at the hearing device, the relative directional position information link with an artificially intelligent search algorithm to estimate a location of the hearing device in the spatial area.
One or more non-transitory computer readable storage media comprising instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- receive, at a first device, Bluetooth® data packets sent over a Bluetooth® link from a second device;
- determine one or more multivariate wireless data points associated with the Bluetooth® link between the first device and the second device, including:
- obtain at least one characteristic of the Bluetooth® link at a spatial point;
- and
- record an indication of a spatial point of at least one of the first device or the second device at a time the at least one characteristic is obtained;
- and
- determine, using the one or more multivariate wireless data points, a relative positioning of the first device to the second device.
A hearing device, comprising:
- at least one wireless transceiver configured to receive Bluetooth® data packets from a plurality of wireless devices disposed in a same spatial region as the hearing device;
- memory;
- and
- at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to:
- determine, at the hearing device, relative directional position information between the hearing device and each of the plurality of wireless devices based on the Bluetooth® data packets;
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- analyze, at the hearing device, the relative directional position information link with an artificially intelligent search algorithm to estimate a location of the hearing device in the spatial area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.