Wirelessly identifying device locations
AssigneeTexas Instruments Incorporated
InventorsPrasanna Parthasarathy, Fernando David Lara Alva
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Abstract
An electronic device comprises a processor and storage coupled to the processor. The storage includes executable code, which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to: receive a first wireless signal; receive a second wireless signal; determine a first angle of arrival for the first wireless signal and a second angle of arrival for the second wireless signal; determine a first signal strength of the first wireless signal and a second signal strength of the second wireless signal; and based on the first and second angles of arrival and the first and second signal strengths, determine a location within a battery pack of a first battery device of the battery pack relative to a location of a second battery device of the battery pack.
Claims17
An electronic device, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- storage coupled to the processor and including executable code, which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to:
- receive a first wireless signal;
- receive a second wireless signal;
- determine a first angle of arrival for the first wireless signal and a second angle of arrival for the second wireless signal;
- determine a first signal strength of the first wireless signal and a second signal strength of the second wireless signal;
- receive angle of arrival and signal strength information for the first and second wireless signals from a second electronic device, wherein the second electronic device is a mobile device and the electronic device is positioned between the mobile device and a battery pack;
- and
- based on the first and second angles of arrival, the first and second signal strengths, and the angle of arrival and signal strength information from the second electronic device, determine a location within the battery pack of a first battery device of the battery pack relative to a location of a second battery device of the battery pack.
An electronic device, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- storage coupled to the processor and including executable code, which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to:
- receive a wireless signal;
- determine a first angle of arrival for the wireless signal;
- receive an indication of a second angle of arrival for the wireless signal relative to another electronic device;
- and
- determine a location of a battery device within a battery pack based on the first and second angles of arrival and further based on a location of the other electronic device relative to the battery device,
- wherein the other electronic device comprises a mobile device and the electronic device is positioned between the mobile device and the battery pack.
A method, comprising:
- receiving a first wireless signal;
- receiving a second wireless signal;
- determining first angles of arrival for the first and second wireless signals;
- determining first signal strengths of the first and second wireless signals;
- receiving an indication of second angles of arrival and second signal strengths for the first and second wireless signals relative to an electronic device;
- and
- based on the first angles of arrival, the first signal strengths, and the indication, determining a location of a first battery device within a battery pack relative to a location of a second battery device within the battery pack,
- wherein the electronic device comprises a mobile device that is positioned relative to the first battery device such that the electronic device is able to use an angle of arrival technique to determine which of multiple rows in an array of battery devices contains the first battery device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.