Edge device and method for sensor-assisted beamforming
AssigneePeltbeam Inc.
InventorsVenkat Kalkunte, Mehdi Hatamian, Arman Rofougaran, Puya Rofougaran
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Abstract
An edge device includes an antenna array and a sensor that senses a surrounding area of the edge device. The edge device further includes control circuitry that detects a user in the surrounding area of the edge device, tracks the detected first user in the surrounding area of the edge device, and controls the first antenna array to direct, concurrently with the sensing of the surrounding area, a first beam of radio-frequency (RF) signal in a second frequency band in a first direction of the tracked first user, where the first frequency band is different from the second frequency band.
Claims18
A first edge device, comprising:
- a first antenna array;
- a sensor configured to sense a surrounding area of the first edge device in a first frequency band;
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- control circuitry configured to:
- detect a first user in the sensed surrounding area of the first edge device;
- track the detected first user in the surrounding area of the first edge device;
- control the first antenna array to direct, concurrently with the sensing of the surrounding area, a first beam of radio-frequency (RF) signal in a second frequency band in a first direction of the tracked first user, wherein the first frequency band is different from the second frequency band;
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- control the first antenna array such that a second beam of RF signal, having a signal strength greater than a first threshold, is directed in a second direction towards a second user concomitant to the first beam of RF signal that is directed in the first direction towards the first user.
A method of radar-assisted beamforming, the method comprising:
- sensing, by a sensor of an edge device, a surrounding area of the edge device in a first frequency band;
- detecting, by control circuitry of the edge device, a first user in the surrounding area of the edge device;
- tracking, by the control circuitry, the detected first user in the surrounding area of the edge device;
- controlling, by the control circuitry, an antenna array of the edge device to direct, concurrently with the sensing of the surrounding area, a first beam of radio-frequency (RF) signal in a second frequency band in a first direction of the tracked first user, wherein the first frequency band is different from the second frequency band;
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- controlling, by the control circuitry, the antenna array such that a second beam of RF signal, having a signal strength greater than a first threshold, is directed in a second direction towards a second user concomitant to the first beam of RF signal that is directed in the first direction towards the first user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.