Fine tuning for collimator antenna devices
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsRahul MALIK, Yu-Chin OU, Jun ZHU, Raghu Narayan CHALLA
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AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsRahul MALIK, Yu-Chin OU, Jun ZHU, Raghu Narayan CHALLA
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Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device may support a collimator (e.g., a reflector antenna or lens) with an aperture large enough to support multiple beams (e.g., instead of a single beam). The wireless device may perform electronic measurements (e.g., may dither across multiple beams using the phased antenna array supported by the large aperture) and fine tuning of the beam. For example, the wireless device may receive reference signals during one or more measurement opportunities via multiple beams. The wireless device may determine a preferred (e.g., different) beam based on the measurements, without yet having actually changed a physical orientation of the wireless device. Having identified a preferred beam, the wireless device may mechanically adjust its orientation towards the preferred beam (e.g., and the preferred beam may in fact support improved or more reliable wireless communications as indicated by the electronic measurements).
A device, comprising:
A method for wireless communications at a device, comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing code for wireless communications, the code comprising instructions executable by one or more processors at a wireless device to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.