Localization of a wireless user equipment (UE) device based on out-of-hearing band audio signatures for ranging

A wireless user equipment (UE) device comprising:

• a processor configured to control one or more subsystems of said wireless UE device;
• a microphone;
• and
• a persistent memory module having program instructions which, when executed by said processor, perform:
• facilitating reception of a plurality of audio signatures from a head unit via an audio system having a plurality of speaker channels, wherein said plurality of audio signatures are in an out-of-hearing frequency band of a signal recorded by the microphone;
• receiving information identifying a model or a type of a vehicle from said head unit via at least one of said plurality of speaker channels;
• determining a particular spatial configuration of an interior of the vehicle based on correlating the model or the type to a mapping between models or types and spatial configurations;
• and
• processing said plurality of audio signatures, by the processor operating in association with one or more of the subsystems of the wireless UE device, for determining said wireless UE device's location relative to said particular spatial configuration associated with the interior of the vehicle.