Patent ID: 11894909
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A user equipment (UE) comprising:
a sensor to determine a rotation of the UE; and
processing circuitry coupled to the sensor, the processing circuitry to:
perform a plurality of beam measurements corresponding to a beam received by the UE;
determine orientations of the UE corresponding to each of the plurality of beam measurements;
determine a plurality of local angle of arrival (AoA) estimates corresponding to the beam based on the plurality of beam measurements;
convert the plurality of local AoA estimates to a plurality of global AoA estimates based on the orientations of the UE corresponding to each of the plurality of beam measurements;
determine a global AoA based on overlap of the plurality of global AoA estimates;
determine whether the global AoA meets a reliability threshold based on the probability for the global AoA being greater than a predetermined threshold; and
determine whether the UE is to operate in a sensor based AoA estimation state or a sensor assisted beam tracking state based on whether the global AoA meets the reliability threshold.