Patent ID: 9286879
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: G01S,G10K,G10L,H04S

Claim Text:
1. A method operating at a wireless user equipment (UE) device, said method comprising: receiving 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 a microphone of the wireless UE device; 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 a processor of said wireless UE device configured to operate in association with one or more subsystems of said wireless UE device, for determining said wireless UE device's location relative to said particular spatial configuration associated with the interior of the vehicle.