Patents by Inventor Veli-Matti KOLMONEN
Veli-Matti KOLMONEN has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240072962Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: causing transmitting or receiving of a signal comprising a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion comprises an advertisement signal and the second portion comprises a positioning signal usable by a first node to determine its location with respect to a second node, wherein the first portion is transmitted or received using a first radio device and the second portion is transmitted or received using the first radio device or a second radio device based on an instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Antti Tuomas LAPPETELÄINEN, Veli-Matti KOLMONEN
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Patent number: 11863946Abstract: A method including obtaining a first clean signal and a first processed signal dependent upon audio input at a first microphone; obtaining a second clean signal and a second processed signal dependent upon audio input at a second microphone; using the first clean signal and the second clean signal to enable further processing of at least the first processed signal and the second processed signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Leppanen, Veli-Matti Kolmonen
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Publication number: 20230117937Abstract: This document discloses a solution for detecting a transmission opportunity. According to an aspect, a method comprises as performed by an apparatus of a first wireless network: detecting a first transmission from a first apparatus of a second wireless network different from the first wireless network; transmitting, to a second apparatus of the first wireless network, a transmission mode request, wherein the transmission mode request indicates a request to transmit from the apparatus to the second apparatus at least during an interframe space of a transmission opportunity between the first apparatus and another apparatus of the second wireless network, receiving a transmission mode response from the second apparatus, wherein the transmission mode response indicates acceptance of the request; in response to detecting a second transmission from the first apparatus, transmitting a data frame during an interframe space following the second transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2019Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Olli ALANEN, Enrico Henrik RANTALA, Mika KASSLIN, Janne MARIN, Veli-Matti KOLMONEN
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Patent number: 11399301Abstract: Communications apparatuses and methods are provided. The solution comprises receiving (200) from a server a request to perform sensing measurements; allocating (202) transmission resources to one or more wireless terminal devices, where the allocated resources are larger than needed for data transmission of the one or more wireless terminal; transmitting (204) information on resource to the one or more wireless terminal devices; receiving (206) transmission from one or more wireless terminal devices, the transmission comprising an amount of known symbols in addition to data; estimating (208) channel state information utilizing the known symbols; and transmitting (210) channel state information to the server.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Olli Alanen, Enrico Henrik Rantala, Mika Kasslin, Janne Marin, Veli-Matti Kolmonen
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Publication number: 20220150624Abstract: A method including obtaining a first clean signal and a first processed signal dependent upon audio input at a first microphone; obtaining a second clean signal and a second processed signal dependent upon audio input at a second microphone; using the first clean signal and the second clean signal to enable further processing of at least the first processed signal and the second processed signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Leppanen, Veli-Matti Kolmonen
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Publication number: 20220099789Abstract: Inter-alia, a method is disclosed comprising: obtaining, for at least one reference position, an estimate of a representative direction from a node of a communication network to the at least one reference position based on information indicative of at least one directional measurement, the directional measurement being indicative at least of a propagation direction of a signal communicated between the at least one reference position and the node of the communication network; obtaining, for the at least one reference position, a weighted estimate of the representative direction based on at least an angular weighting function for the at least one reference position, the angular weighting function being representative at least of an aperture of at least one antenna of the node of the communication network; and obtaining information indicative at least of an orientation and/or position of the node of the communication network at least based on the weighted estimate of the representative direction obtained for theType: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Traian ABRUDAN, Veli-Matti KOLMONEN, Holger CLAUSSEN
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Patent number: 11272286Abstract: A method including obtaining a first clean signal and a first processed signal dependent upon audio input at a first microphone; obtaining a second clean signal and a second processed signal dependent upon audio input at a second microphone; using the first clean signal and the second clean signal to enable further processing of at least the first processed signal and the second processed signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2017Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Leppanen, Veli-Matti Kolmonen
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Publication number: 20220015028Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method, comprising: transmitting an association request from a wireless device to a first access node of a wireless network for associating the wireless device to the wireless network, wherein the wireless network comprises a centralized unit and a plurality of access nodes, including the first access node, receiving an association response from the first access node for associating the wireless device to the wireless network, performing carrier sensing on a plurality of channels; selecting a second access node among the plurality of access nodes in response to obtaining a transmission opportunity for a channel of the plurality of channels, wherein the selecting is based at least partly on a record of ongoing transmission opportunities, and transmitting data from the wireless device to the second access node during the transmission opportunity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2018Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Olli ALANEN, Mika KASSLIN, Veli-Matti KOLMONEN, Janne MARIN
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Publication number: 20210389409Abstract: This specification relates to estimation of a location of a mobile device using one or more locator devices. This specification describes an apparatus comprising: means for receiving, from one or more locator devices, each locator device comprising an antenna array, information indicative of a bearing from the antenna array of each of the one or more locator devices to a mobile device; means for determining parameters of a Kent distribution for each of the one or more locator devices based on the received information and predetermined characteristics of the antenna array; and means for determining an estimated position of the mobile device by performing an optimisation process on an objective function that is dependent on the Kent distribution parameters for each of the one or more locator devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2018Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Traian ABRUDAN, Holger CLAUSSEN, Veli-Matti KOLMONEN
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Patent number: 11184070Abstract: This document describes a solution for sensing a location by using a wireless network. According to an aspect, a method for an access node of the wireless network comprises: receiving, by the access node from a wireless device at a location, a channel measurement signal; determining, by the access node, precoding coefficients for the location based on the channel measurement signal; storing, by the access node, the precoding coefficients as linked to the location; and utilizing, by the access node, the preceding coefficients to acquire information on the location.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Olli Alanen, Mika Kasslin, Janne Marin, Veli-Matti Kolmonen, Enrico Henrik Rantala
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Publication number: 20210349176Abstract: This specification relates to estimation of a location of a mobile device using one or more locator devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2018Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: Traian ABRUDAN, Holger CLAUSSEN, Veli-Matti KOLMONEN
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Publication number: 20210289292Abstract: A method including obtaining a first clean signal and a first processed signal dependent upon audio input at a first microphone; obtaining a second clean signal and a second processed signal dependent upon audio input at a second microphone; using the first clean signal and the second clean signal to enable further processing of at least the first processed signal and the second processed signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2017Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Antti ERONEN, Arto LEHTINIEMI, Jussi LEPPANEN, Veli-Matti KOLMONEN
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Publication number: 20210218448Abstract: This document describes a solution for sensing a location by using a wireless network. According to an aspect, a method for an access node of the wireless network comprises: receiving, by the access node from a wireless device at a location, a channel measurement signal; determining, by the access node, precoding coefficients for the location based on the channel measurement signal; storing, by the access node, the precoding coefficients as linked to the location; and utilizing, by the access node, the precoding coefficients to acquire information on the location.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2021Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Olli Alanen, Mika Kasslin, Janne Marin, Veli-Matti Kolmonen, Enrico Henrik Rantala
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Patent number: 11010051Abstract: According to various, but not necessarily all, embodiments of the invention there is provided a method comprising: enabling display to a user of a virtual visual scene; in dependence upon detection of an occurrence of a predetermined action by a user, starting display to the user of one or more control visual elements in the virtual visual scene while the virtual visual scene is being displayed to the user; and enabling interaction by the user with the one or more control visual elements within the displayed virtual visual scene to enable control while the virtual visual scene is being displayed to the user, wherein the one or more control visual elements displayed in the virtual visual scene represent a controller device physically used by the user, within the virtual visual scene, wherein the predetermined action by the user is in relation to a first portion of the physical controller device physically used by the user, and wherein the one or more control visual elements displayed in the virtual visual scenType: GrantFiled: June 2, 2017Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Leppänen, Veli-Matti Kolmonen
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Publication number: 20210001981Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: determining that a first mobile object requires positioning assistance based on one or more predetermined criteria, wherein the predetermined criteria includes whether one or more properties of a planned or predicted future position of the first mobile object have been identified as insufficient, or are predicted as being insufficient, for determining the position of the first mobile object with a required level of accuracy; and responsive to said determination, causing deployment of one or more movable devices (e.g. UAVs) to a target position for providing the required positioning assistance to said first mobile object.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Tero Johannes IHALAINEN, Zexian LI, Mikko Aleksi UUSITALO, Veli-Matti KOLMONEN, Martti Johannes MOISIO
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Publication number: 20200374729Abstract: Communications apparatuses and methods are provided. The solution comprises receiving (200) from a server a request to perform sensing measurements; allocating (202) transmission resources to one or more wireless terminal devices, where the allocated resources are larger than needed for data transmission of the one or more wireless terminal; transmitting (204) information on resource to the one or more wireless terminal devices; receiving (206) transmission from one or more wireless terminal devices, the transmission comprising an amount of known symbols in addition to data; estimating (208) channel state information utilizing the known symbols; and transmitting (210) channel state information to the server.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2020Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: Nokia Solutions and Networks OyInventors: Olli Alanen, Enrico Henrik Rantala, Mika Kasslin, Janne Marin, Veli-Matti Kolmonen
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Patent number: 10560752Abstract: An apparatus configured to: in respect of virtual reality content comprising video imagery and spatial audio wherein the perceived direction to an audio event related to a visual event in the video imagery corresponds to a visual location of said visual event as presented in the virtual reality space; based on a change in the viewing direction of the virtual reality view by the user from a first viewing direction to a second viewing direction, and wherein said second viewing direction corresponds to, within a direction threshold, a direction of a particular audio event; providing for display of missed event content thereby allowing a user to see a missed visual event for which they heard the associated audio event and reacted thereto by changing the viewing direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2017Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Leppänen, Veli-Matti Kolmonen
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Patent number: 10401178Abstract: This specification describes a method comprising causing a trackable device to transition between a first positioning mode and a second positioning mode, wherein, in the first positioning mode, the trackable device causes wireless transmission of one or more data packets each including a data portion for enabling determination of a bearing between the trackable device and a locator device and, in the second positioning mode, the trackable device causes wireless transmission of one or more data packets which do not include the data portion for enabling determination of the bearing between the trackable device and the locator device.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Joni Jantunen, Veli-Matti Kolmonen, Oskari Koskimies, Ilari Teikari
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Publication number: 20190149886Abstract: An apparatus configured to: in respect of virtual reality content comprising video imagery and spatial audio wherein the perceived direction to an audio event related to a visual event in the video imagery corresponds to a visual location of said visual event as presented in the virtual reality space; based on a change in the viewing direction of the virtual reality view by the user from a first viewing direction to a second viewing direction, and wherein said second viewing direction corresponds to, within a direction threshold, a direction of a particular audio event; providing for display of missed event content thereby allowing a user to see a missed visual event for which they heard the associated audio event and reacted thereto by changing the viewing direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Leppänen, Veli-Matti Kolmonen
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Publication number: 20190138207Abstract: According to various, but not necessarily all, embodiments of the invention there is provided a method comprising: enabling display to a user of a virtual visual scene; in dependence upon detection of an occurrence of a predetermined action by a user, starting display to the user of one or more control visual elements in the virtual visual scene while the virtual visual scene is being displayed to the user; and enabling interaction by the user with the one or more control visual elements within the displayed virtual visual scene to enable control while the virtual visual scene is being displayed to the user, wherein the one or more control visual elements displayed in the virtual visual scene represent a controller device physically used by the user, within the virtual visual scene, wherein the predetermined action by the user is in relation to a first portion of the physical controller device physically used by the user, and wherein the one or more control visual elements displayed in the virtual visual scenType: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2017Publication date: May 9, 2019Inventors: Antti Eronen, Arto Lehtiniemi, Jussi Leppänen, Veli-Matti Kolmonen