US 11,812,320 B2
Initiation of transfer of user equipment to base station according to visual data
Arman Shojaeifard, London (GB); and Richard Mackenzie, London (GB)
Assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, London (GB)
Appl. No. 17/597,851
Filed by BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, London (GB)
PCT Filed Jun. 9, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/065932
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 26, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/018449, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 4, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 19188773 (EP), filed on Jul. 29, 2019; and application No. 1910779 (GB), filed on Jul. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0286931 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/24 (2009.01); G06V 10/764 (2022.01); G06V 20/00 (2022.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 36/24 (2013.01) [G06V 10/764 (2022.01); G06V 20/00 (2022.01); H04W 36/08 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of initiating a transfer in a cellular telecommunications network, wherein the cellular telecommunications network comprises a User Equipment (UE) and a base station, wherein the UE includes a camera, the method comprising:
storing visual data including a visual representation of at least a part of the base station;
receiving visual data captured by the camera of the UE;
performing a computer vision operation, trained on the stored visual data, on the captured visual data to determine that the visual representation of at least a part of the base station is present in the captured visual data; and, in response,
initiating a transfer of the UE to the base station.