- Patent Title: Determining the geographic location of a portable electronic device
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Application No.: US14696964Application Date: 2015-04-27
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Publication No.: US10306405B2Publication Date: 2019-05-28
- Inventor: Magnus Persson , Anders Berggren , Lars Nord , Peter C. Karlsson
- Applicant: Sony Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Tucker Ellis LLP
- Main IPC: H04W4/02
- IPC: H04W4/02 ; H04W24/10 ; H04W88/08 ; G01S5/12 ; G01S5/04 ; G01S3/46 ; G01S5/00

Abstract:
Determining the geographic location of a portable electronic device (100) in a radio communications network, by transmitting radio signals from a plurality of first network transmitters (200, 300, 400); receiving, in the network, a measurement signal from the portable electronic device, which measurement signal comprises, for each transmitted radio signal, a plurality of data samples obtained in the electronic device from the respective transmitted signal at different time points during a measurement period with movement of the portable electronic device (100), and local position data associated to each data sample obtained from a local positioning unit in the electronic device, so as to form a synthetic antenna array; obtaining, a direction measurement between the electronic device and the first network transmitter from the synthetic antenna array; obtaining geographic location data for the first network transmitter; and identifying geographic location data of the portable electronic device based on the direction measurement and the geographic location data for the first network transmitter.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160135007A1 DETERMINING THE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION OF A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE Public/Granted day:2016-05-12
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