Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Information communication method
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Application No.: US16908273Application Date: 2020-06-22
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Publication No.: US10887528B2Publication Date: 2021-01-05
- Inventor: Mitsuaki Oshima , Koji Nakanishi , Hideki Aoyama , Ikuo Fuchigami , Hidehiko Shin , Tsutomu Mukai , Yosuke Matsushita , Shigehiro Iida , Kazunori Yamada
- Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
- Applicant Address: US CA Torrance
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Torrance
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2012-286339 20121227,JP2013-070740 20130328,JP2013-082546 20130410,JP2013-110445 20130524,JP2013-158359 20130730,JP2013-180729 20130830,JP2013-222827 20131025,JP2013-224805 20131029,JP2013-237460 20131115
- Main IPC: H04B10/00
- IPC: H04B10/00 ; H04N5/235 ; H04B10/116 ; H04B10/516 ; H04J14/00

Abstract:
The method includes obtaining, using a face camera of a smart phone, identification information from a ceiling light of a facility with visible light communication, and obtaining location information of the ceiling light related to the identification information. The method also includes displaying a location related to the location information of the ceiling light on a map of the facility on a display of the smart phone. The smart phone is set on a cart in a state that the face camera is directed to a ceiling of the facility on which the ceiling light is attached, and the face camera is a CMOS sensor and the CMOS sensor is used only for the visible light communication.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200322520A1 INFORMATION COMMUNICATION METHOD Public/Granted day:2020-10-08
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