Invention Grant
US09404996B2 Position estimation device, position estimation method, program, and integrated circuit
有权
位置估计装置,位置估计方法,程序和集成电路
- Patent Title: Position estimation device, position estimation method, program, and integrated circuit
- Patent Title (中): 位置估计装置,位置估计方法,程序和集成电路
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Application No.: US13818817Application Date: 2012-10-12
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Publication No.: US09404996B2Publication Date: 2016-08-02
- Inventor: Kazunori Yamada , Mitsuaki Oshima
- 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: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2011-238149 20111031
- International Application: PCT/JP2012/006553 WO 20121012
- International Announcement: WO2013/065240 WO 20130510
- Main IPC: G01S5/10
- IPC: G01S5/10 ; H04W4/04 ; G01S5/14 ; G01S5/02 ; H04W52/02

Abstract:
A position estimation device including: a provisional position setting unit which sets current position information indicating an estimated current position of a wireless terminal; a distance estimation unit which estimates, using receiving strengths of signals received from plural wireless stations, distance information indicating distances from the plural wireless stations to the wireless terminal; a possible area calculation unit which calculates, using the distance information and map information indicating a spatial structure, an area in the spatial structure which can maintain the distances indicated in the distance information, as a possible area in the spatial structure in which the wireless terminal is likely to be present; and a correction unit which corrects the current position indicated in the current position information to a position within the possible area when the current position is outside the possible area.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140206381A1 POSITION ESTIMATION DEVICE, POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2014-07-24
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