Patent ID: 11956693
Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus for providing location information, the apparatus comprising:
a plurality of sensor units which are distributed throughout a confined area lacking a global positioning system (GPS) coverage and have respectively a plurality of field of views (FOVs) that at least partially overlap with each other in an overlap area, each of the plurality of sensor units comprising a first sensor and a second sensor of a type that is different from a type of the first sensor; and
a processor configured to:

fuse sensing data provided by the first sensor and the second sensor that are respectively included in each of the plurality of sensor units,
identify a location of an object existing in the overlap area based on the fused sensing data, and
provide location information of the identified location to the object.