Patent ID: 9335400
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G01C,G01S,G06F,G06K,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for automatically determining a location of a collector device from among a plurality of collector devices associated with a plurality of imaging devices coupled to a server, the method comprising the collector device: synchronizing a clock of the collector device with a clock of the server; emitting a marker at an emission time, the marker being received by at least one of the plurality of imaging devices; receiving a plurality of current positions and corresponding identification times from the server, wherein the plurality of current positions and corresponding identification times are associated with markers identified in images from the plurality of imaging devices; and determining the location of the collector device from among the plurality of current positions received from the server by matching the emission time of the marker emitted by the collector device with at least one of the corresponding identification times of the plurality of current positions.