Patent ID: 9646187
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G01S,G06K,H04W

Claim:
1. A system for electronically pairing a plurality of seat units with a plurality of controllable devices in an aircraft, said system comprising: a scanner movable relative to a plurality of seat units and a plurality of controllable devices each having RFID tags, said scanner configured to continuously scan and obtain a continuum of received signals from the RFID tags; a distance sensor configured to determine a relative position of said scanner over time as said scanner is moved; a filter configured to disregard outliers and smooth the continuum of received signals into respective sets of received signal data for each RFID tag, based on a unique ID in each received signal associated with each RFID tag, wherein each set of received signal data includes data points having the unique ID and a received signal strength, and wherein a relative time and a relative position are determined for each data point; a processor configured to: