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Patent US9176230 - Tracking a mobile computer indoors using Wi-Fi, motion, and environmental ... - Google Patenten
A mobile computer determines its initial indoor location in a building. The initial indoor location may be associated with probability related accuracy and selectively determined with satellite related positioning information. The mobile computer may track, by utilization of the initial indoor location,...http://www.google.nl/patents/US9176230?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US9176230 - Tracking a mobile computer indoors using Wi-Fi, motion, and environmental sensors
Publicatienummer US9176230 B2
Aanvraagnummer US 14/628,946
Aanvraagdatum 23 feb 2015
Ook gepubliceerd als US8174931, US8284100, US8395968, US8842496, US9110159, US9116230, US9182494, US9244173, US9684079, US20120087212, US20120214507, US20120214511, US20130178227, US20140368382, US20150145727, US20150153450, US20150168561, US20160003947, US20160012486, US20170285166
Publicatienummer 14628946, 628946, US 9176230 B2, US 9176230B2, US-B2-9176230, US9176230 B2, US9176230B2
Patentcitaties (176), Niet-patentcitaties (59), Verwijzingen naar dit patent (2), Classificaties (32), Juridische gebeurtenissen (2)
US 9176230 B2
A mobile computer determines its initial indoor location in a building. The initial indoor location may be associated with probability related accuracy and selectively determined with satellite related positioning information. The mobile computer may track, by utilization of the initial indoor location, data, and estimated accelerometer based motion information, location on a floor of the building. The data may be a combination of Wi-Fi information and sensor information.
a processor, of the mobile computer, is configured to determine an initial indoor location of the mobile computer in a building, wherein the initial indoor location is associated with probability related accuracy and determined with satellite related positioning information;
the processor further configured to track, with the initial indoor location, data, and estimated motion information from an accelerometer, location in a room in the building;
wherein the data is a combination of Wi-Fi related position information received via a transceiver and environmental sensor information utilized to determine a floor of the room; and
wherein the location is tracked substantially without satellite related positioning information.
3. A method performed by a mobile computer, the method comprising:
determining, by a processor of the mobile computer, an initial indoor location of the mobile computer in a building, wherein the initial indoor location is associated with probability related accuracy and determined with satellite related positioning information;
tracking, by the mobile computer with the initial indoor location, data, and estimated motion information from an accelerometer, location in a room in the building;
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/460,591 filed Aug. 15, 2014, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/776,643 filed Feb. 25, 2013, which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 8,842,496 on Sep. 23, 2014, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/412,317 filed Mar. 5, 2012, which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 8,395,968 on Mar. 12, 2013, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/900,951 filed Oct. 8, 2010, which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 8,174,931 on May 8, 2012, the contents of which are all hereby incorporated by reference herein as if fully set forth.
This application is related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13/463,538 filed May 3, 2012, which issued as U.S. Pat. No. 8,284,100 on Oct. 9, 2012, and to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/611,222 filed Jan. 31, 2015. This application is also related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14/619,600 filed Feb. 11, 2015.
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