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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120044110 | Advanced positioning system The subject of the invention is a system or a method of determining the position of the radio signal receiver with respect to the radio signal transmission from a single moving transmitter with one or more antennas or from one static transmitter with one or more static ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120041594 | System and Method for Determining the Location of a Machine A system is employed for defining a position (location) of a receiving element inside an area surrounded by a wire loop, along the perimeter (a perimeter wire loop), of a work area or other bounded area. In particular, the system can determine whether the receiver is in... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120035845 | Determining Locations Of Wireless Mobile Devices In certain embodiments, an apparatus comprises an input and one or more processors. The input receives known locations of wireless mobile nodes over a wireless link. The one or more processors determine geometric features associated with the locations, and calculate an ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120032854 | INTERFERENCE DETECTION, CHARACTERIZATION AND LOCATION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS OR BROADCAST SYSTEM A Wide Area Sensor Network (WASN) is disclosed that utilizes wideband software defined radios (SDRs) to monitor RF energy over a wide frequency range, detect when critical frequencies are being jammed or otherwise interfered with, and locate the source of the interferen... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120026036 | Methods and Systems for Location Determination Via Multi-Mode Operation Provided is a method for facilitating location determination. The method includes granting a subscriber access to a location determination network via a first device and determining location of a second device via the network, the second device being configurable for du... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120013508 | WIRELESS LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUES IN LIGHTING SYSTEMS The invention relates to a system and method for localization positioning in lighting systems. At least two of a Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA), Angle of Arrival (AOA), Received Signal Strength Index (RSSI) and a Position Estimation Algorithm with unified TDOA and RS... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110316748 | Device and Method for Estimating an Orientation of a Mobile Terminal Device A device for estimating a current orientation of a mobile terminal device at a current geographical position, wherein, at the current geographical position, a current measurement package may be determined which has a transmitter identification and an electromagnetic sig... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110279323 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION INFORMATION ON MOBILE DEVICES A system and method for activating a GPS receiver or a WiFi receiver on a mobile device may be provided, which comprises determining an approximate location of the mobile device. The approximate location of the mobile device may be determined using cell tower location i... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110234454 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING IN CONFIGURED ENVIRONMENTS The present invention relates to a system and method for providing location determination in a configured environment in which Global Navigation Satellite System Signals are not available. In this regard, local beacon systems generate spread spectrum CDMA signals that a... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110205124 | Object Locator System Described is a locating system comprised of a locator and at least one target, the locator having a positioning subsystem such as a GPS receiver capable of determining its own location at any given time, a proximity subsystem such as an RFID reader capable of identifyin... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110193746 | Method of Positioning RFID Tags A method of positioning a RFID tag by using four antennas associated with an algorithm is disclosed. A positioning space is sliced into several spatial boxes with an equal size. The center of each spatial box is assumed roughly as the target position and thus the positi... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110187597 | POSITION INFORMATION ACQUISITION DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING POSITION INFORMATION ACQUISITION PROGRAM AND POSITION INFORMATION ACQUISITION SYSTEM A position information acquisition device includes, a first communication unit to communicate with at least another position information acquisition device; a detection unit to detect whether a number of other position information acquisition devices that are not commun... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110164148 | Electronic apparatus, positioning device, information processing method, and program An electronic apparatus includes: a reception unit that receives positioning information necessary for a positioning process from the outside; a determination unit that determines whether or not a process on the basis of an operation input is a predetermined process tha... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110156957 | PRECISE POSITIONING USING A DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORK A method for determining the location and orientation of a transmitter object by measuring a set of complex electromagnetic field magnitude and phase strengths within a space using one or more receivers is provided. The method includes modeling a set of expected complex... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110153261 | SMART FOOTWEAR AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF Smart footwear includes: a film type insole sensor measuring a change of force applied by a user's foot, as a resistance value; an acceleration sensor measuring an acceleration value according to a change in the motion of the user's foot; and a microcontroller estimatin... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110148714 | Near Field Electromagnetic Location System and Method A system and method for determining a position of a locus comprising a locator device for disposition at the locus; the locator device configured for receiving an electromagnetic signal from a beacon device, the locator device receiving at a distance from the beacon dev... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110140967 | RADIO-TRACKING METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICES A device configured to be worn by a target to be located, a console device for displaying information relating to the position, direction and distance of the target with respect to a person using the console, and a system and a method for searching for and locating a ta... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110140969 | Method And System For Hybrid Positioning Using Partial Distance Information The present invention provides a method and system for positioning one or more anchor nodes or one or more non-anchor nodes in one or more communication networks. A non-anchor node may be in communication with two or more anchor nodes. The method comprises determining t... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110140956 | Systems and Methods for Determining Geographic Location of a Mobile Device A method for determining geolocation of a mobile device, and a system for performing the method. The mobile device includes a location component, a local positioning component, and a reference positioning component. The method includes determining a local-positioning pe... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110137557 | CELLULAR-BASED LIVE TRAFFIC SERVICE A cellular-based live traffic service that does not require pre-deployment of infrastructure or GPS-enabled devices uses signals provided by cellular devices to determine course resolution localization and tracking information of the cellular devices. Specialized statis... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110112768 | Scalable GeoFences The subject matter disclosed herein relates to location-based tracking using geofences.... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110090121 | LOCATION MEASUREMENT ACQUISITION OPTIMIZATION WITH MONTE CARLO SIMULATION The present subject matter discloses a method for estimating dilution of precision (DOP) across a service area. A Monte Carlo simulation is used to determine the DOP across a service area. Random points are selected across a service area and as well as the radio transmi... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110090122 | LOCATION MEASUREMENT ACQUISITION ADAPTIVE OPTIMIZATION A disclosed method uses the results of location queries to tune the value of measurements of a property to obtain a statistically representative measurement for geo location. As location requests arrive, a current measurement value associated with the serving area or lo... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110090123 | Binning Venues Into Categories Based On Propagation Characteristics Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed herein that may be utilized to facilitate or otherwise support one or more processes or operations in connection with defining and determining a plurality of venue types and binning a plurality of ve... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110075886 | GRAPHICS-AIDED REMOTE POSITION MEASUREMENT WITH HANDHELD GEODESIC DEVICE A graphics-aided geodesic device is provided. The device may include a display, camera, distance meter, GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System, including GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo) receiver and antenna, and horizon sensors. Data from the camera and horizon sensors may... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110066399 | SMALL FORM-FACTOR DISTANCE SENSOR The subject matter disclosed herein relates to determining a distance from a mobile device to a remote object or a size of the remote object.... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110057840 | Method of Positioning RFID Tags A method of positioning a RFID tag by using four antennas associated with an algorithm is disclosed. A diagram is depicted, which is about relationships between the RSSI and distance according to environment of the space. Next, four antennas are arranged in the space. F... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110054776 | LOCATION-BASED WEATHER UPDATE SYSTEM, METHOD, AND DEVICE A weather update system, method, and device for providing and receiving weather data. The mobile computing device includes a processor and a location data receiver capable of establishing a geospatial location of the mobile computing device based on received data signal... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110051555 | System and Method for Determining Location of Submerged Submersible Vehicle An aspect of the present invention is drawn to method of determining a location of a submersible vehicle. The method includes obtaining first bearing information based on a location of a ship at a first time relative to the submersible vehicle and receiving broadcast in... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110032152 | Method and Apparatus for Positioning Mobile Device A method for positioning a mobile device includes following steps. Based on a prior location point of the mobile device, many sample particles are generated according to a prior probability distribution associated with the prior location point. A current moving track or... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110025561 | Position Determination Using ATSC-M/H Signals Apparatus to determine the position of a user terminal, the apparatus having corresponding methods and computer-readable media, comprise: a receiver to receive at the user terminal an American Television Standards Committee Mobile/Handheld (ATSC-M/H) broadcast signal fr... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100328158 | ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT An antenna (2-20) for use in a mobile device (1-1) includes elements for receiving (2-5, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, 6-5) a signal from a satellite positioning system; a first layer of dielectric material (2 | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100321241 | LOCATIONING OF COMMUNICATION DEVICES Techniques are disclosed for detecting, identifying, and/or geolocating RF communications devices, such as FRS radios, high-power cordless phones, cellular phones, and other wireless communications receiver devices. The techniques exploit a vulnerability present in such... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100324813 | ACCURACY ASSESSMENT FOR LOCATION ESTIMATION SYSTEMS Assessing the accuracy of location estimation systems. A mobile computing device provides location information including a device location (e.g., via GPS) and one or more wireless network beacons accessible by the computing device at the device location. The wireless ne... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100321243 | BACKGROUND POSITION FIX PRIOR TO REQUEST A mobile station determines a usage pattern based on information stored from previous position fixes. The usage pattern is used to predict a time for a next position fix request. The mobile station performs a position fix in the background prior to the predicted time fo... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100295733 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCATING AN INDOOR OBJECT A computer-implemented method for locating an indoor object includes: a) receiving an RF coordinate signal and a detecting signal; b) providing information of a located region with reference to the RF coordinate and the detecting signal; c) obtaining a motion sensor coo... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100289699 | Method and Apparatus for Determining a Position of a Mobile Station in a Wireless Communication System A method for determining a position of a mobile station in a wireless communication system includes generating a state equation set according to a current state of the mobile station, for predicting a position and a velocity of the mobile station after a predetermined p... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100290315 | Identification unit An identification unit including a memory unit operable to store an identification that distinguishes the identification unit from other identically constructed identification units, an ultrasonic receiver, a radiation transmitter, a radiation receiver and a control uni... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100285814 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GATHERING INFORMATION ABOUT DISCRETE WIRELESS TERMINALS The present invention is broadly directed to systems and methods for gathering information about wireless transceiver devices in a defined boundary region. To this end, the disclosure is more particularly directed to gathering movement information (e.g., via detection a... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100265140 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING SUBSCRIBER POSITION IN PORTABLE TERMINAL An apparatus and method for calculating a current position of a portable terminal not supporting a function of obtaining position information, such as a Global Positioning System (GPS) function, by receiving position information from neighbor terminals of the portable t... | 10/21/2010 |
