Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Positioning system, positioning method, and positioning program
- Patent Title (中): 定位系统,定位方法和定位程序
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Application No.: US12029041Application Date: 2008-02-11
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Publication No.: US08229457B2Publication Date: 2012-07-24
- Inventor: Jiyun Shen , Yasuhiro Oda , Kosei Takiishi
- Applicant: Jiyun Shen , Yasuhiro Oda , Kosei Takiishi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2007-044259 20070223; JP2007-167908 20070626
- Main IPC: H04W24/00
- IPC: H04W24/00 ; G01S3/02

Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to implement accurate positioning of a mobile communication terminal even in an environment in which delay waves are included in radio waves arriving at the mobile communication terminal from radio wave sources. A positioning server 10 forming a positioning system for estimating a location of a cellular terminal 20 has a distance information acquisition unit 13 for acquiring information indicating distances calculated based on radio waves transmitted and received between a plurality of cellular base stations 30 and the cellular terminal 20; a direction information acquisition unit 14 for acquiring a plurality of pieces of information indicating directions of radio waves received by the cellular terminal 20; a virtual sector calculation unit 15 for calculating for each of the cellular base stations, a range of directions from the cellular base station 30 to the cellular terminal 20 from the information indicating the directions of the radio waves, based on a range calculation rule stored in advance; and a location calculation unit 16 for calculating the location of the cellular terminal 20, based on the distances and the range of directions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080207226A1 POSITIONING SYSTEM, POSITIONING METHOD, AND POSITIONING PROGRAM Public/Granted day:2008-08-28
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