Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Symmetrical reference personal device location tracking
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Application No.: US14847498Application Date: 2015-09-08
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Publication No.: US09860710B2Publication Date: 2018-01-02
- Inventor: Pietro Buttolo , Stephen Ronald Tokish , James Stewart Rankin, II , Stuart C. Salter , Gary Steven Strumolo
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: Brooks Kushman P.C.
- Agent Jennifer M. Stec
- Main IPC: H04W4/04
- IPC: H04W4/04 ; G08G1/127 ; G08B21/22

Abstract:
A system may include in-vehicle components arranged symmetrically within and delimiting boundaries of a vehicle interior; and a processor programmed to identify signal strength information indicative of distance of a personal device from wireless transceivers of each of the in-vehicle components; and compute, using the signal strength information, a quadrant and diagonal sector including a location of the personal device, and whether the location is within the vehicle interior. A method may include identifying a quadrant of a vehicle including a location of a personal device by comparing signal strength information of pairs of wireless transceivers in adjacent quadrants to signal strength information of wireless transceivers opposite the pairs; and determining a diagonal sector including the location by comparing the signal strength information from the wireless transceiver of the quadrant to the signal strength information from the wireless transceiver in a diagonally-opposite quadrant.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170070862A1 SYMMETRICAL REFERENCE PERSONAL DEVICE LOCATION TRACKING Public/Granted day:2017-03-09
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