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US 10,477,506 B2Granted
Electronic device and method for determining position
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoungpo Lee, Jinwoo Kim, Sung Rae Cho, Chai-Man Lim
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Abstract
An electronic device may comprise a communication interface and a processor configured to control the communication interface to receive cellular data from at least one cellular base station, to predict a position of the electronic device based on the received cellular data, to receive information about at least one wireless LAN base station, and to determine the position of the electronic device based information about the at least one wireless LAN base station and the predicted position.
Claims20
An electronic device comprising:
- a communication interface;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- control the communication interface to receive cellular data from at least one cellular base station,
- obtain first information regarding a first position of the electronic device based on the received cellular data,
- identify that the electronic device enters a predetermined area based on the first position of the electronic device obtained based on the received cellular data,
- in response to identifying that the electronic device enters the predetermined area based on the first position obtained based on the received cellular data, control the communication interface to receive information about at least one wireless LAN base station,
- obtain second information regarding a second position of the electronic device based on the received information about the at least one wireless LAN base station, and
- identify that the electronic device enters the predetermined area based on the second position of the electronic device obtained based on the received information about the at least one wireless LAN base station.
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An electronic device comprising:
- a communication interface;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- control the communication interface to receive cellular data from at least one cellular base station,
- identify whether the electronic device is present inside a predetermined area based on a first position of the electronic device obtained based on the received cellular data,
- based on identifying that the electronic device is present inside the predetermined area based on the first position obtained based on the received cellular data, control the communication interface to receive information about at least one wireless LAN base station,
- obtain a second position of the electronic device based on information about at the least one wireless LAN base station;
- wherein, as at least part of the identifying of whether the electronic device is present inside the predetermined area based on the first position obtained based on the received cellular data, the processor is configured to:
- obtain a longitude and a latitude of the electronic device based on the received cellular data,
- obtain a probability value using a probability density function of the obtained longitude and latitude,
- identify that the electronic device is present inside the predetermined area when the identified probability value is greater than a first threshold, and
- identify that the electronic device is not present inside the predetermined area unless the identified probability value is greater than the first threshold.
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An electronic device comprising:
- a communication interface;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- control the communication interface to receive cellular data from at least one cellular base station,
- identify whether the electronic device is present inside a predetermined area based on a first position of the electronic device obtained based on the received cellular data,
- based on identifying that the electronic device is present inside the predetermined area based on the first position obtained based on the received cellular data, control the communication interface to receive information about at least one wireless LAN base station,
- identify a second position of the electronic device based on information about at the least one wireless LAN base station;
- a memory configured to store at least one wireless LAN map, wherein a first wireless LAN map among the at least one wireless LAN map corresponds to an area positioned based on the received cellular data;
- and
- wherein, as at least part of the identifying of the second position of the electronic device based on the information about the at least one wireless LAN base station, the processor is configured to:
- obtain the information about the at least one wireless LAN base station by scanning surroundings of the electronic device, and
- estimate the second position of the electronic device by comparing wireless LAN base station information included in the first wireless LAN map with the information about the wireless LAN base station obtained by the scanning.
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A method for obtaining a position by an electronic device, the method comprising:
- receiving cellular data from at least one cellular base station;
- obtaining a first information regarding a first position of the electronic device based on the received cellular data;
- identifying that the electronic device enters a predetermined area based on the first position of the electronic device obtained based on the received cellular data;
- in response to identifying that the electronic device enters the predetermined area based on the first position obtained based on the received cellular data, receiving information about at least one wireless LAN base station;
- and
- obtaining a second information regarding a second position of the electronic device based on the received information about the at least one wireless LAN base station;
- and
- identifying that the electronic device enters the predetermined area based on the second position of the electronic device obtained based on the received information about the at least one wireless LAN base station.
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A method for obtaining a position by an electronic device, the method comprising:
- receiving cellular data from at least one cellular base station;
- identifying whether the electronic device is present inside a predetermined area based on a first position of the electronic device obtained based on the received cellular data;
- based on identifying that the electronic device is present inside the predetermined area based on the first position obtained based on the received cellular data, receiving information about at least one wireless LAN base station;
- and
- obtaining a second position of the electronic device based on the received information about the at least one wireless LAN base station and the obtained position,
- wherein the identifying of whether the electronic device is present inside the predetermined area based on the first position obtained based on the received cellular data comprises:
- obtaining a longitude and a latitude of the electronic device based on the received cellular data,
- obtaining a probability value using a probability density function of the obtained longitude and latitude,
- when the obtained probability value is greater than the first threshold, identifying that the electronic device is present inside the predetermined area, and
- when the obtained probability value is not greater than the first threshold, identifying that the electronic device is not present inside the predetermined area.
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A method for obtaining a position by an electronic device, the method comprising:
- receiving cellular data from at least one cellular base station;
- identifying whether the electronic device is present inside a predetermined area based on a first position of the electronic device obtained based on the received cellular data;
- receiving information about at least one wireless LAN base station;
- obtaining a second position of the electronic device based on the received information about the at least one wireless LAN base station and the obtained position;
- and
- wherein the obtaining of the second position of the electronic device based on the information about the at least one wireless LAN base station comprises:
- obtaining the information about the at least one wireless LAN base station by scanning surroundings of the electronic device, and
- estimating the second position of the electronic device by comparing wireless LAN base station information included in a first wireless LAN map corresponding to an area positioned based on the received cellular data among at least one wireless LAN map stored in a memory of the electronic device with the information about the wireless LAN base station obtained by the scanning.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.