# US 10,481,272 B2 · Radio navigation device and method for receiving, evaluating and processing faulty navigation signals > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,481,272 B2 - Document ID: US10481272B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/036,041 - Filed: 2014-11-11 - Published: 2016-09-29 - Granted: 2019-11-19 - Earliest claimed: 2013-11-11 - Assignees: Neusoft Technology Solutions GmbH - Applicants: Neusoft Technology Solutions GmbH - Inventors: Stefan Hanika-Heidl; Laurenz Pruessner; Veit Droege; Michael Rieck - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10481272B2 ## CPC - G01S 19/05: providing aiding data - G01S 5/009: {Transmission of differential positioning data to mobile} - G01S 19/07: providing data for correcting measured positioning data, e.g. DGPS [differential GPS] or ionosphere corrections - G01S 19/41: Differential correction, e.g. DGPS [differential GPS] - G01S: RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES ## Abstract In some implementations, the radio navigation device has a data bank or may be associated with the latter, which data bank provides substantially statically stored, pre-determinable positioning data on defined, predictable regions or areas, and the data bank sends error information of the received radio navigation signals to the evaluating apparatus and/or to a user terminal dependently upon pre-defined location information relating to predictable regions or areas of deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A radio navigation device for satellite-supported position determination for receiving, evaluating and processing faulty navigation signals, containing at least one receiving apparatus and at least one evaluating apparatus, comprising: a data bank associated with a satellite and configured to provide substantially statically stored, pre-determinable positioning data on regions where previously-detected radio navigation signals were determined to be deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception, and send error information of the previously-detected radio navigation signals to a receiving apparatus in response a current location being at least proximate the regions or areas that are deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception, a position of the data bank being determined when the radio navigation signals are deficient. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein the data bank are at least one of predetermined spatially or predetermined temporally. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein the pre-determinable positioning data of the data bank are assigned at least one error type, based on a type of deficiency determined. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The device according to claim 1, wherein the receiving apparatus is activated or deactivated at least one of location-dependently or at pre-defined times in predictable regions or areas of deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The device according to claim 4, wherein the receiving apparatus provides at least one set of range data which at least one of specifies a relative position of objects in the predictable regions or areas of deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception. ### Claim 6 A method for receiving, evaluating and processing navigation signals for satellite-supported position determination, in particular using a radio navigation device including a data bank associated with a satellite and that provides substantially statically stored, pre-determinable positioning data on regions where previously-detected radio navigation signals were determined to be deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception, and sends error information of the previously-detected radio navigation signals to a receiving apparatus in response a current location being at least proximate the regions that are deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception, a position being determined when the radio navigation signals are unavailable, comprising: providing, by the radio navigation device, at least one receiving apparatus and at least one evaluating apparatus and a data bank; connecting, by the radio navigation device, the evaluating apparatus to the data bank associated with a satellite, the data bank having positioning data which are pre-determined and comprising predictable, statically stored regions that are deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception; sending, by the radio navigation device, the pre-determined positioning data of the data bank based upon pre-defined location information with regard to predictable regions that are deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception and error information of the received navigation signals to at least one of the evaluating apparatus; and determining, by the radio navigation device, the corrected position of at least one receiving apparatus by using the positioning data of the data bank associated with a satellite, the radio navigation signals being deficient. ### Claim 7 A method for receiving, evaluating and processing navigation signals for satellite-supported position determination, in particular using a radio navigation device including a data bank and that provides substantially statically stored, predeterminable positioning data on regions where previously-detected radio navigation signals were determined to be deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception, and sends error information of the previously-detected radio navigation signals to a receiving apparatus in response a current location being at least proximate the regions that are deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception, comprising: providing, by the radio navigation device, at least one receiving apparatus and at least one evaluating apparatus and a data bank; connecting, by the radio navigation device, the evaluating apparatus to the data bank, the data bank having positioning data which are pre-determined and comprising predictable, statically stored regions of that are deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception and are associated with an error type based on the type of deficiency; sending, by the radio navigation device, the pre-determined positioning data of the data bank dependently upon predefined location information with regard to predictable that are deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception and error information of the received navigation signals to at least one of the evaluating apparatus; determining, by the radio navigation device, a corrected position of at least one receiving apparatus by using the positioning data of the data bank; and determining, by the radio navigation device, the corrected position of at least one receiving apparatus by using the error type of the predictable regions that are deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception of the data bank. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The method according to claim 7, further comprising eliminating the received navigation signal data with deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, further comprising connecting the evaluating apparatus to the data bank, at least one of the receiving apparatuses may be predefinably activated or deactivated depending on at least one of a location or time in predictable regions or areas of deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The method according to claim 9, wherein range data is provided by the at least one receiving apparatus which specifies a relative position of objects in the predictable regions or areas of deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The method according to claim 10, wherein the range data is provided by the at least one receiving apparatus and may be pre-definably activated or deactivated upon approaching the predictable regions or areas of deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The method according to claim 10, wherein that range data is provided by the at least one receiving apparatus and may be pre-definably activated or deactivated upon moving away from the predictable regions or areas of deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception. ### Claim 13 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein the predeterminable position data specifies a relative position of objects. ### Claim 14 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, further comprising adapting the algorithms of the position determination based on the error type. ### Claim 15 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein that the position determination may be carried out up to a relative position after leaving the predictable regions or areas of deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception dependently upon range and the error type on the predictable regions or areas of deficient or lacking radio navigation signal reception.