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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 11, 2015
Applicant:

Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Tatsuya Sekitsuka, Kunitachi, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 17/38 (2006.01); G01C 17/28 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 17/38 (2013.01); G01C 17/28 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electronic device includes a magnetic sensor which detects a magnetic field around the electronic device and outputs magnetic data in accordance with the magnetic field detected by the magnetic sensor, a position acquiring section which acquires position information regarding a geographic position of the electronic device, and a processing unit. The processing unit acquires, from the position acquiring section, specific position information for a specific position of the electronic device when an output vector of the magnetic data is oriented to a magnetic pole direction of the earth, derives a geomagnetic vector at the specific position based on the specific position information, and acquires an offset value based on a comparison between the geomagnetic vector and the output vector.


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