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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:
Jan. 01, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 23, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Reginald E. Bryant, Nairobi, KE;

Catherine H. Crawford, Carmel, NY (US);

Inseok Hwang, Austin, TX (US);

Aisha Walcott, Nairobi, KE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07C 5/08 (2006.01); G01C 21/16 (2006.01); G01C 25/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/16 (2013.01); G01C 25/005 (2013.01); G07C 5/085 (2013.01);
Abstract

An approach is provided by a mobile information handling system that includes a processor, and a gyroscope, a gravity sensor, and a memory each accessible by the processor. The approach identifies, at the mobile device that is moving with a vehicle, when a rotation of the gyroscope is at a near-zero moment, and an acceleration, wherein the acceleration is detected as being on a plane that is near-perpendicular with a gravity sensed by the gravity sensor. Then the detection is made, the approach determines a direction of the vehicle as being parallel to a direction of the detected acceleration. The approach then aligns a coordinate system used in the mobile device based on the determined direction of the vehicle.


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