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Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 03, 2016
Applicant:

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kazuyoshi Horie, Tokyo, JP;

Hideyuki Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 15/00 (2006.01); G01S 15/74 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 15/74 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein is a mobile terminal including: a reproducing section adapted to reproduce a first distance measurement signal; a recording section adapted to record the first distance measurement signal and a second distance measurement signal output from other mobile terminal; a time difference measurement section adapted to measure a first difference between recording start times of the first and second distance measurement signals; a communication section adapted to receive a second difference between recording start times of the first and second distance measurement signals from the other mobile terminal, the second difference being measured by the other mobile terminal; and a distance calculation section adapted to calculate a distance to the other mobile terminal by multiplying the subtraction result between the first and second differences by the speed of sound.


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