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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2015
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, JP;
Site Sensing Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Masakatsu Kourogi, Tsukuba, JP;
Takeshi Kurata, Tsukuba, JP;
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Tokyo, JP;
SITE SENSING INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a device and a method which allow a travel direction of a moving body to be estimated more efficiently. The present invention provides a travel direction estimating device for estimating a traveling direction in which a moving body travels, including: an accelerometer for detecting an acceleration by which the moving body travels; an angular velocity sensor for detecting an angular velocity by which the moving body travels; and a travel direction vector determining section for determining the traveling direction of the moving body by calculating, based on the acceleration detected by the accelerometer and on the angular velocity detected by the angular velocity sensor.