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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2018
Nec Laboratories Europe Gmbh, Heidelberg, DE;
Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Heidelberg, DE;
Antonio Albanese, Heidelberg, DE;
Xavier Costa Perez, Heidelberg, DE;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A system for localizing user devices includes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV includes a transceiver configured to establish a communicative connection with a user device, and retrieve information pertaining to the user device at each of a plurality of different points in time. The UAV further includes a satellite-localization system configured to ascertain a geographic location of the UAV at each of the plurality of different points in time, and a processor. The processor is configured to, based on the information pertaining to the user device retrieved at each of the plurality of different points in time and on the geographic location of the UAV at each of the plurality of different points in time, determine a location of the user device.