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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:
Apr. 07, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 08, 2016
Applicant:

Osram Gmbh, Munich, DE;

Inventors:

Henry Feil, Unterhaching, DE;

Florian Wildner, Munich, DE;

Assignee:

OSRAM GmbH, Munich, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 11/06 (2006.01); G01S 5/02 (2010.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04B 10/116 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 11/06 (2013.01); G01S 5/0252 (2013.01); G01S 5/0263 (2013.01); H04B 10/116 (2013.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 4/023 (2013.01); H04W 64/006 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for analyzing an environment of a mobile terminal by emission of unique identification data associated with at least one lighting device, by a light-based communication of the at least one lighting device, and determination of location coordinates of the mobile terminal in accordance with the identification data collected using an optical sensing unit of the mobile terminal with respect to the at least one lighting device, on the basis of the stored location coordinates of the at least one lighting device, each correlated with a respective installation position of the at least one lighting device, wherein provision of a respective sensor signal by at least one environmental signal sensor, extraction of environmental data from the respective sensor signal, and storage of the environmental data in accordance with the location coordinates of the mobile terminal, causing existing environmental data to be updated.


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