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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2018
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Junichi Imoto, Osaka, JP;
Yukie Shoda, Osaka, JP;
Toru Tanigawa, Osaka, JP;
Yusuke Tsukamoto, Osaka, JP;
Seiya Imomoto, Hyogo, JP;
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
An orientation identification method for identifying an orientation of a device installed by being mounted on a moving body includes: obtaining a certain amount of acceleration in three mutually orthogonal directions detected by an acceleration sensor included in the device; and identifying the orientation of the device expressed in a coordinate system from acceleration data indicating the certain amount of acceleration obtained in the obtaining, according to movement characteristics indicated by statistics of acceleration during movement of the moving body expressed in the coordinate system, the coordinate system including a gravitational acceleration direction as an axis.