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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
May. 07, 2019
Applicant:
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Inventor:
Tetsu Nishimura, Kyoto, JP;
Assignee:
MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 5/14 (2006.01); G01S 5/02 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 5/14 (2013.01); G01S 5/0221 (2013.01); G01S 5/0284 (2013.01);
Abstract
A position estimation apparatus includes receivers that are disposed at different known positions and are configured to measure a reception intensity of a radio wave emitted from a mobile object and a calculator configured to sequentially perform, for each target receiver that is one of the receivers, processing for updating an estimated position of the mobile object such that the estimated position is closer to a presence circle having a center at the target receiver and a radius based on a reception intensity measured by the target receiver.