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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
May. 13, 2019
Applicant:
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Shunsuke Konagai, Tokyo, JP;
Hitoshi Seshimo, Tokyo, JP;
Hirofumi Abe, Tokyo, JP;
Yuki Kurauchi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 7/579 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/74 (2017.01); G06T 7/579 (2017.01);
Abstract
A position where a user is located can be estimated easily and quickly. When a hold detection unitdetects that the user holds a mobile terminalby hand to use the mobile terminalthat is held by at least one hand of the user when used by the user and has a cameraon the surface facing the ceiling when used by the user, the estimation unitestimates a position where a ceiling is located as the position where the user is located by using an image of the ceiling captured by the camera