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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:
Jun. 20, 2023

Filed:

Jul. 08, 2019
Applicant:

Verity Ag, Zurich, CH;

Inventors:

Luciano Beffa, Zurich, CH;

Markus Hehn, Zurich, CH;

Assignee:

Verity AG, Zurich, CH;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/10 (2006.01); G01C 21/16 (2006.01); G01C 21/18 (2006.01); G01C 22/00 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/106 (2019.05); G01C 21/165 (2013.01); G01C 21/18 (2013.01); G01C 22/00 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64U 2201/10 (2023.01);
Abstract

The system receives position information in both an internal coordinate frame and an external coordinate frame. The system uses a comparison of position information in these frames to determine orientation information. The system determines one or more orientation hypotheses, and analyzes the position information based on these hypotheses. The system may include on-board accelerometers, gyroscopes, or both that provide the measurements in the internal coordinate frame. These measurements may be integrated or otherwise processed to determine position, velocity, or both. Measurements in the external frame are provided by GPS sensors or other positioning systems. Position information is transformed to a common coordinate frame, and an error metric is determined. Based on the error metric, the system estimates a likelihood metric for each hypothesis, and determines a resulting hypothesis based on the maximum likelihood or a combination of likelihoods.


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