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Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2024

Filed:

Oct. 05, 2022
Applicant:

Nextnav, Llc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Badrinath Nagarajan, Cupertino, CA (US);

Guiyuan Han, San Jose, CA (US);

Michael Dormody, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

NextNav, LLC, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 5/06 (2006.01); G01C 21/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 5/06 (2013.01); G01C 21/206 (2013.01);
Abstract

Extending the spatial coverage of a reference pressure network. Particular embodiments described herein include machines that initially determine that an estimated position of a mobile device resides outside a coverage area of a network of reference pressure sensors. Reference-level pressures corresponding to reference pressure sensors of the network are determined using measurements of pressure from the network of reference pressure sensors. A pressure pattern for a region that includes the estimated position and an area not included in the coverage area of the network is determined using reference-level pressures that were not determined using measurements of pressure from the network of reference pressure sensors. The reference-level pressures corresponding to reference pressure sensors of the network and the pressure pattern are used to determine a reference-level pressure value for use in calibrating a pressure sensor of the mobile device or for use in estimating an altitude of the mobile device.


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