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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2005
Aiyou Chen, New Providence, NJ (US);
Cristina Laura Harko, Northampton, MA (US);
Diane Lambert, Summit, NJ (US);
Philip A. Whiting, New Providence, NJ (US);
Aiyou Chen, New Providence, NJ (US);
Cristina Laura Harko, Northampton, MA (US);
Diane Lambert, Summit, NJ (US);
Philip A. Whiting, New Providence, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
A system for, and method of, position estimation of, or tracking, an object. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a map generator configured to create, without requiring a propagation model, a mean map for the region and (2) a measurement matching engine associated with the map generator and configured to match received measurements regarding the object to a number of nearest neighboring grid points in the mean map.