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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2010
Naoto Toda, Tokyo, JP;
Naoto Toda, Tokyo, JP;
Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A positioning device comprising: a movement measurement unit that measures relative position variation; a positioning unit that enables measurement of positional information; and a control unit that starts continuous measurement of position variation by the movement measurement unit and measurement of positional information by the positioning unit at each predetermined timing for at least a specified position, and determines a position determination spot based on positional information of any of the at least two positions in a case that the difference between the amount of position variation and the amount of relative position variation is determined by the determining unit to be within a predetermined range, and calculates positional information of the specified position based on positional information of the position determination spot and information of position variation that has been continuously measured by the movement measurement unit.