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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2011
Motoharu Miyake, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Fujio Watanabe, Union City, CA (US);
Daichi Funato, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hyung Sik Shin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ismail Guvenc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Motoharu Miyake, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Fujio Watanabe, Union City, CA (US);
Daichi Funato, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hyung Sik Shin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ismail Guvenc, Santa Clara, CA (US);
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed herein for population tracking, counting and/or movement estimation. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving mobile phone operational data indicative of user equipment location, where the event data includes location area update messages and periodic registration messages; and performing travel estimation based on the mobile phone operation data, including performing interpolation on data associated with one or more individuals in a population to estimate intermediate positions of a trajectory of each of the one or more individuals for a specified time period based on a shortest path mesh sequence estimation algorithm.