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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:
Oct. 28, 2014

Filed:

Nov. 30, 2012
Applicant:

Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited, Cambridge, GB;

Inventors:

Murray Robert Jarvis, Stapleford, GB;

Nicolas Graube, Barrington, GB;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/00 (2009.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00771 (2013.01); H04W 24/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for detecting a collector device in an indoor area associated with imaging devices covering the area includes a plurality of collector devices emitting markers to the imaging devices coupled to a server. The imaging devices capture the images of the collector devices including the markers. The images are processed in order to determine the current positions of the collector devices corresponding to the markers. The server and the collector device communicate with each other and match a current position corresponding to the collector device among the plurality of collector devices.


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