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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:
Apr. 28, 2015

Filed:

Jul. 23, 2013
Applicant:

Senionlab Ab, Linkoping, SE;

Inventors:

Christian Lundquist, Linkoping, SE;

Per Skoglar, Linkoping, SE;

Fredrik Gustafsson, Linkoping, SE;

Assignee:

SenionLab AB, Linkoping, SE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/00 (2006.01); G01C 21/20 (2006.01); G01C 21/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/206 (2013.01); G01C 21/005 (2013.01); G01C 21/16 (2013.01); G01C 21/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for positioning a user inside a building, wherein the user has a user carried device and the device is provided with a direction sensor and a movement sensor. The method includes providing the user carried device with a vector map of the building, wherein the vector map includes vectors and nodes representing possible movement paths for the user in the building; determining a starting point in the vector map, receiving movement information from the movement sensor, receiving direction information from the direction sensor, receiving a magnetic field map at the user carried device, wherein the magnetic field is detectable by the user carried device, and estimating a new position of the user based on the vector map, the movement information, the direction information and the property map.


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