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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2013
Applicants:
Willem Bastiaan Kleijn, Lower Hutt, NZ;
Nikolay D. Gaubitch, CD Delft, NL;
Richard Heusdens, GA Delft, NL;
Inventors:
Willem Bastiaan Kleijn, Lower Hutt, NZ;
Nikolay D. Gaubitch, CD Delft, NL;
Richard Heusdens, GA Delft, NL;
Assignee:
GOOGLE INC., Mountain, View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 3/80 (2006.01); G01S 5/18 (2006.01); G01S 5/02 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 3/80 (2013.01); G01S 5/18 (2013.01); G01S 5/0278 (2013.01); G01S 5/0289 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided are methods and systems for finding the location of sensors (e.g., microphones) with unknown internal delays based on a set of events (e.g., acoustic events) with unknown event time. A localization algorithm may iteratively run to compute the acoustic event times, the observation delays, and the relative locations of the events and the sensors.