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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:
May. 03, 2016

Filed:

May. 20, 2014
Applicant:

Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);

Inventors:

Giorgio Corbellini, Zurich, CH;

Stefan Mangold, Berne, CH;

Vladimir Vukadinovic, Zurich, CH;

Assignee:

Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/04 (2009.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 64/00 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

An audio-based navigation system for determining a present location or position of a mobile device such as a smartphone within a venue. The system includes a sound system with a first speaker playing first audio content and a second speaker playing second audio content. The first speaker is positioned in a first space in a venue, and the second speaker is positioned in a second space of the venue. The navigation system also includes a mobile device with memory storing a database of fingerprints of a plurality of differing audio content. The mobile device includes a microphone for receiving an audio signal associated with the first audio content or with the second audio content. The mobile device includes a processor(s) selectively running software to determine the mobile device location in the first or second space using either fingerprinting or watermarking module by processing the received audio signal.


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