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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:
Jun. 06, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 06, 2015
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Mohamed Youssef, Marion, IA (US);

Andi Jakupi, Marion, IA (US);

Bruce McCullough, Robins, IA (US);

William Stewart, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/00 (2006.01); G01S 19/48 (2010.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G01C 21/28 (2006.01); G01S 19/50 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 19/48 (2013.01); G01C 21/28 (2013.01); G01S 19/50 (2013.01); G06F 17/30241 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and portable devices capable of adaptive synthetic positioning while in a dead zone are described. In one method, when a portable device having a Global Navigational Satellite System (GNSS) receiver and a dead zone database enters a dead zone, it determines whether the dead zone database has a record for the dead zone. If it does, it retrieves parameters corresponding to the dead zone from the database and calculates synthetic position solutions using the retrieved parameters while in the dead zone. The portable device may also use the synthetic position solutions to help calculate position solutions when exiting the dead zone. If a dead zone database record does not exist, the portable device determines parameters for calculating synthetic position solutions in the dead zone and a new dead zone database record indicating a set of parameters based on the determined set of parameters is created.


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