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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2017
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Yechen Huang, Shanghai, CN;
Patrick Minggang Lu, Shanghai, CN;
Chao Chen, Shanghai, CN;
Jerry Yong Yang, Shanghai, CN;
Guifeng Tang, Shanghai, CN;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method of positioning and a corresponding portable device. In one embodiment, a method of positioning is provided. The method comprises: capturing, by image capturing equipment of a portable device, a visually encoded to in an environment; decoding the visually encoded tag to obtain an identification for generating the visually encoded tag; and determining a location of the portable device in the environment by querying a predefined library using the identification, the library recording correspondences between a set of identifications for generating visually encoded tags and a set of locations in the environment.