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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2016
Foundation of Soongsil University-industry Cooperation, Seoul, KR;
Jiman Hong, Seoul, KR;
Sanghoon Choi, Anyang-si, KR;
Eunseok Choi, Seoul, KR;
Taegyu Hwang, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
Provided is a location tracking system and a method of operating the location tracking system. The location tracking system selects either an indoor location tracking mode or an outdoor location tracking mode according to whether a user is currently indoors or outdoors and tracks the location of the user. The location tracking system tracks an indoor location of the user using access point (AP) signal intensity information and a step detection technique when tracking the location of a user in the indoor location tracking mode, and tracks the outdoor location of a user using a global positioning system (GPS) and a step detection technique when tracking the location of the user in the outdoor location tracking mode.