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Electronic device and method for determining a distance between mobile devices based on a probabilistic model

US10708717B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

SONY GROUP CORPORATION · JP

Inventors

Tom Hostyn · Stuttgart, DE
Jeroen Ost · Stuttgart, DE
Anatoliy Lubashevskiy · Stuttgart, DE
Olivier Demarto · Dendermonde, BE
Masatomo Kurata · Tokyo, JP
Sota Matsuzawa · Tokyo, JP
Serkan Eryilmaz · Basingstoke, GB
Paulius Sarka · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 23, 2019
Grant date	Jul 7, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 23, 2039

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04W68/005
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An electronic device includes a tracking unit that tracks a movement of a first mobile device and a movement of a second mobile device, based on a position of the first mobile device and a position of the second mobile device received from a position estimation unit; a determination unit that determines a probability distribution of a distance between the first mobile device and the second mobile device, based on a probabilistic model, and the position of the first mobile device and the position of the second mobile device; and an action unit that performs action, based on the determined probability distribution of the distance.

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