US Patent Issued to SONY on Nov. 3 for "Positioning apparatus, positioning method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,141, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SONY Corp. (Tokyo).

"Positioning apparatus, positioning method, and program" was invented by Takahiro Tsujii (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a positioning apparatus, a positioning method, and a program that make it possible to perform positioning with a high degree of accuracy using an acceleration sensor and an angular velocity sensor. A movement vector is estimated using a machine learning model on the basis of acceleration of a device and an angular velocity of the device, the movement vector indicating a movement amount and a movement direction of the device,...