DATA COMPRESSING METHOD, DATA PROVIDING METHOD, AND DATA COMPRESSING DEVICE

• US 20100052980A1
• Filed: 08/26/2009
• Published: 03/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: TOMITA, Kyoichi
• Application Number:
  US12/547,754
• Publication Number:
  US 20100052980A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 342/357.310
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/258 relating to the satellite constellation, e.g. almanac, ephemeris data, lists of satellites in view
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/27 creating, predicting or correcting ephemeris or almanac data within the receiver

Abstract

A data compressing method includes: calculating prediction orbit data of a plurality of positioning satellites moving along predetermined orbits around the earth by using prediction positions of the plural positioning satellites; calculating differences between standard orbit data as standard for the predetermined orbits around the earth and the prediction orbit data of the plural positioning satellites; and storing the differences.

Claims

1. A data compressing method comprising:

calculating prediction orbit data of a plurality of positioning satellites moving along predetermined orbits around the earth by using prediction positions of the plural positioning satellites;

calculating differences between standard orbit data as standard for the predetermined orbits around the earth and the prediction orbit data of the plural positioning satellites; and

storing the differences.

2. The data compressing method according to claim 1, wherein:

the predetermined orbits around the earth contain a plurality of orbits having different inclination angles with respect to the earth, along which orbits the plural positioning satellites move; and

the data compressing method further includes calculating the standard orbit data of the plural orbits based on one basic orbit of the plural orbits and the inclination angles.

3. The data compressing method according to claim 1, further comprising:

calculating reference orbit data of the plural positioning satellites based on the prediction positions of the plural positioning satellites,

wherein the differences are calculated using the reference orbit data as the standard orbit data.

4. The data compressing method according to claim 1, wherein:

the prediction orbit data is calculated for each of predetermined unit terms;

the differences are calculated for each of the predetermined unit terms; and

the differences are stored using substitute data containing the differences of the plural positioning satellites for each of the predetermined unit terms instead of long-term satellite orbit almanac data containing the prediction orbit data of the plural positioning satellites for each of the predetermined unit terms.

5. A data providing method which provides the substitute data calculated by the data compressing method according to claim 4 instead of the long-term satellite orbit almanac data.

6. A data compressing device, comprising:

a prediction orbit data calculating unit which calculates prediction orbit data of a plurality of positioning satellites moving along predetermined orbits around the earth by using prediction positions of the plural positioning satellites;

a difference calculating unit which calculates differences between standard orbit data as standard for the predetermined orbits around the earth and the prediction orbit data of the plural positioning satellites; and

a difference storing unit which stores the differences.