Indoor Positioning Terminal, Network, System and Method

• US 20160178728A1
• Filed: 02/26/2016
• Published: 06/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Liu, Yan
• Application Number:
  US15/054,729
• Publication Number:
  US 20160178728A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/40 Correcting position, velocity or attitude
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0264 at least one of the systems being a non-radio wave positioning system
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/16 using electromagnetic waves other than radio waves
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/33 for indoor environments, e.g. buildings

Abstract

An indoor positioning terminal, network, system, and methods which relate to an indoor positioning terminal, including a memory, a camera, and a processor where the camera is configured to capture, with low exposure, a picture of an indoor lighting device, and the memory is configured to store indoor positioning map data, where the indoor positioning map data includes an indoor electronic map and three-dimensional data information of the indoor lighting device that use a same frame of reference, and the processor is configured to perform correlation matching between the three-dimensional data of the indoor lighting device and the captured picture of the indoor lighting device, and position a location of the positioning terminal on the indoor electronic map when the picture is acquired.

Claims

1. An indoor positioning terminal, comprising:

a memory;

a camera; and

a processor, wherein the memory, the camera and the processor are coupled to each other,

wherein the camera is configured to capture, with low exposure, a picture of an indoor lighting device,

wherein the memory is configured to store indoor positioning map data, wherein the indoor positioning map data comprises an indoor electronic map and three-dimensional data information of the indoor lighting device that use a same frame of reference, and

wherein the processor is configured to;

perform correlation matching between the three-dimensional data information of the indoor lighting device and the captured picture of the indoor lighting device; and

position a location of the indoor positioning terminal on the indoor electronic map when the picture is acquired.

2. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

perform the correlation matching, wherein the correlation matching has a fault tolerance processing capability; and

estimate a matching degree using another lighting device when there is a difference in some lighting devices between the picture of the indoor lighting device and the three-dimensional data information.

3. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to output an orientation of the camera of the indoor positioning terminal.

4. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

acquire a wide angle that is used by the camera to capture the picture of the indoor lighting device;

map the three-dimensional data information of the indoor lighting device into a two-dimensional simulation view with a same wide angle according to the wide angle of the indoor picture; and

perform the correlation matching.

5. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

acquire a three-dimensional space attitude of the camera; and

perform the correlation matching with the three-dimensional data information of the indoor lighting device according to an attitude same as the three-dimensional space attitude of the camera.

6. The terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

a wireless network communicator coupled to the processor and configured to;

measure signal strength of a wireless network;

exchange information with the wireless network;

locate an area in which a user terminal is located, and

wherein the processor is further configured to perform, in the area, the correlation matching between the picture of the indoor lighting device and the three-dimensional data information of the indoor lighting device.

7. The terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a satellite positioning system coupled to the processor and configured to collect signals of some positioning satellites, wherein the signals of some positioning satellites are used to perform correction on an indoor positioning location with reference to existing indoor location information.

8. The terminal according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to control the camera to acquire two types of images:

a first type of image is used for indoor positioning; and

a second type of image is used for a virtual reality display of a positioning result.

9. A method for an indoor positioning terminal, comprising:

controlling a camera to acquire, with low exposure, an indoor image;

performing correlation matching between three-dimensional data of a lighting device in the indoor image and three-dimensional data of an indoor lighting device that serves as a positioning reference using an image of the lighting device in the indoor image;

positioning reference three-dimensional data of the lighting device in an indoor electronic map; and

positioning, according to a correlation between the three-dimensional data of the indoor lighting device and the indoor electronic map, a location of the indoor positioning terminal on the indoor electronic map when the picture is shot.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein positioning, according to the correlation between the three-dimensional data of the indoor lighting device and the indoor electronic map, the location of the indoor positioning terminal on the indoor electronic map when the picture is shot further comprises positioning an orientation of the camera of the indoor positioning terminal according to the correlation between the three-dimensional data of the indoor lighting device and the indoor electronic map.

11. The method according to claim 9, wherein performing correlation matching between three-dimensional data of the lighting device in the indoor image and three-dimensional data of the indoor lighting device that serves as the positioning reference using the image of the lighting device in the indoor image further comprises:

performing correlation matching having fault tolerance processing; and

estimating a matching degree using another lighting device when there is a difference in some lighting devices between the image of the indoor lighting device and three-dimensional data information.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising sending the found difference between the some lighting devices and the three-dimensional data information to an indoor positioning server using a communicator.

13. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

acquiring a wide angle that is used by the camera to capture the indoor image, and

wherein performing the correlation matching further comprises;

matching the three-dimensional data of the indoor lighting device to a two-dimensional simulation view with a same wide angle according to the wide angle of the indoor picture; and

performing the correlation matching.

14. The method according to claim 9, further comprising:

acquiring a three-dimensional space attitude of the camera, and

wherein performing the correlation matching further comprises performing the correlation matching with the three-dimensional data of the indoor lighting device according to an attitude same as the three-dimensional space attitude of the camera.

15. An indoor positioning system, comprising:

a camera of a terminal;

a positioning database; and

a processor coupled to the positioning database and the camera of the terminal,

wherein the camera of the terminal is configured to capture, with low exposure, a picture of an indoor lighting device,

wherein the positioning database is configured to store three-dimensional data information of the indoor lighting device that serves as a positioning reference, wherein the three-dimensional data information of the indoor lighting device and an indoor electronic map use a same frame of reference, and

wherein the processor is configured to;

perform correlation matching between the three-dimensional data information of the indoor lighting device and the captured picture of the indoor lighting device; and

position a location of a positioning terminal on the indoor electronic map when the picture is acquired.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to:

perform the correlation matching, wherein the correlation matching has a fault tolerance processing capability; and

estimate a matching degree using another lighting device when there is a difference in some lighting devices between the picture of the indoor lighting device and the three-dimensional data information.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein the processor is further configured to update the positioning database according to the found difference between the some lighting devices and the three-dimensional data information.

18. The system according to claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to:

acquire a wide angle that is used by the camera of the terminal to capture the picture of the indoor lighting device;

match the three-dimensional data information of the indoor lighting device into a two-dimensional simulation view with a same wide angle according to the wide angle of the picture of the indoor lighting device; and

perform the correlation matching.

19. The system according to claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to:

acquire a three-dimensional space attitude of the camera of the terminal; and

perform the correlation matching with the three-dimensional data information of the indoor lighting device according to an attitude same as the three-dimensional space attitude of the camera of the terminal.