MUMBAI, India, Aug. 8 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202441007365 A) filed by Bharat Electronics Limited, Bangalore, Karnataka, on Feb. 2, 2024, for 'system for pedestrian navigation and method thereof.'
Inventor(s) include Sowmya S; Ranu Tyagi; and Chaveli Ramesh.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 8, under issue no. 32/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure relates to a system (100) and method (400) for pedestrian navigation. The system (100) comprises a pedometer mounted on a waist of a pedestrian, one or more sensors (102) configured in the pedometer to detect a set of acceleration data pertain to a vertical acceleration data, a forward acceleration data and a lateral acceleration data, and a processing element (120) is interfaced with the one or more sensors (102), to receive the set of acceleration data, detect a number of steps of the pedestrian based on the vertical acceleration data, estimate length of each step and calculate the total distance travelled, determine from the detected forward and the lateral acceleration data, direction of the number of steps of the pedestrian corresponding to the detected step, and calculate a current position of the pedestrian with respect to a start point."
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