SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED DEVICE PAIRING

• Main Authors: CHRISTOPHER ESPOSITO, JAMES J TROY, VLADIMIR KARAKUSEVIC
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 09.02.2017
• Subjects: AIRCRAFT; ARRANGEMENTS OR MOUNTING OF POWER PLANTS OR PROPULSIONTRANSMISSIONS IN AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COSMONAUTICS; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT; FLYING SUITS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; PARACHUTES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; TRANSMISSION; TRANSPORTING; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for electronically pairing a plurality of seat units with a plurality of controllable devices in an aircraft.SOLUTION: The system comprises: a scanner 100 movable relative to a plurality of seat units 202 and a plurality of controllable devices 204 each having RFID tags, the scanner configured to obtain a continuum of received signals; a distance sensor configured to determine a relative position of the scanner; a filter configured to disregard outliers in the continuum of received signals and smooth the continuum of received signals so as to create respective sets of received signal data for each RFID tag, on the basis of a unique ID in each received signal associated with each RFID tag, where each set of received signal data includes data points having the unique ID and a received signal strength, and where a relative time and a relative position are determined for each data point; and a processor.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】航空機内の複数の座席ユニットを複数の制御可能装置と電子的にペアリングするためのシステムを提供する。【解決手段】ＲＦＩＤタグを有する複数の座席ユニット２０２及び複数の制御可能装置２０４に対して移動可能な、一連の受信信号を取得するように構成されたスキャナ１００と、スキャナの相対位置を求めるように構成された距離センサーと、各受信信号における各ＲＦＩＤタグに関連付けられた固有のＩＤに基づいて、前記一連の受信信号における異常値を無視して、前記一連の受信信号を平滑化することにより、前記固有のＩＤ及び受信信号強度を有するデータポイントを含むとともに、各データポイントについて相対時間及び相対位置が求められている、それぞれの組の受信信号データを各ＲＦＩＤタグについて作成するように構成されたフィルターと、プロセッサと、を含む。【選択図】図２