METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING LOCATION OF MOBILE DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for determining a location of a mobile device with reference to locations of a plurality of reference devices.SOLUTION: The mobile device receives ambient sound and provides ambient sound information to a server. Each reference device receives ambient sound and provides ambient sound information to the server. The ambient sound information includes a sound signature extracted from the ambient sound. The server determines a degree of similarity of the ambient sound information between the mobile device and each of the plurality of reference devices. The server determines that the location of the mobile device is a location of a reference device having the greatest degree of similarity.