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7236100 Personal communication and positioning system  
A location tagged data provision and display system. A personal communication device (PCD) with electromagnetic communication capability has a GPS receiver and a display. The PCD requests maps and...
7227453 Multi-control telematics in a vehicle  
An apparatus and method allow either the driver or a passenger in a vehicle to operate a telematic unit in the vehicle. Communication requests may be prioritized, depending upon the type of...
7221287 Three-dimensional traffic report  
Disclosed herein is a traveler information monitoring and dissemination system. The system disclosed herein provides real time information to a traveler, wherein the real time information may be...
7212989 Vehicle-mounted communication device and road-to-vehicle communication device  
A vehicle-mounted communication device and a road-to-vehicle communication device are provided which each allow communication of information using a simple structure by making leakage of...
7202797 System and a method for detecting, locating and discerning an approach towards a linear installation  
A system and a method for detecting, locating and identifying incidents of approaching a linear installation (e.g.—buried pipe line, railway, fence etc.), that includes plurality of sensing units...
7190260 Reaction advantage anti-collision systems and methods  
A vehicle anti-collision system and method for is disclosed which provides drivers with additional time in which to react to significant roadway events which often precede accidents. The simplest...
7190262 Transponder communications system  
A unit ( 1 ) for use in a vehicle is interrogated and identified by a fixed interrogator ( 2 ). A wireless form of communication is established between the unit ( 1 ) and interrogator ( 2 ) to...
7190283 Intersection safety light assembly and method  
An intersection safety light assembly and method for warning a driver of a vehicle on a first road of an approaching vehicle on a second road which is approaching an intersection of the first and...
7183942 Speed trap detection and warning system  
A speed trap detection and warning system for a vehicle ( 9 ) comprises a GPS or mobile telephone signal receiver and processor which calculates the location of the vehicle ( 9 ), the speed thereof...
7180428 Compact radar vehicle speed monitor  
A display indicates speed in GREEN when the approaching vehicle is traveling below or equal to the user set compliance speed. The primary display flashes RED when the approaching vehicle is...
7176810 On-vehicle DSRC apparatus  
An on-vehicle DSRC apparatus capable of being operated with a battery power supply while decreasing power consumption includes a radio unit ( 1 ) for performing communication with an on-road radio...
7176813 System and method for processing and displaying traffic information in an automotive navigation system  
A system and method for displaying traffic information in an automotive navigation system having a display, memory and a data receiver. The method includes the first step of storing in a traffic...
7174152 System for event correlation in cellular networks  
A method and system for correlating the performance of at least one cellular coverage area with external impact events. The method can include receiving and storing performance data for the...
7167104 System and method to wirelessly communicate information between traffic control signs and vehicles  
A system and method to wirelessly communicate information between traffic control signs and vehicles are provided. The method includes wirelessly communicating traffic control information from a...
7164365 Vehicle mounted travel surface and weather condition monitoring system  
A system and apparatus for detecting and evaluating surface conditions on a road surface and atmospheric conditions simultaneously from a vehicle includes a sensor for detecting the presence of...
7161497 System for aggregating traveler information  
Disclosed herein is a traveler information monitoring and dissemination system. The system disclosed herein provides real time information to a traveler, wherein the real time information may be...
7151992 Externally activated non-negative acceleration system  
The present invention is designed to complement the existing transportation infrastructure in order to alleviate ever-worsening traffic congestion in problematic areas by minimizing the impact of...
7151468 Stop alert warning system  
An on-site roadway warning system for alerting a driver of an approaching vehicle of a need to brake the vehicle. A transceiver radiates electromagnetic energy toward the approaching vehicle and...
7148813 Light emitting traffic sign having vehicle sensing capabilities  
A traffic system for alerting a driver of a motor vehicle to a traffic sign includes a sensor, a light source and a control unit. The sensor provides a motor vehicle detection signal and the...
7145479 Method for providing traffic information  
A method for providing traffic information concerning one or more specific sections of a route to a traveler includes the steps of generating a bundle of traffic advisory messages for the traveler...
7127068 Geographical comparison system and method  
Systems and methods to create venue tokens that provide generalized geographic information while preserving location specific data. In one embodiment, a Universal Location Descriptor (ULD)...
7113107 Intelligent selectively-targeted communications systems and methods  
There is disclosed a system and method wherein precise geographical location information such as Global Positioning System coordinate data is utilized as a principal criterion for implementing...
7109884 Traffic stop sign safety enhancement system  
The system includes a stop sign device, a wave signal transmitter, a signal receiver and a warning signal. The wave signal transmitter is located at the stop sign device, that is it is near it, or...
7106212 Mobile radio communication for automatic toll collection system  
A mobile radio communication device for an automatic toll collection system executes toll charging processing and travel guide. It communicates with road-side communication devices at an entrance...
7103473 Method and system for matching an incident to a route  
The present invention provides a method and system for depicting an online map of a route along with any incidents on the route. To create the map, a consumer first provides the origination and...
7103474 Navigation device  
A bypass setting for a section connecting arbitrary guide points is received by a bypass setting receiving section 6 and a route to a destination is re-searched by a route searching means 3 in...
7098805 Method and system for monitoring vehicular traffic using a wireless communications network  
A system for providing advertising information. The system includes a plurality of motion sensors and a database. The plurality of motion sensors are configured to detect traffic information along...
7096115 Method and system for developing traffic messages  
A method for developing traffic messages is disclosed. Data indicating traffic speed at a plurality of locations on a road network are obtained. Each of the locations is assigned a unique location...
7095337 Road traffic weather-monitoring system and self-luminous road sign system  
A self-luminous road sign system comprises a plurality of sensor units 1 . . . 1 each of which is equipped at least with a visibility meter and an illuminance meter, or which may be equipped with...
7096100 Vehicle-mounted apparatus and guidance system  
A guidance system includes a vehicle-mounted apparatus. A sensor-signal input unit inputs a vehicle-sensor signal for acquiring a vehicle status. A determining unit determines a movement of the...
7091835 Vehicle location system using a kinetic network  
An on-board unit for a vehicle is disclosed. The unit includes a primary communication system, the primary communication system being adapted to communicate with a remote location, and being...
7091880 Licensed driver detection for high occupancy toll lane qualification  
A method for collecting tolls on a high occupancy toll lane includes detecting a number of driver's licenses inserted into a card reader located in a vehicle and transmitting the number of driver's...
7092724 Method and apparatus for waypoint services navigational system  
A Waypoint Services Navigational System (WSNS) is disclosed comprising a mobile unit connected to a server and to a database by the Internet. The WSNS uses omnipresent digital cellular links or any...
7084775 Method and system for generating and sending user-centric weather alerts  
A meteorological alert system for mobile devices and users that includes a weather information service for analyzing meteorological data, generating device-specific weather alerts and transmitting...
7085635 Enhanced automotive monitoring system using sound  
The vehicular monitoring system obtains audio information from the speech of occupants within the vehicle and then processes that audio information to extract information about the behavior of the...
7084784 Means of mounting a toll calculator in a motor vehicle  
It is proposed to assign a mounting arm to a toll calculator which is embodied as a surface-mounted device and which is connected in an articulated fashion to the toll calculator and can be mounted...
7081834 Aviation weather awareness and reporting enhancements (AWARE) system using a temporal-spatial weather database and a Bayesian network model  
An Aviation Weather Awareness and Reporting Enhancements (AWARE) system provides situational awareness by effectively filtering, analyzing and visualizing aviation weather data and specific hazard...
7081833 Speed violation control system using dedicated short-range communication  
A speed violation control system using a dedicated short-range communication comprises Road-Side Equipment for transmitting the speed information of a vehicle and for receiving processed results...
7079048 Mobile communication unit  
A mobile communications terminal receives information based on a location and time at regular time intervals. To acquire information, an input section accepts setting input from the user and stores...
7069143 Mobile traffic information system  
The present invention provides a device, system, and method for a portable handheld device for displaying information. An embodiment of the invention provides a portable handheld device for...
7057499 Communication system for communicating between moving objects and vehicular driving support apparatus  
In a communication system for communicating between moving objects in which a moving object determines the peripheral state based on moving object information transmitted and received using...
7057532 Road safety warning system and method  
An in-vehicle system for tracking events that occur at specific locations of a transportation route and alerting a driver of an impending significant event includes a location determination unit...
7054612 Message broadcast to mobile station in wireless network  
A wireless network that broadcasts a message from a telecommunication system to mobile stations associated with the wireless network is provided. The wireless network includes one or more mobile...
7053780 Methods, systems, and devices for location specific alerts  
Methods, systems, and devices for location specific alerts. The method can include determining one or more positions using a navigation device. One or more weather signals received on at least a...
7042345 Intelligent vehicle apparatus and method for using the apparatus  
The present intelligent vehicle apparatus includes, and a method utilizes, radar and sensor based systems, video and digital image processing, charged-coupled-device cameras, global positioning...
7027990 System and method for integrating the visual display of text menus for interactive voice response systems  
The present invention solves the serial nature of today's Interactive Voice Response (IVR) telephony menu systems, by means of visually “looking ahead” and in any direction in the nested audio...
7026958 Method and system of utilizing satellites to transmit traffic congestion information to vehicles  
A method and system for collecting and distributing vehicle traffic congestion information is disclosed. The method and system optionally involves deploying probe vehicles or other data sources for...
7027917 Information display apparatus and information display method  
To perform provision of information which allows a driver to generally know events which a vehicle is about to reach, and which calls the driver's attention to the events. A computer 14 controls...
7012509 Device for detecting a running surface for vehicle and vehicle using same  
The invention concerns a device for detecting a running surface for vehicle, comprising a plurality of sensors designed to be oriented towards the running surface to determine modifications...
7006796 Optimized communication system for radio-assisted traffic services  
An optimized communications system for radio-assisted traffic services such as railroad services. In addition to the fixed-position central services and the fixed-position decentralized control...