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7392134 Satellite navigation controller  
A navigation device changes a position determination accuracy of a receiver for satellite navigation to a higher accuracy in the following cases: when the subject vehicle approaches a destination,...
7388519 Displaying points of interest with qualitative information  
A method is disclosed for associating and displaying qualitative information with points of interest in a graphical map. In one embodiment, a method comprises the computer-implemented steps of...
7388516 Mobile apparatus  
A mobile apparatus senses without failing an object which exists in a traveling direction of itself even when a pedestrian is moving while looking at a screen on which information is displayed. The...
7382290 Mapping program including a map, process and system for precisely representing or determining a location on the map and an electronic device and a storage medium therefor  
A mapping program includes an overlay grid of intersecting lines represented by two series of numbers. An origin is defined and an area of interest is defined. The origin corresponds to a location...
7382289 Vehicular communication system  
A vehicular communication system comprises a wireless communication link from the vehicle to an external provider of information or service. Data pertaining to at least one of the location and the...
7376510 Map display for a navigation system  
A system and method are disclosed for displaying map information on a portable computing device. When approaching a location at which maneuvering guidance is to be provided by the portable...
7375622 Alarm generation method and apparatus  
An on-vehicle alarm generation method and an on-vehicle alarm generation apparatus for notifying a driver to be aware of safe driving by detecting a passerby or a bicycle moving at a dangerous...
7373247 Method and apparatus for updating map data, and computer-readable medium storing program for executing the method  
A method and an apparatus for easily updating map data in real time, using a device employing map data or a navigation system, through a transport protocol expert group (TPEG) service, and a...
7369872 Mobile communication device for searching data based on rotation degree and a method thereof  
Disclosed is a mobile communication device for searching data based on a rotation angle. The mobile communication device includes a body; a geomagnetic sensor for detecting a rotation angle of the...
7362241 Vehicle proximity warning apparatus, method and program  
A vehicle proximity warning apparatus includes a current location detector for detecting a current location of the user's vehicle, point information acquisition processor for acquiring map data,...
7359798 Method of controlling display of point information on map  
A map of a zoom area to be zoomed is displayed within a display screen while point information excluded from the zoom area is displayed in a position for indicating a direction thereof in a...
7359797 System and method for displaying images in an online directory  
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for generating an online listing, such as a yellow pages listing, that includes information about an object, such as a business, and...
7355528 Traffic information providing system and car navigation system  
A traffic information providing system externally acquires traffic information including information relating to the travel time of a link, calculates a travel time for a non-provision link to...
7355510 Telematics system vehicle tracking  
A method of tracking a vehicle including receiving vehicle information at a call center from a telematics unit via a wireless network, determining whether the vehicle information is associated with...
7353110 Car navigation device using forward real video and control method thereof  
A car navigation device using a forward real video and a control method thereof are disclosed. The car navigation device using a forward real video along the travel direction of a vehicle,...
7353109 Display method and apparatus for navigation system for performing cluster search of objects  
A method and apparatus for a navigation system conducts a data search for finding relative density of objects such as points of interest in a specified area and displays the result of the search in...
7352292 Real-time, three-dimensional synthetic vision display of sensor-validated terrain data  
A terrain database that is rendered in three-dimensional perspective on a Synthetic Vision display in a moving vehicle is updated in real-time in response to data from a ranging sensor. The updated...
7346451 Electronic device and program for displaying map  
When a guiding route is included in a display target region at a photograph display mode, route data of the guiding route is also read. Within the read route data, information of a region for...
7343564 Systems and methods for displaying location-based maps on communication devices  
Tickers are populated with location-based information that is selected according to the geographic location of communication devices. The location of a communication device is identified based on a...
7333888 Vehicle navigation system  
A vehicle navigation system transmits navigation information to a vehicle display in form of video data in a standard video format. The video data may be displayed as a still or a moving image. The...
7328102 Navigation intervention apparatus, intervention method and vehicle navigation system  
The present invention allows an existing single-sequentialized navigation main unit to be virtually multi-sequentialized with simple structure. An intervention device 3 receives from a front...
7328044 Mobile device registration system  
To provide a mobile device registration system, with which it is impossible to register from a third party's mobile device which is already registered with respect to one vehicle, a mobile device...
7321824 Presenting a travel route using more than one presentation style  
Techniques are provided for presenting a route in a manner that emphasizes the route and provides context information. For example, a vivid color or vivid colors may be used to display the route,...
RE40013 Method and apparatus for detection and remote notification of vehicle parking space availability data  
A method and apparatus for providing timely and efficient notification of vehicle parking space availability and locations of vehicle parking spaces to motorists or other network users. Local...
7319412 Asset monitoring and tracking system  
An apparatus and method for monitoring and reporting the status of a mobile asset are described, where the mobile asset may be moved by a transport vehicle from a starting location to a destination...
7315259 Techniques for displaying and caching tiled map data on constrained-resource services  
Techniques are disclosed that enable users to access and use digital mapping systems with constrained-resource services and/or mobile devices (e.g., cell phones and PDAs). In particular, latency of...
7305417 System and process for identifying objects and/or points nearby a given object or point  
A system and process is presented that identifies nearby objects and/or points in relation to a base object or point. An object or point is nearby if it resides within a prescribed area around the...
7304589 Vehicle-to-vehicle communication device and method of controlling the same  
A vehicle-to-vehicle communication device installed on a subject vehicle includes a detection function, a transmission function, a report function and a signal-processing function to display...
7299128 Vehicle navigation system  
To provide a vehicle navigation system that can accurately display a position of a vehicle that has the navigation system mounted thereon and a target direction even when the vehicle is stopped or...
7286930 Ghost following  
A concept for providing navigation information is described. The concept includes a process for providing navigation information including deriving a destination for a first vehicle and determining...
7274374 Map display device and method for operating thereof  
A car navigation device displays a map by using display colors included in a first color pallet when the speed of a vehicle traveling is lower than a predetermined value and displays the map by...
7274299 Method of and service architecture for reminding a user subscribed to a communication network  
A method of reminding a user subscribed to a communication network, and a corresponding location reminder service architecture is provided. According to one embodiment, the method includes the...
7272467 Systems and methods for filtering potentially unreliable visual data for visual simultaneous localization and mapping  
Apparatus and methods that use a visual sensor and dead reckoning sensors to process Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). These techniques can be used in robot navigation. Advantageously,...
7271738 Restricted parking system  
A method and implementing computer system are provided for enabling management of restricted parking spaces for vehicles. In an example, a sensing system senses the presence of vehicles in...
7269509 Image playback device and image playback method  
The image playback device includes: an image database storing, in association with one another, specific places in a predetermined region, photographed images relating to the specific places,...
7269507 Method and system for electronically determining dynamic traffic information  
A method of and system for determining a path traveled by a vehicle in a road network having a plurality of road segments connected into a plurality of paths that includes obtaining a current...
7263439 Image operation system  
In an image control system, with a reactive force on an input device that controls a pointer in a display, a bilateral communication of a pointing device can prevent a sense of discomfort while the...
7260474 GIS point-to-point routing for directions  
To provide a convenient selection of origin and/or destination of a route, in an on-line map service, the user is permitted to select and view a map and select any point from the displayed map as...
7256711 Method and system for saving and retrieving spatial related information  
The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for storing, referencing, retrieving, and graphically displaying spatial and non-spatial related information of a mobile computing...
7254479 Apparatus and method for determining geographical location relative to a designated geographical location with a mobile communication device  
The present invention apparatus and method that allows the geographical location of a user with respect to a designated geographical location to be determined in a manner that cost-efficient, the...
7243025 Portable navigation device with instant on configuration on navigational display  
A multi-function, portable, electronic device includes a housing, a processor located within the housing and a memory in communication with the processor. The electronic device includes a display...
7239760 System and method for creating, storing, and utilizing composite images of a geographic location  
A system and method synthesizing images of a locale to generate a composite image that provide a panoramic view of the locale. A video camera moves along a street recording images of objects along...
7231296 Display device, information processing device, and information processing system  
An information processing system includes a display device and a information processing apparatus. The display device includes: a first arithmetic processing unit; a display unit at which...
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...
7224274 Locality information retrieval system  
An information retrieval system for retrieving information relating to a locality includes a data collecting module for collecting data relating to a location of the device and the locality in...
7216035 Method and device for displaying navigational information for a vehicle  
According to the invention, navigational information for a vehicle is displayed intuitively and in an easily comprehensible manner in the form of a virtual pilot vehicle, superimposed on an image...
7215254 Driving assistance system  
When a driving assistance system of a navigation device in a subject vehicle is able to communicate with a cooperative remote driving assistance system in an oncoming vehicle, images are obtained...
7206585 Location-dependent data collection  
A method is described for collecting location-dependent data in a central data collection point. The method comprises the steps of: collecting location dependent data from a data source, in a...
7197394 Method, system and article of manufacture for identifying regularly traveled routes  
An in-vehicle navigation system includes a receiver for receiving real-time traffic information (RTTI), a database for storing routine trip information, and a processor for running a regular route...
7191058 Notification systems and methods enabling user entry of notification trigger information based upon monitored mobile vehicle location  
A vehicle monitoring and notification system includes a mapping application and a data manager. The mapping application receives data identifying a particular location and automatically translates...
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