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5105198 Method of determining a position using satellites  
A method of determining the position of an observation point on the earth using M satellites on geosynchronous orbits having predetermined orbit inclination angle such that N (<M) satellites are...
5093669 Vehicle navigation apparatus  
A navigation apparatus arranged in such a manner that the background image and a marker image denoting the user's vehicle position are moved in the opposite directions to each other when the...
5089826 Navigation system for movable body  
A navigation system for a movable body wherein a map to be displayed on a screen can be selected freely in accordance with a request of an operator and, when an initial map displayed is restored,...
5087919 On-board navigation apparatus  
An on-board navigation apparatus having a GPS receiver detects a difference between the current and the previous values of the estimated current position in terms of the longitude and latitude...
5075693 Primary land arctic navigation system  
A land navigation system for use in a vehicle, comprises, in combination, a device providing a signal representative of the heading of the vehicle, a device providing a signal representative of the...
5068656 System and method for monitoring and reporting out-of-route mileage for long haul trucks  
A system and method for monitoring and reporting out-of-route mileage for long haul trucks which includes transmitting route data from a dispatcher to a distant truck where comparisons aboard the...
5068654 Collision avoidance system  
A collision avoidance system providing to each properly equipped vehicle an indication of the locational direction, heading, and relative velocity of other similarly equipped vehicles or stationary...
5055851 Vehicle location system  
A system for determining a location of a selected vehicle from which an alarm signal is generated which includes a fixed array of cellular sites each site having a wireless signal detecting and...
5045861 Navigation and tracking system  
The invention concerns a navigation and tracking system, for monitoring the movement of a roving object which carries one of a pair of receiving stations (D, E) the other receiving station being at...
5041837 Directional antennas for a roadside beacon system  
A roadside beacon system in which a plurality of roadside antennas transmit data to vehicles passing closely adjacent. The transmitting antennas are mounted high above the sides of the roads and...
5032845 Vehicle locating system with Loran-C  
The location of a vehicle having an assigned serial number is determined at a location remote from the vehicle with a system including a central master station and plural local networks, each...
5021794 Personal emergency locator system  
The radio transmitter in a miniaturized transceiver concealed on a person to be located, such as a lost child, is activated and transmits a coded UHF radio homing signal upon receipt of an...
5019828 High resolution navigation and mapping system  
A combined navigational and display system for a person including a helmet carrying apparatus for communication, storage and processing of information and for the visual display of information. The...
5014206 Tracking system  
A system used for determining and recording the location of a vehicle during the occurence of predetermined events. The vehicle is equipped with a sensor or sensors which respond to the occurrence...
5003317 Stolen vehicle recovery system  
A stolen vehicle recovery system (20) in which a vehicle transceiver (30) is disposed on each vehicle (28) for cyclically transmitting a pulsed signal which is modulated by a data stream comprising...
4987420 Method of determining a position using satellites  
A method of determining the position of an observation point on the earth using M satellites on a stationary orbit which has a predetermined orbit inclination angle such that N (<M) satelites...
4983984 Roadside beacon system with polarized beams  
In a roadside beacon system for transmitting to vehicles moving along roads, signals on position and direction, linearly polarizing antennas mounted to be stationarey either beside or above the...
4983980 Satellite radio signal tracking method for GPS receivers  
A vehicle-mounted GPS receiver for positioning and reckoning being capable of tracking satellite signals without serious interruption when passing through a dead zone such as a tunnel by quick...
4954836 Follow-up system for moving bodies  
A system follows up or traces a moving body accompanied by a radio signal transmitter which constantly generates a radio signal of a predetermined frequency or is adapted to generate such a radio...
4949268 Land vehicle navigation system  
A land vehicle navigation system is adapted to display the present position of a vehicle by receiving signals from a combination of satellites under the global positioning navigation system. The...
4947151 Wheel mounted motion and tampering alarm  
A tamper-proof motion and tampering alarm for a pneumatic tired vehicle consists of a motion detector, tampering detectors, radio transmitter, and power supply. All of these are mounted inside the...
4939522 Method and system for monitoring vehicle location  
Multiple vehicles located within a predefined search space are located and tracked using at least two spaced-apart transmitters. Each transmitter can broadcast an omnidirectional initialization...
4916455 Locating system and method  
The present invention includes both a system and a method for locating a source of a randomly modulated signals. In one form of the invention at least three receiving stations receive and process...
4910493 Security systems  
A vehicle security system can be fitted to a vehicle which has a radio transmitting device such as a cellular telephone, PMR or CB set. A control unit is arranged to periodically alert the driver...
4908629 Apparatus for locating and/or tracking stolen or missing vehicles and the like  
An improved vehicle or other object-tracking and location system, preferably, though not essentially, of national scope, wherein transponder or transceiver-equipped stolen or missing vehicles or...
4897661 Method and apparatus for determining the position of a vehicle  
There is provided a system in which a transponder is carried by each vehicle traveling on or above the earth's surface which transmits a signal which is responsive to an interrogation signal to a...
4896161 Roadside beacon system  
A navigator system for providing in a moving vehicle a display of the position of the vehicle on a map. This position is recalibrated by a roadside antenna that transmits a split beam so that the...
4891650 Vehicle location system  
A system for determining a location of a selected vehicle from which an alarm signal is generated which includes a fixed array of cellular sites each site having a wireless signal detecting and...
4888595 Acquisition signal transmitter  
An encoded information transmitter which transmits a radio frequency carrier that is amplitude modulated by a constant frequency waveform and thereafter amplitude modulated by a predetermined...
4864313 Voting method of locating mobile objects  
This invention relates to a system and method for locating mobile objects. The system includes many signposts positioned within a monitored area and many mobile objects. The monitored area is...
4857840 Information and guiding system including a portable receiver device having an electromagnetic wave antenna and magnetic field sensor  
A portable device for communication is useable during movement by a person. Individual portable receivers (2), the size of a credit card, display and/or broadcast to a user, automatically or by...
4845504 Mobile radio network for nationwide communications  
A mobil radio communication network utilizing meteor burst communication medium. A master station communicates with a plurality of mobile radio stations using digital messaging. Each of the master...
4833481 Roadside beacon system  
A roadside antenna system permitting the transmission of data to a vehicular navigation system and providing for the recalibration of positional data carried by the navigation system includes an...
4823138 Roadside beacon system  
A roadside beacon system having improved reliability in the face of multi-path fading and the presence of large vehicles or the like which shield or scatter the received signal. The roadside...
4823137 Multiple-fixed-frequencies navigation system  
A radio navigation system is disclosed which uses multiple fixed frequencies for calculating the bearing and distance of a local station from a central station. The central station has a receiver...
4818998 Method of and system and apparatus for locating and/or tracking stolen or missing vehicles and the like  
An improved vehicle or other object-tracking and location system, preferably, though not essentially, of national scope, wherein transponder or transceiver-equipped stolen or missing vehicles or...
4812852 Locating system and method  
The present invention includes both a system and a method for locating a source of a randomly modulated radio signal. In one form of the invention, at least three receiving stations at known...
4799062 Radio position determination method and apparatus  
A method and apparatus for radio position determination is provided including an unknown position transmitter for transmitting a radio wave having compensation for multipath, a plurality of base...
4791572 Method for accurately displaying positional information on a map  
A method for accurately displaying positional information of a map. A street or terrain map is produced and then digitized. The actual location of various antenna monuments is determined and a...
4751512 Differential navigation system for remote mobile users  
A differential navigation system applicable to mobile users and covering a wide range geographic area, including remote regions. A reference receiver of known location tracks a navigation...
4743913 Hybrid navigation system for determining a relative position and direction of a vehicle and method therefor  
A hybrid navigation system for determining a relative position and direction of a vehicle and method therefor. In the hybrid navigation system and method, a magnitization quantity on a vehicle body...
4742357 Stolen object location system  
A stolen object location system having a base station, a location network and an object unit which is associated with the object to be located. The location system is capable of operating in a...
4740792 Vehicle location system  
A vehicle locating system (VLS) comprises a large number, for example, several million, vehicle-mounted transmitters and several benchmark transmitters; first, second and third signal relay...
4728959 Direction finding localization system  
The present invention combines the relative insensitivity of the phase angle differences of a radio signal to the signal distortions inherent in an urban environment with digital signal processing...
4701760 Method for positioning moving vehicles and exchanging communications between the vehicles and a central station  
A method for monitoring vehicles from a central station, consisting of obtaining the approximate coordinates of each vehicle from signals transmitted by stations of the world omega network and...
4680590 Position finding system  
Three fixed reference stations having known positions comprise Omega receivers. Phase measurements made at all three stations are assembled at a master station, utilizing landlines or radio links...
4667202 Mobile radio network  
A mobile radio network comprises a plurality of base stations in a mutual three-dimensional arrangement in the manner of a cellular system. A respective, rigidly prescribed plurality of immediately...
4651157 Security monitoring and tracking system  
A method and apparatus for positively indicating the position of a land-based vehicle, a marine vessel or an aircraft, utilizing a security system provided in the secured mode of transportation...
4651156 Integrated radio location and communication system  
An integrated radio location and communication system comprising a plurality of radio locator-transmitter devices which may be fixed to vehicles and/or carried by persons and which are capable of...
4596988 Remote controlled tracking transmitter and tracking support system  
A tracking system which when interrogated automatically reports data corresponding to the location of an unknown missing respondent, and thus permits one to find the location of an article stolen...