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7620492 Electronic device and method for executing functions  
In an electronic device, in particular a navigation device, having operator-input devices and communications devices for exchanging data with an external, central computer, at least one...
7617046 Navigation apparatuses, methods, and programs  
Navigation apparatuses, methods, and programs store path information for a path each time the path is traveled, the path being a segment of the guidance route from a branch point to a junction. The...
7617042 Computing and harnessing inferences about the timing, duration, and nature of motion and cessation of motion with applications to mobile computing and communications  
An information delivery system comprises a receiver component that receives information about the movement, velocity, acceleration, and/or locations over time of a user. A computation component...
7616129 In-vehicle conditional multi-media center  
A system for controlling the operation of an in-vehicle multi-media system based on identifying operating conditions for the vehicle. Various operational rules can be applied to the multi-media...
7610148 Methods and systems to interface navigation operations  
Methods and Systems are provided for interfacing to navigation operations. An application programming interface (API) library is provided having navigation modules, guidance modules, routing...
7610147 Map data processing unit  
A map data processing unit includes a batch update section and dynamic update section. A type of update data fed from an update data input section is decided using header information. If the update...
7610144 Navigation apparatus and processing method of the same  
A navigation apparatus includes a receiving section for receiving program via a communication unit, a driving determining section for determining whether a vehicle equipped with the navigation...
7606664 Guidance information system and portable device  
A guidance information system includes: a portable device including an image pickup section and functioning to decode coded-pattern information captured by the image pickup section; and a display...
7606662 Traffic navigation system  
A vehicle navigation system is provided with a destination input section, a travel route information section, a historical data input section and an expected travel time reporting section. The...
7606580 Personalized location information for mobile devices  
Providing location information on a mobile device includes receiving signals from external devices. Each signal includes information that specifies a geographic location for the external device...
7606185 Communication device for automotive vehicle  
A communication device for acquiring a traffic information includes: a communicating element; a request message transmitting element for transmitting a request message, which includes a request...
7603235 Arrangement for collision prevention of mine vehicle  
A mine vehicle and a method of preventing a mine vehicle from colliding. The mine vehicle ( 1 ) includes at least one scanner ( 13, 14 ) to scan the environment in front of the vehicle. On the...
7603231 Navigation method and system having improved arrival detection function for large scale destination  
A navigation system guides a user to a destination with an improved arrival detection capability when the selected destination is a large facility or a natural place that occupies a relatively...
7599794 System and method for tracking position of remote vehicle using telematics system  
A system and method for tracking a position of a remote vehicle using a telematics system is provided. The system includes a communication terminal for generating and transmitting a remote position...
7599792 Using a corridor search to identify locations of interest along a travel route  
A corridor search process is used to identify locations of interest along a travel route. The corridor search process identifies locations of interest along a travel route by using a grid search...
7599758 Sensors and associated methods for controlling a vacuum cleaner  
A vacuum cleaner includes a housing, a height adjust mechanism disposed on the housing and a height adjust motor, disposed within said housing that controls a height of the height adjust mechanism....
7598889 Driving information analysis apparatus and driving information analysis system  
A driving information analysis apparatus which serves well to assist drivers' safe driving with the ease of checking analysis results is provided. Based on driving information read by a CF card...
7598866 Electronic service providing system, terminal, wireless tag providing apparatus, and server device  
An electronic service providing system according to an embodiment of the invention includes: a cell phone; a server device for providing an electronic service; and a wireless tag providing unit for...
7596542 Systems and methods for creating geographic connection matrices  
ZIP code connection matrices are created for use in insurance ratemaking by identifying common borders of geographically defined regions. ZIP codes and associated cartographic boundaries are read...
7596450 Stride-based route guiding apparatus and method  
Disclosed is a stride-based route guiding apparatus and method capable of providing a pedestrian with a stride-based route. The method includes detecting a stride of the pedestrian on the basis of...
7596448 Navigation system for a motorcycle, and motorcycle incorporating same  
An arrangement of motorcycle navigation system components enables both a meter display unit and a navigation display unit to be easily viewed by the vehicle operator. A motorcycle includes a meter...
7596370 Management of nametags in a vehicle communications system  
A method for managing user nametags for a vehicle communications system, the method including receiving a nametag transfer request at a call center from a source, determining a target vehicle...
7593810 Interactive route guide device  
An interactive route guide device capable of providing an appropriate amount of information with an appropriate timing in accordance with a user's desire. In the interactive route guide device, a...
7590486 Automobile navigation apparatus  
An automobile navigation apparatus, that has a rewritable recording medium and capability to updates the map data base by obtaining latest map data, records the map data in the recording means and...
7587276 Displaying images in a network or visual mapping system  
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for generating a street map that includes a position identifier that identifies a location on the street map. The method and system...
7583186 Utilization-dependent data representation in a motor vehicle  
A method is provided for the use-dependent information presentation in a motor vehicle. In order to provide use-dependent information presentation in a motor vehicle acceptable to the vehicle user,...
7577517 Guided vehicle system and teaching method in the guided vehicle system  
Each of guided vehicles has an operating condition memory unit for storing the total travel distance, the travel time, the number of travels, the number of errors at a stop position, and the number...
7577516 Power management apparatus and methods for portable data terminals  
In accordance with at least one embodiment, a portable data terminal generally comprising a battery: a central controller, a GPS system, and an auxiliary processor. The central controller that has...
7577515 Navigation apparatus, update data providing apparatus and update data providing method  
A type of data among road data, route search data and route guidance data or a type of background data is specified to be updated. When updating either one of the road data, the route search data...
7577316 System and method for creating, storing and utilizing 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...
7576679 Radar detector with position and velocity sensitive functions  
A GPS enabled radar detector dynamically handles radar sources based upon previously stored geographically referenced information on such sources and data from the GPS receiver. The detector...
7574282 Electronic directing system  
The present disclosure relates to an arrangement and an electronic navigational control system for a self-propelling device ( 5 ), preferably a lawn-mowing robot. The system comprises at lease one...
7567868 Guidance system  
A guidance system and a method for guiding passengers in an elevator system. The elevator system including a number of elevators, receiving and allocating passenger's destination call data, and...
7565240 Navigation device, method, and program  
In a navigation device, a destination waypoint is set by a user through an input section ( 13 ), and, when guidance to the destination waypoint is started, a control section ( 11 ) stores...
7565239 Method and apparatus for navigation system for searching selected type of information along route to destination  
A method and apparatus for use with a navigation system to search specified type of information along a calculated route to a destination by incorporating search criteria based on city or other...
7564376 Condition-dependent icon generation for vehicular information terminals  
In condition-dependent icon generation for a vehicular information terminal, a strength of a signal indicative of vehicle location information is measured, a road speed limit is determined based...
7564348 Method and system to monitor movable entities  
A method to wirelessly monitor an entity having an attached transponder is disclosed. A geographical zone is defined. The geographical zone can be defined by allowing a user to define and load to a...
7561968 Scale factor calibration and compensation for angular position resolver  
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a resolver system has at least one resolver and at least one amplifier in electrical communication with each resolver. A reference circuit...
7561967 Navigation receiver with functional extensibility  
A global navigation satellite system receiver manufacturer provides functional extensibility to a global navigation satellite system receiver. An application programming interface to the receiver...
7561964 Off-route recalculation method and apparatus for navigation system  
An off-route recalculation method and apparatus for a navigation system calculates a new route when a vehicle is deviated from an originally calculated route to a destination. The method is...
7561962 Abridged map generating apparatus, on-vehicle information terminal, abridged map distribution system and abridged map generating method  
This abridged map generating apparatus includes a route searching unit that searches for a plurality of routes from a departure point to a destination which has been set, an abridged map generation...
7561960 Motion classification methods for personal navigation  
A personal navigation system including one or more sensors that sense motion of a human and output signals corresponding to the motion of the human and a human-motion-classification processing...
7561958 Information providing system and navigation apparatus  
In an information providing system insertion of a card into a navigation apparatus is detected, and information about a facility specifically related to the card is provided. If one of a wireless...
7561888 Efficiently bounding the location of a mobile communications device  
A system and methods enable a mobile communications device to determine the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) that serves the device, without disclosing the device's exact location. The device...
7558670 Guided vehicle system and transportation method  
When the destination of a guided vehicle 24 is changed from a point 20 to a point 18, the speed of the guided vehicle 24 is controlled so that a new travel route can be calculated before...
7558584 Location reporting method and related mobile communication terminal  
Menu data supplied from an IP server 500 to a mobile station 101 is embedded with a location information substitution data string “NULLAREA” together with a URL of a particular IP server ...
7557753 Spacecraft hardware tracker  
A GPS tracker is disposed on launch hardware that separates from a spacecraft launch vehicle during ascent to orbit with the launch hardware having a suborbital trajectory from launch to impact...
7557748 Methods and apparatus for measuring navigational parameters of a locomotive  
The present invention, in one aspect, is a method for determining motion and/or location parameters of a locomotive. One method embodiment includes steps of phase locking a pair of receivers having...
7557730 GPS-generated traffic 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...
7557701 Building monitoring system  
A system enables safe and prompt communication in case of accident or fire. Detecting an emergency event, detection device 10 transmits emergency event information to each floor device 30 and...