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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100169009 | Accident Avoidance System Accident avoidance system onboard a host vehicle includes a position determining system for determining position information for the host vehicle based on signals received from a plurality of satellites, a transmitter for broadcasting the position information for the ho... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100160089 | APPAPATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING GOLFING INFORMATION One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method, which includes the steps of collecting data associated with a golfing activity, comparing a condition associated with a first golfing event with the data associated with the golfing activity to determine an oc... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100149029 | System and Method for Obtaining Location Assistance Data An electronic device such as a cellular telephone, for example, includes a receiver that receives broadcast radio signals transmitted by a commercial broadcast radio station. The broadcast radio signals include information that identifies a location of the radio station... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100145723 | PLATFORM FOR CONNECTING MEDICAL INFORMATION TO SERVICES FOR MEDICAL CARE A user device for connecting symptom, disease, procedure, and facility based information into actionable services for medical care and cost analysis is presented. The user device may include the functionality of linking medical information and providing user specific in... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100121718 | Dynamic Web Page Construction Based on Determination of Client Device Location A method for serving a web page begins by storing a set of location-specific page elements. In response to a request for the web page from a client browser, a control routine parses the request to locate a geographic location data string identifying a location of the cl... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100106602 | LOCATABLE SHOPPING CART AND METHODS FOR LOCATING THE SAME A shopping cart that can be geographically located, methods for locating such carts, and a selection system for enabling a user to create a list of items on a portable computing device, to communicate with external devices to locate each of the items available on the li... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100088193 | Method And Apparatus For Facilitating Purchase Decisions In a purchase decision system and method, GPS data regarding a current geographical location of a device is output and either the GPS data or information regarding the current geographical location of the device based on the GPS data is transmitted. Data regarding items... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100076685 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING VEHICLE PATHS IN A ROAD ENVIRONMENT A method and system for assessing vehicle paths in a road environment including a vehicle and external objects includes: determining a position and a dynamic state of the host vehicle and of each of the external objects; generating a plurality of paths that may be follo... | 03/25/2010 |
| 20100057349 | Electronic Timepiece and Time Difference Correction Method for an Electronic Timepiece An electronic timepiece has a function for receiving satellite signals transmitted from positioning information satellites, and includes a reception unit that receives the satellite signal and acquires satellite information from the received satellite signal, a satellit... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100045517 | Precision GPS Driven Utility Asset Management and Utility Damage Prevention System and Method A method and apparatus, including software, for the development and operational use of precise utility location and utility asset management information. Field-usable data sets may be produced that meet standards of accuracy and usability that are sufficient for use by ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100023192 | Relating to Control of Marine Vessels A dynamic control system for a marine vessel having two or more waterjet units as the primary propulsion system of the vessel, for maintaining vessel position or velocity when in a dynamic control mode, comprises a position or velocity indicator to indicate vessel posit... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100007551 | Methods for GPS to Milepost Mapping A method to increase the accuracy of the interpolation of railroad mileposts is disclosed. Based upon image data and data provided in customer track charts, reference points are selected along the track, and their location is verified using GPS data. Once verified, the ... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090323046 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETECT FOREIGN OBJECTS ON A SURFACE A detection system and method are disclosed for detecting a foreign object on a surface, such as an airport runway or a racetrack. The detection system includes a plurality of detectors mounted on the vehicle and capable of receiving light reflected from the object on t... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090305819 | GOLF GPS DEVICE A portable golf GPS device comprising a microprocessor operably coupled to a GPS unit, an input device such as a keypad (or touch screen) operably coupled to the microprocessor, a voice recognition unit operably coupled to the microprocessor, and a display such as a liq... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090278736 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RELATIVE NAVIGATION USING REFLECTED GPS SIGNALS A method and system to passively navigate an orbiting moving body towards an orbiting target using reflected GPS signals. A pair of antennas is employed to receive both direct signals from a plurality of GPS satellites and a second antenna to receive GPS signals reflect... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090273512 | GLOBAL COORDINATE CREATION METHOD FOR PRECISION MEASUREMENT OF HOLLOW FRAME A method of creating a global coordinate of a polyhedral hollow frame includes a first step of providing a plurality of transmitters on a reference surface in the hollow frame, providing a plurality of reference sensors to create the coordinate of the reference surface,... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090267830 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE DISTANCE BETWEEN POSITIONING DEVICES AND GROUND MONITORING SYSTEM USING THE METHOD A method for determining a distance between positioning devices includes following steps. A ground monitoring system receiving positions of a first positioning device and a second positioning device. The ground monitoring system determining a distance between the first ... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090258733 | Method and device of golf aiding with a function of setting a specific-point diagram A golf aiding device with a function of setting a specific-point diagram includes a processor, a screen, an input mechanism, a memory, a GPS module, and a software program stored in the memory. The software program can achieve the following functions: displaying a golf ... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090222161 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ARRANGING VEHICLE REPAIR SERVICE An exemplary vehicle management system for arranging vehicle repair service includes a management center and a vehicle. The management center includes a center processor associated with a center transceiver and a center database. The vehicle includes a vehicle processor... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090213003 | POSITIONING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THE DISTANCE BETWEEN MULTIPLE POSITIONING DEVICES A positioning device includes an antenna, a receiving module, a processing module and an output module. The receiving module receives positioning signals transmitted from positioning satellites and a position signal of another positioning device transmitted from a groun... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090195443 | Authenticating a signal based on an unknown component thereof Authentication of a signal, signalA, that is provided as having been received from a source at a first global location by comparing it to a signal that is received from the source at a second global location, signalB, where signalB conta... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090184871 | GPS with time integrated call initiation A method and system are disclosed for determining relative movement among a plurality of entities using temporal data and position data. The methodology involves receiving position and temporal data corresponding to positions of the entities, synchronizing the temporal ... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090184870 | System and Process for Displaying a Target A system suitable for displaying a target. A first unit is arranged to generate a first information unit including the target's position relative to a first position. The first information unit is arranged to transfer the first information unit to a second unit existing... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090174599 | POSITIONING SYSTEM, INFORMATION SUPPLY DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD OF INFORMATION SUPPLY DEVICE, CONTROL PROGRAM OF INFORMATION SUPPLY DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING CONTROL PROGRAM OF INFORMATION SUPPLY DEVICE A positioning system, wherein the communication base station has: signal transmitting means for transmitting a base station timing signal and a communication signal; the terminal has: standard timing signal correcting means; total delay information generating means for ... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090171619 | SURVEYING PROCEDURE AND SYSTEM FOR A HIGH-RISE STRUCTURE The invention concerns a surveying procedure for a structure (1′), more particularly a high-rise building, to be erected which has an ideal axis (a) oriented relative to the gravity vector. At least three reference points (A5′, B5′, C<... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090140916 | Relative inter-vehicle position calculation apparatus, transmission apparatus and program for same An on-board communication equipment on each of two vehicles receives a radio wave from two or more GPS satellites, and determines a carrier wave phase of the received radio wave. Then, the on-board communication equipment on one vehicle receives, from the other vehicle,... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090135058 | POSITIONING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THE DISTANCE BETWEEN MULTIPLE POSITIONING DEVICES A positioning device includes an antenna, a receiving module, a processing module and an output module. The receiving module receives positioning signals transmitted by positioning satellites and a position signal of another positioning device using the antenna. The pro... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090099773 | POSITIONING METHOD, PROGRAM, POSITIONING DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS A positioning method in a positioning device includes: measuring a current position by receiving positioning signals transmitted from a plurality of positioning satellites and performing first positioning processing using a least square method; determining whether or no... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090096665 | Method For Locating Cable Impairments Methods are disclosed for identifying and locating points of impairment in a cable plant, such as that used for cable television (CATV). The methods utilize both known characteristics of signals as well as propagation times in free space and within the cable in conjunct... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090085804 | GPS positioning and returning device A GPS positioning and returning device is provided. The GPS positioning and returning device comprises a compass, a GPS module, an input interface, a memory, a display module and a control module. A marked direction on the GPS positioning and returning device pointing t... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090079625 | GOLF GPS DEVICE WITH VOICE RECOGNITION A portable golf GPS device comprising a microprocessor operably coupled to a GPS unit, an input device such as a keypad (or touch screen) operably coupled to the microprocessor, a voice recognition unit operably coupled to the microprocessor, and a display such as a liq... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090082139 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING DISTANCES TO SELECTED TARGETS ON A GOLF COURSE USING A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE Devices, apparatus, systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for determining distances to targets, such as targets on a golf course using a wireless communication device. Wireless device implementation allows for existing devices to be configured wit... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090070142 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING PATIENT REGISTRATION INFORMATION Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method of providing patient information. The method includes requesting patient data, supplying the patient data using a mobile electronic device, storing the patient data to a memory associated with the mobile elec... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090066570 | DYNAMIC SPEED FINDING METHOD A dynamic speed finding method to detect drive speed of a target, i.e., a speeding car, to serve as evidence in writing a traffic ticket is executed in the following steps: Step A: the position and speed of a speed finding object, i.e., a moving police car, are detected... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090033540 | Accident Avoidance Systems and Methods Accident avoidance system for a host vehicle includes a global positioning system residing on the host vehicle for determining the host vehicle's location as the host vehicle travels, a communication system residing on the host vehicle operative to receive signals inclu... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20090033552 | RADIO COMMUNICATION AND GPS NAVIGATION DEVICE A navigation device configured to connect to any type of communication device, such as a two-way radio or a cellular phone. The navigation device includes a LCD display and a user input device. The navigation device displays on the LCD the relative distance and directio... | 02/05/2009 |
| 20080291315 | DIGITAL IMAGING SYSTEM HAVING GPS FUNCTION AND METHOD OF STORING INFORMATION OF IMAGING PLACE THEREOF The invention relates to a digital imaging system and a method of storing imaging place information thereof. In the digital imaging system having a GPS function, imaging place information, such as photographs and location of imaging places to be remembered, are stored t... | 11/27/2008 |
| 20080284643 | Post-mission high accuracy position and orientation system A method of generating post-mission position and orientation data comprises generating position and orientation data representing positions and orientations of a mobile platform, based on global navigation satellite system (GNSS) data and inertial navigation system (INS... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080284645 | Relative Positioning Method and Relative Positioning System Using Satellite A positioning system wherein radio waves from a GPS satellite (4) are received by a reference station (1), the absolute position of which is already known, and a plurality of mobile stations (3) to perform relative positioning among particular stati... | 11/20/2008 |
| 20080272961 | Determination of a relative position of a satellite signal receiver For enhancing the quality of a relative positioning, a filter is adjusted depending on information on a movement of a satellite signal receiver. A position of the satellite signal receiver is determined relative to a reference station using the filter, wherein measureme... | 11/06/2008 |
