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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128214 | ROAD ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING ROAD A road estimation device receives data including core points assigned along a road and assigned with attributes for identifying the road. An input unit inputs map data including links in a unit of a divided region being one of divided areas. When the core points cross a... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128216 | ROAD ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING ROAD A road estimation device receives data including a core point being assigned along a road and assigned with attributes for identifying the road. An input unit inputs map data including links having attributes corresponding to the attributes of the core point. An extract... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128215 | ROAD ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING ROAD A road estimation device receives data including core points assigned along a road and assigned with attributes for identifying the road. An input unit inputs map data including links in a unit of a divided region. Each link has a termination point in a boundary of the ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128217 | ROAD ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING ROAD A road estimation device receives data including a core point being assigned along a road and being assigned with attributes including at least a shape-relevant attribute being relevant to a road shape for identifying the road. A map data input unit inputs map data incl... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120128213 | ROAD ESTIMATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING ROAD A road estimation device receives data including a core point assigned along a road and assigned with an attribute for identifying the road. An input unit inputs map data including links each having an attribute corresponding to the attribute of the core point. A search... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120051603 | UPDATING A DATABASE WITH DETERMINED CHANGE IDENTIFIERS In various embodiments, old flood maps may be compared to new flood maps to determine which areas of the flood map have changed. These changed areas may be correlated against geographic area descriptions that are within changed areas of the flood map. The changed areas ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120020533 | System And Method For Aligning Maps Using Polyline Matching A system and method for aligning maps using polyline matching is provided. A global map and a local map are represented as polyline maps including a plurality of line segments. One or more approximate matches between the polyline maps are identified. One or more refined... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120008836 | SEQUENTIAL EVENT DETECTION FROM VIDEO Human behavior is determined by sequential event detection by constructing a temporal-event graph with vertices representing adjacent first and second primitive images of a plurality of individual primitive images parsed from a video stream, and also of first and second... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110307169 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, Information Processing System, and Program There is provided an information processing apparatus including a map matching section configured to extract, based on a result obtained by measuring a position of a user, a candidate for a road along which the user is proceeding, and a selection section configured to s... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110280453 | System and Method for Fusing Geospatial Data Automatic conflation systems and techniques which provide vector-imagery conflation and map-imagery conflation. Vector-imagery conflation is an efficient approach that exploits knowledge from multiple data sources to identify a set of accurate control points. Vector-ima... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110249871 | PAGE LOAD PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS Page load time analysis. The analysis may allow a web page designer to determine improvements that could be made to the web page to decrease load time, and perhaps identify the modules or components that are critical paths in decreasing page load time. The analysis is p... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110235869 | Parallel Computing of Line of Sight View-Shed Techniques are disclosed for parallel computing of a line of sight (LoS) map (e.g., view-shed) in a parallel computing system. For example, a method for computing an LoS map comprises the following steps. Data representing at least one image is obtained. An observation ... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110182479 | SUBGRAPH DETECTION DEVICE, SUBGRAPH DETECTION METHOD, PROGRAM, DATA STRUCTURE OF DATA, AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM To provide a detection device capable of, e.g., obtaining a list of genes whose expressions are commonly changed in response to administration of a specific drug or drugs, based on consideration of relationship (e.g., interacting relationship among genes) among genes, a... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110160987 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING TRAFFIC INFORMATION BASED ON INTERSECTIONS AND SECTIONS A method and apparatus for representing a road network and a method and system for processing traffic information data using the method for representing a road network are provided. The method for processing traffic information data comprises: conversion step of convert... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110135163 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING UNBUFFERED DIG AREA INDICATORS ON AERIAL IMAGES TO DELIMIT PLANNED EXCAVATION SITES Indicating a precise geographic extent and a precise geographic location of a dig area at a work site at which excavation is planned, to facilitate detection and/or marking of a presence or an absence of an underground facility in the dig area. A graphical user interfac... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110085707 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATED DETERMINATION OF FEATURES ON AN ELECTRONIC MAP The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for automatically identifying features of an electronic map.... | 04/14/2011 |
| 20110064280 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING LAND-SURFACE IMAGE DATA An object of the invention is to provide a method and an apparatus for producing land-surface image data, which can correct, with relatively high accuracy, cloud image data included in satellite image data into land-surface image data that would emerge in the absence of... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110063319 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF FILTERING GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Provided are a method and apparatus of filtering geographical data. The method may include selecting a map region to be retrieved, receiving a retrieval object and a retrieval condition, outputting a trapezoidal interface, verifying a threshold corresponding to a height... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110044511 | Image mapping to provide visual geographic path Provided is a computer system and method for mapping a visual path. The method includes receiving one or more images included in a predefined area; receiving one or more parameters associated with the image; and integrating the images and parameters into a map of the pr... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20100329516 | Interventional roadmap method with optimization of the mask phase An interventional roadmap method with optimization of the mask face is proposed. At least two empty images and at least two fill images are recorded in a mask phase A with a matrix-type array of pixels and stored. The empty and fill images are processed such that the gr... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100302043 | INTEGRATED SENSOR NETWORK METHODS AND SYSTEMS Methods and systems for an integrated sensor network are described. In one embodiment, sensor data may be accessed from a plurality of motion sensors and a bed sensor deployed in a living unit for a first time period. An activity pattern for the first time period may be... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100266161 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING LANE INFORMATION A method of producing lane information for use in a map database is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method includes acquiring one or more source images of a road surface and associated position and orientation data, the road having a direction and lane markin... | 10/21/2010 |
| 20100194893 | Process For Monitoring Territories In Order To Recognise Forest And Surface Fires The monitoring of territories in order to recognize forest and surface fires requires complex automatic and human-assisted processes, which ultimately must include the control of intervention forces. Disclosed are processes for the centralised monitoring of territories.... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100189312 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR OVERLAYING ELECTRONIC LOCATE INFORMATION ON FACILITIES MAP INFORMATION AND/OR OTHER IMAGE INFORMATION DISPLAYED ON A LOCATE DEVICE A locate device for a locate operation to detect a presence or an absence of one or more underground facilities is configured to access and display facilities map information, and/or other image information, as a visual aid to facilitate the locate operation. In various... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100171757 | REFERENCING A MAP TO THE COORDINATE SPACE OF A POSITIONING SYSTEM Methods and apparatus are provided for referencing a map to the coordinate space of a positioning system, such as a GPS system. For each of a number of real-world positions (X1, X2, X3), the location (LP1, LP2, L<... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100158322 | PHASE ANALYSIS MEASUREMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD A non-contact method and apparatus for inspecting an object via phase analysis. A projector projects an optical pattern onto the surface of an object to be inspected. At least first and second images of the surface on which the optical pattern is projected are then obta... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100131427 | System and Method for Chart Pattern Recognition and Analysis in an Electronic Trading Environment A system and method are provided for chart pattern recognition and analysis. In one embodiment, a graphical interface is provided to enable a trader to select a portion of a chart to be used in the chart pattern analysis. The pattern of the selected portion of the chart... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100128935 | Location-referenced Photograph Repository A photograph repository system includes data storage for storing photographs in the form of digital data files and a search feature that provides for searching for photographs by location and optionally by other search criteria. In one embodiment, a photograph repositor... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100119120 | Parallel Approximation of Distance Maps Method for parallel approximation of distance maps on a discrete representation of a manifold, the method comprising: for at least one Euclidean grid applied on the discrete representation of a manifold, iterating over rows of the Euclidean grid in a first direction, an... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100119121 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING SERVICE USING ELECTRONIC MAP The present disclosure relates to a method, system and computer-readable recording medium for providing an electronic map-based service. According to an aspect of the disclosure, a method of recognizing a shape included in image data associated with an electronic map in... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100111372 | DETERMINING USER SIMILARITIES BASED ON LOCATION HISTORIES Method for determining similarities between a first user and a second user in a network, including receiving one or more Global Positioning System (GPS) logs from each user in the network, constructing a first hierarchal graph for the first user's GPS log and a second h... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100111373 | MEAN CURVATURE BASED DE-WEIGHTING FOR EMPHASIS OF CORNEAL ABNORMALITIES One embodiment of the present invention is a method for providing a deviation map of an eye that includes: (a) acquiring data comprising a corneal topographic map; (b) determining locations of abnormal curvature within the topographic map; (c) determining a modified top... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100104143 | Method and System for Processing Operator Log Documents Driver reporting documents are managed by a method comprising scanning a physical driver log sheet including an analog graph to obtain an electronic image data file which is stored on a system. A unique identifier is associated to the electronic image data file. The ele... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100092045 | System and method for airport mapping database automatic change detection A method for automatically updating a graphical information system (GIS) type database using aerial imagery. The method may involve processing a new image to identify at least one target region therewithin; analyzing the target region to determine image invariant moment... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100021013 | OPEN AREA MAPS WITH GUIDANCE Systems and methods corresponding to an open area map are disclosed. For example, one method comprises identifying a destination selected in an open area map. The open area map includes an image of a layout representing a real-world area in which a person walks about. T... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100021012 | END USER IMAGE OPEN AREA MAPS Systems, devices, applications, and methods for generating an open area map are disclosed. For example, a software application is configured to run on a computing platform of an end user. The end user generates an image of a layout of a walkable area. The software appli... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100014716 | Method for determining ground line A method of determining a ground line from an input image. The method includes determining a plurality of ground line candidates from the image, determining a certain band a central-line of which is a boundary between a G region and other regions in a Ground Building Sk... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090322742 | REGISTRATION OF STREET-LEVEL IMAGERY TO 3D BUILDING MODELS Point of origin information for image data may be inaccurately registered against a geographic location absolute. A process for aligning image and highly accurate model data adjusts a point of origin of the image data by matching elements in the image with corresponding... | 12/31/2009 |
| 20090257624 | FLOW LINE ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM A control section edits a complete flow line as an entire trajectory in a sales area for each customer, based on data for a flow line generated from a camera image obtained by shooting the sales area. The complete flow line is reproduced as trajectories of customers by ... | 10/15/2009 |
| 20090241045 | VIRTUAL WHITE LINES FOR DELIMITING PLANNED EXCAVATION SITES Methods and apparatus for facilitating detection of a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area. Data representing an aerial image of a geographic area including the dig area is electronically received, the data including geo-coding o... | 09/24/2009 |
