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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120029809 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ROAD VIEW An apparatus and method for providing road view data corresponding to an inputted location. The apparatus includes a manipulation unit to received user information containing a road view data request signal; a display unit to output image data containing road view data;... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120029808 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING SERVICE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN SERVICE ZONE A terminal comprising: a controller configured to determine, in a service zone, whether or not service information corresponding to a service zone is identical to service information previously used in the service zone, and provide control to display previously stored s... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120016579 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INDICATING POSITION OF THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE ON ELECTRONIC MAP An indication method indicates position of an electronic device on an electronic map. The electronic device includes a global positioning system (GPS) and an e-compass. The method detects a position and an orientation of the electronic device using the GPS and the e-com... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120015566 | System and Method for Controlling a Trolling Motor A trolling motor control system that includes a main controller configured interface with a trolling motor. The main controller is configured to control the output power and directional heading of the trolling motor. In at least one embodiment, the main controller has a... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120010788 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COLLECTING SOIL SAMPLES A system and method for collecting soil samples is provided that permits a user to develop or generate one or more paths in an agricultural field to collect soil samples with each soil core collection point along the path being identified. The agricultural field can be ... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110320121 | NAVIGATION DEVICE AND ROAD LANE RECOGNITION METHOD THEREOF Provided is a road lane recognition method in a navigation device, which can differentiate a road lane occupied by a vehicle running on bidirectional lanes, including estimating a vehicle location based on satellite signal received from a carrier-based navigation satell... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110313657 | Context-Sensitive Point of Interest Retrieval Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on one or more computer storage devices, for context sensitive point of interest retrieval. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a current location of a user's electronic device and retrieving mu... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313658 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING COMPUTER-GENERATED IMAGES OF TERRAIN ON AIRCRAFT DISPLAYS A system and method are disclosed for enhancing the visibility and ensuring the correctness of terrain and navigation information on aircraft displays, such as, for example, continuous, three-dimensional perspective view aircraft displays conformal to the visual environ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313823 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS An apparatus includes a map information storage section (16) for storing map information on an area by area basis formed in meshes; a positioning section (15) for measuring its own present location; a new road detecting section (19) for deciding tha... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313662 | NAVIGATION APPARATUS AND SYSTEM A navigation apparatus and system provided on a mobile carrier performs error correction for positioning information and orienting information of the carrier through a position sensing module and an orientation sensing module and analyzes the corrected positioning infor... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110313659 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS An apparatus includes a map information storage section (16) for storing map information on an area by area basis formed in meshes; a positioning section (15) for measuring its own present location; a new road detecting section (19) for deciding tha... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307165 | METHOD FOR CREATING SPEED PROFILES FOR DIGITAL MAPS Probe data collected at times of low traffic density is analyzed to derive a Raw Road Design Speed Limit (RRDSL, 16) for each road segment or group of segments in a digital map. The RRDSL (16), comprised of longitudinally distributed Pt speeds, is associat... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307171 | GPS Location Refinement Method In Environments With Low Satellite Visibility A map data base can be used to assist GPS and other vehicle sensors (i.e., wheel speed, gyro, . . . ) in location estimation by allowing techniques such as determining if location is valid or invalid, best-fit determination, and others. Reduction in map data dependency ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110301834 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR VEHICLE NAVIGATION A method and an electronic device enables warning in a wrong way driving of a vehicle navigation. The electronic device sets a target location for navigation and presets a determination distance for checking whether on a path of a navigation route. Then, the electronic ... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110288769 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING FLUID DELIVERY MISSIONS ON A SITE Systems and methods for controlling fluid delivery on a site using at least one fluid delivery machine are disclosed. An exemplary such method includes identifying at least one path on the site based on map information associated with the site, calculating a fluid deliv... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110288770 | SPEED LIMIT CHANGE NOTIFICATION Techniques are described that may be implemented in a mobile electronic device providing navigation functionality to furnish a notification that the indicated speed limit of a roadway being traversed has changed. In an implementation, the display of the mobile electroni... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110282578 | Method of generating a Geodetic Reference Database Product A method of generating a geodetic reference database product is disclosed The method comprises acquiring mobile mapping data captured by means of digital cameras, range sensors and position determination means including GPS and IMU mounted to a vehicle driving across th... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282577 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RECOGNIZING TRAFFIC LANE USING THE SAME Provided are a navigation system and a method of recognizing a traffic lane using the same. The navigation system includes an electronic map in which information about roads and spatial data of topographical features around roads are stored, a satellite navigational dev... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110282579 | SYSTEM WHICH MEDIATES PROVIDING OF MAP INFORMATION, SERVER WHICH MEDIATES PROVIDING OF MAP INFORMATION, AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MAP INFORMATION When a map acquisition judgment means judges that the acquisition of map information is required, a terminal device transmits spot position information calculated by a spot information calculation means to a server which mediates providing of the map information, via a ... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110276257 | NAVIGATION DEVICE, PROBE INFORMATION TRANSMISSION METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THAT STORING PROBE INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROGRAM, AND TRAFFIC INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE When a vehicle passes through an intersection that is stored in a collection target intersection database and for which direction-specific probe information is collected, a CPU of a navigation device generates a plurality of direction-specific probe information (entry l... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110270522 | VISUAL TRAINING DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS Visual training aids including an eyewear article including a lens, an image generator mounted to the eyewear article in a position to display an image on the lens, a processor operatively connected to and in data communication with the image generator, a global positio... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110257882 | ROAD MAP FEEDBACK SERVER FOR TIGHTLY COUPLED GPS AND DEAD RECKONING VEHICLE NAVIGATION Road map feedback is used in a tightly coupled GPS and dead-reckoning system that collects wheel speed transducer data over a vehicle's CANbus network to compute vehicle range and direction. Road segment information provided by a network server provides a database of co... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110257884 | MOBILE UNIT AND SYSTEM HAVING INTEGRATED MAPPING, COMMUNICATIONS AND TRACKING A handheld device and system, in which such device and system include at least one mapping module, at least one tracking module interoperative with said at least one mapping module, at least one communications module interoperative with each of said at least one trackin... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110251786 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TERMINAL CHARTS, AIRPORT MAPS AND AERONAUTICAL CONTEXT DISPLAY The present disclosure relates to an aircraft that may have a fuselage and a cockpit located within the fuselage. A display may be located within the cockpit, with the display being controlled by a display control system. The display control system may have a graphical ... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110246063 | INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION SERVER, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD An information providing system stores street information obtained by associating a house number located at the boundary of a map area with each street included in the map area with respect to each segmented map area constituted of predetermined unit areas, receives a l... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246065 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INDICATING A RELATIVE ALTITUDE IN ONE OR MORE DIRECTIONS A method for indicating a relative altitude of a vehicle includes obtaining, from at least one navigation instrument, a current geographic position and a current altitude of the vehicle. One or more geographic areas substantially surrounding the current geographic posit... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110238292 | METHOD OF OPERATING A NAVIGATION SYSTEM A method of operating a navigation system is disclosed. A request for an emergency stop for a vehicle is obtained. The current position of the vehicle is determined and an emergency profile representing a time until stop is generated. A maximum distance that may be trav... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110238304 | Method of Transmitting a Traffic Event Report for a Personal Navigation Device In a method of transmitting a traffic event report for a traffic event from a personal navigation device, positioning circuits determine position of the personal navigation device. Processing circuits calculate speed of the personal navigation device according to the po... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110238305 | METHOD FOR SWITCHING REFERENCE MAP DATA IN NAVIGATION DEVICE, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR THE SAME, AND NAVIGATION DEVICE A method for switching a reference map data in a navigation device having a map data memory for storing a plurality of map data, the navigation device executing a navigation function with using a first map data among the plurality of map data stored in the map data memo... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110238291 | PHYSICAL DISABILITY PROBES FOR GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION Systems, devices, features, and methods for obtaining, enhancing, or using data for or with a geographic database, such as a navigation database, are disclosed. For example, one method includes receiving input to enable a probe sensor that is associated with a device us... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110231092 | REAL-TIME TRACKING OF DIGITAL CAMERAS AND WIRELESS CAPABLE DEVICES A portable device such as a camera comprises a wireless tracking unit for tracking the position of the portable device utilizing wireless internet technologies. When enabled, the portable device automatically determines its global position and uploads the position to a ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110231093 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE A map information processing device includes: a map information storage unit 23 for storing map information; a sensor information input unit 22 for inputting sensor information used for calculation of a current position; a navigation processing unit 25 for calculating t... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110231090 | MAP INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE A map information processing device includes a map information storage unit 23 for storing map information, a sensor information input unit 22 for inputting sensor information used for calculation of a current position, a navigation processing unit 25 | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110224901 | NAVIGATION APPARATUS USED IN-VEHICLE A navigation apparatus includes a processing resource that is operably coupled to a data store including digital map data. A location determination unit is also provided and capable of determining a location. In at least one embodiment, the navigation apparatus receives... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110218732 | Methods and Apparatus for Geo-Collaboration Methods and computer readable medium for collaborating on geographical maps between two or more computers are disclosed. In particular, sharing a geographical location on a map between two or more computers and co-navigating a map between two or more computers are discl... | 09/08/2011 |
| 20110213548 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING GUIDANCE FOR NAVIGATION SYSTEM This invention relates to a display method and apparatus in a navigation system. More specifically, this invention relates to a navigation-based method and apparatus to provide guidance information to a driver without repeatedly performing route recalculation when the d... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110208424 | Road Map Feedback Corrections in Tightly Coupled GPS and Dead Reckoning Vehicle Navigation Road map feedback is included in a tightly coupled GPS and dead-reckoning system that collects wheel speed transducer data over a vehicle's network to compute vehicle range and direction. On-board road maps in DVD disks provide a database of road segments that are match... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110208428 | NAVIGATION APPARATUS A navigation apparatus is provided which displays an own-vehicle driving condition without making it difficult to view a map display. The navigation apparatus includes own-vehicle location determination means 1 that determines a location of an own vehicle; a map ... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110208425 | Mining Correlation Between Locations Using Location History Techniques describe determining a correlation between identified locations to recommend a location that may be of interest to an individual user. The process constructs a location model to identify locations. To construct the model, the process uses global positioning s... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110208426 | Map-Matching for Low-Sampling-Rate GPS Trajectories This disclosure describes a map-matching module that supports a Global Positioning System (GPS) and provides a user with a best match trajectory corresponding to GPS sampling points taken at a low sampling rate. The best match trajectory is based upon a spatial-temporal... | 08/25/2011 |
