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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120029811 | PND REPOSITIONING DETECTOR FOR BETTER NAVIGATION ACCURACY IN A CAR An apparatus and method for a personal navigation apparatus comprising a personal navigation device (PND) for providing navigational guidance information. The PND may include a single-dimensional magnetic detector for sensing magnetic flux amplitudes of a magnetic field... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20110295503 | Method of Determining the Own-Vehicle Position of a Motor Vehicle A method of determining the own-vehicle position of a motor vehicle having a navigation system fixedly installed in the motor vehicle includes the steps of: providing a mobile terminal having the suitability for self-localization; providing an interface for the communic... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110288772 | CURRENT POSITION DETECTOR FOR VEHICLE A current position detector for a vehicle includes: an angular speed sensor; a speed sensor; a GPS receiver; a traveling trajectory estimating element for estimating a relative trajectory based on an orientation change amount and a traveling distance, and for estimating... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110264371 | ROUTE CALCULATION METHOD FOR A VEHICLE NAVIGATION SYSTEM Traffic information, including flow information and incident information, obtained through a traffic management system for providing and facilitating the exchange of traffic information between a remote location and a vehicle may be used in route calculation by a naviga... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110257885 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY AIDING NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM SOLUTION The present invention is related to position calculation and navigation systems, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for making accuracy improvements to a GPS receiver's navigation solutions. According to a first aspect, selective cartography information fr... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110246068 | HYBRID NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH NON-NETWORK UPDATE AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF A method of operation of a hybrid navigation system includes: providing a peer-to-peer communication controller for communicating with a first vehicle; linking a second peer-to-peer communication controller for communicating between a second vehicle and the first vehicl... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246057 | HYBRID NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH LOCATION BASED SERVICES AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF A method of operation of a hybrid navigation system includes: providing a position information for locating a first device; linking a second position to the position information, the second position for locating a second device; generating a planned route with the posit... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110178658 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONOCULAR AIRBORNE OBJECT DETECTION Systems and methods for airborne object detection using monocular sensors are provided. In one embodiment, a system for detecting moving objects from a mobile vehicle comprises: an imaging camera; a navigation unit including at least an inertial measurement unit; and a ... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110144911 | METHOD OF PROCESSING GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM DATA A method of processing global navigation satellite system (GNSS) data includes identifying one or more GNSS satellites servicing a predefined area, receiving at least one of GNSS almanac data or space-based augmentation system (SBAS) data for the satellites servicing th... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110137547 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING SPATIAL INFORMATION A system for generating spatial information using an unmanned aerial vehicle may collect area information of an area where the unmanned aerial vehicle is located, obtain image information of the area where the unmanned aerial vehicle is located, and integrate a time cod... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110112767 | Systems and Methods for Determining Heading Systems and methods for determining heading of a traveling vehicle are provided. The systems and methods employ an image system to capture and match multiple distinctive features of an image area at a first and second point in time and to determine unit-vectors associat... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110106449 | METHODS AND APPLICATIONS FOR ALTITUDE MEASUREMENT AND FUSION OF USER CONTEXT DETECTION WITH ELEVATION MOTION FOR PERSONAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS Methods and apparatuses for estimating a user's altitude with respect to the mean sea level are provided. According to some aspects, the present invention is able to estimate altitude in both open sky as well as in degraded GPS signal environments such as dense urban ca... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110054790 | INTER-MOVING BODY INTERFEROMETRIC POSITIONING SYSTEM, DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF An inter-moving body interferometric positioning system for carrying out positioning in coordination with three or more moving bodies that can mutually communicate, including: a reference vehicle decision unit for deciding on a single moving body to function as a refere... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20100286911 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH OBJECT GUIDING FUNCTION AND AN OBJECT GUIDING METHOD THEREOF The present invention discloses an electronic device with object guiding function and the method thereof. In one embodiment, the electronic device includes a view window area, via which a user may watch a view. The electronic device may determine whether an object is lo... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100211313 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING AND DETECTING MULTIPLE ROUTES IN A NAVIGATION SYSTEM According to a first aspect, the invention relates to a method for controlling the navigation system of a carrier (P) receiving signals from a plurality of transmitters (T1-T3) and capable of measuring a pseudo-distance to each transmitter, wherein... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100179757 | POSITIONING DEVICE AND POSITION MEASUREMENT INTERVAL CONTROL METHOD A portable terminal includes a body movement sensor configured to detect a movement of a user; a normal moving pattern storage unit configured to store, in advance, a normal moving pattern; a moving state determination unit configured to determine the moving state from ... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100174486 | VEHICLE POSITION SPECIFYING DEVICE, VEHICLE POSITION SPECIFYING METHOD, AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE A vehicle position specifying device includes a reception unit that is installed in a vehicle and receives radio waves transmitted from a positioning satellite, a measurement unit that measures coordinates of the reception unit based on a reception result of the recepti... | 07/08/2010 |
| 20100169014 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A RELIABLE POSITION OF AN AIRCRAFT The invention relates to a method and device for determining a reliable position of an aircraft. The device (1) includes means (3, 10) for determining different aircraft position values and means (8, 16, 18) for deducing a reliable position therefro... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100100321 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE OF A VEHICLE BACK-UP CAMERA AS A DEAD-RECKONING SENSOR Systems and methods are disclosed herein to use a vehicle back-up camera as a cost-effective dead-reckoning sensor in satellite-based vehicle navigation systems. Since the back-up camera may already use a display of the navigation system for display, the data from the b... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100094554 | Systems and Methods for Accessing Data Over a Short-range Data Link to Enhance the Performance of a Navigational Unit A method for accessing data from a secondary device to enhance position data of a navigation unit is described. A short-range data link is established between a navigation unit and a secondary device. Secondary time data is received from the secondary device over the sh... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100082250 | ANGULAR VELOCITY SENSOR CORRECTING APPARATUS AND METHOD A GPS measuring unit receives a signal from a GPS satellite and outputs GPS measurement data including at least orientation of an object. An angular velocity sensor outputs angular velocity of the object. An offset value computing unit estimates a running condition of t... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100070178 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE ORIENTATION MEASUREMENT The orientation of a self-propelled vehicle or a towed vehicle relative to the direction of travel of the vehicle can be determined by mounting two ground speed sensors on the vehicle. The orientation of the vehicle relative to the direction of travel of the vehicle can... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100057359 | LOCATION SYSTEMS FOR HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICES An electronic device such as a portable electronic device is provided. The device may have wireless circuitry such as a global satellite navigation system receiver for receiving global satellite navigation system signals and for producing corresponding global satellite ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100010740 | PERMISSION MODULE ON MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE A system, apparatus, and method for techniques to retrieve and process information from communication networks on a mobile computing device are described. The apparatus may include a first interface module to receive a query and to display results of said query. The res... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090312948 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR USING POSITION/ATTITUDE INFORMATION TO ENHANCE A VEHICLE GUIDANCE SYSTEM An enhanced vehicle guidance system comprising a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver and a data processor with a memory component and a computing device. The method of enhancing a vehicle's guidance system may comprise calculating the altitude, latitude, ... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090276155 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING LOCATION INFORMATION USING DUAL FILTERS System and methods of increasing reliability of determined location information by using two integration filters are provided. An exemplary embodiment integrates inertial navigation system information and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) information in a real t... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090271113 | METHOD FOR MODIFYING NAVIGATION INFORMATION AND NAVIGATION APPARATUS USING THE SAME A method for modifying navigation information for guiding the driver is provided in the present invention, in which attitude angle of a carrier at a specific location is detected and compared with an identifying information for judging whether the carrier is on a correc... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090254279 | Compensation for mounting misalignment of a navigation device Compensating for the misalignment of a navigation device with respect to a vehicle is described. In one example, the compensation is made by applying a high pass filter to a measured acceleration of the vehicle to produce a motion acceleration signal, weighting the moti... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090248303 | POWER CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE SAME A power control system and method receives and filters a valid GPS signal received by a navigation device and outputs a corresponding performance parameter for the GPS signal, and upon determining that a power management signal is a power-off management signal, determin... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090234581 | DEVICE FOR PROCESSING NAVIGATION DATA OF A SATELLITE NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR DELIVERING INTEGRITY AREA MAPS A device (PD) is dedicated to processing navigation data related to satellites in a satellite navigation system in orbit around a heavenly body. This device (PD) comprises processing means (PM) tasked with comparing integrity data (ID), which represents reliability valu... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090228209 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ASSISTED NAVIGATION SYSTEMS The invention relates to a navigation systems and elements. A network element (M) includes a receiver (M.2.2) for forming assistance data relating to at least one navigation system. The network element (M) inserts indication of the navigation system and a selecte... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090216448 | GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM NAVIGATION APPARATUS AND POSITIONING METHOD THEREOF A Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation apparatus and a positioning method thereof are provided. The GPS navigation apparatus includes a GPS module and a data processing unit. When the GPS module enters into an operation mode from a standby mode, the GPS module sta... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090195447 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION ASSISTANCE DATA USING A RADIO TRANSMISSION The following discloses an improved system and method for accessing location assistance data, such as A-GPS assistance data, with a portable electronic device. In exemplary embodiments, location assistance data is generated by one or more reference radio transmitters an... | 08/06/2009 |
| 20090192709 | POSITION SOURCE SELECTION Techniques are described for position source selection. In an implementation, an electronic device provides a variety of functionality including at least functionality to determine position. The electronic device may be further configured to select between a plurality o... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090182502 | REFINING A POSITION ESTIMATE OF A LOW EARTH ORBITING SATELLITE In a method for refining a position estimate of a low earth orbiting (LEO) satellite a first position estimate of a LEO satellite is obtained with a GNSS receiver on-board the LEO satellite. The first position estimate is communicated to a Virtual Reference Station (VRS... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090171585 | Computational scheme for MEMS inertial navigation systemes A computational scheme for an INS which utilizes micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS) sensors is disclosed resolving issues of unnecessarily large computational burden and numerical instability which happen in using conventional methods using high-end inertial sensor... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090150075 | Angular Velocity Correcting Device, Angular Velocity Correcting Method, and Navigation Device Angular velocity correcting devices, angular velocity correcting methods, and navigation devices are disclosed. In some implementations, a first sensor sensitivity correcting method for considering variation of sensor sensitivity due to an oblique angle of an angular ve... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090143983 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM WITH DYNAMICALLY CALIBRATED PRESSURE SENSOR A navigation system includes a pressure sensor, a calibration module in communication with the pressure sensor, and an altitude module in communication with the calibration module. The calibration module is configured to determine a dynamic pressure proportionality coef... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090138199 | Location determination system for vehicles A vehicle location determination system and method provide an estimate of real time location of the vehicle along a route in response solely to vehicle GPS information and vehicle speed information such that the estimated real time distance is robust to errors and distu... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090112471 | TIME INFORMATION MANAGEMENT METHOD AND ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT A time information management method includes: managing time information using an oscillation signal of a first oscillator and data relating to an actual oscillation frequency of the first oscillator; calculating an oscillation frequency difference between a second osci... | 04/30/2009 |
