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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120046803 | Apparatus for controlling speed of mobile object In an obtainer for obtaining speed feeling of a driver of a movable object, a gaze point setter sets a gaze point of the driver, and a motion detector detects relative motion of an environmental field around the mobile object with respect to the mobile object. A diverge... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120004883 | ACTIVITY MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS An activity monitor, comprises housing for attachment to a person; at least one accelerometer disposed within the housing; and a processor disposed within the housing, for processing signals from the accelerometer to assess activity of the person. A method assesses acti... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110295549 | ANGULAR VELOCITY ESTIMATION APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND ANGULAR VELOCITY ESTIMATION METHOD An angular velocity estimation apparatus of the invention is provided to estimate the angular velocity of a moving object with good accuracy. A peripheral object observation device (radar) 811 repeatedly observes a relative position ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295548 | ROAD CONFIGURATION ESTIMATION APPARATUS, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND ROAD CONFIGURATION ESTIMATION METHOD There is provided a road configuration estimation apparatus that precludes influences of erroneous detection of an object and erroneous still determination and estimates a road configuration. A radar (peripheral object observation device) <... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110276401 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING MESSAGES TO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE BASED ON CORRELATION OF DATA RELATING TO A USER OF THE DEVICE The present disclosure described herein relates to a system and method for distributing messages to an electronic device. The method comprises: analyzing data relating to the device to determine a correlation of data relating to a user of the device; selecting an advert... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110238457 | VEHICLE ROUTE SELECTION BASED ON ENERGY USAGE Vehicle management systems and associated processes can consider energy consumption when selecting routes for fleet vehicles. Vehicle management systems and associated processes are described that, in certain embodiments, evaluate vehicle energy usage based on factors s... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110202204 | System and Method of Navigation based on State Estimation Using a Stepped Filter Embodiments include systems and methods of navigation. In on embodiment, a plurality of position and motion states of a vehicle are estimated. The states may be estimated based on information received from a satellite receiver and an inertial measurement sensor. Estimat... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110196644 | DETERMINING SPEED PARAMETERS IN A GEOGRAPHIC AREA Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for assigning parameters to a geofenced area. For example, in one embodiment, a geofenced area that (a) corresponds to a geographic area and (b) comprises one or more street segments is defined. Spe... | 08/11/2011 |
| 20110150649 | MONITORING OF WIND TURBINES Method and apparatus for determining the deflection or curvature of a rotating blade, such as a wind turbine blade or a helicopter blade. Also, methods and apparatus for establishing an inertial reference system on a rotating blade.... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110125455 | SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING THE LATERAL VELOCITY OF A VEHICLE A system and method for estimating vehicle lateral velocity that defines a relationship between front and rear axle lateral forces and front and rear axle side-slip angles. The method includes providing measurements of vehicle yaw-rate, lateral acceleration, longitudina... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110117903 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISABLING MOBILE DEVICES An arrangement for disabling suitably equipped mobile devices senses at least one of: acceleration, jerk, velocity, position, orientation relative to a vehicle location trend, and orientation of a direction of motion. Position and orientation sensing elements are becomi... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110119013 | Vehicle Speed Determination System And Method A method for verifying the speed of a vehicle having at least a front axle and a rear axle, using sensors separated by a distance. The presence of the vehicle is sensed and an image of the vehicle is recorded to enable the vehicle to be identified. The sensors are trigg... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110106487 | MOVING BODY POSITIONING DEVICE In order to acquire positioning results (position and azimuth) of a moving body and reducing cumulative errors in integration processing of the positioning results, a moving body positioning apparatus includes: movement detecting means for detecting whether or not a mov... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110105920 | Display Mode Selection An apparatus, a method, and a computer program are disclosed. The apparatus comprises a processor. The processor is configured to obtain exercise data of a user from a measurement sensor, to identify a present exercise phase of an exercise from among a plurality of exer... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110077899 | COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM STORED THEREIN AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS A game apparatus calculates a load value detected by a load controller, and a center-of-gravity position of a player, at predetermined time intervals. Based on the calculated center-of-gravity position, the game apparatus firstly determines whether or not the center of ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110074665 | INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM HAVING COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM THEREIN AND INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS A game apparatus calculates a first evaluation value based on the difference between the time when the load value detected by a load controller becomes the maximum and the time when the velocity of the center of gravity, which represents the velocity of movement of the ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110063439 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING ANOMALIES IN OBJECT STREAMS USING THE PHENOMENON OF GROUP SPEED In a method and an apparatus for identifying, measuring and assessing anomalies in the behaviour of streams of people or objects, anomalies are identified, measured and assessed reliably and in all of their possible forms. At least one group in a stream of people or obj... | 03/17/2011 |
| 20110054781 | VELOCITY CALCULATION DEVICE, VELOCITY CALCULATION METHOD AND NAVIGATION DEVICE A velocity calculation device includes a vertical direction acceleration detection unit that is mounted on a mobile object to detect the acceleration of a vertical direction generated corresponding to the unevenness of a surface on which the mobile object moves; a horiz... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20100211350 | SPEED METER A speed meter connected to a vehicle comprises a casing provided with a liquid crystal screen, and a gravity sensor, a power source, a circuit board, and a microprocessor are provided in the casing. The microprocessor is located on the circuit board. The power source, t... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100207805 | OBTAINING AN INDICATION OF A NUMBER OF MOVING OBJECTS PASSING SPEED DETECTION APPARATUS Apparatus and method for obtaining an indication of a number of moving objects passing a speed detection apparatus. Data representing a record of speed events over a series of time frames is obtained (208, 210), each time frame including a record of zero or more ... | 08/19/2010 |
| 20100201967 | Device of detecting light reflecting speed and direction, and method thereof A device of detecting light reflecting speed and directions includes a light source, a light-guided pulley, a reflector, photo detectors, barriers, a processor and a display unit. The light source generates incident light, the light-guided pulley is located at one side ... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100191413 | SPEED DETECTION FOR A TACHOGRAPH SYSTEM System and method for detecting and storing at least speed as an information relevant for resignation for a tachograph system. to provide a tamperproof tachograph system offering a high degree of security. An arithmetic unit detects signals for determining the speed fro... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100177300 | MEASURING DEVICE A measuring device includes a VCSEL of a first-order or high-order single mode emitting laser beams, a driving part configured to drive the VCSEL, a detecting part configured to detect an electric signal relating to feedback lights generated when laser beams are project... | 07/15/2010 |
| 20100166210 | ENGINE SPEED CALCULATION DEVICE AND ENGINE SOUND GENERATION DEVICE An engine sound generation device adapted to an electric vehicle includes an engine speed calculation unit which calculates the virtual engine speed based on the motor revolution speed, vehicle speed, and acceleration opening. The engine speed calculation unit calculate... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100149236 | SPEED CALCULATION DEVICE, SPEED ESTIMATION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM A speed calculation device is provided. The generation component generates a plurality of pulse signals with different phases in accordance with rotation of a rotating body. The detection component detects rises and falls of respective pulses of the plurality of pulse s... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100145631 | MONITORING OF CONVEYOR BELTS A system for monitoring a conveyor belt having magnetically permeable cords, has an AC magnetic field generator for generating an alternating magnetic field to magnetize the cords, in use; a magnetic field sensing unit for sensing the alternating magnetic field provided... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100131229 | DYNAMIC OBSERVER FOR THE ESTIMATION OF VEHICLE LATERAL VELOCITY A system and method for estimating vehicle lateral velocity that defines a relationship between front and rear axle lateral forces and front and rear axle side-slip angles. The method includes providing measurements of vehicle yaw-rate, lateral acceleration, longitudina... | 05/27/2010 |
| 20100123558 | METHOD FOR MEASURING SPEED OF VEHICLE USING RFID, RFID READER FOR MEASURING SPEED OF VEHICLE, AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING VEHICLE INFORMATION USING THE SAME A technique for simultaneously acquiring vehicle identification information and speed information of an RFID tag-attached vehicle by calculating the vehicle speed by using a Doppler shift value extracted from transmission and reception signals between the RFID tag and t... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100114499 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING RAW ACTIVITY ENERGY EXPENDITURE DATA According to one embodiment, a method is provided for calculating, by an activity monitor comprising one accelerometer, a raw activity energy expenditure data based on movement by a user. The method includes determining if the raw activity energy expenditure data is ass... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100106445 | ANGULAR VELOCITY SENSOR CORRECTING APPARATUS FOR DERIVING VALUE FOR CORRECTING OUTPUT SIGNAL FROM ANGULAR VELOCITY SENSOR, ANGULAR VELOCITY CALCULATING APPARATUS, ANGULAR VELOCITY SENSOR CORRECTING METHOD, AND ANGULAR VELOCITY CALCULATING METHOD A measuring unit obtains measurement data of an object measured on the basis of a signal from a GPS satellite and angular velocity of an object output from an angular velocity sensor. An offset value computing unit estimates a running condition of the object on the basi... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100100315 | Determining Speed Parameters In A Geographic Area Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for assigning parameters to a geographic area, wherein the parameters may be used to associate a speed limit with the geographic area. For example, in one embodiment, a geofenced area that (a) corre... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100094583 | SENSOR NETWORK A system includes a plurality of networked nodes spatially distributed within a monitored area and adapted to interact with a mobile entity entering and moving through the area, the plurality of nodes including at least one area entrance node adapted to detect the mobil... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100082270 | FORCE SENSOR FOR USE IN AN INPUT DEVICE AND METHODS FOR CONSTRUCTING AND USING THE SENSOR The disclosure addresses a force sensor that is scalable in size and adaptable to a variety of form factors, including those suitable for use in an input device for a computer or other processing system, and in some cases including those of the configuration normally re... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100082286 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING AN INPUT DEVICE Disclosed herein is an improved input device for a processing system, such as, for example a computer system; and an improved method for operating that input device. The system monitors at least one indicia, such as an operating parameter of the input device, where the ... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100057398 | MONITORING ACTIVITY OF A USER IN LOCOMOTION ON FOOT One disclosed method involves using at least one device supported by a user while the user is in locomotion on foot during an outing to automatically measure amounts of time taken by the user to complete respective distance intervals. During the outing, data representin... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057360 | Velocity calculation device, velocity calculation method, and navigation device A velocity calculation device includes: a vertical direction acceleration detection portion that is mounted on a vehicle and detects an acceleration in a vertical direction generated correspondingly to undulation of a road surface; a horizontal direction angular velocit... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100042360 | ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENT OF OFF-CENTER RUN-OUT AND REEL-HUB MISMATCH In a method of electronically measuring reel off-center run-out and reel hub mismatch, tape speed data related to a tape coupled with an operating drive reel is electronically measured. The tape speed data is correlated with drive reel rotation angles. The correlated ta... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100036639 | Shoes and Garments Employing One or More of Accelerometers, Wireless Transmitters, Processors Altimeters, to Determine Information Such as Speed to Persons Wearing the Shoes or Garments A shoe is improved by including: at least one accelerometer for generating acceleration signals and a processor configured to process the acceleration signals to determine one or both of speed and distance traveled of a person wearing the shoe. A shoe and a garment are ... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100030482 | Real-Time Swimming Monitor A wearable device for monitoring and providing real-time feedback about a swimmer's body motion and performance, in particular, body orientation and forward speed, is provided. The device comprises a three-axis accelerometer, optionally a three-axis gyroscope, a memory,... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100013768 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING COMBINATIONS OF KINEMATICAL INPUTS Methods and apparatus for processing combinations of force and velocity data generated over a given period of time. In one embodiment, an input device comprising one or more force sensors and one or more motion sensors is manipulated relative to a surface. A receiving s... | 01/21/2010 |
