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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179241 | Vehicle-use visual field assistance system in which information dispatch apparatus transmits images of blind spots to vehicles A camera of a ground-based information dispatch apparatus captures a blind-spot image, showing a region that is a blind spot with respect to a vehicle driver. A vehicle-mounted camera captures a forward-view image corresponding to the viewpoint of the driver, and th... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8169310 | Method for reflecting configuration values of drive recorder In a method in which vehicle-mounted devices on vehicles read configuration data set on a computer using a memory card, when the computer is installed remotely from the vehicles, it is inefficient to have to go back and forth between the vehicles and the place where... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8138900 | Method and device for crash type identification for a vehicle A method for crash type identification for a vehicle in which sensor data from the left vehicle side and from the right vehicle side are recorded and analyzed via at least two sensor units, as well as an associated device for crash type identification for a vehicle.... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134455 | Method for sending an emergency call and device For sending an emergency call as a function of a predefined accident criterion, together with the emergency call, dynamic sensor data are transmitted which have been recorded in particular shortly before the occurrence of an accident criterion and which allow conclu... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8111146 | Ultrasonic sensor An ultrasonic sensor provided at a flip-up back door that opens and closes via a pivot shaft provided at a rear top of a vehicle, the ultrasonic sensor detecting an object in a vicinity of the vehicle by intermittently transmitting an ultrasonic wave, which hits the... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8094001 | Vehicle lane departure warning system and method A vehicle lane departure warning system and method are provided. The system includes a position sensor for sensing position of a vehicle and memory storing learned vehicle path data. The system further includes a controller for processing the position data and deter... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8085139 | Biometric vehicular emergency management system Techniques for managing vehicular emergencies are disclosed. For example, a method of managing a vehicular emergency includes the steps of collecting biometric data regarding at least one occupant of a vehicle, collecting data regarding at least one operational char... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8054168 | System and method for estimating an emergency level of a vehicular accident A method for estimating an emergency level of a vehicular accident includes detecting an event associated with the vehicular accident, initiating a video recording of an interior and/or exterior of the vehicle in response to the detecting of the event, uploading the... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8040226 | Vehicle surveillance and communication system A vehicle surveillance system has a plurality of side-light units mounted on opposite sides of a truck, bus, train or a similar long vehicle. The side-light units form an RF communication network on the vehicle. Each side-light unit comprises a day-running light sou... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040227 | Method for detecting moving objects in a blind spot region of a vehicle and blind spot detection device A method for detecting moving objects in a blind spot of vehicle is provided, comprising: taking a sequence of images of said blind spot region, partitioning each of said images of said sequence into blocks, identifying moving blocks which have moved between consecu... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8013722 | Vehicle obstruction warning system and method A system and method for warning vehicle operators of obstructions are provided. First clearance data of the vehicle, including vehicle height and width, are obtained and stored in memory. An obstruction in the vehicle's path and the travel surface between the vehicl... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7982590 | Occupant restraint system A side impact detection system for detecting information about a side impact of a vehicle. The side impact detection system comprises a elongated member, a detection sensor, a deriving unit, and a determination unit. The elongated member is capable of being deflecte... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7982591 | System and method for detecting surrounding environment A system and method applicable to a vehicle for detecting a surrounding environment are provided. The system and method include installing primary and secondary display units in a vehicle; installing a plurality of detectors of various types around the vehicle; dete... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7969289 | Method, computer program and device for determining the risk of midair collision A method for determining the probability of a vehicle colliding with a detected object. The object is detected. A stochastic process is determined representing a relative distance between the vehicle and the detected object. The stochastic process has a direction an... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7961084 | Host vehicle moving area acquisition device and acquisition method A movable area acquisition ECU 1 compares a possible path for a host vehicle and a predicted path of another vehicle in a travel area of the host vehicle with each other to obtain a possibility of collision between the two vehicles, thus computing a degree of... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7952469 | Collision detection device and method of manufacturing the same A collision detection device is provided with a load detection member 2 for detecting a collision load in a collision, and a mold member 3 which is molded to be integral with the load detection member 2. The mold member 3 covers at least ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7952470 | Collision detection apparatus, collision detecting method and robot and vacuum cleaner using the same A collision detection apparatus is provided, which includes a main body, at least an air bag disposed at the periphery of the main body and at least a baro sensor. The air bags communicate with each other. The air bag is connected to the baro sensor to detect the pr... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7920055 | Classification method for pedestrian protection system In order to provide a fast and reliable classification of an impact, the present invention proposes a method for the classification of an impact between an object and a vehicle, comprising the steps of detecting an initial contact between said object and said vehicl... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7916007 | Vehicular pedestrian collision detection sensor A vehicular pedestrian collision detection sensor detects a collision with a pedestrian which allows high-accuracy recognition of a collision with a pedestrian. A large number of load detection cells are arranged in a lateral direction (width direction) of the front... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7911331 | Collision detector A walker collision detector includes a chamber member and a pressure sensor. The chamber member defines a chamber. On a back side of the chamber member, a concave portion for housing the pressure sensor is formed. The pressure sensor is connected to the chamber memb... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7884705 | Safety-drive assistance device The present invention is to provide a safety-drive assistance device that can judge whether a driver recognizes an object to which a driver should pay an attention or not even if an accuracy of detecting a visual-line direction is almost equal to once degree. A traf... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7884704 | Body structure of vehicle having side-collision detection sensor A body structure of a vehicle reliably detects, with a side-collision detection sensor disposed on a pillar, a side-collision of a side door of a vehicle body against a pole and particularly a side-collision against a pole in a diagonal direction. A metal bracket th... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7868748 | Collision detection sensor for vehicle A chamber room is located between a bumper reinforcement and a bumper cover in a vehicle front-rear direction. The chamber room is deformed with a relative movement of the bumper cover to the bumper reinforcement in the event of the collision. A pressure sensor is l... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864033 | Active safety apparatus An active safety device for a motor vehicle comprises: obstacle detection device for detecting an obstacle; vehicle path prediction device for predicting a future path of the vehicle; collision possibility calculation device for calculating the possibility of a coll... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7786850 | Method and apparatus for bridge collision alert monitoring and impact analysis This is a method and apparatus for bridge collision alert and monitoring impact analysis, which allows users of the method and apparatus to continuously monitor the integrity of a bridge as well as to detect insult or impact to the bridge structure or both as well a... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7782180 | Collision-detecting device for automotive vehicle A collision-detecting device according to the present invention is installed in a bumper of an automotive vehicle. The collision-detecting device includes a deformable member disposed behind a bumper cover, a pressure sensor disposed in an inside space of the deform... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7777618 | Collision detection system and method of estimating target crossing location A collision detection system and method of estimating a crossing location are provided. The system includes a first sensor for sensing an object in a field of view and sensing a first range defined as the distance between the object and the first sensor. The system ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7768381 | Vehicular collision detection apparatus A collision detection apparatus for a vehicle having a vehicle bumper, which includes a bumper reinforcement includes a chamber member, a pressure sensor, and a collision detecting device. The chamber member is provided inside the vehicle bumper at a front surface o... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7737833 | Pedestrian collision detection apparatus and pedestrian protection system A pedestrian collision detection apparatus includes a bumper sensor, an acceleration sensor, a vehicle speed sensor, and a controller. The controller calculates an effective mass based on outputs from the bumper sensor and the speed sensor. The controller calculates... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7733219 | Sensor assembly A sensor assembly includes a elongate article and a plurality of elongate piezoelectric elements provided to the elongate article. Each of the piezoelectric elements is configured so that when a load is applied in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the piezoe... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7724128 | On-vehicle emergency call system An on-vehicle emergency call system is powered by a main battery. The emergency call system includes a communication unit that communicates with a service center, a control unit that drives the communication unit with electric power supplied from the main battery to... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7710248 | Human-machine-interface (HMI) customization based on collision assessments One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates collision warning. During operation, the system receives information on one or more predicted collisions and determines a utility of issuing a warning for a predicted collision based on the r... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7688187 | Early detection system and method for exterior vehicle cargo A method and device for attaching directly to a high-profile and/or elongated item of cargo (10, 110) transported on the exterior payload area of a vehicle (16) prevents collisions with obstructions (36, 136). A detector (38, 138) remotel... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688188 | Vehicle surrounding information informing device An existing-area calculating device of a vehicle surrounding information informing device calculates an existing area where a hidden-area obstacle approaching an own vehicle is likely to exist, based on own-vehicle traveling information detected by an own-vehicle tr... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688189 | Emergency reporting system for use with vehicle An emergency reporting system for a vehicle includes a reporting signal verifying device and a power supply switching device. The reporting signal verifying device verifies a reporting signal, and the reporting signal verifying device is adapted to cause the emergen... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7667581 | Pedestrian detector and detecting method using change of velocity of object in image A pedestrian detecting method including: picking up an image of a scene in front of a vehicle; extracting characteristic points from the picked up image; calculating a velocity at which, and a direction in which, each of pixels representing the respective characteri... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7652560 | Obstacle detecting control device of vehicle A radar device is configured to transmit an electric wave and receives a reflected wave that is generated by a reflection of the electric wave on an object, and to recognize the object is a potential obstacle that is to be hit by the vehicle when a received intensit... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7612658 | System and method of modifying programmable blind spot detection sensor ranges with vision sensor input A continuously programmable Blind Spot Detection System for vehicles that use continuous vision sensor input to determine lane offset and determine a maximum range limit for radar sensors to define an area of interest for declaration of objects within the blind spot... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7609150 | User adaptive vehicle hazard warning apparatuses and method Apparatuses and methods for providing improved in-vehicle warnings are disclosed. A driver's prior driving performance and a summary representation of that performance may be used as parameters in a hazard or collision warning algorithm. Information from sensors reg... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7605691 | Collision detection system A collision detection system for a vehicle is provided with multiple hollow members which are arranged at a periphery portion of the vehicle and define therein substantially closed spaces, at least one housing defining therein a substantially closed space, multiple ... | 10/20/2009 |
