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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8432295 | Road traffic information providing system, road traffic information providing device, road traffic information providing method, and program A utterance type road traffic information providing system comprises a roadside apparatus (100) installed along a road where vehicles travel, in a parking lot, or near a parking lot and adapted for transmitting alarm information by wireless communication, a u... | 04/30/2013 |
| 8427341 | System and method for providing road information in advance A system for providing a vehicle and/or the driver in advance with road information, the system including at least one message disposed at any point along the road, the message including information of at least one characteristic of an upcoming section of the road, ... | 04/23/2013 |
| 8410957 | Traffic light passing support system, in-vehicle apparatus for the same, and method for the same An in-vehicle arithmetic unit calculates a required time, which is needed for a vehicle to arrive at a traffic light when the vehicle maintains a present speed, according to a speed of the vehicle, a present position of the vehicle, and information on the traffic li... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8410956 | Message management protocol persistent geocast routing A system and method for providing a protocol to maintain a persistent warning message in a region of interest. The protocol begins its operation when a hazardous condition is detected by a vehicle. The detecting vehicle uses a multi-hop geocast broadcasting process ... | 04/02/2013 |
| 8405520 | Traffic display depicting view of traffic from within a vehicle A method and system for displaying an in-car view of current traffic conditions is disclosed. A user can select an “In Car View” as a display option. A display shows traffic conditions from a driver's eye view. A forward view depicts a vehicle dashboard, which m... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8405521 | Apparatus and method for generating statistic traffic information A statistic DB creation processing section creates a statistic traffic DB, based on past actual traffic data (probe DB or VICS DB), and stores it in a statistic DB storage section. A reference-link-candidate extraction processing section extracts a complement target... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8405522 | Lane departure haptic warning with compensation for road-caused vibration A method of alerting the driver of a vehicle to a lane departure condition. The method includes operating a lane detection system to detect that the vehicle is experiencing a lane departure condition, operating a sensor to detect background vibration experienced by ... | 03/26/2013 |
| 8395529 | Traffic infrastructure indicator on head-up display A substantially transparent windscreen head up display includes one of light emitting particles or microstructures over a predefined region of the windscreen permitting luminescent display while permitting vision through the windscreen. A method to display a graphic... | 03/12/2013 |
| 8386161 | Route planning methods and systems Route planning methods and systems are provided. First, an input corresponding to a specific region is received via an input unit of a personal navigation device. Then, a first predefined location located in the specific region is determined. A first route from a fi... | 02/26/2013 |
| 8378849 | Enabling driver communication Techniques for generating driving information based on one or more driver inputs are provided. The techniques include receiving information about one or more triggering factors from at least one of one or more internal entities and one or more external entities, usi... | 02/19/2013 |
| 8374784 | System and method for determining the geographic location of a device A method and apparatus for estimating a location of a device. For each of a plurality of locations of a device, a set of positional data is determined from signals received from a plurality of satellites. The positional data is filtered and compared with data from a... | 02/12/2013 |
| 8362922 | Intersection driving support apparatus When a vehicle attempts to enter a priority road from a non-priority road, a visibility determination processing section compares moving object information on the priority road obtained from a first infrastructure facility installed near a stop position with moving ... | 01/29/2013 |
| 8358221 | Vehicle-mounted device, output propriety judgment method, communication system and program An utterance type vehicle-mounted device (200) is mounted on a vehicle traveling on a road and provided with a communication processing unit for receiving information from a roadside apparatus (100) set on a road side and an information reproduction un... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8358222 | GPS-generated traffic information Disclosed herein is a traveler information monitoring and dissemination system. The system disclosed herein provides real time information to a traveler, wherein the real time information may be pre-selected by the traveler. The system ensures consistent and quality... | 01/22/2013 |
| 8350722 | Identification, assessment and response to environmental conditions while in an automobile A method is disclosed for estimating the exposure of vehicle occupants to environmental conditions capable of inducing a least discomfort. The occupants are alerted to their proximity to a zone where environmentally-challenging conditions exist and, in a first embod... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8350723 | Method and system for improved traffic signage An improved traffic sign is discussed. The traffic sign includes an RFID tag configured to transmit a traffic information to a vehicle-mounted receiver. The traffic information can be associated with a priority. The receiver can be in communication with a vehicle-mo... | 01/08/2013 |
| 8344906 | Automated traffic synchronization Spatial relationship information and performance information are determined for vehicles within a vehicular environment. Traffic signaling information is received from a traffic regulation system associated with the vehicular environment. At least one synchronized c... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8344907 | Vehicle traffic flow data acquisition and distribution Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for vehicle traffic flow data acquisition and reporting for onboard vehicle navigation. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for vehicle traffic flow data acquisition a... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8334791 | Communication system, communication control method, and roadside unit A communication system includes a roadside unit and a mobile communication unit that communicates with the roadside unit by using one of a plurality of communication channels. The mobile communication unit obtains, for each communication channel, a reception conditi... | 12/18/2012 |
| 8330621 | In-vehicle apparatus, roadside device, and traffic information system An in-vehicle apparatus includes a first receiver capable of receiving identification information about a vehicle group that is transmitted from a first roadside device in a signal having directivity; a judging unit for identifying a vehicle group to which a host ve... | 12/11/2012 |
| 8319661 | Information distribution system and vehicle-mounted device An information distribution system includes a roadside apparatus which transmits an utterance type provided information containing audio instruction information based on a traveling direction to be provided by the utterance type provided information. When an vehicle... | 11/27/2012 |
| 8299940 | Road-vehicle communication system and vehicle-mounted device A road-vehicle communication system comprises roadside apparatuses, a center device, and a vehicle-mounted device mounted in a vehicle. The roadside apparatuses are each given identification information for identifying itself. The center device transmits to the vehi... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8294594 | On-board vehicle warning system and vehicle driver warning method An on-board vehicle warning system includes a vehicle location detecting section, a traffic regulation retrieving section, an incoming message receiving section, a vehicle information detecting section, a potential violation alerting section. The traffic regulation ... | 10/23/2012 |
| 8289187 | Accident prone location notification system and method A method includes maintaining vehicle accident occurrence information, wherein the vehicle accident occurrence information includes accident location information, accident occurrence date information, and accident occurrence time information and identifying, based a... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8290659 | Information updating method of vehicle-mounted control apparatus, update information communication system, vehicle-mounted control apparatus, and information management base station apparatus When an updating event occurs, an information management base station unit inquires all the vehicles under its management about the presence or absence of vehicle-mounted control units to be updated. Based on replies from the individual vehicles, the information man... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8289188 | Road traffic information providing system, road traffic information providing device, road traffic information providing method, and program An utterance type road traffic information providing device (system) provided with a roadside apparatus (100) set on a road where a vehicle travels, at a parking lot or a place adjacent to the parking lot for transmitting alarm information by wireless communi... | 10/16/2012 |
| 8279085 | Vehicle-mounted device and information distribution system An information distribution system comprises a roadside apparatus, a center apparatus, and a vehicle-mounted device. The center apparatus transmits to a predetermined area through the roadside apparatus first distribution information including a predetermined divisi... | 10/02/2012 |
| 8279084 | Method for providing bus arrival time for passengers by using DSRC A method for providing an expected arrival time of bus stops or major bus stops to bus passengers is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: a) collecting traffic information including a on-board device ID, a roadside base station ID and a pass time from the ro... | 10/02/2012 |
| 8274402 | Data collection process for optical leak detection Method for collecting video files of one or more Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) components, including receiving information pertaining to the one or more LDAR components within a specified area, recording a video of the LDAR components for a predetermined amount o... | 09/25/2012 |
| 8269653 | Providing sponsorship information alongside traffic messages A method and system for providing sponsorship information to a user of a traffic message receiver is disclosed. Sponsorship messages are sent to the traffic message receiver and include data to be stored in the memory of the receiver. The transmission of the sponsor... | 09/18/2012 |
| 8264375 | Method and system for developing traffic messages A computer implemented method of compressing a plurality of TPEG format traffic messages is provided. The method forms a template containing the data values of fields of a message management container, an event container and a location container and forms a global d... | 09/11/2012 |
| 8258982 | Safe driving evaluation system and safe driving evaluation program Safe driving evaluation systems, methods, and programs acquire traffic signal information that indicates the display status of a traffic signal present ahead in the traveling direction of a vehicle, determine the vehicle is within a prescribed stop supplement zone s... | 09/04/2012 |
| 8253590 | Vehicle-mounted receiver apparatus An in-vehicle receiving apparatus to receive transmitted data from an on-road device having a reference position setting device to set a position satisfying a predetermined reception condition, as a reference position; a real receiving situation acquiring device to ... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8253591 | Vehicle traffic flow data acquisition and distribution Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for vehicle traffic flow data acquisition and reporting for onboard vehicle navigation. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for vehicle traffic flow data acquisition a... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8255155 | Methods of detecting a speed detection of a vehicle and supporting apparatus, system, and readable medium A technique of detecting a speed detection of a vehicle using a geographic database (200, 322, 326, 508, 510) of a navigation system (300, 502) has been provided, which obtains a current position of the vehicle (404) and at least one predefined ... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8248270 | Tactile warning system for a vehicle A warning system adapted to detect a plurality of input signals, identify the input signals as being associated with a vehicular speed measuring system used by law enforcement, and provide a tactile warning to a driver of the vehicle, is disclosed. The warning syste... | 08/21/2012 |
| 8223038 | Driver assistance system for traffic sign recognition An evaluation device for a driver assistance system for a vehicle includes an input for receiving image information recorded by a camera, a first component for locating an image section present in a predefined shape in first image information received from the camer... | 07/17/2012 |
| 8207866 | Audible driving alert A system for advising the operator of a transportation vehicle to impending travel conditions responsive to proximity to the area affected by the travel conditions. The system has location determination capability such as a GPS system and a source of travel conditio... | 06/26/2012 |
| 8199028 | Protocol for map data transmission for infrastructure to vehicle communications A method is provided for selectively transmitting stop sign intersection data to a vehicle in an infrastructure-to-vehicle communication system. The infrastructure-to-vehicle system includes a fixed entity for broadcasting wireless messages to vehicles in a predeter... | 06/12/2012 |
| 8188887 | System and method for alerting drivers to road conditions System and method for warning drivers of changing road conditions is disclosed. In one embodiment road condition information is obtained for at least a portion of a route. The road condition information is analyzed to identify one or more significant features on the... | 05/29/2012 |
