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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6631321 | Vehicle heading change determination using compensated differential wheel speed A vehicle positioning application in a navigation system provides for determining a change of vehicle heading using differential wheel speed sensors and compensates for dynamic and static changes in the wheel radii.... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6629035 | Navigation system for vehicle A navigation system 2 includes a map-gain timing judging part 15 to calculate a traveling speed the position of a vehicle detected by a GPS unit 13. A moving distance of the vehicle during the renewal of map is calculated by the traveling speed and a rene... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6622082 | Location-related WAP traffic jam map by associating map excerpts in a traffic information center Simple and multipurpose traffic information is made possible by a method for selecting traffic information which is to be sent to a mobile wireless terminal from a traffic information center and which pertains to a geographic area of a road traffic networ... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6622085 | Device and method for creating and using data on road map expressed by polygons An object of the present invention is to accomplish the automatic preparation of road data in which roads and intersections are expressed by polygons that show accurate agreement with the complicated road shapes on city maps. In simple polygon preparation... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6611687 | Method and apparatus for a wireless telecommunication system that provides location-based messages A wireless telecommunication system receives information from a wireless mobile unit and determines that the wireless mobile unit is within a designated region. Information specific to the designated region is received at a centrally located location-base... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6611753 | 3-dimensional intersection display for vehicle navigation system A navigation system includes a display which provides a 3-D perspective view. The angle of viewing in the perspective view is increased based upon the complexity of the intersection being displayed. Intersections of increased complexity are displayed at a... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6611686 | Tracking control and logistics system and method A system, apparatus, and method are disclosed for monitoring, tracking, and logistics purposes that preferably includes a monitoring unit wherein data is processed using a microcontroller. The monitoring unit includes an interface with the target or asset... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6608559 | Danger warning and emergency response system and method Surveillance platforms detect dangers and transmit information signals describing the dangers to a control center, which determines the degree of danger and its geographic extent. The center generates a message that identifies the degree of danger and GPS... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6603407 | Map display apparatus A map display apparatus includes a map data memory which stores map data necessary for plotting a map of a predetermined region; a map display which reads map data out of the map data memory and plots a bird's-eye view display by projecting the map data r... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6600994 | Quick selection of destinations in an automobile navigation system An automobile navigation system which allows quick selection of destinations by users is described herein. The system maintains a record of destinations selected by each of multiple users of the system. For each user, the system determines a set of destin... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6600993 | Navigation system A navigation system is provided with: a present position detecting device for detecting a present position of a movable body; a reading device for reading map data recorded on a recording medium; a nonvolatile storage device for storing the map data there... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6597986 | Junction guide device for providing guidance concerning looped branch road A vehicle navigation system stores road data and a plurality of schematic diagrams of junctions. Each schematic diagram represents a common pattern of a road forking to a loop road at a junction and includes a representation of the loop road and the forki... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6597365 | Indicating device with and without antialiasing The invention concerns an indicating device for the optical reproduction of graphics, with a data-processing installation for the graphic processing of the information to be represented, and an indicating unit for the visualization of the processed inform... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6594576 | Using location data to determine traffic information A system and a method for determining and disseminating current traffic information is presented. A traffic data compilation computer linked to a data network collects location data from mobile units, each of which is associated with an identification num... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6594580 | Apparatus and system for providing route guidance information and a communication terminal thereof A generation section for root guide information 25 retrieves a plurality of information elements from an information data storage section 23 and creates root guide information. Then, a generation part for guide information data blocks 26 reorganizes the r... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6594581 | Route guidance apparatus and method A database stores map data including road network data and landmark data. A route search unit searches for a route from a departure point to a destination point from the road network data stored in said database. A road pattern analysis unit analyzes a ro... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6591188 | Method, system and article of manufacture for identifying regularly traveled routes An in-vehicle navigation system includes a receiver for receiving real-time traffic information (RTTI), a database for storing routine trip information, and a processor for running a regular route application. The regular route application includes a lear... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6591189 | Mobile unit navigation system and mobile unit navigation method A mobile unit navigation system has a position detection unit 10 for a mobile unit, a map information acquisition unit 20, a destination input unit 30, a route search unit 40 for searching for a guide route from the current position to the destination, an... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6591186 | Vehicle navigation device There are included a sensor 310 which outputs pulse signals corresponding to the traveling distances of a vehicle, a vehicle display device 100 which displays, based on the pulse signals, vehicle information including the traveling distance, and a navigat... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6584383 | Anti-hijacking security system and apparatus for aircraft A vehicle security system and method allows for the disabling of manual vehicle control, while automatic vehicle guidance provides control of the vehicle. The vehicle, which may be an aircraft, boat, train, truck, etc. is thus secured against unauthorized... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6581002 | Information processing method and information processing apparatus To obtain good approximate solutions of a combinatorial optimization problem such as traveling salesman problem and to enable its processing apparatus in form of massively parallel exclusive devices, an information carrier corresponding to the distributio... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6581005 | Vehicle position calculation apparatus and method A vehicle position calculation apparatus and method are provided to correct a vehicle position to be located on a map route. The vehicle position calculation apparatus has a vehicle position measuring section measuring a vehicle position, a road data supp... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6581004 | Route navigation system, client terminal, server, route navigation method, and route identicalness determination method A server in an information base determines a route (server route) from a place of departure to a destination, transmitted from a client terminal of a navigation unit via communication, using information in a server database. On the other hand, the client ... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6574554 | System and method for calculating a navigation route based on non-contiguous cartographic map databases A method and apparatus are provided for calculating potential paths between source and destination locations. First and second map databases are provided that are indicative of roadway networks for geographic regions bounded by region edges and containing... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6574551 | Autoscaling of recommended route A navigation system is used to assist a user in proceeding from a current location to a desired destination. The navigation system includes a processor for storing a database of roads and a system for determining the current position of a vehicle in relat... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6573842 | Map display device, map display method, and computer program for use in map display device When a user indicates a portion of a map to be enlarged or contracted, a surface generating unit generates surfaces by gradually changing a surface from a first shape to a second shape, the first shape corresponding to a position of a map portion previous... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6574553 | System and method for calculating a navigation route based on adjacent cartographic map databases A method and apparatus are provided for calculating potential paths through a roadway network defined at least partially by separate, but adjacent data maps. First and second data maps are provided that are indicative of roadway networks for different geo... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6571175 | Navigation method using needle indicating display A needle indicating navigation method, particularly relates to one using a monitor type display in combination with navigation equipment to transform navigational information into readable traveling routes messages on a screen of a display indicated by cl... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6567746 | Map information providing apparatus and method A map information providing apparatus includes a detecting unit 13 and a searching part 21. In operation, the part 21 searches a target object in accordance with a position of a user's vehicle detected by the detecting unit 13. A positional relationship a... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6560531 | Multi-resolution trend metric for shape comparison and applications thereof A method for comparing geometric shapes to each other is disclosed. When used for vehicle positioning, the present method determines which map path of several candidate map paths best matches an actual path traveled by the vehicle as measured by sensors. ... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6559872 | 1D selection of 2D objects in head-worn displays A method for selecting an object in a two-dimensional display using a one-dimensional input device includes displaying a selector circle on the display and increasing or decreasing the radius of the selector circle until the perimeter of the circle coinci... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6559865 | Computing sign text for branches of an electronic map network A method and apparatus for computing sign text for exit ramps from limited access highways of an electronic map network. First and second name lists containing names of road elements ahead of and behind respective simple and compound exit ramps are genera... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6559769 | Early warning real-time security system An early-warning security system for monitoring and tracking in real-time the activities and movements associated with prescribed personnel, personal property, mobile vehicles, and buildings. The system comprises a plurality of in situ local controllers h... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6560532 | Method and system for electronically determining dynamic traffic information A method of and system for determining a path traveled by a vehicle in a road network having a plurality of road segments connected into a plurality of paths that includes obtaining a current location measurement having an accuracy range, determining the ... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6560533 | Vehicle navigation having branch road guidance In a vehicle navigation system, a memory stores branch road numbers as a part of links which indicate branch roads branching out from a main road or a rotary road. The branch road numbers are specific to the branch roads, respectively, and may be exit num... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6556917 | Navigation device for a land-bound vehicle A navigation device for a land-based vehicle is used to support the driver in navigating. The navigation device includes a processor (1), a signal processing means (2), an acoustical and optical display (3), an input device (4), a memory (5), a transceive... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6556148 | Emergency flashing light mechanism An emergency flashing light mechanism includes one or more emergency flashing lights, a processor, a transmitter, and a receiver. The emergency light flashing mechanisms can exchange information with the vehicles, pedestrians and other components of a tra... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6556919 | Map data storage medium Map data is divided into meshes of a prescribed size. Treating four meshes as one group, mesh numbers are assigned to the meshes following an N pattern. After numbers are assigned to the four meshes, these four meshes are collected as one, and numbers are... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6556920 | Navigation system A navigation system detects a present position of a movable body and performs a navigation for the movable body on the basis of map information. The navigation system is provided with: a storage device (15) of non-volatile type capable of writing the map ... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6549192 | Portable terminal apparatus and an information processing method therefor In a portable terminal apparatus, character information corresponding to map information of destination is displayed or updated. The information such as the map information of destination is entered from an information input unit employed in the portable ... | 04/15/2003 |
