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...that Charles Goodyear performed some of his experiments on rubber while in debtor's prison? He was there so often he referred to it as his "hotel". Chronically in debt because of poor business sense and ill health, Goodyear depended on the generosity of friends and family. Even after he unlocked the secret to vulcanizing rubber, he was unable to improve his financial situation. When he died, his estate was $200,000 in debt.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7920073 | Method and terminal for receiving traffic information and method for providing traffic information A method and terminal for receiving and processing traffic information and a method and apparatus for providing the traffic information, where the method for receiving traffic information includes reading region information included in received traffic information, ... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7898436 | On-vehicle position detection system An on-vehicle position detection system includes a radiation emitting device for producing at least one beam which is appropriate to be reflected by a human body seated in the vehicle, a sensor device adapted for detecting the reflection of the at least one beam pro... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7688229 | System and method for stitching of video for routes A system and method are disclosed for displaying video on a computing device for navigation and other purposes. A map database developer collects video data. The video data is collected by traveling along roads in a geographic area and storing the video data along w... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7440849 | Method for managing map data for vehicle The present invention relates to a method for managing map data for a vehicle using a navigation system, wherein upon display of the map data, memory loading for the display of the map data can be quickly performed by reducing the number of access to a physical stor... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7414543 | Multiple miniature avionic displays A display screen for displaying multiple sets of information is provided. In one embodiment, an aviation display screen includes a main window and a plurality of miniature windows. The main window is adapted to illustrate one set of information. Each miniature windo... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7403134 | Vehicle driver guarding system using vehicle telematics service and control method thereof A vehicle driver guarding system using a vehicle telematics service and a control method thereof are provided. The vehicle driver guarding system includes: a vehicle telematics system for receiving a final destination, calculating a final destination arrival expecta... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7398156 | Point search apparatus and in-vehicle navigation apparatus There are provided a point search apparatus and an in-vehicle navigation apparatus capable of searching destination candidates from which a user can view a visual target that he/she desires. A search means is formed so as to search destination candidates from which ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7392133 | Car navigation system A car navigation system by which a user can easily grasp a drop-in target in the course of a route. In a summary road map displayed in a two- or one-window display representation, contents of a two-dimensional road map is properly selected and simplified, roads are ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388516 | Mobile apparatus A mobile apparatus senses without failing an object which exists in a traveling direction of itself even when a pedestrian is moving while looking at a screen on which information is displayed. The mobile apparatus having the screen comprises an object detector part... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7388519 | Displaying points of interest with qualitative information A method is disclosed for associating and displaying qualitative information with points of interest in a graphical map. In one embodiment, a method comprises the computer-implemented steps of displaying a geographical map; displaying in the map, concurrently, icons... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7376510 | Map display for a navigation system A system and method are disclosed for displaying map information on a portable computing device. When approaching a location at which maneuvering guidance is to be provided by the portable computing device, the portable computing device presents alternating images o... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369872 | Mobile communication device for searching data based on rotation degree and a method thereof Disclosed is a mobile communication device for searching data based on a rotation angle. The mobile communication device includes a body; a geomagnetic sensor for detecting a rotation angle of the body based on an axis perpendicular to the earth surface; a main memo... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7340341 | Digital map position information compressing method and device The present invention provides a method and apparatus for compressing data of position information such as a road on a digital map in order to realize an accurate transmission of the position information in a small volume of data. A shape vector of an object road se... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7272471 | Computer-readable media, methods, and systems for computer tactical operation Computer-readable media, methods, and systems for computer tactical operation are provided. First computer program code to facilitate a communication with a remote station. Second computer program code to identify from the communication a position of the remote stat... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7181342 | Vehicular navigation device A vehicular navigation device for presenting a navigation content by continuing a predetermined inputting operation for navigation till the last step even if the used state changes. The navigation device comprises a presentation unit (6) for presenting a navi... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7173546 | Map display device When a control circuit extracts data of an entity corresponding to a phone number, the control circuit retrieves phone numbers that accord, with respect to lower seven digits of a phone number, with the inputted phone number from among phone numbers included in retr... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7164987 | Map image display apparatus, map image display program, and map image display method A map image display apparatus for displaying a map image with at least one name for entering a command to change the map image, and switching the displayed map image, when accepting the command with the name designated, to a map image in a vicinity of the designated... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7139661 | Information and control system for vehicles An information and/or control system for a vehicle includes a positioning unit for determining a current geographic position of the vehicle, a map unit containing information at least regarding routes on which the vehicle may travel, and an interface unit for select... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7133775 | Previewing points of interest in navigation system A vehicle navigation system provides information relating to a list of intersections or other points of interest located ahead of a vehicle relative to a heading vector of the vehicle. The vehicle navigation system uses information about the current location of the ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7116326 | Method of displaying traffic flow data representing traffic conditions A computer-implemented method of displaying traffic flow data representing traffic conditions on a road system includes creating a graphical map of the road system which includes one or more segments. The status of each segment on the graphical map is determined suc... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7088266 | Map image display device A map image display device is configured and arranged to improve operability by enabling a map image of a location distant from a currently displayed map image to be appropriately displayed with a simple operation. The map image display device displays names that ar... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7012553 | Aircraft flat panel display system A flat panel display system for an aircraft display includes a graphics rendering computer for rendering of anti-aliased graphical imaging data derived from aircraft sensors for full-field imaging on a cockpit display screen. A comparator processor independently gen... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6992583 | Vehicle position communication system, vehicle navigation apparatus and portable communications apparatus A cellular phone places a call to vehicle navigation apparatus, performs ID matching, and acquires the information on the position of the vehicle measured by the vehicle navigation apparatus. The cellular phone acquires peripheral map data including the position of ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6980131 | Targeted impending arrival notification of a wirelessly connected location device A rover determines a destination and periodically checks the location of the rover against one or more active alert thresholds. One alert threshold is the boundary of an alert area surrounding a destination. The rover sends an alert to a service center alerts a desi... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978209 | Mobile terminal and navigation system A navigation system for route guidance is provided. The navigation system comprises a navigation server storing map information and the mobile terminal displaying map information. The mobile terminal has access to the navigation server through a communication networ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6973318 | Apparatus and method for downloading journey-related information Vehicles (106) are equipped with two-way communication units (401) that communicate with roadside (114) and vehicular mounted two-way communication units to receive and/or exchange journey-related information. When approaching a geographic zone ... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6970786 | Method for transmitting map data and map display apparatus and system A map display apparatus for receiving and displaying map data transmitted from an information center. The map display apparatus includes a reporting device to report data-transmission expenses or data-transmission time required in receiving the map data from the inf... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6965325 | Traffic monitoring system Systems and techniques to determine a primary route between two locations by monitor vehicle speed using transmitting wireless devices. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: receiving information associated with traffic conditions on a route fro... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6954153 | System and method for communicating map data for vehicle navigation A map data transmitting server is interconnected with a vehicle terminal through a wireless network. The vehicle terminal determines a range of cells of which cell data are required for navigation based on vehicle state information, and requests the map data transmi... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6952644 | Navigation system A navigation system is provided which obtains facility information and displays a facility icon in a position corresponding to the position of the facility on a map shown on a display. The navigation system includes a facility designating device to designate the fac... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6950743 | Navigation system and program for navigation system setup In order to simplify the setting of interchanges for getting on and off, a navigation system has an information retrieval processing unit for obtaining map data and interchanges for getting on and off, a display unit which displays a setup screen for displaying a ma... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6941222 | Navigation system, server system for a navigation system, and computer-readable information recorded medium in which destination prediction program is recorded A navigation system is provided that allows an appropriate destination point to be set when a vehicle begins to travel without an operator setting a destination point. A navigation system is provided with a system control section and, if a vehicle begins to travel w... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6933860 | Method and apparatus for the display of temporal distance data An electronic device is built including a memory, a processor, and a display. The processor is configured to calculate an array of estimated travel time data from a first location to a plurality of locations within a destination area from a set of situational parame... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931319 | Method for transmitting information on position on digital map and device used for the same A method of transmitting position information of a digital map capable of transmitting a position on a digital map efficiently and accurately in which a transmitting side transmits position information including coordinate series information for specifying a vector ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6917307 | Management method and system for a parking lot A management method and system for a parking lot utilizes multiple parking space sensors to detect the using status of each parking space. A computer is provided to connect to all parking space sensors and controls a display board that is placed at the entrance of t... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6904338 | In-car computing device and method of controlling a cursor for an in-car computing device An in-car computing device comprising a computer unit (12), a display screen (20) for displaying information (54-58, 82), a cursor (62) and option menus with individual option menu items, and a control element (22, 23, 24) for movi... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6898517 | Vehicle-based dynamic advertising A method and system for dynamically targeting content (e.g., advertising) displayed by a moving vehicle according to the location and direction of travel of the vehicle. Multiple items of content are loaded onto the vehicle and updated at periodic intervals. Positio... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6892133 | Thin-client navigation and route guidance system A client/server navigation system utilizes partial route guidance trees, enabling a thin, mobile client to detect route deviation and provide alternate instructions while awaiting response from a server. The system (10) consists of a server (28) contai... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6889136 | Device for position-dependent representation of information A device, a method, an adjusting device, and a mobile system for providing location-dependent information. It is proposed to use a device (1) which utilizes a navigation system (2) to detect its own position within an environment in relation to a map (... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6862520 | Navigation apparatus A navigation apparatus including a joystick which is adapted for three motions of leaning in a plurality of predetermined directions, rotating about an axial line and being pressed in a direction along the axial line. As a result of these three motions, an operation... | 03/01/2005 |
