Quotables
"I watched his countenance closely, to see if he was not deranged ... and I was assured by other senators after he left the room that they had no confidence in it."
U.S. Senator Smith of Indiana ; After seeing Samuel Morse demonstrate the telegraph.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7400246 | Inertial Sensor Tracking System The INERTIAL SENSOR TRACKING SYSTEM is an overall system installation consisting of wireless body pack transmitters, broadband telemetry transceivers, computer and monitoring equipment, and emergency power generation for tracking personnel in an underground mine env... | 07/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7375622 | Alarm generation method and apparatus An on-vehicle alarm generation method and an on-vehicle alarm generation apparatus for notifying a driver to be aware of safe driving by detecting a passerby or a bicycle moving at a dangerous point and generating an alarm to the driver are provided. In one aspect, ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7369939 | Method and apparatus for displaying information for vehicle, and computer product An apparatus for displaying information on a vehicle includes an information acquiring unit that acquires at least one of speed information and engine revolutions-per-minute information of the vehicle; and a display control unit that controls a display screen in suc... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359776 | Apparatus for correcting and diagnosing angular rate sensors installed in an automotive vehicle An offset diagnosing and correcting section obtains an offset correction value from an angular rate value obtained from detection signals produced from a plurality of angular rate sensors and a detection signal produced from an angular rate sensor when an automotive... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7336805 | Docking assistant Many day-to-day driving situations require that an operator of a motor vehicle guide the motor vehicle along a specific course and bring the vehicle to a stop at a specific location, for example in a parking bay or at a loading platform. To assist a vehicle operator... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7305467 | Autonomous tracking wireless imaging sensor network including an articulating sensor and automatically organizing network nodes A wireless integrated network sensor (WINS) system is provided that integrates articulating tracking systems with WINS network components including visual or infrared sensors and imaging devices to enable precise tracking and targeting of objects moving through a se... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7233683 | Method and system for guiding a vehicle with vision-based adjustment A method and system for guiding a vehicle comprises a location module (e.g., location-determining receiver) for collecting preliminary location data for the vehicle. A vision module collects vision-derived location data for the vehicle during an evaluation time wind... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7221909 | Method for guiding wireless communication device into communicable range and wireless communication device A personal digital assistant (PDA) detects its position by a two-axis acceleration sensor provided therein. While the PDA is within a communicable range where the PDA can communicate with the printer, a position of the PDA, which is located at time when the position... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7167796 | Vehicle navigation system for use with a telematics system A navigation system for a vehicle includes a vehicle-based telematics system, a vehicle-based global positioning system and a control. The telematics system is operable to receive a user input from a driver of the vehicle and to download directional information from... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7117087 | Method for estimating location of moving object in navigation system The present invention relates to a method for estimating location of a moving object in a navigation system, which is capable of accurately estimating location of the object in a shadow area of GPS location data so that navigation service is provided. A method for e... | 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 |
| 7031818 | Method and device for recognising a state of standstill of a motor vehicle It is customary to use signals from a motor vehicle central control in order to operate braking equipment for motor vehicles which automatically produces braking forces for states of standstill of a motor vehicle which are capable of holding a motor vehicle at a sta... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7006037 | Method for providing location information in mobile communication system Provided is a method for providing location information in a mobile communication system. The method includes the steps of: a) receiving coordinates of current location of a GPS terminal and a request for location information which includes coordinates of geographic... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6946978 | Imaging system for vehicle An imaging system suitable for use with a vehicle based global positioning system includes an imaging sensor and a control. The imaging sensor is positioned at the vehicle and may face generally forwardly with respect to the direction of travel of the vehicle. The c... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6943704 | Method for collecting altitude-related data along roads A method is disclosed for obtaining altitude-related data along roads. A vehicle includes equipment capable of determining the current absolute positions of the vehicle as it is being driven. The vehicle also includes equipment capable of determining a distance trav... | 09/13/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6844828 | Method for providing road users with information and device for carrying out same In a method for providing road users with information about a route section which is traveled along by a motor vehicle before a dangerous situation, the position and the duration of travel of the motor vehicle are repeatedly sensed along the route section using a se... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6798354 | Device for warning the driver of a motor vehicle of dangers by radio A device for the radio-transmission of a hazard warning to the driver of a motor vehicle includes a data transmission device for transmitting and receiving data. The data transmission device exchanges data with data transmission devices of other motor vehicles, incl... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6756919 | 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 read out fro... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6694258 | Hand held car locator A car locator system includes a hand held locator which receives information with regard to the location of a vehicle and then stores that information for display on the hand held locator. The hand held locator could be a key fob having buttons to command... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6650253 | Map display device, map display method, and computer program for use in map display device In a map display device, a surface storing unit stores surface information which defines a curved surface having a form that depends on positions of portions of a map which are to be enlarged and/or contracted. A mapping unit maps the map onto the curved ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6308134 | Vehicle navigation system and method using multiple axes accelerometer The improved vehicle navigation system uses a multiple, orthogonal axes accelerometer, such as two or three accelerometers which are mounted orthogonal to one another. The two axes whose acceleration are to be measured are the longitudinal (nose to rear b... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6087965 | Vehicle mileage meter and a GPS position tracking system A trip meter, such as a taximeter or a mileage meter for a commercial vehicle, such as a truck, are combined with an integral GPS receiver/computer which provides GPS position and time information. Odometer input pulses to the trip meter are accurately ca... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5917434 | Integrated taximeter/GPS position tracking system A taximeter system includes a taximeter or trip meter for a truck integrated with an integral GPS receive/computer for providing GPS position and time information. The odometer input pulses to the taximeter are accurately calibrated by using GPS position,... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5902351 | Apparatus and method for tracking a vehicle An apparatus and method for tracking a vehicle is provided. The vehicle tracking system may include an inertial measurement unit for providing inertial vehicle state characteristics of the vehicle. The inertial measurement unit may include at least one gy... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5745868 | Method for rapid recovery from dead reckoning system heading loss A method of recovering the heading of a terrestrial vehicle navigation system having a GPS receiver integrated with a dead reckoning system. After determining that a current estimate of the heading may be in error (12, 14), Doppler measurement double diff... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5689431 | Golf course yardage and information system A player position determining and course management system for a golf course having a plurality of roving units for use by players in playing the course is disclosed. Each roving unit includes a central processing unit (CPU) including a data processor for... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5657232 | Onboard positioning system A relative speed of a vehicle with respect to a satellite is detected from a deviation of a tuning frequency caused by the Doppler effect, and a vehicle speed is determined from the relative speed. A piezoelectric oscillation gyro detects an angular speed... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5485385 | Magnetic azimuth sensor compensation apparatus for vehicle navigation system and method thereof A motor vehicle-mounted navigation apparatus comprising an input section adapted for inputting data based on GPS positioning, an azimuth sensor and distance sensor adapted for establishing independent navigation signal input sections for inputting data re... | 01/16/1996 |
| 5483456 | Navigation system and a method of calculating GPS measuring deviation A navigation system includes: GPS receiving device for receiving satellite information including accuracy information supplied from a plurality of GPS satellites and outputting at least the accuracy information, a measuring position as a receiving point c... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5424953 | Navigation apparatus A navigation apparatus performs operations for detecting and indicating at least the driving direction of a moving vehicle. The apparatus comprises an angular velocity sensor for detecting an angular velocity according to a change in driving direction of ... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5404307 | Navigation apparatus with detected angular speed correction A navigation apparatus for detecting and displaying at least an azimuth of a movable body, includes: an angular speed sensor for detecting an angular speed accompanied by the change in the azimuth of the movable body, and outputting angular speed data, wh... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5367463 | Vehicle position and azimuth computing system An vehicle position and azimuth computing apparatus is constructed to correct both positional errors and azimuth errors caused by the accumulation of a sensor error and a map error and to provide both high positional precision and high azimuth precision. ... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5331563 | Navigation device and direction detection method therefor The navigation device includes vehicle condition discriminating unit for discriminating whether the vehicle is stopped or not, angular velocity detecting unit for detecting change of direction of the vehicle and producing angular velocity data on the basi... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5323152 | Apparatus for detecting the position of a vehicle A vehicle position detecting apparatus comprises vehicle position estimating means for estimating a vehicle position on the basis of the travel direction and distance of a vehicle detected respectively by direction and distance detecting means, travel roa... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5319561 | Apparatus for estimating current heading using magnetic and angular velocity sensors A heading detecting apparatus which calculates a Kalman filter gain by individually analyzing and evaluating error factors contained in the output data of turning angular velocity and magnetic sensors, determines the rate of use of the turning angular vel... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5296855 | Offset correction apparatus of turning angular velocity sensor An offset correction apparatus comprising a turning angular velocity sensor, a vehicle speed sensor for outputting a pulsed signal every constant distance traveled by a vehicle, a stop determining unit for determining that the vehicle is at a stop, an off... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5297050 | Direction sensor having an earth magnetism sensor and a rate gyro sensor and navigation system having this direction sensor The present invention involves a direction sensor and a navigation system containing the direction sensor. The direction sensor has an earth magnetism sensor and a rate gyro sensor that calculates a compensated direction by weighted means process of the o... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5289167 | Display apparatus capable of processing distance information A display apparatus having a calculation function, comprises a measurement unit for measuring a distance; an input unit for inputting either time information or velocity information; a calculation unit for calculating either time information or velocity i... | 02/22/1994 |
