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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8130267 | Data input device, data input system, data input method, printing device, and printed matter A data input device which inputs data to a navigation device includes: an image input unit capturing an image displayed on an image display carrier for displaying an image; a code extraction unit extracting a code hidden in the image; and a transmission unit transmi... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8098280 | Moving object locating device, moving object locating method, and computer product Camera installation flexibility on a moving object can be increased and accuracy in identifying the moving object improved by identifying a moving object origin trajectory as a potential position at which the moving object origin exists under the following condition... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8085298 | Camera control device A camera control device capable of easily performing control even if more than one camera is provided. A common operation section performs a map operation and a camera operation with the same operation device. An operation management section switches between the map... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081210 | Location of broadcast transmitters and mobile-adaptation using map-based navigation A system and method for mitigating the effects of Doppler shift, multipath and/or noise for a mobile receiver, such as on a vehicle, that is receiving broadcast television signals. The vehicle may include a map database and a GPS receiver that combine to identify th... | 12/20/2011 |
| 7965312 | Locomotive wireless video recorder and recording system An imaging system (5) for generating landmark correlated images taken from a railroad locomotive includes a camera (142) mounted on the locomotive (22) for imaging an environment in a vicinity of the locomotive and transmitting imaging data indi... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7542070 | Image processing apparatus, and photographing system for receiving and creating processing information The image processing method and apparatus receive at least one of photographed image data, temporary camera control information, additional information and indication information of a desired processing content from the camera and reason out or create at least one i... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7436432 | Sight line inducing information display device, sight line inducing information display program and sight line inducing information display method Aspects of the invention can provide a sight line inducing information display device, a sight line inducing information display program and a sight line inducing information display method able to precisely estimate the flowing direction of a sight line of an obser... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7423665 | Vehicle pathway vision system having in-path delineation reticle A vehicle vision system displays a vehicle pathway image that includes a reticle for visually identifying the in-path portion of the image. A reticle array is disposed between a video camera chip and a lens, and includes a conical or frustro-conical region of substa... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7414596 | Data conversion method and apparatus, and orientation measurement apparatus An orientation sensor measures the orientation of the orientation sensor itself on a sensor coordinate system, and outputs an orientation measurement value. A first alignment data setting unit reads out first alignment data, which is recorded in an external storage ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7405746 | Image navigation device An estimate image is generated from a position and an angle of a camera and the estimate image is stored. A collating unit collates an estimate image with a scenery image, and corrects estimate values of a position and angles of the camera according to a result of t... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7379564 | Movable body circumstance monitoring apparatus A movable body circumstance monitoring apparatus includes element for capturing an image of a surrounding of a movable body depending upon movement of the movable body, deriving at least four feature points in a specified flat at the image, tracking the feature poin... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7373242 | Navigation apparatus and navigation method with image recognition A navigation apparatus with image recognition, includes: an imaging section for obtaining a stereo image of a target spot; an inertial information detecting section for measuring an attitude angle of a body and an acceleration of the body; an image process calculati... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365544 | Methods of adjusting airborne geophysical measurements based on mapping instrument measurements This invention concerns a method of making airborne geophysical measurements. Such measurements may be made from fixed or moving wing airplanes or dirigibles. The method comprises the following steps: taking first real time measurements from one, or more, geophysica... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362883 | Lane marker recognition method A lane marker recognition method comprises the steps of inputting an image including a lane marker, extracting luminance change points in the image, and estimating the position of the lane marker using the extracted edge points. The edge extracting step includes cal... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7339611 | Method and arrangement for carrying out an information flow and data flow for geodetic instruments A method and an arrangement for carrying out an information flow and data flow in a geodetic instrument with image processing is disclosed. For this purpose, the data flow and information flow needed for image processing are distributed to a plurality of function mo... | 03/04/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7333666 | Digital map shape vector encoding method and position information transfer method It is an object to provide a method of coding the position information of a digital map in a small data volume by utilizing a compressing and coding technique. In a coding method of coding data indicative of a shape vector on a digital map, an arithmetic processing ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7317474 | Obstacle detection apparatus and method A plurality of cameras respectively input an image from different camera positions. The plurality of cameras is on a moving object. An image memory stores a plurality of images input by the plurality of cameras. An image transformation unit transforms one image inpu... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7301497 | Stereo display for position sensing systems A method for display of radar data includes performing a first radar scan to obtain, for at least one object (24), a first range reading, a first azimuth reading, and a first altitude reading. A second radar scan is then performed to obtain, for the at least ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7280124 | Vehicle with image processing system and method for operating an image processing system A vehicle (01) has at least two image data sources (02), at least one mixing unit (03), at least one conversion unit (04) and an image display unit (05). The pixel data (09) generated with the image data sources (02) ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7274439 | Precise, no-contact, position sensing using imaging A contact free optical motion sensor for an inertial reference system. One or more image acquisition systems are adapted to produce a series of overlapping images of a gas bearing supported spherical inertial sensor assembly. A controller coupled to receive the seri... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269531 | Hybrid sensing techniques for position determination The invention provides for a method and apparatus for improving error-correction in non-contact optical position sensing. The primary application is in page-based data input contexts such as form-filling and paper-based web interfaces and GUIs. The invention utilise... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7260389 | Mobile platform distributed data load management system A method for loading software items on a mobile platform computer based system includes storing published content in a published content repository of a distributed data manager system (DDMS) included in the DDLMS. At least one assigned software part generated using... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7242791 | Method and system for guiding a vehicle with vision enhancement A method and system for guiding a-vehicle comprises a location module for collecting location data for the vehicle. A vision module collects vision data for the vehicle. A maximum allowable correction duration and a maximum allowable vision-derived displacement are ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239339 | Position detection apparatus, position detection method and position detection program A position detection apparatus that is able to easily detect self-position during autonomous movement by a humanoid robot that moves by the use of legs or automobile. The position detection apparatus detects the position of a moving object, said position detection a... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7230640 | Three-dimensional perception of environment A vehicle-useful, high-resolution 3D-detection of the environment of a street vehicle with environment scanning sensors is not possible today. Depending on application the first commercially available vehicle integrated systems may be a comprise between resolution o... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7231288 | System to determine distance to a lead vehicle A system implemented in a vehicle to detect a lead vehicle includes a camera which captures an image of the rear of the lead vehicle and an image processing system that receives image data from the camera. The image processing system is implemented with an algorithm... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7212921 | System and method for multiplexing and transmitting DC power, IMU data and RF data on a single cable A system for providing connectivity to co-located instruments includes a processor for receiving and processing GPS data and IMU data, a GPS receiver antenna operable to supply the GPS data to the processor, and an IMU, co-located with the GPS receiver antenna, oper... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7154540 | System for enhancing video Pan, tilt and zoom sensors are coupled to a broadcast camera in order to determine the field of view of the broadcast camera and to make a rough estimate of a target's location in the broadcast camera's field of view. Pattern recognition techniques can be used to de... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7143130 | Portable multi-tracking method and system A method and system for multi-tracking among independent individuals without a monitoring center, where an individual is a person, a vehicle, or any other property, enables the individuals to be networked in a group and each individual to search and track other indi... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7136726 | Airborne reconnaissance system An airborne reconnaissance system comprising: (1) Gimbals having at least two degrees of freedom; (2) At least one array of light sensors positioned on the gimbals, for being directed by the same within at least two degrees of freedom; (3) Map s... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7117086 | GPS/IMU clock synchronization particularly for deep integration vector tracking loop A navigation system includes an inertial measurement unit, a navigation computer, a GPS receiver, and a clock controller. The inertial measurement unit has a first clock and a first switch, the navigation computer has a second clock and a second switch, and the GPS ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7106365 | Stereo camera apparatus with a main camera and a sub-camera where the sub-camera has a point of view difference from the point of view of the main camera A stereo camera unit 2 is constructed mainly of a main camera 4, a sub-camera 5 and a camera stay 3. The main camera 4 and the sub-camera 5 are assembled to the camera stay 3 in such a way that they are inclined towar... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7092477 | BWR inspection manipulator A reactor service manipulator delivery system supported on a remotely operated trolley that travels on top of a track attached to the steam dam of a BWR shroud. The trolley has a mast and pulley system designed to manipulate a TV camera for inspection of various rea... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092842 | Multiple sensor system An extension unit provided adjacent to an amp unit comprises a measurement data accumulation memory, a measurement data acquiring part for acquiring measurement data coming through a transmission line and accumulating it in the above memory, a data analyzing part fo... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7092015 | Apparatus and method for stereo matching and method of calculating an infinite distance corresponding point The reference image data corresponding to one pixel block stored in a reference image line memory 6 is output to a stereo matching circuit 8. The comparative image data corresponding to a “search range” stored in a comparative image line memory ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088389 | System for displaying information in specific region According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system for displaying information in a specific region includes a capturing unit for capturing a desired subject, an image capturing unit for capturing an image of the subject, a position and attitude calculatin... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7079668 | Vehicle front-view monitoring system A vehicle front-view monitoring system takes fail-safe measures when a fail-safe measure-interruption requirement using first parameter are met on a monitored image for a predetermined first period. The functions interrupted by the fail-safe measure is resumed when ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7075634 | Surveying system An automatic surveying system is provided that comprises a surveying device, a collinear-line calculating processor, a sighting direction control processor, and an object-point searching processor. The collinear line calculating processor obtains a collinear line fo... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7065449 | Method and system for evaluating geophysical survey data A method and system for evaluating geophysical survey data is provided. Two neighboring flight paths of a geophysical survey are likely to have geophysical characteristics in common because neighboring flight paths cover geographic areas in a close proximity to one ... | 06/20/2006 |
