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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4341023 | Digital compass A digital magnetic compass provides an octant display of magnetic bearing in alphabetic characters and incorporates a magnetic sensor for providing signals representative of the orientation of the sensor with respect to the earth's magnetic field, a micro... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4340936 | Microprocessor navigational aid system A navigational aid system including a microprocessor having peripheral memory devices and being programmed by a read only memory, the system including sensors for measuring variable parameters and thumb switches for inserting known fixed data, and the mic... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4335433 | Method for correcting navigation errors due to water currents In a satellite navigation system for an ocean vessel, a major source of error is unknown ocean currents when the navigation is done by dead-reckoning with respect to the waters. The present method for determining and correcting for ocean navigation error ... | 06/15/1982 |
| 4328545 | Driverless vehicle autoguide by light signals and two directional detectors An unmanned vehicle capable of being automatously guided towards a predetermined destination by the geometrical computation of light signals received by at least two on-board detectors which relate the direction of each signal received to the axis of the ... | 05/04/1982 |
| 4291373 | Navigational information announcing system for motor vehicle A navigation information announcing system for a motor vehicle comprises a tape player, circuitry for measuring the distance actually travelled by the vehicle, circuitry for reproducing distance information pre-recorded on a magnetic tape, and a comparato... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4231093 | Method of returning to a last point in a path after a temporary discontinuance of an operation In conjunction with an operation of flying a plurality of parallel paths in a predetermined pattern utilizing an electronic positioning apparatus including a radar for periodically measuring the distance of the apparatus from each of two spaced apart refe... | 10/28/1980 |
| 4229724 | Vehicle position indicator with selectable position alarm means A position indicator for automobiles, trucks, and other vehicles includes a numerical display of the vehicle position with respect to an interstate highway by providing a readout of the mile marker location of the vehicle. The display is actuated by an el... | 10/21/1980 |
| 4197653 | Electronic sextant An apparatus to be mounted on conventional sextants permitting faster, more accurate readings with memory storage capability. Alternative transducing means are attached to a sextant arm and generate electronic signals corresponding to amount of rotation o... | 04/15/1980 |
| 4179693 | Autonomous, check-pointing, navigational system for an airborne vehicle An autonomous navigational system for an airborne vehicle is disclosed which automatically updates its position and heading coordinates at each of a plurality of checkpoints along a preselected flight path. Prestored in a memory of the navigational system... | 12/18/1979 |
| 4176338 | High resolution acoustic navigation system A high resolution underwater acoustic navigation system is provided by a combined pulse and continuous-wave or Doppler system. Locations of the object being tracked are periodically determined by the pulse subsystem and are used to initialize the Doppler ... | 11/27/1979 |
| 4172285 | Key-operated program calculator A key-operated digital program calculator is adapted to receive in succession a plurality of different kinds of input data items and perform a specified program calculation thereupon. The calculator is further provided with a display capable of visually d... | 10/23/1979 |
| 4163387 | Aircraft cabin display unit A cabin display unit accepts information from a plurality of sources such as the petot static tube, a static air pressure source, a temperature source, cabin pressure source and the like and converts the data to corresponding electrical valves. The valves... | 08/07/1979 |
| 4156912 | Electronic navigation calculator An electronic navigation calculator having first input key group for navigation functions, second input key group for navigation numerals, third input key group for navigation operations, a memory device supplied with information signals from said first, ... | 05/29/1979 |
| 4145605 | Vehicle position indicator A position indicator for automobiles, trucks, and other vehicles includes a numerical display of the vehicle position with respect to an interstate highway by providing a readout of the mile marker location of the vehicle. The display is actuated by an el... | 03/20/1979 |
| 4138726 | Airborne arrangement for displaying a moving map An airborne arrangement for displaying a moving map and aerial-navigation data such as symbols and characters on an electronic display screen is disclosed. It comprises a video map generator for converting the map to be displayed, carried on a film, into ... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4122521 | Correlation system for multiple-sensor reconnaissance vehicle A plurality of sensors of various types each initiating a marker signal as it produces a "frame" of information sensed, such as a camera film frame for example. A computer in the navigation system of the reconnaissance craft receives the marker signals an... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4097922 | Automatic real time navigation communicator An automatic real time navigation communicator that communicates between vehicle mounted speed and heading sensors and the vehicle mounted satellite navigator. The communicator automatically and at predetermined intervals updates the satellite navigator... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4080655 | Device for the transformation of steering control signals from one coordinate system to another A system for the transformation of steering control signals from a plane cartesian coordinate system to a polar coordinate system is disclosed. The system is designed to be self-contained on board a missile. The system is synchronized with roll position, ... | 03/21/1978 |
| 4071892 | Bicycle and information-producing assembly carried thereby The combination of a bicycle with an information-producing assembly carried thereby. A structure which is carried by one of the bicycle wheels for rotation therewith turns at each wheel revolution past a second structure which responds to provide a revolu... | 01/31/1978 |
| 4068307 | Mile post location display system This specification discloses a mile post location system particularly useful with a vehicle having a citizens band radio. The system includes a keyboard having switches which are representative of numbered digits, such that the vehicle operator may input ... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4068308 | Calculator-like device especially useful as an adjunct to a CB radio A device useful in a moving vehicle to locate the position of the vehicle relative to a particular point of reference at any time the vehicle is moving along a given highway. The device resembles a calculator in form and employs storage or memory banks th... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4027289 | Operating condition data system Separate operating condition data measurement sub-systems are provided for each of a plurality of navigation signal transmitters, each sub-system including its own microprocessor and data store, with the data being collected and stored in a collective dat... | 05/31/1977 |
| 3979057 | Electronic navigational computer An electronic computer having a limited stored program capability and adapted to perform a plurality of problems particularly useful to aircraft pilots. The unit includes an electronic calculator and a stored program controller for instructing the calcula... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3967098 | Navigation instrument A digital navigation instrument primarily intended for the general aviation pilot. The navigation instrument combines the functions of a calculator and a stopwatch and provides a method of easy reference to a navigation chart. The resulting unit provides ... | 06/29/1976 |
