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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6434479 | Method and system for providing information for a mobile terminal and a mobile terminal A mobile terminal, and an information providing method and system which immediately provides information, which the user of the mobile terminal desires, for the mobile terminal. Area and related service information are stored in corresponding relationship... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6427118 | Vehicle-mounted navigation system, and recording medium having recorded thereon a processing program for use therewith A vehicle-mounted navigation system (1) including: a facility information acquisition device (21) which acquires facility information, wherein the facility information is position information pertaining to the facilities located around the route; a facili... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6427121 | Global positioning system tag system A communications system for determining the position and velocity of an object using a plurality of GPS signals transmitted by a plurality of GPS sources includes an interrogator remote from the object and responsive to the plurality of GPS signals. The i... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6418374 | Navigation device A navigation device at least includes a CPU and a detector generating a detection signal for determining whether a main device is used inside a vehicle or not. If determining, based on the detection signal from the detector, that the main device is used i... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6415224 | Display method and apparatus for navigation system A display method and apparatus for navigation system for displaying information necessary for guiding a driver of a vehicle. The navigation system is designed to promote safe driving by producing different display forms and contents depending on whether t... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6415225 | Navigation system and a memory medium A system for executing guidance to a destination properly even if the destination is connected to a non-guidance target road, such as a small street. The system has a judgment device for determining whether a road connecting to a destination on the search... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6405106 | Enhanced vehicle controls through information transfer via a wireless communication system A vehicle control system method and apparatus including a mobile application service provider communicating over a wireless communication network, a mobile station communicating with the mobile application service provider over the wireless communications... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6393362 | Dynamic safety envelope for autonomous-vehicle collision avoidance system The function of each autonomous vehicle in a surface mine is performed according to a predetermined trajectory related to its particular task and implemented by a guidance system through on-board GPS and two-way communication hardware. The current positio... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6385540 | Method for detecting road position of car in multiformation road The present invention provides a method for identifying a position of a vehicle on a multi-layer road, by which it is possible to judge whether the vehicle is running on an upper layer or a lower layer of the multilayer road without using additional new d... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6380891 | GPS receiver with satellite frame synchronization process A GPS receiver has a plurality of data demodulator circuits assigned to a plurality of GPS satellites, respectively, and a data memory which stores detailed orbit information of the GPS satellites. The GPS receiver searches for satellites the detailed orb... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6377890 | Navigator Route guiding information is displayed on the basis of set information and positional data when set information and positional data are set by a keyboard or are transmitted from a sensor BOX 12.... | 04/23/2002 |
| 6374177 | Method and apparatus for providing navigational services in a wireless communication device An internet radio for portable applications and uses such as in an automobile enables providing navigational services to be provided to a wireless communication device, and comprises the steps of providing a user interface in said wireless communication d... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6360169 | System for determining and tracking changes in location A handheld locator device is prompted to determine and store a first, Home location, and to determine a Return location, and to visually display the relative positions of the Home and Return locations. An input device, for example having one or more push ... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6356833 | Vehicle speed control system using wireless communications and method for controlling the same Disclosed a vehicle speed control system using wireless communications, the system including a driving state detecting unit for detecting a driving state and outputting corresponding signals; a transmitter/receiver for outputting low-strength signals; an ... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6351708 | Vehicle navigation system and method A vehicle navigation system and method in the present invention comprises a navigation apparatus transmitting a current position of a vehicle and a target destination of the vehicle, and a base station receiving the current position and the target destina... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6347280 | Navigation system and a memory medium in which programs are stored A navigation system that provides guidance information if more than three guide intersections are successively located adjacent each other. The vehicle navigation system's guidance information output is controlled on the basis of the successive relationsh... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6339746 | Route guidance system and method for a pedestrian A route guidance system for a pedestrian. An input unit inputs a departure point and a destination point of the pedestrian. A route data memory stores route data representing position and connection of each route comprising a road network. A route calcula... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6339736 | System and method for the distribution of automotive services A system for the distribution of services, includes a computer device within a vehicle, a vehicle monitoring system coupled to the computer device, a communication system coupled to the computer device for outputting a signal with vehicle monitoring syste... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6317685 | Method and system for providing alternate routes with a navigation system A feature for a navigation system that provides an evaluation of alternate routes. According to this feature, the navigation system compares the actual time of travel along a route to the estimated time of travel along the route. If the actual time of tra... | 11/13/2001 |
| 6314360 | Process and apparatus for transmitting route information and analyzing a traffic network in a vehicular navigation system A process for analyzing a traffic network uses a source file including edges and nodes representing the traffic network. The process generates partial routes from the source file, wherein each partial route comprises at least one edge and at least one of ... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6308120 | Vehicle service status tracking system and method A system and methods to allow multiple stations in geographically dispersed locations to monitor and track vehicle repair record and service status information in a coordinated fashion. In a service area comprised of a number of geographically-bounded ser... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6292745 | Method and system for forming a database of geographic data for distribution to navigation system units A method for forming a geographic database that can be used in a navigation system in which geographic data are transmitted in portions, as needed, from the geographic database to remotely located end users' computing platforms and used by the remotely lo... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6278939 | Method and system for providing data from a remotely located geographic database for use in navigation system units A navigation system and method in which geographic data are transmitted in portions, as needed, to end users' computing platforms from a central geographic database and used by the end users' computing platforms to provide navigation-related features to e... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6151700 | Object oriented distributed programming system for computer controlled networks with selective capture of program property data identifying a particular program version A computer controlled object oriented programming system for distributive program development over networks such as the internet with means for interfacing a plurality of programming objects with each other to provide combination objects combining program... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6134500 | System and method for generating optimal flight plans for airline operations control A system and method for generating a minimum-cost airline flight plan from a point of origin through a set of fix points to a destination point. A set of navigation airways from the point of origin to the destination point, including predefined fix points... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6108604 | Vehicular navigation system and storage medium A vehicular navigation system includes guide control facilities which acquires stored information of an angle between a road entering and a road departing a rotary branch on a route stored in route information storing means, the angle of a junction to the... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6073075 | Method and system for providing information for a mobile terminal A mobile terminal, and an information providing method and system which immediately provides information, which the user of the mobile terminal desires, for the mobile terminal. Areas and related service information are stored in corresponding relationshi... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5598167 | Method and apparatus for differential location of a vehicle under control of an internal change of status For locating an earthbound and freely movable vehicle, first interfacing to an external coordinate system for determining an actual vehicle position is effected. This position is recurrently and wireless transmitted to a remote station. For restricting th... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5491486 | Mobile tracking units employing motion sensors for reducing power consumption therein A mobile tracking unit capable of operating in a power-starved environment for a vehicle tracking system includes a navigation set for generating data corresponding to a respective vehicle position. The navigation set is periodically energized at a select... | 02/13/1996 |
| 5451964 | Method and system for resolving double difference GPS carrier phase integer ambiguity utilizing decentralized Kalman filters A method and system for accurately determining the position coordinates of a mobile GPS receiver by resolving the double difference GPS carrier phase integer ambiguity. A reference station is provided at precisely known coordinates and carrier phase data ... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5448486 | Orthogonal polar coordinate system to accommodate polar navigation A method for navigating an aircraft around the earth's polar region comprises the steps of determining if the aircraft is in one of the polar regions of the earth's traditional axis system. If the aircraft is not in one of the polar regions, aircraft para... | 09/05/1995 |
| 4674051 | Navigation point locating system A system for determining the closest navigation point to an aircraft utilizes a sphere of influence principle wherein the earth is subdivided into a plurality of geographic areas, for example, one quarter degree squares of latitude and longitude. An ident... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4017862 | Aircraft guidance system A ground installation for an aircraft landing system has an array of transmitting elements located on the arc of a circle. When the elements are activated sequentially either in one direction ("to") or the other ("fro"), a signal is transmitted which, whe... | 04/12/1977 |
