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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170784 | Method and apparatus for moving content to mobile devices A method and apparatus is provided for moving content to a mobile device (2). A data item (34) of a predetermined type is received at a first device (14), the data item (34) including a content URI for fetching content associated with the... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8155872 | Method and apparatus for indoor navigation Techniques are provided for providing physical routes to target locations. The techniques include obtaining at least one target location from at least one user; determining at least one physical route to said at least one target location; and displaying said at leas... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150618 | Method and apparatus to select city name associated with street located on border of two cities A method and apparatus for identifying correct city involving a street that borders on two or more cities for a navigation system. The navigation system identifies a correct city name associated with such a border street based on a direction of a vehicle travelling ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8140260 | System for enhancing a vehicle operator's orientation and ability to navigate A system for enhancing a vehicle operator's orientation and ability to navigate a vehicle includes, but is not limited to, a display unit, a data storage unit, a position determining unit and a processor communicatively connected to the display unit, the data storag... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131675 | Map data delivering device, communication terminal, and map delivering method There is disclosed a map data delivering system for providing consistent road network information from supplement map information and map update information. The map data delivering system includes a navigation terminal and a map distribution server. The map distrib... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8122036 | Method and apparatus for generating customized maps A system and method for generating a map includes a database for storing a list of recipients and characteristics associated with each recipient in the list of recipients. The method and system also includes a control module for receiving a characteristic associated... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112221 | Navigation apparatus for vehicle In an in-vehicle navigation apparatus, a present position is detected, an altitude of the present position is acquired from map data, and a temperature inside of a hard disk drive is acquired with a temperature sensor. An atmospheric pressure of the present position... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103446 | Vehicle navigation apparatus A vehicle navigation apparatus searches a matching link within a tolerance range from a travel locus of a vehicle based on map data when the vehicle makes a turn, and the vehicle position is shifted to the matching link that is found in the search. After matching th... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103445 | Dynamic map rendering as a function of a user parameter Provided is a single repository for capturing, connecting, sharing, and visualizing information based on a geographic location, for example. Detailed information can be dynamically rendered as a function of a user parameter, which can include a user demographic, a u... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103447 | Map displaying device A map displaying device for displaying an accessible range in an arbitrary display form determined in accordance with the scale of a displayed map and/or with the running state of a vehicle is provided. The map displaying device includes: a display unit for displayi... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099234 | System, apparatus, and method for generating location information on an aircraft display unit using location markers A present novel and non-trivial system, apparatus, and method for presenting information to the pilot on an aircraft display unit employed in a synthetic vision system (“SVS”), an enhanced vision system (“EVS”), or combined system. Information regarding the ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099235 | Mobile unit and system having integrated mapping, communications and tracking A handheld device and system, in which such device and system include at least one mapping module, at least one tracking module interoperative with said at least one mapping module, at least one communications module interoperative with each of said at least one tra... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095306 | GUI interface for a road maintenance management control system A display device for displaying a graphical user interface is disclosed. The graphical user interface includes a first window configured to display a road maintenance map of a mine road network, and one or more links configured to access a second window. The second ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086401 | 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 ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086402 | Map displaying device A map displaying device for displaying an accessible range in an arbitrary display form determined in accordance with the scale of a displayed map and/or with the running state of a vehicle is provided. The map displaying device includes: a display unit for displayi... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082098 | Information supplying system, apparatus mounted in vehicle, information supplying server, program, and information processing method An apparatus mounted in a vehicle which can communicate with an information supplying server includes: a detection portion for detecting that a predetermined process is carried out in the vehicle; an institution information acquiring portion for acquiring institutio... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078398 | Methods and apparatus for geo-collaboration Methods and computer readable medium for collaborating on geographical maps between two or more computers are disclosed. In particular, sharing a geographical location on a map between two or more computers and co-navigating a map between two or more computers are d... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073616 | Control information storage apparatus Vehicle control data is stored in a database of a vehicle control information storage apparatus of the present invention by a unit of road segment. When the same vehicle travels the same road segment for plural times, vehicle speed is averaged for storage as the veh... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068980 | Using boundaries associated with a map view for business location searching A system aggregates entity location information from multiple documents distributed among multiple locations in a network. The system searches the entity location information to identify a first set of entities located within the entirety of a first geographic regio... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068979 | Inattentive vehicular operator detection method and arrangement Method and arrangement for determining inattentiveness of an operator of a vehicle includes determining the position of the vehicle, analyzing the determining position of the vehicle relative to a map, monitoring motion of the vehicle relative to the map to determin... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065080 | Location stamping and logging of electronic events and habitat generation Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for the detection, location stamping, and logging of electronic events and subsequent generation of habitat information. According to implementations, electronic events are detected and location stamped. Associat... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055442 | Determining a display position of road name data and displaying the road name data A method of determining a display position for road name data including selecting a link representing a road segment with an initial road name display position from stored map data. An angle of the selected link is calculated, and calculating an angle of the selecte... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050862 | Vehicular navigation system for recalling preset map views A vehicular navigation system includes a display, a memory configured to store data related to a plurality of preset map view, and a user input configured to permit the selection of a map view from the plurality of preset map views. A controller is coupled to the us... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050861 | Road map A road map is provided which allows a determination to be intuitively rendered whether a course contains an increased number of upward slopes or downward slopes as viewed in the direction of the course. The direction of the course is set up across roads indicated on... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046165 | Device for assisting in the navigation of an aircraft in an airport zone The invention relates to a device for assisting in the navigation of an aircraft in an airport zone comprising a surface navigation system and means of acquiring in real time, while navigating on the ground or in flight, new information or temporary information rela... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041506 | Mapping in mobile devices A computer-implemented mapping method is disclosed and includes displaying a first map view of a geographic area on a display of a computing device, receiving a voice or key-press zoom command and generating a first zoom box of a predetermined size on the display re... | 10/18/2011 |
| RE42807 | Non real time traffic system for a navigator A system for improving the operation of a GPS based navigator. Statistical and/or time of day information is used to select the best route between a current location and a desired location. The statistical information may take into account anomalies, and a user can ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032298 | Method and apparatus for incorporating adaptive scroll operation for navigation system A method and apparatus for a navigation system achieves a smooth and, intuitive scrolling operation by checking available resources such as a computational power of the navigation system and map data stored in a video memory to determine an optimum scrolling operati... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032299 | Method for map matching with guaranteed integrity The present invention belongs to the field of positioning applications, particularly those requiring or benefiting from the use of geographic information and needing a high service or integrity guarantee, such as positioning by means of a satellite navigation system... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8014944 | Method for auto-updating application program A method for auto updating application program suitable for a global position system (GPS) navigator is provided. The method comprises the following steps. First, a map-update short message is sent to the GPS navigator at a client terminal from a wireless station. T... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014945 | System and method of wireless downloads of map and geographic based data to portable computing devices Systems and method of managing map data on electronic devices such as portable electronic devices include systems and methods of preloading map data, managing map data storage, sharing point of interest or pushpin data with other electronic devices, and displaying m... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014946 | Digital mapping system Various methods, systems, and apparatus for implementing aspects of a digital mapping system are disclosed. One such method includes sending a location request from a client-side computing device to a map tile server, receiving a set of map tiles in response to the ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010284 | Geographic database including data indicating wireless coverage and method and system for use thereof Wireless coverage data are associated with a geographic database that contains data that represent a road network in a geographic region. The wireless coverage data indicate areas within the geographic region in which navigation-related services or data from a navig... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005612 | Map data distribution system A map distribution system includes a map distribution server that distributes map data to a navigation device. The server includes a first table having entries that each include update data in correspondence with an ID for the update data and an ID for each other up... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005613 | Generating, storing, and displaying graphics using sub-pixel bitmaps Techniques for generating, storing and displaying graphics on computer systems are disclosed. The type of graphics in particular are images, where the image can be defined as a set of areas, whether these areas are lines, geometric shapes, letters or other types of ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000894 | Vehicular wireless communication system A vehicular wireless communication system includes a control in a vehicle operable to communicate with an external service provider via a wireless communication link between the equipped vehicle and the external service provider. The control may receive a user input... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991547 | In-vehicle information apparatus and in-vehicle navigation apparatus for high altitude applications From among high upland area determination data stored in a hard disk drive, only a portion corresponding to a required segmental region is read into an external memory along with traveling of a vehicle. Determining of a high upland area is then executed based on the... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7983949 | System and method for selecting targeted information for serving with a map view A system and method for selecting targeted information (e.g., advertisements) for serving with map views. The information is associated with target geographical areas (e.g., cities, metropolises, regions, countries) identified by the information providers. A given m... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7984055 | Method and system for presenting traffic-related information Presenting of real-world situational data on a dynamically updateable user interface is provided for by providing a dynamically updateable user interface that includes dynamic objects having variable characteristics and that correspond to real-world objects, receivi... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979204 | Electronic guide system, contents server for electronic guide system, portable electronic guide device, and information processing method for electronic guide system Tour guide contents stored in a tour guide apparatus carried by a user at a tour destination are provided with points of interest information and map data. This information includes latitude and longitude information for the site of each point of interest, and infor... | 07/12/2011 |
