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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7805243 | Personal digital assistant having satellite communications capacity Systems and methods are disclosed for utilizing personal digital assistants in a portable communications system. A personal digital assistant includes a global positioning system module, an L-band transceiver, and a processing system. The global positioning system m... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804447 | Method for determining positions of contacts A method for determining the positions of contacts through a global positioning system (GPS) is disclosed. The method includes sending position requests to the contacts, feeding back the current position information of the contacts to a GPS receiver of a user after ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7805244 | Attitude correction apparatus and method for inertial navigation system using camera-type solar sensor Disclosed herein is an attitude correction apparatus for an Inertial Navigation System (INS) using a camera-type solar sensor. The present invention relates to a system for correcting errors occurring in an inertial navigation system, in which inertial sensors, such... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7801680 | Positioning system for a movable object A positioning terminal is disposed on a movable object, and includes a satellite-based positioning module, a detecting module, a processing module, and a wireless communication module. The positioning module receives satellite-transmitted signals and generates posit... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7797105 | System and method for GPS acquisition using advanced tight coupling A system and method for GPS acquisition in relatively high interference is described. Acquisition is aided by an Advanced Tightly Coupled (ATC) tracking filters that compute a satellite range residuals and range rate residuals for satellites being acquired. Multiple... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7792639 | Host based satellite positioning systems Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide a host based positioning system. The host based positioning system includes a tracker hardware interface that connects to a dedicated hardware space vehicle tracker. The tracker hardware interface rec... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7788032 | Targeting location through haptic feedback signals A data processing apparatus and a method of operating a data processing apparatus are disclosed. The data processing apparatus comprises a memory for storing target location data representative of the location of a target, a position determining component configured... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783424 | Navigation system having function of branch road guidance based on running road, and method thereof Provided are a navigation system having a function of branch road guidance based on a running road, and a method thereof. The system includes a global positioning system (GPS) module, a map database (DB), a storage unit, a voice processor, and a controller. The GPS ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7783423 | Position determination system and method An improved position determination system and method are described. The method includes determining that a failure to generate an acceptable GNSS position fix has occurred. In response to determining that the failure to generate an acceptable GNSS position fix has o... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7778774 | Portable telematics device An automobile navigation system with portable telematics device is disclosed, which comprises: a first telematics device, being arranged fixedly inside an automobile; a detachable second telematics device, capable of being coupled to the first telematics device by a... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7778775 | Position detecting apparatus and method of detecting a position CPU instructs RF controlling section to switch RF section from an inoperative mode to an operation mode and from the operation mode to the inoperative mode. When all of five pieces of sub-frame data have not been acquired, RF section is switched intermittently from ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7765064 | Computer programmed with GPS signal processing programs A computer is disclosed comprising a processor able to support multithreading and concurrently programmed in at least two threads with respective GPS signal processing programs which are each capable of processing GPS signal samples outputted from the same source. | 07/27/2010 |
| 7764228 | Portable position determining device A system for locating an animate object beyond a designated area is disclosed comprising a wireless bidirectional communication system, a first transceiver, a locating device, a controller, a satellite navigator system receiver, a second transceiver, and a data entr... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761231 | Outside monitoring device for mobile robot An outside monitoring device of a mobile robot for measuring a direction of a target object using a tag, which is provided on a target object and replies a receipt signal to the mobile robot in compliance with a light signal from the mobile robot, the outside monito... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7761232 | Wireless locating and monitoring system A wireless tracking device and method of operation. A processor connected to a positioning system may periodically determine a location of the device. A wireless radio is connected to the processor for transmitting the location of the device across a wireless area n... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756639 | System and method for augmenting a satellite-based navigation solution A map-matching feedback interface uses added information to bound a mapping solution and calibrate a navigation system, thus enabling the navigation system to navigate more accurately over a longer period of time. The system recognizes erroneous measurements and red... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7751973 | Curve warning system An in-vehicle system and method for warning a driver of upcoming curves in a road including. In general, a vehicle positioning module determines the vehicle's position in a global positioning system and a map matching module determines the vehicle's position on a ma... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7751974 | Navigation processing for a satellite positioning system receiver A method for navigation processing in a satellite positioning system receiver is disclosed. A method in accordance with the present invention comprises separating the three SATPS satellites into a first pair and a second pair, constructing a primary solution and an ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7742874 | Controllable external to internal antenna switching algorithm and circuit for position reporting device A method for configuring an electronic device comprising: (A) substantially continuously detecting motion of the electronic device using an initiating device disposed within the electronic device, the electronic device further comprising a position determining compo... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7725258 | Vehicle based data collection and processing system and imaging sensor system and methods thereof A vehicle based data collection and processing system which may be used to collect various types of data from an aircraft in flight or from other moving vehicles, such as an automobile, a satellite, a train, etc. In various embodiments the system may include: comput... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7725257 | Method and system for navigation of an ummanned aerial vehicle in an urban environment A method and system for navigation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in an urban environment are provided. The method comprises capturing a first set of Global Positioning System (GPS)-tagged images in an initial fly-over of the urban environment at a first altitu... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7725256 | Weather Information Network Enabled Mobile System (WINEMS) A Weather Information Network Enabled Mobile System for providing information to a user regarding an emergency event. The WINEMS system receives location data, such as from a GPS system, and correlates the location data with the emergency alert to display a map show... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7720602 | Positioning device, method of controlling positioning device, positioning control program, and computer-readable recording medium having positioning control program recorded thereon A positioning device includes a moving amount determination section which determines a moving amount of the device in a period between a preceding positioning time and a present positioning time; a moving amount evaluation section which determines whether or not the... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7720603 | Method and apparatus for providing GPS data using network Provided is a network global positioning system (GPS) terminal. The network GPS terminal includes: a GPS receiver receiving GPS data; a GPS processor processing the received GPS data to a predetermined form; a network communication part communicating with an externa... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7720601 | Method and apparatus for compressing GPS satellite broadcast message information An assisted global positioning satellite (Assisted GPS) system has a GPS reference network node (260) that collects GPS satellite broadcast messages and prepares separate GPS assistance messages to be modulated by a base transceiver station (BTS) (202)... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7715982 | Monitoring sports A data logger for a monitoring sports which includes an accelerometer, a GPS unit to sense position and velocity, a heart rate monitor, a controller programmed to manipulate the data and provide a display of the heart rate, speed, and other sport parameters. The dat... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7711480 | Differential GPS corrections using virtual stations Method and apparatus for providing GPS pseudorange correction and carrier phase correction information for navigation or surveying activities over a selected geographic region S of arbitrary size. In a navigation mode, a virtual reference station (VRS), positioned n... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7711481 | Navigation system A navigation system for use in a vehicle receives a GPS signal for having a GPS time data that rolls over at an interval of 19.7 years with a start time of 0 a.m. Jan. 6th, 1980 from a GPS satellite, and acquires map generation date information that specifies map da... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7706975 | Mobile cellular identification database for enhanced GPS performance A mobile station database of cellular identifications and associated position information is stored in mobile station memory. The mobile station uses the position information in the database to assist in determining a current position for the mobile based on an iden... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7706976 | Position based velocity estimator A method of determining speed and heading of a rover/rover having one degree of freedom comprising the following steps: (A) determining a rover position coordinates using at least one source of a radio position measurements; (B) storing a set of statistically differ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7689356 | Method and apparatus for creating curved swath patterns for farm machinery A method for defining, using, and adjusting curved swath patterns and a swath generation apparatus implementing said method for use in an automated vehicle guidance system. ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7689354 | Adaptive guidance system and method An adaptive guidance system for a vehicle includes an on-board GPS receiver, an on-board processor adapted to store a preplanned guide pattern and a guidance device. The processor includes a comparison function for comparing the vehicle GPS position with a line segm... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7689353 | Navigation system Disclosed are a navigation system and/or a point information display method and a program. The navigation system consists mainly of: a stream receiver that receives broadcast streams; a data decoder that samples a data signal from the received streams and decodes th... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7689355 | Method and process for enabling advertising via landmark based directions A method, system, and computer program product that enables a direction service to automatically inform the requester or user of the directions of advertisement associated with the various businesses and/or landmarks situated on a directional map generated by the se... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7668654 | System and method utilizing non-GPS satellite content in real-time navigation A navigation device is provided that includes a GPS input that receives GPS information from a GPS satellite. The system also includes a non-GPS input that receives real-time content from a non-GPS source. The real-time content includes updates to travel conditions.... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664599 | Apparatus for generating digital lane mark A digital lane mark generation apparatus generates a highly accurate and inexpensive three-dimensional mathematical expression orbit map (a digital lane mark). The apparatus includes a GPS coordinate reception unit obtaining GPS coordinates (X, Y, Z), a gyro sensor ... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7647171 | Learning, storing, analyzing, and reasoning about the loss of location-identifying signals A location-centric signal shadow mapping and storing architecture that creates maps where signals, such as GPS, cannot be seen with ease because of natural or synthetic features such as groups of tall buildings. Such maps are used with other information, such as the... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7647172 | Methods and systems for determining a telecommunications service location using global satellite positioning Methods and systems are provided for obtaining information related to a customer service location and directions for routing a service technician from one customer service location to another. One embodiment includes requesting at least one set of coordinates associ... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7643938 | Location confirmation method and location display system of construction machine and such construction machine A hydraulic excavator periodically measures its current location at predetermined time intervals by the GPS device in an inoperative state where its engine key is in the off position and sends the current location data and time data to a management server by a main ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7640104 | Vehicle navigation system and method for displaying waypoint information A method for displaying waypoint information on the screen of a vehicle navigation system. The method includes the steps of displaying a route on the screen and inputting criteria which identify desired waypoints along the route as well as the desired time to reach ... | 12/29/2009 |
