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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8050863 | Navigation and control system for autonomous vehicles A navigation and control system including a sensor configured to locate objects in a predetermined field of view from a vehicle. The sensor has an emitter configured to repeatedly scan a beam into a two-dimensional sector of a plane defined with respect to a first p... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7860652 | Lane detecting apparatus The present invention discloses a lane detecting apparatus mounted on a vehicle including a camera for obtaining an image of a lane marking drawn on a road, a candidate line selecting part for selecting one or more candidate lines having edge information no less tha... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7761234 | Method and device for determining the lateral path of a moving body, in particular of an aircraft A method and device for determining the lateral path of a moving body determine, from a first lateral path and a lateral distance dependent on external visibility, a second lateral path corresponding to a lateral flight path that is followed by the moving body. ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7747385 | Traveling condition determination device A traveling condition determination device for use in a vehicle includes an imaging unit for periodically capturing an image of a road on which the vehicle is traveling, a recognition unit for recognizing a marker on a side of the road relative to the vehicle, a det... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7424309 | System in vehicles for making a telephone call A system for making a telephone call in a vehicle in which information concerning the traffic situation of a first vehicle is electronically processed and sent to a second vehicle. By apparatuses of further electronic processing, only relevant information concerning... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7409293 | Methods and systems for enhancing accuracy of terrain aided navigation systems A navigation system is described which includes a navigation processor, an inertial navigation unit configured to provide a position solution to the navigation processor, and a digital elevation map. The described navigation system also includes a radar altimeter ha... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400950 | Optical sensing system and system for stabilizing machine-controllable vehicles In order to measure the movement of a vehicle, especially an aircraft, an imaging optical system 2 which is to be positioned on the vehicle is used to detect an image of the environment 4, and an optoelectronic shift sensor 3 chip of the type co... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7372399 | Network system for onboard equipment An onboard equipment network system comprises a radar core device, a GPS core device, an echo sounder core device and a sonar core device and display devices which are connected to a network through a hub. Each core device includes a detecting section or a positioni... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7358498 | System and a method for a smart surveillance system A radiation surveillance sensor system includes a radiation responsive sensor, a lightweight, radiation reflective member for selectively adjusting the incident radiation path to the sensor, and power means for controlling the position of the reflective member to ac... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359555 | Detecting roads in aerial images using feature-based classifiers A method detects roads in an aerial image of ground topology by determining low-level features, such as intensities and gradients, for each pixel in the aerial image, determining middle-level features, such as an orientation for each pixel from the low-level feature... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352446 | Absolute distance meter that measures a moving retroreflector A laser device and method capable of one or more dimensional absolute distance measurements and/or surface scanning and/or coordinate measurements of a moving external retroreflector or other moving target surfaces without using an incremental interferometer. ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7333052 | Signal processing with reduced combinational complexity Signal processing with reduced combinatorial complexity for tracking evolving phenomena such as radar tracks associated with weighted measurement parameters includes selecting a current phenomenon and obtaining a set of measurement parameters associated with it. Beg... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330844 | Method and system for intelligent agent decision making for tactical aerial warfare In an intelligent object oriented agent system, a computer implemented or user assisted method of decision making in at least one situation. The method includes the step of configuring at least one tactical agent implemented by at least one tactical agent object tha... | 02/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7272474 | Method and system for estimating navigability of terrain A method and system for detecting an obstacle comprises a terrain estimator for estimating a local terrain surface map based on at least one of range data points, color data, and infrared data gathered by electromagnetic perception focused in front of a vehicle. The... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7257515 | Sliding window for alert generation A method for generating alerts from a periodically sampled system is disclosed. The method includes maintaining a sampling window having a predefined number of most-recently collected samples. The method further includes calculating an alert value, the alert value r... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7248206 | Instantaneous multisensor angular bias autoregistration Unknown alignment biases of sensors of a tracking system are estimated by an iterative Kalman filter method. Current measurements are corrected for known alignment errors and previously estimated alignment biases. The filter time reference is updated to produce esti... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7233263 | Analog actuation allocation structure with many actuators A system and method for allocation of actuators is provided. Electrodes having several voltages are assigned to actuators within correlation regions of the actuators. By varying the voltages, a desired actuation profile for the actuators may be achieved. ... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7202776 | Method and system for detecting objects external to a vehicle Method and system for obtaining information about objects in the environment outside of and around a vehicle and preventing collisions involving the vehicle includes directing a laser beam from the vehicle into the environment, receiving from an object in the path o... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7193557 | Random set-based cluster tracking Tracking objects by receiving a dataframe from a detection sensor device, the dataframe containing a timestamp and data corresponding to each detected object, generating new observation nodes for each detected object, propagating group track state parameters to obta... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194397 | Robust uninhabited air vehicle active missions A command sequence for an autonomous UAV mission is optimized by simulating the performance of a mission in a model environment. Using a genetic algorithm, neural net, or other suitable technique this command sequence is then optimized, to improve the outcome of the... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191056 | Precision landmark-aided navigation Navigational systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide accurate processing of two-dimensional sensor images for navigation and determination of position in three-dimensions. Landmark features are extracted from two-dimensional sensor images and correlated ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7151996 | System and method for generating a model of the path of a roadway from an image recorded by a camera A road skeleton estimation system generates an estimate as to a skeleton of at least a portion of a roadway ahead of a vehicle. The road skeleton estimation system includes an image receiver and a processor. The image receiver is configured to receive image informat... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149326 | Method and software-implemented apparatus for detecting objects in multi-dimensional data A method for detecting the presence of an object in multi-dimensional imagery data is disclosed. The method includes: (a) providing multi-dimensional imagery data, including an array of pixels; (b) selecting a pixel in the array; (c) applying a linear mask to the se... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7142952 | Method and apparatus for pavement cross-slope measurement Pavement cross-slope is measured at highway speeds by mounting a ring-laser gyroscope on a vehicle and measuring deviation of the transverse slope of the vehicle. Precise laser distance measuring devices are mounted transversely with respect to the vehicle at signif... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7132961 | Passive RF, single fighter aircraft multifunction aperture sensor, air to air geolocation A method and system to rapidly, passively, range and track maneuvering airborne emitters (enemy targets and threats) for tactical fighters using batch based recursive estimators for track initialization and track maintenance that includes providing information proce... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7127348 | Vehicle based data collection and processing system 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... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7100825 | Non-computing navigation system A vehicle navigation system for guiding a vehicle to a preselected destination by continually communicating the heading direction to be followed regardless of any detours away from a direct heading. In one embodiment, a two phase system is provided to initially guid... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7084801 | Apparatus and method for estimating the direction of arrival of a source signal using a microphone array An apparatus for estimating the direction of arrival (“DOA”) of a source signal includes microphones for transducing the source signal, amplifiers in signal communication with a corresponding one of the microphones, analog-to-digital converters in signal communi... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7076346 | Automated continuous haulage system The present invention relates to an automated continuous haulage apparatus and method designed for use in underground environments. Each mobile bridge carrier (10) contains distance measurement (70) and angular position (74) means for determinin... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076227 | Receiving system with improved directivity and signal to noise ratio A receive system providing enhanced directivity in the form of a narrowed receive beam and a relatively small antenna with performance comparable to a much larger antenna at similar frequencies. Received signals are converted to digital values and stored in a manner... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7053580 | Autonomous machine An autonomous machine comprises driving means for moving the machine along a surface of an area, and a navigation system. The navigation system causes the machine to follow a boundary of the area, storing path information on the path travelled by the machine as the ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7003386 | Device and method for determining the position of a working part The invention relates to a device and to a method for determining the position for a working part of a tool on a working machine with a position-determining apparatus (2, 4, 5, 6; 2, 4a, 4b, 5, 6′; 31, 33, 49, 50, 51, 1′,53). At least one de... | 02/21/2006 |
| 7002510 | Method and apparatus for air-to-air aircraft ranging A method and apparatus is disclosed for determining the range between two planes, ownship (10) and target (12). Model data (66) estimating the velocity and position of target (12) is compared to actual flight path data of the target (1... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6993440 | System and method for waveform classification and characterization using multidimensional higher-order statistics A receiver exploits unique higher order statistics of temporally dependent waveforms to classify, characterize, identify (fingerprint) and intercept a waveform within the field of view of the receiver. The method uses 4th-order non zero lag auto cumulants... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6952632 | Method of guiding an aircraft in the final approach phase and a corresponding system A method of guiding an aircraft in the final approach phase including imaging the ground using an imaging system onboard the aircraft to obtain an image, analyzing the image to detect an airport area, detecting an airport area and selecting a runway for landing, tra... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6941211 | Measurement controller for vehicle A measuring and controlling apparatus for a vehicle includes an image processing device, which is mounted on a vehicle, photographs a circumferential state of the vehicle and processes the image signal; a radar signal processing device, which radiates radio wave or ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6934613 | Automated self-control traveling system for expressways and method for controlling the same A self-control traveling system for an expressway and a method for controlling the same is disclosed. A plurality of road signs are consecutively installed at left and right sides of the expressway. An imaging device images the road signs arranged along the expressw... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6925382 | Remote image management system (RIMS) A data processing system is which enables an operator to rapidly perform object detection, identification, recognition, and location using remote imagery from Mini Unmanned Air Vehicles when sensor performance is severely limited due to size, weight, and power const... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6917880 | Intelligent passive navigation system for back-up and verification of GPS A passive navigation system for an airborne platform includes an on-board computer having a database that contains preprogrammed information regarding pre-existing ground-based signal emitters (e.g. cell-phone, television and radio broadcast transmitters). For each ... | 07/12/2005 |
