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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6930595 | Control system and method for onboard equipment A system and method for controlling onboard equipments, which can make a driver certainly understand operations of alarms corresponding to various functions of a vehicle, and which can make the functions of the vehicle give full effects. When drive guide data corres... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6931307 | Technique for data synchronization in a multiple system vehicle architecture A method for synchronizing data between computer systems in a multiple vehicle system architecture ensures the correlation of data between the systems. The method utilizes nametag configuration indicators, which are a series of bit values that correspond to the pres... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6929252 | Implement for demarcating an area, as well as a vehicle suitable for being used in said implement An apparatus for demarcating an area for restricting the freedom of movement of animals that may be in the area for grazing purposes. The demarcation element, as such, may be a cord, band, ribbon, strip, cable, rope or electrified or communication wire which may be ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6929082 | Parking assist apparatus for vehicle and control method of same In a parking assist apparatus that assists with moving, by automatic steering, a vehicle from an arbitrary stopping position to a target parking position set by the driver, a setting portion (i.e., a parking assist ECU) sets both a path from the stopping position to... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6925679 | Autonomous vacuum cleaner An autonomous canister vacuum cleaner has a cleaning head module, a vacuum fan module separated from the cleaning module, and a hose assembly connecting the cleaning head module with the vacuum fan module. The vacuum fan module includes a controller that performs na... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6928301 | Distributed architecture wireless RF modem The present invention provides for a wireless radio frequency (“RF”) modem that plugs into a host computer and shares a central processing unit and memory with the host computer, wherein principal modem functions are distributed between the modem and the host co... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6928339 | GPS-based control system and method for controlling mechanized irrigation systems A GPS-based control system for irrigation systems includes a power supply, a nonvolatile memory for storing a first set of coordinates corresponding to a reference position for the irrigation system, circuitry for receiving GPS data and using the data to generate a ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6925380 | Navigation control system A real-time path-directed controller for navigating an object along a desired path is disclosed. The controller comprises: a position sensor which contributes to the production of a conditioned object position signal to a controller summer; a heading conditioning mo... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6925358 | Toy robot and control system therefor A toy robot system includes a toy robot and a surface over which the robot can move. The surface is constructed from a number of modules of various types that may be joined together. Each module (except for spacer modules) includes at least one track segment along w... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6922631 | System and method for textually displaying an original flight plan and a modified flight plan simultaneously A navigational system includes a display device and logic that simultaneously presents a textual display of an original flight plan and a modified flight plan on the display device. The textual display includes a textlist of waypoints that are on the original flight... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6922610 | Robot having offset rotary joints A robot is obtained having various functions that are demanded for planetary landing vehicles, extreme operations robots or the like, in particular to provide a leg structure for a robot that is capable of getting up itself when overturned, facilitating take-off and... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6922611 | Automation equipment control system A automation equipment control system comprises a general purpose computer with a general purpose operating system in electronic communication with a real-time computer subsystem. The general purpose computer includes a program execution module to selectively start ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6922618 | System and method for kinematic consistency processing A system, method, and computer program product for analyzing flight test and FDR data that overcomes technical difficulties associated with traditional flight data analysis methods. The method includes inputting angular, linear data and recorded air data, where angu... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6918811 | Robotic toy A robotic toy has a pedestal, a stand assembly, a transmission device, a shoulder, an arm assembly and a body casing assembly. The stand assembly is mounted on the pedestal and has an upper bracket. The transmission device is mounted pivotally on the upper bracket o... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6917175 | Robot and joint device for the same A humanoid robot including upper limbs, lower limbs, and a trunk. Hip joints which connect the lower limbs and the trunk each possess degrees of freedom provided in correspondence with a hip joint yaw axis, a hip joint roll axis, and a hip joint pitch axis. The huma... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6914403 | Electrical charging system, electrical charging controlling method, robot apparatus, electrical charging device, electrical charging controlling program and recording medium A robot apparatus 1 is to be electrically charged autonomously. An electrical charging device 100 is provided with two markers, namely a main marker 118 and a sub-marker 119, and the heights of the markers are pre-stored in the robot appa... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6915191 | Method and system for detecting when an end of train has passed a point A controller determines that an end of train (EOT) has passed a point through the use of positioning systems at the head of the train (HOT) and the EOT. In a first method, the controller obtains the HOT position at a point of interest from the HOT positioning system... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6915310 | Three-dimensional volumetric geo-spatial querying A three-dimensional (3D) volumetric geo-spatial querying system. The system can include a 3D GIS. The 3D GIS can include a database of geo-spatial data configured to store geo-spatial data using, not two-dimensional, but three-dimensional coordinates. The GIS furthe... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6915230 | Method of estimating floor reactions of bipedal walking body, and method of estimating joint moments of bipedal walking body A method is presented for determination of single stance or double stance state of leg bodies of a bipedal mobile body (BMB). In a single stance state, a floor reaction force acting on a leg body touching the ground is estimated based on an equation of motion for th... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6907318 | Multi-station robotic welding assembly A multi-station robotic welding assembly includes a mounting platform, and a plurality of robots attached to the mounting platform and located in respective weld stations. Each of the robots includes an elongated movable arm and wrist. A welding torch is attached to... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6907326 | Autonomous surf zone line charge deployment system A system and method autonomously clears obstacles and mines from an approach lane. A ship is distantly located from an approach lane spanning a surf zone and beach portion, and the ship has operator control station software in an onboard computer. At least one syste... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6907347 | Systems and method for estimating speed and pitch sensor errors Systems and methods for estimating the bias and scale factor in a speed sensor and pitch sensor using a modified adaptive filter. A filter learns adaptively in a random manner to estimate the errors in the vehicle speed and pitch angle. The aiding measurements used ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6907336 | Method and system for efficiently traversing an area with a work vehicle A border of a designated area is defined within a work area. A designated axis is determined for the designated area. A series of generally parallel rows are aligned consistent with a travel axis having a known alignment with respect to the designated axis. One of t... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6904345 | Device and method for operating a vehicle A device and method for operating a vehicle having an operating member that is displaceable with respect to a vehicle body and operated by a driver, controls an acceleration of the vehicle according to a displacement position of the operating member, displaces the o... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6904343 | Method of controlling automatic guided vehicle system A method of controlling an Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) system having a plurality of AGVs includes setting a moving path with task times of all the AGVs taken into account, and controlling the AGVs according to the set moving path. The setting the moving path incl... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6903658 | Method and system for ensuring that a train operator remains alert during operation of the train A train control system requires a train operator to enter signal aspect information at each wayside signal position on a railroad and stops the train if the operator fails to enter aspect information without communicating with the wayside signal device to verify tha... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6904334 | Robot apparatus and method for controlling the operation thereof A robot apparatus which may be turned to a sound source direction by a spontaneous whole-body concerted operation. With the possible range of rotation of the neck unit of a robot apparatus 1 of ±Y° and with the relative angle of the direction of a sound sou... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6904335 | System, method and apparatus for organizing groups of self-configurable mobile robotic agents in a multi-robotic system A system of self-organizing mobile robotic agents (MRAs) in a multi-robotic system (MRS) is disclosed. MRAs cooperate, learn and interact with the environment. The system uses various AI technologies including genetic algorithms, genetic programming and evolving art... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6904341 | Integrated vessel monitoring and control system A vessel monitoring and control system. Data indicative of operational conditions for vessel systems is transmitted from the vessel to one or more remote sites and commands are received from the one or more remote sites for controlling the vessel systems. Multiple t... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6902015 | Two-leg walking humanoid robot A biped walking humanoid robot is disclosed having an arrangement whereby shocks acting on various parts of the robot when it falls can be relieved and its state of fall can then be detected. The robot has a body (11) capable of bending forward, a pair of leg... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6901624 | Self-moving cleaner A self-moving cleaner has a main body and comprises an intake opening for suctioning dust, an electric blower for generating airflow to suction dust, a dust receiver for collecting the dust suctioned by the electric blower, rollers driven by drive motors, a power so... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6898487 | Specimen sensing and edge gripping end effector Robot arm end effectors rapidly transfer semiconductor wafers between a wafer cassette and a processing station. Preferred embodiments of the end effectors include proximal and distal rest pads, the latter having pad and backstop portions that support and grip the w... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6898469 | Surveillance system and method having parameter estimation and operating mode partitioning A system and method for monitoring an apparatus or process asset including creating a process model comprised of a plurality of process submodels each correlative to at least one training data subset partitioned from an unpartitioned training data set and each havin... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6898484 | Robotic manufacturing and assembly with relative radio positioning using radio based location determination Global positioning system inputs are used in a manufacturing process where location of a work piece relative to a robotic manipulator is input into a control system. The manipulator is located and tracked by using “GPS” signals, as is an associated work piece. R... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6895380 | Voice actuation with contextual learning for intelligent machine control An interactive voice actuated control system for a testing machine such as a tensile testing machine is described. Voice commands are passed through a user-command predictor and integrated with a graphical user interface control panel to allow hands-free operation. ... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6895301 | Material handling system using autonomous mobile drive units and movable inventory trays An inventory system includes a plurality of mobile drive units with a processor control and with a positioning system that enables the mobile drive units to navigate a factory floor. The mobile drive units interface with a material handling system to receive order r... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6889117 | Robot apparatus and method and system for controlling the action of the robot apparatus A main robot apparatus generates a sound scale command at a command generating state (ST2) to enter into a state of waiting for a reaction of a slave robot apparatus (ST3). When the slave robot apparatus outputs a emotion expressing sound responsive to... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6888953 | Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus Distance image outputted from an image processor is read by a recognition/judgment computer, in which the distance image is divided into strips having a specified interval and a histogram is prepared for each strip. Based on the histogram, the position of solid obje... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6888333 | Holonomic platform for a robot A robot that includes a plurality of roller assemblies. Each roller assembly may include a transmission roller that is spun by a drive mechanism to rotate a drive ball. Rotation of the drive ball propels the robot across a surface. The transmission roller is in cont... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6882910 | Method of controlling automatic guided vehicle system A method of controlling an Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) system includes setting moving paths of the AGVs by taking into account task performing costs of cases for orders of all tasks to be performed by the AGVs, and controlling the AGVs according to the set moving... | 04/19/2005 |
