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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6907346 | GPS receiver apparatus and receiving method A GPS receiver can periodically obtain range data without degrading the performance such as positioning sensitivity and positioning speed and conserve energy consumption. Supplied with IF data from a frequency conversion section 4, a synchronization hold sect... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6902136 | Wireless landing gear monitoring system A wireless landing gear monitoring system for an aircraft. The monitoring system includes a wireless, e.g. radio frequency (RF), hubcap transceiver powered by a rechargeable battery combined with a super-capacitor, all mounted to an inside surface of a wheel hubcap ... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6903677 | Collision prediction device, method of predicting collision, and computer product An image sensor section and a millimeter-wave sensor section separately detect objects. A sensor matching section determines whether the objects detected by the image sensor section and the millimeter-wave sensor section are one and the same object. If the objects a... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6903678 | Vehicle radar apparatus A vehicle radar system extracts peak frequencies fbu and fbd of respective beat signals B1 to B9 representing the frequency difference between a transmission signal fs and a plurality of received signals fr1 to fr9. The phase difference o... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6902016 | Pivoting panel for mechanical control disengagement A small or mini loader is operated by a platform standing on the ground or other surface supporting the loader, and at the rear of the machine. Hydraulic control levers operate drives on opposite sides of the machine, and the control levers are pulled rearwardly fro... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6900754 | Signal processing method for use with scanning radar A method that can locate the center of a target even when the target is a large vehicle, and that, when a plurality of beams are reflected, determines whether the reflected beams are from the same target or not, wherein, of peaks generated based on a radar signal re... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6898526 | Method and apparatus for enhanced safety in hunting environments The invention is a system combining a Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) receiver, an electronic compass and a two-way wireless communication system wherein a plurality of hunters each carry such a device. The device is adapted to determine its location using GPS, r... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6889135 | Security and tracking system A security and tracking apparatus includes at least a first signaling unit and a second signaling unit in communicating proximity with the first signaling unit, each signaling unit having a receiver for identifying the location of the signaling unit; and, a transmit... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6885860 | Information management and processing in a wireless network Methods, systems and data structure for storing and managing information in a wireless network are described wherein fixed resources in the system are stored in a database in a hierarchical directory structure according to the location of each fixed resource. Each l... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6885303 | Motion prediction within an amorphous sensor array A method, apparatus, and computer program product are presented for detecting motion within an amorphous sensor node array. The operations performed include detecting an object at a node in the array, with a node that detects an object termed a “detecting node”.... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6882283 | Cable plow installation monitor method and apparatus The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for installing a utility conveyance. A tractor which includes sensors, a plow locator and a monitor system is presented. The sensors are used to locate demarcation points, which identify the boundaries of a... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6879901 | Method for regulating the speed of a vehicle A method for regulating the speed of a vehicle, in which at least one vehicle traveling ahead is detected by a radar sensor within a radar detection range. An acceleration limitation is carried out in the vehicle to be regulated, when a vehicle moves, at lower speed... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6873899 | Drive control apparatus for vehicle A drive control apparatus for a vehicle includes an object detecting device for detecting objects in front of the vehicle, a running track calculation device, a preceding vehicle detecting device, a vehicle control device for controlling a speed of the vehicle so th... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6871105 | Methods and apparatus for reducing hyperplanes in a control space A method for facilitating an optimization of a control space in n dimensions is provided. The control space includes a plurality of points, and the method includes removing at least one hyperplane of the control space, and perturbing the remaining points of the cont... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6868338 | Method and apparatus for recording and synthesizing position data A method and system for recording, synthesizing, distributing, and playing back position data includes a reference receiver having a known position, a mobile receiver having a variable position along a trajectory path, and a processor that calculates the trajectory ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6862527 | Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus A laser radar scanningly irradiates electromagnetic waves around a subject vehicle detects the electromagnetic waves reflected from objects around the subject vehicle, and outputs detected distances from the subject vehicle to the objects in the respective direction... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6862522 | Method for automatically establishing and updating a table of distances The present invention relates to a method for automatically establishing an updating a table of distances by means of a vehicle which is equipped with a computer unit and a trip meter, which vehicle is driven along a route extending past a group of predetermined sto... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6859729 | Navigation of remote controlled vehicles Methods for navigating a remote controlled vehicle, methods for maintaining a formation of remote controlled vehicles, and remote controlled vehicles using those methods. A vehicle is navigated using the Global Positioning System (GPS). Upon dropout of the GPS, the ... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6856903 | Apparatus for determining the behavior of a vehicle Location equipment includes a calibration unit for calibrating scale factors used for calculating distances traveled by left and right wheels of a vehicle from pulse signals delivered from wheel sensors respectively installed in the left and right wheels, based on g... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6856896 | Vehicle recognition support system A vehicle recognition system to enable a two-wheeled vehicle without a navigation system to recognize the position of a traffic intersection and to cause itself to be noticed by other vehicles. The system includes a communication distance measurement modem which rec... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6853908 | System and method for controlling an object detection system of a vehicle A system is disclosed for controlling an object detection system of a land based vehicle, having at least one detection device with a limited geometrical operating area. The system comprises a computing device using information regarding the current or upcoming road... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6853738 | Optical object recognition system An object recognition system comprises a memory for storing a plurality of distance ranges with different distance labels associated with respective distance ranges. The controller converts measured distance values into distance labels according to distance ranges t... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6853311 | Alarm apparatus for motor vehicle Alarm apparatus for a motor vehicle includes sensor (101) for detecting an object distance (Do) rearward of the vehicle, means (103) for detecting a vehicle speed (V), means (104) for detecting a traveling direction sideward of the vehicle, a co... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6845951 | Method of controlling pointing for a flexible structure A method of controlling pointing for a flexible structure such as a satellite includes: providing feedforward and reference inputs of a pointing control system with prefilters; and scheduling the prefilters and a bang-bang input to the pointing control system as a f... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6845172 | Road lane marker recognition A road recognition apparatus estimates road parameters of a road model equation by processing a forward road image of a vehicle. A processor sets a series of windows along a road white line (or lane marker) on the forward road image, and calculates a candidate strai... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6845303 | Micro-satellite and satellite formation for inverse and distributed proximity operations A method and apparatus for conducting proximity operations is disclosed. The method called inverser proximity operations includes maneuvering an active vehicle into general proximity to a target vehicle, transmitting from the target vehicle to the active vehicle dat... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6839662 | Command and control system architecture for convenient upgrading A military command and control system includes functional portions which respond to a set of or plurality of commands. Certain commands are mandatory. Specific responses are made in response to the mandatory commands. System tracks are handled differently than local... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6836701 | Autonomous multi-platform robotic system An autonomous multi-platform robot system (100, 1100) for performing at least one functional task in an environment is provided. The system includes at least one navigator platform (110, 1110) providing mapping, localization, planning, and control func... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6832153 | Method and apparatus for providing information pertaining to vehicles located along a predetermined travel route A system for tracking a fleet of vehicles, such as trucks or aircraft, includes a set of vehicle processing systems associated with each vehicle. Each vehicle processing system receives a travel route matrix from a remote server, and generates periodic vehicle posit... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6826479 | Method and apparatus for target vehicle identification in automatic cruise control and collision avoidance systems An apparatus and method are provided for identifying a preceding vehicle as a target vehicle in transient and non-transient situations. The method generally includes, estimating a position of the target vehicle relative to a position of an ACC vehicle from the posit... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6823260 | Method and apparatus for device and carrier independent location systems for mobile devices A method and system for a device and carrier independent geographic location protocol. Specifically, the present invention provides location information of a mobile device to third parties in a communication network through a protocol that is device and network carr... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6823256 | Method for associating real-time information with a geographical location A location of interest is received by a server, and a buffer zone is determined surrounding that location. Real-time spatial events may be continually updated in one or more GIS databases. The database entries may be software spatial objects, which consist of the lo... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6820002 | Moving direction detection method, moving direction detection apparatus, and program code A walking direction detection apparatus has an azimuth detection unit and acceleration detection unit. After a vertical direction with respect to the ground of an apparatus is corrected based on the detection direction of a gravitational acceleration component, a pe... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6819982 | Uninhabited airborne vehicle in-flight refueling system A method and system is provided for performing automated air refueling of uninhabited airborne vehicles (UAVs). The method and system includes any combination of a positioning system component, an air collision avoidance system (ACAS) component, a voice processing c... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6813585 | Method and device for measuring length, area or volume A device and a method for determining length, area, and/or volume using a distance measuring device 10 includes a transmit unit 18 and a receive unit 20 in one housing, a keypad 28 for operating the measuring device 10, and an inte... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6810323 | System and method for storing and using information associated with geographic locations of interest to a mobile user A system (10) for storing and using information associated with geographic locations of interest to a mobile user comprises a mobile apparatus (100) and a remote apparatus (200). The mobile apparatus accepts and transmits information associated ... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6807485 | Integrated position and direction system with radio communication for updating data An integrated position and direction system is disclosed that includes a digital compass, a communication module, and a satellite positioning system having a receiver adapted to receive satellite position determining signals. Signals that are received from satellite... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6807480 | Navigation system and a memory medium A vicinity search using register point data in a designated area reduces search time. The vicinity search data include at least category information, names of register points and country information. The search device conducts the vicinity search by specifying any o... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6799086 | Robot, robot control system, and program for the same A robot control system includes a scenario receiver to receive a robot control program or scenario, a scenario register to incorporate the received scenario in the robot, a scenario selector to select a scenario for execution thereof from scenarios beforehand incorp... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6789010 | Airport map display system and data interchange method An airport map display system provides situational awareness to a pilot of an airport's runways, taxiways, and other features relative to the pilot's aircraft. Data representative of an airport map is translated and communicated between aircraft systems using a data... | 09/07/2004 |
