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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175796 | Method for vehicle collision avoidance A method involves transmitting a first signal to a device, the first signal comprising vehicle identification data and vehicle operational data, receiving a second signal from the device, the second signal comprising road and lane information and vehicle information... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175797 | Vehicle drive assist system A form of a travel path of an oncoming vehicle is recognized based on white-line data. A speed component of the oncoming vehicle with respect to the travel path (route) is calculated by weighting a lateral speed component orthogonal to the route and a lateral speed ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170787 | Vehicle collision avoidance system A collision avoidance system for a machine is disclosed. The collision avoidance system has a first obstacle detection system. The first obstacle detection system is configured to detect a first obstacle and generate a corresponding first signal. Additionally, the c... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170788 | Method and apparatus for using an automated lane keeping system to maintain lateral vehicle spacing A method and apparatus for piloting a vehicle is herein disclosed. The method entails first using a lane keeping system to detect objects in lanes adjacent to the lane currently occupied by the vehicle and then adjusting the position of the vehicle within the occupi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165797 | Vehicular control object determination system and vehicular travel locus estimation system In a vehicular control object determination system, locus correlation degree calculator calculates a degree of correlation between a future travel locus of a vehicle estimated by first travel locus estimator based on a vehicle speed and a yaw rate and a future trave... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165796 | Collision avoidance system and method Systems and methods for avoiding a collision. A first sensor is located, for example, in a front portion of a vehicle and is configured to monitor a first area. A second sensor is located, for example, in a top portion of the vehicle and is configured to execute a 3... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8155883 | Current position information reporting system, information center apparatus, and method thereof An information center apparatus has a communication section, a motion information calculating section, a communication delay time calculating section, a communication cycle waiting time calculating section, an error estimating section and a correcting section. The c... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8155879 | Apparatus and process for vehicle driving assistance A vehicle driving assistance apparatus includes a brake operation sensing device to sense a driver's brake operation, a steering operation sensing device to sense a driver's steering operation, a forward, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine w... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8140264 | Advanced terrain anti-collision device The field of the invention is that of onboard terrain anticollision systems for aircraft. Collisions with the terrain while the aircraft is fully controlled have been and still remain one of the main causes of air disasters. Several generations of devices for warnin... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8112225 | Method and system for collision avoidance A method for collision avoidance for a host vehicle includes the following steps; receiving input data relating to a set of objects external to the host vehicle, wherein an object position (r,Φ), and an object velocity ({dot over (r)}) are associated with each obje... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112224 | Guidance system for an aircraft The guidance system (1) comprises a first means (2) for guiding the aircraft while maintaining a spacing with another aircraft, a second means (3) for making the aircraft pass through a particular waypoint at a required passing time, and means (... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108147 | Apparatus and method for automatic omni-directional visual motion-based collision avoidance A method of identifying and imaging a high risk collision object relative to a host vehicle includes arranging a plurality of N sensors for imaging a three-hundred and sixty degree horizontal field of view (hFOV) around the host vehicle. The sensors are mounted to a... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103451 | Vehicle safety control apparatus for avoiding collision A collision between a vehicle and an obstacle is estimated, and based on the estimation result, vehicle deceleration control is performed by a brake actuator to reduce the collision and vehicle wheel load is controlled by a suspension actuator. ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095313 | Method for determining collision risk for collision avoidance systems Disclosed is a method and apparatus for determining the risk of an object collision. The method includes transmitting a signal and analyzing a received signal that is indicative of the presence of a remote object. The signal is then analyzed to determine an initial ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090537 | Obstacle avoidance path computing apparatus, obstacle avoidance path computing method, and obstacle avoidance control system equipped with obstacle avoidance path computing system An obstacle avoidance path computing apparatus is provided with a preceding object detecting section, a host vehicle information detecting section, a preceding object arrival region estimating section and a preceding object avoidance path setting section. The preced... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086406 | Safety system for a means of transportation and a method relating to the same In order to enhance a safety system, in particular an accident avoidance system for a means of transportation, in particular a motor vehicle, having at least one steering system and at least one brake system in such a way that an avoidance maneuver initiated by the ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082101 | Collision warning system A method of estimating a time to collision (TTC) of a vehicle with an object comprising: acquiring a plurality of images of the object; and determining a TTC from the images that is responsive to a relative velocity and relative acceleration between the vehicle and ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8082102 | Computing flight plans for UAVs while routing around obstacles having spatial and temporal dimensions This description provides tools and techniques for computing flight plans for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) while routing around obstacles having spatial and temporal dimensions. Methods provided by these tools may receive data representing destinations to be visi... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8065084 | Method for determining the plausibility of objects in driver assistance systems A method for determining the plausibility of objects in driver assistance systems of motor vehicles includes the steps of statistically analyzing the lateral offsets (Y) of stationary objects to detect left and right roadway boundaries, analyzing the lateral offsets... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060305 | Vehicle driving assist system A vehicle driving assist system is provided with a risk factor detection section, a first risk potential calculation section, a second risk potential calculation section and a risk potential notification section. The risk factor detection section detects a plurality... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060306 | Method and system for obstacle avoidance for a vehicle A mapping module or path filtering module is arranged to identify admissible curved paths for which the vehicle is able to stop prior to reaching a detected obstacle in accordance with an observed translational velocity and an observed rotational velocity. A data pr... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8060307 | Vehicle driving assistance system A riskiness reference value Riskm is corrected and calculated for each target object according the a road surface friction coefficient based on a vehicle-to-target time and a collision allowance time, and a riskiness Riskm (ΔAm) for each three-dimensional object is... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055445 | Probabilistic lane assignment method An improved probabilistic lane assignment method for detected objects in the scene forward of a host vehicle. Road/lane model parameters, preferably including an angular orientation of the host vehicle in its lane, are estimated from host vehicle sensor systems, tak... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8041509 | System and method of addressing nonlinear relative motion for collision probability using parallelepipeds Collision probability analysis for spherical objects exhibiting linear relative motion is accomplished by combining covariances and physical object dimensions at the point of closest approach. The resulting covariance ellipsoid and hardbody are projected onto the pl... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036828 | Vehicle braking control device A control unit extracts stop position candidates P1 to Pn from the white line data and three-dimensional object data recognized and acquires their positions L1 to Ln, and sets, as a target stop position Lt, one of the stop position candidates P1... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8019545 | System and method for controlling object detection based on driver status Primary and secondary keys are adapted to be associated to primary and secondary drivers. A key ignition device is positioned on each of the primary and secondary keys and is configured to generate a driver status signal indicative of whether the driver the primary ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8010288 | Aircraft terrain avoidance and alarm method and device An aircraft terrain avoidance system include a device having a first unit knowing a profile of the terrain that is located at the front of the aircraft, a second unit for determining an avoidance trajectory, a third unit which is connected to the first and second un... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005616 | Method for determining relevant objects Disclosed is a method for determining relevant objects in the vicinity of a motor vehicle by an environmental detection sensor. A calculation of the probable trajectory of objects is thus not necessary. The only objects that are classified as relevant are those with... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005615 | Navigation system A navigation system includes data storage that contains map data, a current position detection portion that detects a current position of a host vehicle, an acceleration lane remaining distance determination portion that determines a distance from the current positi... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000897 | Intersection collision avoidance techniques System and method for preventing accidents between first and second vehicles at intersections in which the absolute position and velocity of the first vehicle are determined, map data relating to edges of lanes of roadways, edges of roadways and the location of traf... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991552 | System and method for determining a side-impact collision status of a nearby vehicle A system and method are provided to determine the side-impact collision status of a nearby vehicle or vehicles. If a nearby vehicle has been in a collision, responsive systems may be triggered automatically. Responses may include warning the driver of the host vehic... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7991551 | System and method for determining a collision status of a nearby vehicle A system and method are provided to determine the collision status of a nearby vehicle or vehicles. If a nearby vehicle has been in a collision, responsive systems may be triggered automatically. Responses may include warning the driver of the host vehicle and/or wa... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7991550 | Method and apparatus for on-vehicle calibration and orientation of object-tracking systems A method for simultaneously tracking a plurality of objects and registering a plurality of object-locating sensors mounted on a vehicle relative to the vehicle is based upon collected sensor data, historical sensor registration data, historical object trajectories, ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987052 | Method for evaluation, by motor vehicle, of the characteristics of a front element A method that utilizes at least a first camera and a second camera, which have optical axes that are parallel to a first axis of an orthogonal reference frame, the first and the second camera being positioned so as to have a first offset along a second axis and a se... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7974784 | Collision predicting apparatus and collision predicting method A collision predicting apparatus detects subject targets present in the traveling course of the own vehicle by using the relative distance and the relative velocity, etc. The apparatus also calculates the predicted collision time of each subject target on the basis ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7966129 | Vehicular control object determination system A vehicular control object determination system includes: a radar device for detecting an object that is present in the direction of travel of a vehicle; a travel locus estimator for estimating a future travel locus of the vehicle; a control object determiner for de... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7957901 | System for guiding an obstacle avoidance direction including senses for supersonic waves An obstacle avoidance system having an ultrasonic sensor is provided. The system includes an ultrasonic sensor array having at least one ultrasonic sensor for measuring a distance to an obstacle using an ultrasonic wave, an orientation tracker for tracking a proceed... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949469 | Obstacle avoidance control device and recording medium An obstacle avoidance control device has a detector for detecting the distance between a vehicle and an obstacle and the relative speed of the vehicle with respect to the obstacle, a memory for storing a map for calculating vehicle generation force to avoid the obst... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7937219 | Steering assist system and vehicle mounted with the same An object of the present invention is to provide a steering assist system capable of showing a driver an appropriate direction of steering operation in advance and correctly, and without impairing safety, and shortening an operation time during collision avoidance, ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7930102 | Systems and methods for constructing variable offset paths A method is provided for constructing an offset, and includes constructing the capture path, which includes selecting a capture path start point on a first leg of the flight path and selecting a first capture path angle; determining whether a first capture path segm... | 04/19/2011 |
