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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7616129 | In-vehicle conditional multi-media center A system for controlling the operation of an in-vehicle multi-media system based on identifying operating conditions for the vehicle. Various operational rules can be applied to the multi-media system based on an identified operating condition. Operating conditions ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7612687 | On-board unit An on-board unit includes a dust sensor for detecting an amount of dust in an air in a vehicle. When the amount of dust is equal to or greater than a predetermined value and a front panel of the unit is open, the front panel is moved to close a media slot and insert... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7609174 | Vehicle information communication system A vehicle information communication system is provided in which probe data or other private data relating to a host vehicle can be collected with anonymity. Basically, the host vehicle collects the probe data and sends the probe data to a carrier vehicle that disass... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7595738 | Method and apparatus for emergency map display system A method and system for delivering emergency directions is provided. The disclosure includes the government delivering a warning message for potential evacuees on a gas station pump or automated teller machine point of service display screen. The method includes rec... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7589643 | Vehicle speed monitoring system A method for monitoring vehicle speed is provided. The method includes receiving a current speed of a vehicle and a current speed limit associated with a current location of the vehicle. A current speed range is calculated by comparing the current speed of the vehic... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7576661 | Traffic information calculation device, traffic information calculation method, traffic information display method, and traffic information display device A traffic information calculation device includes: a probe information database for accumulating vehicle information including a vehicle position and the time of the vehicle position; a branch judgment unit for judging the branch direction of the vehicle at an inter... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7570176 | Radio frequency identification tag and a method of operating same A tag can transmit a tag signal, and responds to receipt of a wireless signpost signal by determining whether the signpost that generated the signal is currently active. When the signpost is respectively determined to be active and inactive, the tag respectively inc... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7561065 | Personal communication and positioning system A location tagged data provision and display system. A personal communication device (PCD) with electromagnetic communication capability has a GPS receiver and a display. The PCD requests maps and location tagged data from data providers and other for display on the... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7557730 | GPS-generated traffic information Disclosed herein is a traveler information monitoring and dissemination system. The system disclosed herein provides real time information to a traveler, wherein the real time information may be pre-selected by the traveler. The system ensures consistent and quality... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7545286 | Self-propelled vehicle safety urging system, self-propelled vehicle safety urging method, and safety urging information processing program Information to urge safety driving is outputted to a driver in dangerous areas including intersections. When a vehicle reaches near an intersection, an on-vehicle system refers to communication availability information previously stored by using a car navigation sys... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7541942 | Method and apparatus for processing signpost signals received by a tag A tag receives a wireless signpost signal that contains a signpost code, converts the signpost code into location information representative of a physical location of a signpost that transmitted the received signpost signal, and transmits a wireless tag signal that ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7535379 | Server and vehicle-mounted navigation apparatus, vehicle employing the same, and meteorological information distribution system related to the same A server specifies a sending range for meteorological information that it has received, for each type of meteorological information. The server also specifies constitution and size of area meteorological data distributing for each area segment. This will enable the ... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7528738 | Electronic vertical clearance advertisement safety system A method includes electronically advertising structural clearance information of overpasses to an oncoming vehicle so as to determine a continued route of the vehicle. Each of the overpasses includes a transceiver. The transceiver of each overpass other than a final... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7511634 | Retrieving and presenting dynamic traffic information A system, a method and computer-readable media for presenting dynamic traffic information. A user profile is stored, and advisory data based on the user profile is gathered. The advisory data may include traffic information associated with road segments identified b... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7508321 | System and method for predicting travel time for a travel route A system for predicting a travel time for a traffic route is disclosed. The traffic route comprises one or more road segments. A predicted travel time for each of those segments is calculated based, in part, on traffic speed data for each of the one or more road seg... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7486201 | Combined personalized traffic and weather report and alert system and method A system and method for generating and delivering to users combined personalized traffic and weather report and alerts including forecast traffic and weather conditions. A user defines a travel route of interest and alert conditions. Based on current weather informa... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7466241 | Determining billboard refresh rate based on traffic flow The present invention provides a method for determining a refresh rate of a dynamic billboard. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: obtaining traffic flow information; and determining the refresh rate of the dynamic billboard ... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7427929 | Method and apparatus for previewing conditions on a highway Apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an advisory system that transmits information regarding the status of the host vehicle to drivers of other vehicles, in particular when the status of the host vehicle presents a hazardous conditi... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7427928 | Information system An information system is provided for transmitting data into a local area surrounding the transmitter. The transmitter may be used to provide information to pedestrians, or to passing road traffic. Data is stored in a local memory 64 associated with the trans... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7423553 | Image display apparatus, image display method, measurement apparatus, measurement method, information processing method, information processing apparatus, and identification method An external index detection unit (105) receives an image sensed by a camera (100), and detects an external index set in a real scene. A tachometer (110) measures the rotational velocities of two rear wheels of a vehicle. A vehicle measurement un... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7417559 | Method and system for vehicular communications and information reporting A method for vehicular communications and information reporting. First and second wireless Internet connections between respective first and second vehicles and a web-server are provided. First and second event information is transmitted, to the web-server, from the... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7414545 | Incursion collision avoidance system for vehicle traffic control A system to identify junctions of restricted areas to approaching vehicles, including at least one warning signal generator, at least one antenna coupled to the generator transmitting the warning signal into areas traversed by the vehicles approaching the restricted... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7403134 | Vehicle driver guarding system using vehicle telematics service and control method thereof A vehicle driver guarding system using a vehicle telematics service and a control method thereof are provided. The vehicle driver guarding system includes: a vehicle telematics system for receiving a final destination, calculating a final destination arrival expecta... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403098 | Method and system for deploying disaster alerts in a mobile vehicle communication system One aspect of the invention provides a method of deploying disaster alerts to a mobile vehicle. The method includes determining disaster area coordinates of a disaster area and calculating buffer coordinates of a buffer region based on the disaster area coordinates.... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400267 | Methods for determining need for treating a vehicle travel surface Methods for determining need for treating a vehicle travel surface include sensing, at a first time, a characteristic of a vehicle travel surface from a mobile sensor. Sensed characteristics include temperature, friction coefficient, material volumetric buildup, e.g... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7397390 | Wireless traffic control system A wireless traffic control system and method for wirelessly communicating information using traffic control signs are provided. The method includes wirelessly transmitting at least one of traffic control information and vehicle information from a traffic control sig... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7398069 | Navigation morse decode display A method and device for displaying radio frequency information, including a database of stored radio frequency identifiers and radio frequency information corresponding thereto, and a processor coupled to the database and operating one or more algorithms for generat... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7394401 | Device and method for preventing speeding A device for preventing a vehicle from speeding, which device comprises a switching device, a speedometer present in the vehicle, which is connected to said switching device and which measures the speed of the vehicle, as well as a transmitter connected thereto, whe... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7394400 | Vehicle communication apparatus and system for supporting vehicles passing through narrow road In the car navigation system including a vehicle communication apparatus mounted on a vehicle, different diffusion codes are assigned to each road such as a single lane road and a road with double lanes. In data transmission to other vehicles, each vehicle switches ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7392130 | System and method for determining traffic conditions The present invention provides a method and apparatus for determining traffic conditions using wireless devices. A number of signals from the vehicles traveling in selected routes are received by several wireless communication networks via the wireless devices. The ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7385525 | Dynamic timing adjustment in an electronic toll collection system An electronic toll collection system with dynamically adjusted timing for operation of one or more subsystems. The timing is dynamically adjusted based upon the prevailing traffic speed for the roadway. The roadway traffic speed is determined based upon direct measu... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383121 | Optical communication equipment and vehicle control method The present invention relates to optical communication equipment and a vehicle control method, and in particular, the present invention is applied to a system utilizing inter-vehicle communication equipment via optical communication to notify information of traffic ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7382276 | System and method for electronic road signs with in-car display capabilities The present invention is method and system for delivering road sign content information to a mobile computing device for display to the driver of a vehicle. The system consists of a wireless communication network in communication with a mobile computing device opera... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7382274 | Vehicle interaction communication system The information available to a driver of a vehicle is greatly expanded using wireless communications (e.g., using Bluetooth wireless communication devices). In one embodiment, information regarding an adjacent vehicle such as a brake light, a turn light, speed, dist... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7378986 | Device and method for radio-based danger warning In a method and apparatus for radio-based issuing of warnings of hazards to the driver of a vehicle having a data receiver, the data receiver receives data from at least one data transmitter of at least one other vehicle, and evaluates the received data. The receive... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375648 | Vehicle occupancy identification system An in-vehicle transponder communicates with roadside readers to transmit a data stream of information that has been previously presented to the transponder. The transponder accepts multiple data cards and the identification numbers of the vehicle occupants for trans... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7375649 | Traffic routing based on segment travel time A system for identifying a fastest possible travel route is disclosed. A traveler data processor collects traffic speed data and associates the traffic speed data with road segments. The road segments collectively represent one or more possible travel routes from a ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7375624 | Telematic parametric speed metering system Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, articles of manufacture and methods for a telematic parametric speed metering system. In one embodiment, a system may determine a vehicle's location and speed. Once the location has been determined, corresponding... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376509 | Travel time calculating method and traffic information display method for a navigation device The navigation device of the present invention has a storage device which stores map data including link data of respective links constituting roads on a map, and statistical data including travel time (moving speed) which is determined by statistical values of traf... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376433 | Subscriber delivered location-based services A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing subscriber delivered and personalized location-based services. In one embodiment, the invention is implemented in an intelligent wireless network (100). A subscriber initiates the location-based service proce... | 05/20/2008 |