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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7525475 | Driving assistance method for a vehicle A driving assistance method is provided for a vehicle in which the speed of the vehicle is controlled by means of a longitudinal guidance control system and the lateral guidance of the vehicle is controlled by means of a lateral guidance control system, and wherein ... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7424357 | Lane departure prevention apparatus A lane departure prevention apparatus is configured for reducing risk of a vehicle while preventing lane departure. The lane departure prevention apparatus basically comprises a lane departure tendency determining section, a running condition determining section and... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420502 | Forward-looking radar system An assembly for receiving and transmitting millimeter (mm) waves, including at least one mm wave reflector (84, 86, 88) and at least one mm transmission wave feed (72) configured in a transmission feed location (34) within the at least one mm wa... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418345 | Method and device for reducing damage caused by an accident A method and device serves to reduce damage caused by an accident, in which a vehicle driver is unable to bring the vehicle that has had an accident into a safe position. A system intervenes in an appropriate manner into the motional behavior of the vehicle, influen... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7411542 | Automotive radar system with guard beam A predictive collision radar system in a vehicle incorporates a first antenna and a guard antenna, the associated radiation patterns of which overlap with one another, but the radiation pattern of the guard antenna is broader than that of the first antenna. A compar... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7369041 | Vehicle surrounding display device A device displays images such that a driver can easily recognize an obstacle. The device includes a measurement for measuring a distance and direction to an obstacle, a comparison section for comparing the measured distance with a threshold value, a viewpoint determ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365676 | Sensor for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals The invention relates to a sensor comprising a housing, inside of which a transmitting antenna array that transmits electromagnetic transmission signals in a radiation area and a receiving antenna array that receives received signals reflected by at least one object... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362258 | Transponder detection system using radio and light wave signals A target object detection system for detecting a target object using a detector and a tag on the target object; the tag includes a radio wave receiver receiving radio wave from the detector; a light receiver receiving a light signal from the detector; a receipt sign... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362259 | Radar antenna array For suppressing secondary lobes in pulsed radar systems, the antenna characteristics of the transmitting antenna and the receiving antenna are designed so that the dominant secondary lobes appear mutually offset and their maximums and minimums are mutually suppresse... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7354379 | Engine automatic stop restart control apparatus, vehicle equipped with engine automatic stop restart control apparatus, and engine automatic stop restart method In a vehicle having idle stop functions and low vehicle speed-following drive functions, when a vehicle automatic stop flag F2 is identified as 1 at step S220, determines whether all engine stop conditions except depression of brake pedal are satisfied... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7336219 | System and method for generating a radar detection threshold A method for generating a radar detection threshold includes computing a first plurality of percentile values associated with frequency domain values of frequency domain signals. The first plurality of percentile values is used to generate detection threshold values... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327322 | Directional antenna having a selected beam pattern A directional antenna is provided that utilizes an existing light source or simple reflector having a beam directing reflective surface and a transparent cover for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic radio waves. In an aspect, an information signal is impress... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327308 | Programmable method and test device for generating target for FMCW radar A test device for a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar is provided. The test device has a central control unit for monitoring the FMCW radar. When the FMCW radar transmits a frequency modulated continuous signal to search for a target, the central cont... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324039 | Short-range automotive radar transceiver Automotive vehicle including a radar transceiver each including a heterodyne active IMPATT multiplier module arranged to receive a signal from a VCO, a first balance mixer arranged to receive a signal from a VCO, a second balance mixer arranged to receive a signal f... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7315334 | Controlling viewing distance to a television receiver A child is encouraged not to sit close to the screen of television receiver. A base unit on the television receiver has a proximity detector that senses whether the child is within a preset range forward of the television receiver. In response to a range violation, ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315274 | Method and system for determining the position of marine vessels and similar objects A method for determining the relative position between two or more objects in a marine environment, including waterways, of which at least one object can be maneuvered relative to one or more other objects. At least one interrogator is arranged on one or more of the... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7302246 | Programmable gain amplifier with self-adjusting offset correction Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a calibration circuit may detect a difference between first and second outputs of a differential output programmable gain amplifier to determine a dc offset at the differential output. In the event an offs... | 11/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7295147 | Sensor arrangement and method for regulating the distance of motor vehicles A sensor system on motor vehicles for locating objects in front of the vehicle, wherein at least two sensors, each having a locating depth of at least 50 m, are arranged in such a way on both sides of longitudinal center axis of the vehicle that their locating angul... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7289059 | Method and device for course prediction in motor vehicles A method and a device for course prediction in motor vehicles, which have a position-finding system for objects situated in front of the vehicle, where a function describing the path of the roadway is calculated on the basis of measured distance and angular data, in... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7259711 | Vehicle control apparatus A vehicle control apparatus includes an obstruction detection unit for measuring a headway distance until an obstruction existing ahead of the vehicle by means of a radar device, a unit for performing vehicle control or alarm control on the basis of the headway dist... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7259661 | Collision warning system and method for a motor vehicle A collision warning system and method for a motor vehicle. A measuring device in the vehicle is provided for measuring the distance dx to a second vehicle traveling ahead, the distance signal being delivered to an evaluation device in the first vehicle. The evaluati... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257478 | Vehicle driving control device A vehicle driving control device is configured to improve response to driver braking operation and shorten the free running distance. The vehicle driving control device processes an image showing an area ahead of the host vehicle to recognize a preceding vehicle in ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256505 | Shaft mounted energy harvesting for wireless sensor operation and data transmission A device for monitoring a rotating shaft is provided. The device measures strain in the shaft and provides angular velocity and torque in the shaft. The device includes a sensor, sensor conditioning circuitry, a microprocessor, and a transmitter, all located on a ro... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7227493 | Methods and apparatus for obtaining positional information An apparatus and method obtains positional information about one or more objects in a detection field. An array includes a transmitting element and a plurality of receiving elements. A truncated cross-correlation function may be applied to determine the interval bet... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7225070 | Parking guidance system for large vehicles A parking guidance system for large vehicles has a horizontal bar, a data collection assembly and a console unit. The horizontal bar is hollow and is mounted on the rear bumper, and houses the data collection assembly. The data collection assembly uses multiple ultr... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224309 | Preceding-vehicle detecting apparatus, own-vehicle controlling apparatus, and preceding-vehicle detecting method To provide a preceding-vehicle detecting apparatus, own-vehicle controlling apparatus and preceding-vehicle detecting method capable of detecting a preceding vehicle in a more reliable manner, a preceding-vehicle detecting apparatus (1) comprises: a millimete... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7205929 | Radar system and vehicle controller incorporating radar system An electromagnetic wave is transmitted from a signal transmission antenna using a signal transmission IC; this electromagnetic wave is received, after having been reflected by a target object, by signal receiving antennas and signal receiving ICs; and the distance t... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7205888 | Driving assisting apparatus for preventing vehicular collision A driving assisting apparatus for preventing a vehicular collision including a camera, a target detector and a processor. The camera takes an image of a predetermined range in front of a vehicle. The target detector detects in the image a target notifying to stop th... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7199747 | Generating a fine time offset using a SiGe pulse generator A method and apparatus for generating short electronic pulses using a modified differential trigger that is partly an analogue sinusoidal voltage and partly a selectable, DC voltage. The differential trigger is applied to a differential base band pulse generator hav... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7184874 | Device for the longitudinally guiding a motor vehicle A device for the longitudinal guidance of a motor vehicle, having a speed sensor for measuring the driving speed of the vehicle; a distance sensor for measuring the distance to an obstacle possibly located in front of the vehicle; and a controller, which intervenes ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184889 | Collision-prediction unit for a vehicle A collision-prediction unit for a vehicle including a road condition detector, a maximum deceleration estimator, a forward vehicle detector, a forward vehicle deceleration calculator, and a collision examiner is provided. The road surface detector detects a conditio... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7164381 | Target identifying apparatus, target identifying method, and target identifying program A target identifying apparatus identifies a target from a first signal distribution and includes a calculation section, a target signal identifying section, a subtraction section, and a correction section. The calculation section calculates a quadratic approximate e... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7165247 | Upgrading software held in read-only storage A method and apparatus for upgrading software held in read-only storage are described comprising non-reprogrammable read-only memory (116) which stores a file manager program (120), program file A (122) and program file B (124) and a Flas... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7158075 | Vehicle radar apparatus A radar apparatus for a vehicle radiates laser beams and integrates a plurality of received signals corresponding to the same plurality of successively radiated laser beams. Thus, the sensitivity to detect a beam-reflecting body is improved. Further, a sampling star... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7158217 | Vehicle radar device In a vehicle radar device, a predetermined number of received light signals output based on a predetermined number of laser beams radiated from a radar sensor are integrated by an integrator to produce an integrated signal. Integration of the predetermined number of... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7151479 | Radar sensor for motor vehicles Radar sensor for motor vehicles, having a transmitter and receiver unit whose directional characteristic has multiple lobes, at least one of which is directed parallel to the roadway surface, at least one other lobe being directed obliquely to the roadway surface. | 12/19/2006 |
| 7148838 | Method for attaching radar for vehicle, radar for vehicle, and monitoring method An attachment method attaches a bracket to a vehicle, and attaches a radar to the bracket so that an axis of a directivity pattern of an antenna directs upward with respect to a horizontal direction. The antenna of the radar has an asymmetric vertical directivity pa... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7148794 | Vehicle back-up alarm system, vehicle, transmitter module, and method A vehicle back-up alarm system includes a sensor capable of determining when a vehicle is at least one of in a reverse gear and moving backwards. The vehicle back-up alarm system also includes a transmitter module capable of transmitting a warning signal in response... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7146276 | Method for determining driving task demand based on speed variability A system and method of assessing the driving task demand on the driver of a vehicle, and further controlling one or more devices on the vehicle as a function of the assessed driver demand is provided. The method includes sensing a coverage zone in relation to a vehi... | 12/05/2006 |
