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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7660441 | System and method for fusing geospatial data Automatic conflation systems and techniques which provide vector-imagery conflation and map-imagery conflation. Vector-imagery conflation is an efficient approach that exploits knowledge from multiple data sources to identify a set of accurate control points. Vector... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7653218 | Semi-automatic extraction of linear features from image data A method for extracting a linear feature from remotely sensed imagery, including selecting by user interface anchor points for the linear feature, the anchor points being identified with a geographic location; using image-based logic to automatically calculate a vec... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7639843 | Legend including transparent zone A legend overlaid on a composite image includes at least one zone, corresponding to a coded portion of the image, and at least one other zone, which is transparent, corresponding to an un-coded portion of the image. ... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7613331 | Recording medium storing map information, map information processing device, map information processing system, map information processing method, map information processing program and recording medium storing the map information processing program A server unit (400) recognizes a travel route search request together with a current position information and a destination information from a terminal unit (300) over a network (200) and searches for a travel route with use of a matching data o... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7555145 | Multi-level optical mark reading that uses an unambiguous symbology of marks to fill into response bubbles One or more response bubbles are used on a scannable form to be read by a scanning system. An unambiguous symbology of marks is defined to fill into each response bubble, thereby allowing at least one of a plurality of different non-empty intended responses having d... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7512253 | Method of digitizing graphic information A method of digitizing graphic information includes the steps of reading monochrome graphic information by using a black-and-white scanner to input raster data; sorting the raster data into text data and vector data; storing the sorted vector data in element layers ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7437671 | Computer system control with user data via interface and sensor with identifier A method and system for enabling user interaction with computer software running in a computer system. The user is provided with an interface surface containing information relating to the computer software and including coded data indicative of at least one interac... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7417641 | Aeronautical chart display apparatus and method A method and apparatus for converting electronic display aeronautical chart data to aeronautical chart data that is tailored for an avionics display is disclosed. The method and apparatus received by a data processing unit, electronic display aeronautical chart data... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412651 | Computer system interface surface with reference points and sensor with identifier A method and system for enabling user interaction with computer software running in a computer system. A user is provided with an interface surface containing information relating to the computer software and including coded data indicative of an identity of the int... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7369939 | Method and apparatus for displaying information for vehicle, and computer product An apparatus for displaying information on a vehicle includes an information acquiring unit that acquires at least one of speed information and engine revolutions-per-minute information of the vehicle; and a display control unit that controls a display screen in suc... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365261 | Musical performance data creating apparatus with visual zooming assistance In an apparatus for creating musical performance data according to operations of a user, a screen display section displays an input screen having a data input area for use in inputting of musical performance data. A position indication section operates when a first ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359840 | Remote order acceptance design system and elevator remote order acceptance method A specification plan of an order-made product suitable for a building structure plan is generated promptly. A WWW server 11 and a database server 12 are provided to the equipment designer's side. The database server 12 has a drawing database ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356762 | Method for the automatic generation of an interactive electronic equipment documentation package An interactive electronic equipment document production system is disclosed. Documents from different sources are standardized in a conversion process, provided with tags in a tagging process that provides information connecting an initial locating with another loca... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356201 | Process and device for the automatic rectification of single-channel or multi-channel images A process and a device for the automatic rectification of images, where at least one image is rectified by a mapping function onto a reference image and at least some of the parameters of the mapping function are unknown are disclosed. The process includes at least ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353108 | Method and apparatus for transmitting position information on a digital map The invention purposes to provide a position information transmission method for accurately transmitting a position and a shape on a digital map with a small amount of data. In a position information transmission method of the invention, the transmitting side... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349577 | Image processing method and image processing system This invention provides an image processing method which allows easy re-use of image information that is stored to minimize deterioration of image quality and the storage capacity. Storage means is searched for original digital data corresponding to each input image... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349567 | Method and apparatus for determining angular pose of an object The present invention is operative to determine the angular pose of an assumed object. A series of projection sums are calculated from a sample image of the known object where the known object has an assumed pose. The projection sums are calculated for a range of an... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7336805 | Docking assistant Many day-to-day driving situations require that an operator of a motor vehicle guide the motor vehicle along a specific course and bring the vehicle to a stop at a specific location, for example in a parking bay or at a loading platform. To assist a vehicle operator... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7324666 | Methods for assigning geocodes to street addressable entities A method for assigning of geocodes to addresses identifying entities on a street includes ordering a set of entity geocodes associated with a street segment based on ordering criteria such as the linear distance of the geocodes along the length of the street segment... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7308117 | System and method for manipulating information and map for geographical resource management The present invention provides a system that applies the latest technology related to compression, rendering, and geographical data processing to present an interactive interface to users, which enables them to efficiently manipulate maps and queries for information... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7308118 | Building security, occupant safety, and emergency response An improved system and method for building security and occupant safety wherein a digital image of plan view of a selected floor of a building is prepared from a physical drawing. The digital image shows the substantial architectural features of the building, includ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305147 | Zooming method The invention relates to the field of methods for zooming onto a part of an image which consists of pixels and which represents a terrain overflown by an aircraft. It is a zoom method for zooming onto a part of an image which consists of pixels and which represents ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7293088 | Tag location, client location, and coverage hole location in a wireless network Determining the location of a radio tag or client station of a wireless network, and the location of coverage holes by receiving from a plurality of wireless stations of the wireless network path loss information of the path loss of one or more location frames recei... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7290212 | Program and method for displaying a radar chart With spreadsheet software, such as the MICROSOFT EXCEL, a radar chart can be compiled by the use of data in a table made. ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286515 | Method, apparatus, and software product for detecting rogue access points in a wireless network A method, an apparatus, and a software program to implement a method to detect a rogue access point of a wireless network. The method includes maintaining an AP database that includes information about managed access point (APs) and friendly APs, including the MAC a... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7277584 | Form recognition system, form recognition method, program and storage medium A plurality of binary images are obtained from one form image by binarizing the form image by using a plurality of binarizing threshold values for improving a recognition rate of the search form irrespective of a state of the inputted form image, and format data are... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7263230 | Narrow field abstract meta-data image compression An image compression technique in which patterns identified, the means of separating the image components, the parameterization of the patterns, and the lower level numerical encodings are all designed around a narrow class of images, such as two-dimensional project... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7251349 | Automatic table locating technique for documents Table-like structures in documents are located by analysis of sub-regions (crops) on the document. The analysis involves determining the location of lines having lengths above a certain threshold and assigning these lines to groups. A set of adjacent lines is assign... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249250 | Remote order acceptance design system and elevator remote order acceptance method A specification plan of an order-made product suitable for a building structure plan is generated promptly. A WWW server 11 and a database server 12 are provided to the equipment designer's side. The database server 12 has a drawing datab... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7245766 | Method and apparatus for determining a region in an image based on a user input Methods and apparatus are disclosed for identifying a particular region in an image based on a user specification and information in the image, such as color and texture information. Initially, the user specifies a region using a single closed contour. The user inpu... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239962 | Method and apparatus for a routing agent A method and apparatus for a route calculation engine is described. The method of calculating a route to a resource comprises identifying a plurality of locations at which the resource may be available and creating an optimal route through the plurality of locations... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240301 | System and method to insert new pages with a schematic capture tool A computer implemented method to perform an insertion request of new schematic pages within a plurality of numbered schematic pages created with a design schematic capture tool is described. The method allows a user to insert as much as new pages in a user friendly ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7236653 | System and method for locating document areas using markup symbols A system and method are provided for processing a document. The method comprises: marking an area of a document, using at least one predetermined markup symbol; identifying a markup symbol; using the identified markup symbol to locate the document area; determining ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233698 | Apparatus and methods for converting raster illustrated parts images into intelligent vector-layered files Apparatus and methods for converting raster illustrated parts images into intelligent vector-layered files. The method involves recognizing and removing reference labels from the raster illustrated parts image to produce a reference label scrubbed file. Reference li... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7194476 | Image processing method, program thereof and image processing apparatus The execution of a calibration process according to a characteristic of an image formation unit is properly controlled. To do so, it is provided an image processing method of executing the calibration process of newly creating a database file according to the charac... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190377 | System and method for georeferencing digital raster maps with resistance to potential errors Systems and methods for georeferencing digital raster maps by assigning points on the raster map with geographic coordinates corresponding to points on a georeferenced vector map or another georeferenced raster map. The raster map and a corresponding vector map are ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7191059 | Navigation system When a specific point and images of information associated therewith, which are retrievable via a communication line such as the Internet are displayed, character data extracting means extracts character string data of time information or charge information from amo... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7188092 | Pattern recognition template application applied to oil exploration and production A system, method and apparatus are provided for applying templates to find deposits of oil and natural gas. A personal computer is used to perform calculations on known data to generate hyperdimensional templates that are stored within a pattern database. The hyperd... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7185021 | Navigation device for displaying dated map data There is disclosed a navigation device designed to display emphasis display data edited by an emphasis display data editing part and normal display data edited by a normal display data editing part in a superposing manner. Thus, a clear visible map can be displayed.... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7184572 | Using steganographic encoded information with maps A map depicts a plurality of different locations. Steganographic encoding is embebbed in first and second map areas. Steganographic encoding in each area conveys an identifier that is associated with its respective map area. Different encoded identifiers are used to... | 02/27/2007 |