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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8098899 | Landmark search system for digital camera, map data, and method of sorting image data In a camera location landmark search system, when an image is captured by a digital camera, a GPS calculator calculates position data indicating a camera position. The position data and image data of the captured image are memorized in association with each other. M... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8085990 | Hybrid maps with embedded street-side images The claimed subject matter relates to a computer-implemented architecture that can generate a map. The map can be a hybrid between an orthographic projection map and street-side images, thus including useful aspects from both types of representations. For example, a... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077927 | Updating a database with determined change identifiers In various embodiments, old flood maps may be compared to new flood maps to determine which areas of the flood map have changed. These changed areas may be correlated against geographic area descriptions that are within changed areas of the flood map. The changed ar... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077928 | Image mapping to provide visual geographic path Provided is a computer system and method for mapping a visual path. The method includes receiving one or more images included in a predefined area; receiving one or more parameters associated with the image; and integrating the images and parameters into a map of th... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7957562 | Method and apparatus for ground detection and removal in vision systems A vision system that forms a map of a scene proximate a platform, e.g., a vehicle, that determines the actual ground plane form the map, and that corrects the map for differences between the actual ground plane and an assumed ground plane. The vision system may remo... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7889888 | System and method for grouping and visualizing data A method for visualizing data comprises allocating the data to one or more groups. The method further comprises displaying one or more non-overlapping symbols on a map to represent the groups. The method further comprises merging the non-overlapping symbols into a l... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7864986 | Optical mark reading that uses a disregard state as part of an unambiguous symbology of marks to fill into response bubbles Response bubbles on a scannable form are provided that allow a user to mark the bubbles in a manner that signifies that the user wishes to have a response disregarded. ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7848543 | Method and system for prediction and management of material and information transport in an organism A method and system for mapping anatomical connection and signaling across a multiplicity of channels, channel contents, and channel speed. In particular, the anatomical connection and signaling is mapped in relation to the human brain. Constructs a three-dimensiona... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7840032 | Street-side maps and paths The claimed subject matter relates to a computer-implemented architecture that can generate a map. The map can be a hybrid between an orthographic projection map and street-side images, thus including useful aspects from both types of representations. For example, a... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7792331 | Composition of raster and vector graphics in geographic information systems A method for editing composite geographical images, including importing a raster geographical map file, the raster file including geographical information identifying raster image data, global positioning reference data and a first projection that transforms geograp... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7760914 | Algorithm for line tracking using a circular sector search window A method of identifying or tracking a line in an image comprises determining a start point that belongs to a line, and identifying a plurality of possible end points belonging to the line using a search window, and calculating values for a plurality of paths connect... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756300 | Image mapping to provide visual geographic path Provided is a computer system and method for mapping a visual path. The method includes receiving one or more images included in a predefined area; receiving one or more parameters associated with the image; and integrating the images and parameters into a map of th... | 07/13/2010 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
