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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185296 | Driving assisting apparatus and driving assisting method A driving assisting apparatus and driving assisting method for predicting the state of a traffic light at the time when a vehicle enters an intersection includes predicting vehicle speed change of a vehicle in front of an intersection. The driving assisting apparatu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8175792 | Method and system for measuring traffic information in CDMA network A method for measuring traffic information, conducted by a traffic information analyzing device interworking with a radio operating device connected to BSS (Base Station Subsystem) of a synchronous CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) network or RNC (Radio Network C... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8165801 | Navigation service over wireless voice networks A wireless communication device transmits first text messaging to a navigation computer system. The first text messaging indicates an identity, initial location, and destination location for the wireless communication device. The navigation computer system processes... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160805 | Obtaining road traffic condition data from mobile data sources Techniques are described for assessing road traffic conditions in various ways based on obtained traffic-related data, such as data samples from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads, as well as in some situations data from one or more other ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8155865 | Method and system for automatically updating traffic incident data for in-vehicle navigation Aspects of the invention disclose a method and system for automatically updating traffic incident data for in-vehicle navigation. This includes, but is not limited to, a method and system of notifying one or more traffic providers of a traffic accident when a telema... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150607 | Method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving traffic information by using file transfer A method for providing traffic information. The method includes providing information including an object of a first type having a file including the traffic information and an object of a second type including information about the file and information about a serv... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150608 | Method and apparatus for enabling commuter groups A commuter groups service (CGS) allows commuters to join commuter groups so that they are able to socialize while commuting. Through the commuter groups, the users may share commuting routes, traffic updates, road conditions, and other information. Group members may... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145413 | Perimeter monitor When vehicle group constituent vehicles V1 to V4 form a vehicle group, a logical unit 40a for distributing perimeter monitoring regions among the vehicles controls a monitoring region s of a sensor 23 of each vehicle so tha... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140250 | Rail vehicle identification and processing A solution for further automating the identification, processing, and/or routing of rail vehicles is provided. Each individual rail vehicle in a series of rail vehicles is identified and measurement data is acquired for the rail vehicle. The measurement data is anal... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140249 | Method for encoding messages, method for decoding messages, and receiver for receiving and evaluating messages Method for encoding messages which are to be transmitted, method for decoding messages, and receiver for receiving and evaluating messages, in particular traffic messages, wherein the messages include message contents, and wherein a message contains at least one ref... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140251 | Management of traffic signals at road intersection to avoid blocking vehicles A computer controlled system for managing traffic signals at the intersection of at least two traffic lanes to avoid collisions between motor vehicles in intersecting lanes. An implementation with means for controlling traffic signals at the intersection to permit v... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131456 | Vehicle management system A system for controlling a fleet of vehicles includes a plurality of detection units and a control unit. Each detection unit is configured to at least facilitate obtaining information as to a respective vehicle of the fleet. The control unit is coupled to the plural... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121776 | Incident resolution judgment system An incident resolution judgment system and method are provided which reduce processing load on a traffic information center included in an incident detection system. When an incident occurs, the traffic information center generates an incident resolution judgment co... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116968 | Method for identification of traffic lane boundary The invention provides a method for identification of traffic lane boundary. Firstly the microwave signal is received, and the noise reduction is treated for the microwave signal. Then the frequency domain information is employed to calculate the legal set of closed... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112219 | System for and method of monitoring real time traffic conditions using probe vehicles A system and method for updating and communicating traffic information to at least one receiving vehicle includes a traffic information center and at least one probe vehicle. In a preferred embodiment, major road sections are represented as links, the center stores ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112220 | Management of traffic signals at road intersection to avoid blocking vehicles A computer controlled system for managing traffic signals at the intersection of at least two traffic lanes to avoid collisions between motor vehicles in intersecting lanes. An implementation for controlling traffic signals at the intersection to permit vehicles in ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8108134 | On-board apparatus and method used by said apparatus A lane marker recognition apparatus which recognizes a lane marker based on a captured image of a road surface in the direction in which a vehicle is traveling includes a lane identifying portion that identifies the type of lane that the vehicle is traveling in base... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103434 | Method for coordination of competing processes or for control of the transport of mobile units within a network A method for coordination of concurrent processes or for control of the transport of mobile units within a network, wherein a) the control of the network occurs in a decentralized and self-organizing manner in the controllers of node points or local defined sub-netw... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103435 | Near real-time traffic routing A near real-time physical transportation network routing system comprising: a traffic simulation computing grid and a dynamic traffic routing service computing grid. The traffic simulator produces traffic network travel time predictions for a physical transportation... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103436 | External adaptive control systems and methods An external adaptive control system controls a traffic signal at a critical intersection that has a most conflicting volume of traffic among volumes of traffic at intersections in a traffic network. The external adaptive control system determines a plan identifying ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099232 | Vehicle control device In a vehicle control device which performs braking control of a vehicle, a priority setting unit determines, when a possibility that a self-vehicle and another vehicle cross each other at an intersection in front of the self-vehicle is detected, a priority for each ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090524 | Determining road traffic conditions using data from multiple data sources Techniques are described for assessing road traffic conditions in various ways based on obtained traffic-related data, such as data samples from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads and/or from one or more other sources (such as physical sen... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090523 | Travel-time prediction apparatus, travel-time prediction method, traffic information providing system and program Disclosed is a travel-time prediction apparatus that is capable of making a mid-term prediction of travel time accurately by combining present conditions and statistical information. The apparatus includes a travel-time transition pattern database storing travel-tim... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8086393 | Providing road information including vertex data for a link and using the same A method of processing traffic information includes receiving link vertex information including a first identifier and vertex components that each reveal a position along a link. The first identifier enables a determination of a type of information that is included ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086394 | Providing traffic information including composite links A method for processing traffic information includes receiving traffic information including a composite identifier enabling a determination of whether the received traffic information includes composite link information, a composite traffic status indicator reveali... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078390 | Method and apparatus for transmitting vehicle-related information in and out of a vehicle A method for transmitting vehicle-related information in and out of a vehicle and an apparatus for carrying out the method are disclosed. The method includes the steps of (i) receiving location information via reception means for position finding, (ii) evaluating ve... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8068973 | Traffic information providing system and car navigation system A traffic information providing system externally acquires traffic information including information relating to the travel time of a link, calculates a travel time for a non-provision link to which no travel time is provided through estimate/complement operation. T... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065072 | Transit information provision device, method and program A transit information provision device includes a transit event information acquiring unit which acquires transit event information; a transit information provision unit which provides the transit information to a user; a position information extraction unit which s... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8065073 | Dynamic time series prediction of future traffic conditions Techniques are described for generating predictions of future traffic conditions at multiple future times, such as by using probabilistic techniques to assess various input data while repeatedly producing future time series predictions for each of numerous road segm... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8050853 | Providing traffic information including sub-links of links A method for identifying traffic information for at least one sub-link includes receiving traffic information including a sub-link identifier enabling a determination of whether the received traffic information includes sub-link information, traffic status informati... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050854 | Adaptive control systems and methods An adaptive control system controls a traffic signal at a critical intersection that has a most conflicting volume of traffic among volumes of traffic at intersections in a traffic network. The adaptive control system determines a plan identifying a guaranteed green... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8041503 | Traffic information providing system using digital map for collecting traffic information and method thereof The present invention relates to a traffic information providing system and method using a traffic information collecting digital map. A traffic information collecting terminal receives GPS data from at least one GPS satellite, and generates traffic information targ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036820 | Vehicle-mounted device, traffic-information acquisition method, traffic-information provision system, and traffic-information provision method When a change occurs between a previous traffic condition based on traffic information provided previously and the current traffic condition, a control unit of a vehicle-mounted device performs control such that traffic information is acquired from an external devic... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8019529 | Runway and airport incursion alerting system and method An apparatus for detecting incursions for an aircraft and surface vehicles includes an incursion processor receiving ownship position from an ownship navigation processor, traffic information from a traffic surveillance processor, and obstacle information from an ob... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8014936 | Filtering road traffic condition data obtained from mobile data sources Techniques are described for assessing road traffic conditions in various ways based on obtained traffic-related data, such as data samples from vehicles and other mobile data sources traveling on the roads, as well as in some situations data from one or more other ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8005609 | Route calculation method for a vehicle navigation system Traffic information, including flow information and incident information, obtained through a traffic management system for providing and facilitating the exchange of traffic information between a remote location and a vehicle may be used in route calculation by a na... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8000887 | Method and system of directing vehicles traveling over roadway during emergency A method of directing and/or alert vehicles during an emergency or other event. The method may include providing messages and other information to the vehicles through wireless communications. The message may detail the emergency and/or an evacuation strategy for av... | 08/16/2011 |
| 8000888 | System and method for information supplying service Disclosed is a system and a method for collecting various road traffic information, road image information, and position information of a position information generation device carried by an object, the position of which is to be tracked, by interworking with an inf... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7996235 | Telematics marketing information acquisition triggering method and system A method for acquiring marketing information from a marketing call center. The method involves a setting of a marketing information trigger based on a pre-determined event corresponding to at least one of a vehicle and an in-vehicle telematics unit, and an initiatio... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7983836 | Vehicle-traffic control device communication techniques Method and arrangement for controlling vehicular traffic via traffic control devices includes establishing communications between the traffic control devices and vehicles approaching the traffic control devices, and providing information about travel of the vehicle ... | 07/19/2011 |
