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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7657369 | Navigation device for a vehicle, method for producing data for a search, and method for searching for a guided route Navigation devices for vehicles, methods for producing data for searches, and methods for searching for guided routes are disclosed. Generally, a name of a first street is received, a search for second streets which are connected to an end point of the first street ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7650231 | AGTM airborne surveillance Systems, methods and apparatuses for managing ground transportation in a geographical area are disclosed. A system for managing ground transportation in a geographical area in accordance with the present invention comprises at least one airborne surveillance platfor... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7643934 | Method and control system for positioning a mine vehicle A method and a control system for positioning a mine vehicle. Measurement of a distance travelled by the mine vehicle is based on monitoring rotation of a wheel. In the invention, an error caused in the distance measurement by wear of the wheel is compensated for au... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7627422 | Methods, systems and computer program products for ride matching based on selection criteria and drive characteristic information Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for matching a passenger with a driver for a trip to a destination. Characteristic information about a plurality of drivers is received and a plurality of selection criteria are received from the passenger.... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7617043 | Automated location-intelligent traffic notification service systems and methods Traffic notification systems include a location determination system that is configured to determine a geographic location of a subscriber and an automated traffic notification system that is configured to automatically transmit a traffic notification message that i... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7606657 | Device and method for detecting and preprocessing vehicle, traffic and/or driver related data A device and a method of detecting and preprocessing vehicle data, traffic data, and/or driver data, such as the speed, direction of travel, engine condition, weather conditions, heart rate, etc., is described, in which the time and location of recording the data ar... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7587272 | Method for locating difficult access points on a map A method of locating difficult access points on a topological map includes: analyzing curvilinear distances using a chamfer mask to catalogue approximate values C(V) of the Euclidean distances separating a point C00 of the map from its nearest neighbors V... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7580789 | Navigation system for vehicle A navigation system in a subject vehicle includes a display unit for displaying a map, a position detection function for detecting a current position and a traveling direction of the subject vehicle, a storage function for storing map data and facility data for disp... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7580790 | Device for course indication to aid in navigation A navigation aid device for use when a predetermined route is followed, said route extending from a starting point along a series of break points up to a destination being the last break point. The device comprises an elongated course indication unit extending on ei... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7571048 | Providing routing information based on ambiguous locations A routing server receives a request for routing information. The request specifies one or more locations. A specified location may be ambiguous. For an ambiguous location, the routing server identifies a set of potentially-matching locations and ranks the locations ... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7565239 | Method and apparatus for navigation system for searching selected type of information along route to destination A method and apparatus for use with a navigation system to search specified type of information along a calculated route to a destination by incorporating search criteria based on city or other regional zones. The method includes the steps of building one or more zo... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7561959 | Method of collecting information for a geographic database for use with a navigation system A navigation system determines a route between a first location on a road network and a second location in a facility off of the road network. The system composes individual guidance messages for travel along a portion of the route on the road network. A pre-compose... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7555382 | Method of providing return route for global positioning system device A method of providing a return route for a global positioning system (GPS) device is provided. When the starting point and the destination of the return route are exactly opposite to the original starting point and the destination, the GPS device plans and provides ... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7516010 | Method of operating a navigation system to provide parking availability information A method of operating a navigation system includes obtaining a destination location and identifying a parking facility proximate said destination location. The method further includes providing historic parking availability information for the identified parking fac... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7499797 | Method and database for navigating a person from a starting point to a destination An interactive system and method for navigating a person from a starting point to a destination, using a wireless location determining device and a wireless navigating device. The person sends a request for navigational directions via the wireless location determini... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7496444 | Near route interactive map search An embodiment of this invention allows the user to search for entities nearest to a defined route. To search around a specific route, instead of expanding the search radii (r) to incorporate the whole route (the number of hits to cull increases as πr2), ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7490004 | Vehicle navigation apparatus and method of searching for and displaying neighborhood facilities A vehicle navigation apparatus and a method of searching for and displaying a neighborhood facility are provided for enabling an effective search for a neighborhood facility with a searching range having a directivity according to a user's intention. The vehicle nav... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7487037 | Pedigree and integrity evaluation of packages The present invention is directed to novel systems and methods for authenticating the pedigree and/or confirming the integrity of a transported package. Among other things, a method is disclosed that involves receiving information from an electronic device associate... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7483786 | Method and system for selective route search on satellite navigators A method of operating a motor vehicle satellite navigation system using a motor vehicle's structure and characteristic information to calculate a best route to a desired destination. The method includes operating a graphical user interface (GUI), presenting display ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7472019 | Navigation apparatus In a navigation apparatus, via-point setting data indicating a history in terms of setting of via-points is recorded in a point database. Via-point setting data described in a point record stored in the point database indicates points that were specified as via-poin... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7463972 | Navigation apparatus and method A navigation apparatus includes a memory that stores registered routes, wherein each registered route includes a previously traveled route, a corresponding starting point, and a corresponding destination point. The navigation apparatus includes a controller that sea... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7460950 | System for establishing a vehicle parameter A system for establishing a vehicle parameter including collecting signals from a satellite and deriving a reference vehicle parameter from the satellite signals. Signals from a vehicle sensor are also collected and an estimated vehicle parameter is derived therefro... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457704 | Navigation apparatus for vehicle A vehicle navigation apparatus displays an expressway guide diagram indicating the names of plural exits at which a travelling vehicle can exit an expressway and the distance and estimated arrival time to each of the exits. The expressway guide diagram includes a ma... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7439969 | Single gesture map navigation graphical user interface for a thin client An application on a thin client displays a map. A graphical user interface permits the application to receive single gesture inputs of a stylus. If the single gesture input comprises a drag of the stylus a minimum distance, the map is panned such that the map is shi... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440847 | Navigation system for moving object and method for path guidance for moving object A navigation system for guiding a moving object from a current position to a destination includes a setting device that sets the current position and the destination, a sensor that detects movement of the moving object, a computing device that calculates move distan... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437238 | In-vehicle navigation device An in-vehicle navigation device in which a route search block outputs a search result of a guiding route from an exit of the expressway to an entrance of the expressway by way of the selected facility to a display block to make the display block display the search r... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437239 | Method and device for determining the minimal cost path between two points in a road network The invention relates to a network comprising numerous nodes which are paired by means of segments. The inventive method consists in: allocating a cost to each segment in the network; producing two path graphs, essentially from two points respectively; interrupting ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433694 | Location beacon database A location beacon database and server, method of building location beacon database, and location based service using same. Wi-Fi access points are located in a target geographical area to build a reference database of locations of Wi-Fi access points. At least one v... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430472 | Automated location-intelligent traffic notification service systems and methods Traffic notification systems include a location determination system that is configured to determine a geographic location of a subscriber and an automated traffic notification system that is configured to automatically transmit a traffic notification message that i... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7424363 | Method and system for adaptive navigation using a driver's route knowledge A method and system are described to adapt instructions for performing a task by a user, which includes receiving generalized instructions for the task, selecting a content of the generalized instructions based on user-specific knowledge regarding the task, construc... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421336 | Automobile navigation device with guidance A navigation device decreasing the frequency at which a user data stored in a data storage section, the navigation device includes a route receiving section for receiving route data, a data selecting section for selecting candidate location data indicating at least ... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418339 | Method for initiating navigation guidance in a distributed communications system A method is provided for improved navigation guidance in a portable navigation device (104) having a first navigation operating mode (302) for requesting (318, 324) and receiving (326, 334) routelet data and navigation route data and oper... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418340 | Navigation device A navigation device preferentially indicates to a driver a certain route from among multiple candidates of guiding routes that guide the driver to a designated destination. By using the certain route, the driver is able to reach the destination earlier than a desire... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418341 | System and method for the selection of a unique geographic feature The present invention includes a system and method for selecting a unique geographic feature, including a mobile device that uses position and orientation sensors to determine a user position and a user orientation. The mobile device is adapted for wireless communic... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418658 | System and method for integrating reference material in an electronic document Integrating reference material directly into an application program, so that the information can be presented to a user. An application program initiates a request for information, such as a request for a definition of a word, an address, material related to the sub... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412327 | Providing guiding service by means of a wireless terminal The invention relates to a guiding system for wireless terminals. In the system, position-specific information of route points of the route on which a first wireless terminal travels is determined and it is sent to a guiding server. Supplementary data used for guidi... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7405746 | Image navigation device An estimate image is generated from a position and an angle of a camera and the estimate image is stored. A collating unit collates an estimate image with a scenery image, and corrects estimate values of a position and angles of the camera according to a result of t... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7400970 | System and method for an advance notification system for monitoring and reporting proximity of a vehicle Generally, the present invention monitors and communicates travel data transmitted from vehicles being monitored by the system to users requesting travel information on a particular vehicle. A travel data storage unit receives and stores the travel data. When a user... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7398156 | Point search apparatus and in-vehicle navigation apparatus There are provided a point search apparatus and an in-vehicle navigation apparatus capable of searching destination candidates from which a user can view a visual target that he/she desires. A search means is formed so as to search destination candidates from which ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7392194 | Voice-controlled navigation device requiring voice or manual user affirmation of recognized destination setting before execution A voice control system is directed to a car navigation device that includes: a display unit; a microphone; a speech recognition unit for recognizing, as a command, a speech uttered by a user; and a navigation ECU to which the voice recognition unit outputs the comma... | 06/24/2008 |