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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8078395 | Control system for automatic circle flight A flight control system for an aircraft is configured for receiving command signals representing commanded values of a location of a geospatial point and a radius about the geospatial point for defining a circular groundtrack. A sensor determines a geospatial locati... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7376509 | Travel time calculating method and traffic information display method for a navigation device The navigation device of the present invention has a storage device which stores map data including link data of respective links constituting roads on a map, and statistical data including travel time (moving speed) which is determined by statistical values of traf... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7363146 | Car navigation system and program When a corridor operation is conducted in a car navigation system, a stoppable place where a vehicle is able to stop is retrieved before a map disk is removed. The stoppable place is a place that is located along a route to a destination and also as close as possibl... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7330881 | Music-data reproducing system using a download program A data card 101 with music data accumulated therein is inserted into a portable telephone 110 to fetch the music data into the portable telephone, and application software suitable for a music data format prescribed in association with the music data i... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7302317 | System and method to enhance attitude estimation for transfer orbit maneuver A system and method to enhance attitude estimation for transfer orbit maneuvers of a spinning satellite includes a transfer orbit earth sensor that can receive and convert an infrared radiance to an analog signal. The analog signal is provided to a hardware chord pr... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302465 | Distributed multimedia transfer A multimedia distribution kiosk can communicate with a remote user to receive multimedia requests and can communicate with a multimedia content provider to obtain requested multimedia content. The kiosk can cache received multimedia content and provide the content a... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295841 | System and method for providing exhibition information service through wireless communication The present invention discloses a system and method for providing an exhibition information service through wireless communication. In the system for providing the exhibition information corresponding to a request signal, when wireless connection devices receive a s... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7268721 | Car reversing radar sensor having fine-tuning feature A car reversing radar sensor having a fine-tuning function includes a cylinder, a sensor module, a front cover, a packing block and a back cover. The sensor module is fitted in the cylinder and a sensing angle thereof can be adjusted. The packing block includes a pu... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7248184 | System for processing digital map data A method for processing digital map data for route determination is provided that includes dividing a region into a plurality of zones, and for the zones, automatically determining at least one cost value for at least one direction of travel of the zone based on the... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249100 | Service discovery access to user location A system and method is disclosed to enable a mobile phone or wireless PDA to discover Internet businesses and services by accessing the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) registry using a user's location or coordinates. The method facilitates th... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7199800 | Unit and program for displaying map The invention provides a map display unit including a first memory for storing map data and a drawing memory for drawing the map data and displaying display-area data and a display. The map display unit includes a unit to read and decompress compressed map data stor... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197394 | Method, system and article of manufacture for identifying regularly traveled routes An in-vehicle navigation system includes a receiver for receiving real-time traffic information (RTTI), a database for storing routine trip information, and a processor for running a regular route application. The regular route application includes a learning mode p... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7174173 | Location-based vehicle messaging system A system may enable vehicle operators to request information automatically along the route of travel by transmitting information requests, tied to the vehicle's current position, to a server. The server may store a plurality of informational files associated with pa... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7155425 | Mobile web services A method is disclosed to enable a mobile phone or wireless PDA to discover Internet businesses and services by accessing the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) registry. The method facilitates the formation of a query to the UDDI registry for th... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7098870 | Advertising method for dynamic billboards A method for billboard advertising is disclosed. An advertising billboard device for use with the present invention comprises a server and a display controller adapted to receive, store, and display dynamic-content from the server. At least one content display unit ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7092818 | Method, system and article of manufacture for identifying regularly traveled routes An in-vehicle navigation system includes a receiver for receiving real-time traffic information (RTTI), a database for storing routine trip information, and a processor for running a regular route application. The regular route application includes a learning mode p... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7065445 | Vehicle passive alert system and method A passive alert system is provided for vehicles traveling along a predetermined travel route. The vehicles are equipped with vehicle processing systems which are in communication with a remote server. The remote server acquires information pertaining to conditions a... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7039686 | Music-data reproducing system using a download program A data card 101 with music data accumulated therein is inserted into a portable telephone 110 to fetch the music data into the portable telephone, and application software suitable for a music data format prescribed in association with the music data i... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7034839 | Image display system scrolling image at high speed using data compression When a user pushes a scroll-direction key, an ECU obtains, from a memory, a division map corresponding to a division located in a direction designated by the scroll-direction key. The ECU then outputs the division map to a display controller. The display controller ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7035650 | System and method for providing directions A method for providing directions includes receiving at a server, from at least one fixed wireless communication device, information identifying a current location of a portable communication device. The portable communication device has short range wireless communi... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6981021 | Position-link chat system, position-linked chat method, and computer product The position-linked chat system makes it possible to carry out a chat using many terminals connected to a server device through the Internet. The server device includes a chat room controller which generates many chat rooms based on a geographical standard, a chat r... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6980826 | Communication system, a communication method, and a cellular phone This invention provides a communication system for controlling a device through a network by using a mobile terminal for saving a space and a cost of a whole system. This invention provides contents from a cellular phone. This communication system comprises a cellul... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6968357 | Information collecting system and terminal equipment for ease of restoring from power-off disruption and transmitting differential information An information collecting system includes at least one terminal and an application server. The application server includes a receiving section for receiving input information transmitted from the terminal to the information processing center via the network; an info... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6961658 | Method, system and article of manufacture for identifying regularly traveled routes An in-vehicle navigation system includes a receiver for receiving real-time traffic information (RTTI), a database for storing routine trip information, and a processor for running a regular route application. The regular route application includes a learning mode p... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6954694 | Communication navigation system and server apparatus and terminal apparatus therefor, communication navigation method and communication navigation program A server apparatus divides map data into a plurality of block data to add identification information to each block data, and sends each block data to a terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus identifies data for each block data sent from the server apparatus and,... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6947834 | Method for inputting a destination into a navigation device A method for entering destinations into a navigation device is described, characters of a destination name being input and a list of destination names which begin with the character(s) input being generated as a function of the character(s) input, in which the list ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6947836 | Navigation apparatus, facility information searching method, program thereof, and a recording medium with the program recorded therein The input operation recognizing section 13 recognizes an input operation to execute re-search in the operating section 4. The facility search control section 10 makes the facility search section 9 execute re-search. The re-search by the f... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6944535 | Map display terminal and map display method A map display apparatus and a map display method facilitate detection of the relationship between a destination position or a current position and the surrounding area, even when a detailed map is to be displayed on a narrow display area. A map display terminal disp... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6941220 | Apparatus and method for vehicle navigation A navigation aide device is disclosed that is capable of conveying traveling instructions to a user in possession of the device to allow the user to navigate from a predetermined source position on a predetermined road map, containing road information, to a predeter... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6904358 | System for displaying a map The present invention relates to a system for displaying a map in a display unit of a mobile terminal device such that the relationship between a moving direction of the mobile terminal device and a direction of the displayed map is easily understandable. When the s... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6889002 | Recording medium on which navigation information is recorded and information reproducing apparatus therefor A recording medium and an information reproducing apparatus capable of quickly reading navigation information are offered. The recording medium has a plurality of recording layers, on each of which navigation information is recorded. Navigation information having a ... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6882933 | Method and system for providing information for a mobile terminal and a mobile terminal A mobile terminal, and an information providing method and system which immediately provides information, which the user of the mobile terminal desires, for the mobile terminal. Area and related service information are stored in corresponding relationship in a datab... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6807479 | Communication navigation system, information server unit and communication terminal unit for the same, and method and program for communication navigation To provide a navigation system capable of easily switching between a portable terminal unit and a communication navigation terminal unit with an identical telephone number and also having considered a communication environment. A communication navigation system is c... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6721795 | Data transfer server A computer-implemented information transfer method includes receiving a trigger message at a server, evaluating a selection rule to select a data flow to be presented to a user at an access device, and sending the data flow to an access device for pop-up presentatio... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6609063 | System and method for using a map database with attributed no-outlet and circular segments System and method are provided for route calculation for use with a navigation system and used with a map database with attributed no-outlet and circular segments. A route calculation program adapted to find at least one solution route, between a first lo... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6510380 | Security and tracking system A security and tracking apparatus is provided, comprising at least two signaling units in communicating proximity, and means for identifying the location of the signaling units. In one embodiment, a security and tracking apparatus is provided, comprising ... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6505118 | Navigation system for land vehicles that learns and incorporates preferred navigation routes An adaptive navigation system for a land vehicle is provided that incorporates learned segments of preferred routes into adaptive calculated routes. The navigation system preferably includes a global positioning system or other sources of locator system d... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6484092 | Method and system for dynamic and interactive route finding A method and system for dynamic and interactive navigation is presented. A navigation request is received from a user. The navigation request comprises an originating location description, a destination location description, and at least one criterion to ... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6477452 | Vehicle service status tracking system and method A system and methods to allow multiple stations in geographically dispersed locations to monitor and track vehicle repair record and service status information in a coordinated fashion. In a service area comprised of a number of geographically-bounded ser... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6470262 | Method for traffic situation determination on the basis of reporting vehicle data for a traffic network with traffic-controlled network nodes A method for determining the traffic situation is based on traffic data which are obtained from reporting vehicles moving in the traffic, for a traffic network with traffic-controlled network nodes and roadway sections connecting them. Traffic data indica... | 10/22/2002 |
