Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8346465 | Method and apparatus for determining and displaying meaningful cross street for navigation system A method and apparatus for a navigation system determines whether an upcoming cross street is meaningful for a user to be displayed. The includes the steps of searching upcoming cross streets that intersect with a current street on which a user's vehicle is running ... | 01/01/2013 |
| 8301365 | Navigation device presenting information regarding charging and vehicle including same device An ECU executes a program including a step of detecting a present location using a GPS system; a step of reading out data of a geographical map proximate to the present location and presenting in the geographical map charging installations including a charging insta... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8301366 | Vehicle speed determination from audio input for dead reckoning determination in a portable navigation device A portable navigation device displaying map information and navigation instructions for use in a vehicle is disclosed. The portable navigation device includes a memory, a display for displaying the map information and navigation instructions, and a microphone for in... | 10/30/2012 |
| 8255150 | Dynamic destination map display for navigation system A map display apparatus and method for a navigation changes a map scale dynamically to help the driver visualize the environment of the destination when the vehicle is approaching the destination. The map scale is changed dynamically to display the destination along... | 08/28/2012 |
| 8244454 | Navigation device and method This invention relates to a navigation device (200) comprising: an input interface (220, 240) configured to enable a user to select a destination; a processor (210); and a display (240) controllable by the processor; characterized in that... | 08/14/2012 |
| 8214138 | Map display apparatus Destination information, which includes as a retrieval condition an address of a destination spot, is received externally. Under the received retrieval condition of the address, a spot retrieval is performed with reference to own map data to thereby acquire a specif... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8214137 | In-vehicle information apparatus and in-vehicle multi-media system When a present position is determined to be included in a high upland area, it is determined whether a presently displayed image can be displayed continuously during the stop of a hard disk drive. For example, a map image may be presently displayed based on map data... | 07/03/2012 |
| 8170784 | Method and apparatus for moving content to mobile devices A method and apparatus is provided for moving content to a mobile device (2). A data item (34) of a predetermined type is received at a first device (14), the data item (34) including a content URI for fetching content associated with the... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8155872 | Method and apparatus for indoor navigation Techniques are provided for providing physical routes to target locations. The techniques include obtaining at least one target location from at least one user; determining at least one physical route to said at least one target location; and displaying said at leas... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150618 | Method and apparatus to select city name associated with street located on border of two cities A method and apparatus for identifying correct city involving a street that borders on two or more cities for a navigation system. The navigation system identifies a correct city name associated with such a border street based on a direction of a vehicle travelling ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8140260 | System for enhancing a vehicle operator's orientation and ability to navigate A system for enhancing a vehicle operator's orientation and ability to navigate a vehicle includes, but is not limited to, a display unit, a data storage unit, a position determining unit and a processor communicatively connected to the display unit, the data storag... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131675 | Map data delivering device, communication terminal, and map delivering method There is disclosed a map data delivering system for providing consistent road network information from supplement map information and map update information. The map data delivering system includes a navigation terminal and a map distribution server. The map distrib... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8122036 | Method and apparatus for generating customized maps A system and method for generating a map includes a database for storing a list of recipients and characteristics associated with each recipient in the list of recipients. The method and system also includes a control module for receiving a characteristic associated... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8112221 | Navigation apparatus for vehicle In an in-vehicle navigation apparatus, a present position is detected, an altitude of the present position is acquired from map data, and a temperature inside of a hard disk drive is acquired with a temperature sensor. An atmospheric pressure of the present position... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103447 | Map displaying device A map displaying device for displaying an accessible range in an arbitrary display form determined in accordance with the scale of a displayed map and/or with the running state of a vehicle is provided. The map displaying device includes: a display unit for displayi... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103445 | Dynamic map rendering as a function of a user parameter Provided is a single repository for capturing, connecting, sharing, and visualizing information based on a geographic location, for example. Detailed information can be dynamically rendered as a function of a user parameter, which can include a user demographic, a u... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103446 | Vehicle navigation apparatus A vehicle navigation apparatus searches a matching link within a tolerance range from a travel locus of a vehicle based on map data when the vehicle makes a turn, and the vehicle position is shifted to the matching link that is found in the search. After matching th... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099235 | Mobile unit and system having integrated mapping, communications and tracking A handheld device and system, in which such device and system include at least one mapping module, at least one tracking module interoperative with said at least one mapping module, at least one communications module interoperative with each of said at least one tra... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8099234 | System, apparatus, and method for generating location information on an aircraft display unit using location markers A present novel and non-trivial system, apparatus, and method for presenting information to the pilot on an aircraft display unit employed in a synthetic vision system (“SVS”), an enhanced vision system (“EVS”), or combined system. Information regarding the ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095306 | GUI interface for a road maintenance management control system A display device for displaying a graphical user interface is disclosed. The graphical user interface includes a first window configured to display a road maintenance map of a mine road network, and one or more links configured to access a second window. The second ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086401 | Method for transmitting information on position on digital map and device used for the same A method of transmitting position information of a digital map capable of transmitting a position on a digital map efficiently and accurately in which a transmitting side transmits position information including coordinate series information for specifying a vector ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8086402 | Map displaying device A map displaying device for displaying an accessible range in an arbitrary display form determined in accordance with the scale of a displayed map and/or with the running state of a vehicle is provided. The map displaying device includes: a display unit for displayi... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082098 | Information supplying system, apparatus mounted in vehicle, information supplying server, program, and information processing method An apparatus mounted in a vehicle which can communicate with an information supplying server includes: a detection portion for detecting that a predetermined process is carried out in the vehicle; an institution information acquiring portion for acquiring institutio... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078398 | Methods and apparatus for geo-collaboration Methods and computer readable medium for collaborating on geographical maps between two or more computers are disclosed. In particular, sharing a geographical location on a map between two or more computers and co-navigating a map between two or more computers are d... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073616 | Control information storage apparatus Vehicle control data is stored in a database of a vehicle control information storage apparatus of the present invention by a unit of road segment. When the same vehicle travels the same road segment for plural times, vehicle speed is averaged for storage as the veh... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8068980 | Using boundaries associated with a map view for business location searching A system aggregates entity location information from multiple documents distributed among multiple locations in a network. The system searches the entity location information to identify a first set of entities located within the entirety of a first geographic regio... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8068979 | Inattentive vehicular operator detection method and arrangement Method and arrangement for determining inattentiveness of an operator of a vehicle includes determining the position of the vehicle, analyzing the determining position of the vehicle relative to a map, monitoring motion of the vehicle relative to the map to determin... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8065080 | Location stamping and logging of electronic events and habitat generation Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for the detection, location stamping, and logging of electronic events and subsequent generation of habitat information. According to implementations, electronic events are detected and location stamped. Associat... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055442 | Determining a display position of road name data and displaying the road name data A method of determining a display position for road name data including selecting a link representing a road segment with an initial road name display position from stored map data. An angle of the selected link is calculated, and calculating an angle of the selecte... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8050862 | Vehicular navigation system for recalling preset map views A vehicular navigation system includes a display, a memory configured to store data related to a plurality of preset map view, and a user input configured to permit the selection of a map view from the plurality of preset map views. A controller is coupled to the us... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050861 | Road map A road map is provided which allows a determination to be intuitively rendered whether a course contains an increased number of upward slopes or downward slopes as viewed in the direction of the course. The direction of the course is set up across roads indicated on... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046165 | Device for assisting in the navigation of an aircraft in an airport zone The invention relates to a device for assisting in the navigation of an aircraft in an airport zone comprising a surface navigation system and means of acquiring in real time, while navigating on the ground or in flight, new information or temporary information rela... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041506 | Mapping in mobile devices A computer-implemented mapping method is disclosed and includes displaying a first map view of a geographic area on a display of a computing device, receiving a voice or key-press zoom command and generating a first zoom box of a predetermined size on the display re... | 10/18/2011 |
| RE42807 | Non real time traffic system for a navigator A system for improving the operation of a GPS based navigator. Statistical and/or time of day information is used to select the best route between a current location and a desired location. The statistical information may take into account anomalies, and a user can ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032298 | Method and apparatus for incorporating adaptive scroll operation for navigation system A method and apparatus for a navigation system achieves a smooth and, intuitive scrolling operation by checking available resources such as a computational power of the navigation system and map data stored in a video memory to determine an optimum scrolling operati... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032299 | Method for map matching with guaranteed integrity The present invention belongs to the field of positioning applications, particularly those requiring or benefiting from the use of geographic information and needing a high service or integrity guarantee, such as positioning by means of a satellite navigation system... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8014944 | Method for auto-updating application program A method for auto updating application program suitable for a global position system (GPS) navigator is provided. The method comprises the following steps. First, a map-update short message is sent to the GPS navigator at a client terminal from a wireless station. T... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014945 | System and method of wireless downloads of map and geographic based data to portable computing devices Systems and method of managing map data on electronic devices such as portable electronic devices include systems and methods of preloading map data, managing map data storage, sharing point of interest or pushpin data with other electronic devices, and displaying m... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8014946 | Digital mapping system Various methods, systems, and apparatus for implementing aspects of a digital mapping system are disclosed. One such method includes sending a location request from a client-side computing device to a map tile server, receiving a set of map tiles in response to the ... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010284 | Geographic database including data indicating wireless coverage and method and system for use thereof Wireless coverage data are associated with a geographic database that contains data that represent a road network in a geographic region. The wireless coverage data indicate areas within the geographic region in which navigation-related services or data from a navig... | 08/30/2011 |
