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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8112223 | Method for measuring lateral movements in a driver assistance system Method for determining a dynamic variable representative for a lateral movement of a located object in a driver assistance system for motor vehicles, which has two angle-resolving distance sensors situated laterally offset to one another for locating the object, usi... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8112222 | Lane determining device, method, and program Devices, methods, and programs obtain vehicle position information indicating a current position of a vehicle, and based on the vehicle position information, obtain road information including positions and forms of lane markings around the current position of the ve... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8082100 | Watercraft automation and aquatic effort data utilization In one aspect of watercraft automation and aquatic data utilization for aquatic efforts, an anchor point is obtained and a watercraft position maintenance routine is actuated to control the watercraft to maintain association with the anchor point. In another aspect,... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8014949 | Mobile body A disclosed mobile body includes an energy generator configured to generate energy from a supplied fuel gas; a gas leakage detecting unit configured to detect leakage of the fuel gas out of the energy generator; a control unit configured to control power output of t... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7987051 | Method and system for determining an average walk distance to a service A system for determining an average walk distance for a plurality of users of print-related services may include a processor, a processor-readable storage medium in communication with the processor and an output device in communication with the processor. The proces... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7987050 | Material handling vehicle location system A system for detecting actual position of a material handling vehicle in a warehouse in which a plurality of racks composed of upright frame members and lateral frame members connecting the upright members are installed so that material handling vehicles can travel ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7974783 | Method for determining a display image In order to determine an easily perceived display image for a driver assistance system, in particular a distance-measuring system or a parking assistant, a method makes use of the determination of Bezier curves on the basis of measured distance values on various mea... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7966128 | Observed-object detection apparatus and observed-object detection method An information provision apparatus (1) comprises an observed-object detection apparatus (11) and an information output unit (41), and outputs from the information output unit (41) information on an observed object detected by the observed... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966127 | Vehicle motion control device The invention provides a vehicle motion control device capable of realizing optimum avoidance control in the case of an emergency. The vehicle motion control device includes an external environment detection unit for detecting external environment, and a travel stat... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7957900 | Tracking vehicle locations in a parking lot for definitive display on a GUI A computer implemented method for displaying on a map a definitive image of precise locations of multiple mobile objects such as vehicles in a lot. The lot is mapped digitally to display precise locations of sub-areas of different types, such as parking and movement... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7925440 | Multilane vehicle information capture system A system and method for accurate express tolling of highway vehicles. A multilane tolling system comprises a tolling (MVIC) unit that collects information from tolling subsystems arranged to take various vehicle measurements. Preferably, an intelligent vehicle ident... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7912646 | Driver assistance system for vehicle A driver assistance system includes a global-positioning system generating an output indicative of the current geographical location of the vehicle equipped with the driver assistance system, a forward facing camera, and a video display screen. The forward facing ca... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7912645 | Information transfer arrangement and method for vehicles An arrangement and method for displaying and transferring information between a vehicle and at least one transmitter separate from the vehicle includes an antenna mounted on the vehicle for receiving RF wireless signals emitted by each transmitter, a location determ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7904244 | Determining a location or position using information from multiple location and positioning technologies and applications using such a determined location or position A location may be determined by accepting location information from at least two sources using at least two location technologies, for each set of location information from each source, adjusting the location information using at least one of (A) confidence in the s... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7890263 | System and method for sensing and deployment control supervision of a safety device A system and method of controlling deployment of a safety device for a vehicle. The system may include a pre-impact collision assessment system, an impact detection system, and an inflatable safety device. The safety device may be partially inflated when a collision... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7840353 | Method and system for managing a network of sensors A system and method are disclosed for managing a network of sensors (100). A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a sensor (102) belonging to the network of sensors operating in a geographic space havin... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7835865 | Obstacle detecting control device of vehicle An offset distance of an obstacle from a traveling-path center line of a vehicle at the time the obstacle is detected is calculated, and then this offset distance of the obstacle from the traveling-path center line of the vehicle is corrected based on a turning radi... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7826970 | Vehicle driving assist system A vehicle driving assist system executes an actuation reaction force control of accelerator pedal, a driving force control or a braking force control in a manner that is appropriate in consideration of the traffic situation in which the vehicle is being driven. The ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7783426 | Driving support system A driving support system for a vehicle being adaptable to both of a manual driving of which driving operation is under control of a driver and an automated driving of which automated driving operation is under one of a partial control and a full control of automatio... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7751975 | Multilane vehicle information capture system A system and method for accurate express tolling of highway vehicles. A multilane tolling system comprises a tolling (MVIC) unit that collects information from tolling subsystems arranged to take various vehicle measurements. Preferably, an intelligent vehicle ident... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7739046 | Parking support device In a parking support device, a distance measuring unit measures a quantity equivalent to a distance from an automotive vehicle to an object existing in a predetermined direction. A storage unit stores a sequence of points indicating results of the measurement perfor... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7739047 | Method and device for evaluating the licitness of the situation of a craft on the surface of an airport A method for evaluating the licitness of the situation of a craft on the surface of an airport including the steps of: modelling of a first licitness cost surface covering a surface of the airport where the craft is deploying, termed the deployment surface, related ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7668656 | Method for digital transmission and display of weather imagery A method for creating minimal data representing a source image is presented. The source image is divided into a grid of cells. A color is selected for each cell corner based on sampling an area defined by the cell corner. An indication of the selected color is store... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7664600 | Obstacle detection device Each of plural detection units performs a signal transmission-reception operation responding to at least one of a plurality of kinds of operation timing signals repeated at a predetermined periodicity. The number of continuous reception times of the reflection signa... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7650239 | Object recognition apparatus for motor vehicle An object recognition apparatus in a subject vehicle includes a radar unit for transmitting a plurality of laser beams in a scan range spread in horizontal and vertical directions of the subject vehicle and receiving a reflection, a recognition unit for recognizing ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7647177 | System and method for determining a position of a vehicle A time estimator determines a first aggregate elapsed time between the transmission of the first transmission signal to a first beacon and receipt of a return signal, a second aggregate elapsed time between the transmission of the first transmission signal to a seco... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7636635 | Device for determining a flight trajectory of a follower aircraft during a patrol flight, as well as a system for aiding a patrol flight comprising such a device A device for determining a flight trajectory of a follower aircraft during a patrol flight, as well as a system for aiding a patrol flight including such a device. The device including another device to determine a flight trajectory of a follower aircraft which allo... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7532981 | Vehicle departure detecting device Lane width information Winf acquired by a traffic lane detector is retrieved (step S1); when a value of the lane width information Winf is within a predetermined range of change amount relative to a lane width output Wout_old at a previous time step, i.e., no... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7512494 | Vehicle mounted image processor and method of use A vehicle-mounted detecting device and corresponding method for detecting a distance between the vehicle and an object outside the vehicle. The detecting device extracts edge intersection points from images of individual frames photographed by a camera. A set of edg... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7509217 | Vehicle detector and vehicle detecting method A vehicle detector includes a detecting apparatus and a determining apparatus. If a plurality of detection points detected by the detecting apparatus forms a group of detection points, the determining apparatus sets a determining virtual window encompassing the grou... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7487043 | Relative positioning system A relative positioning system enabling a user to return to a starting position or some other point on the user's path. The system may include an array of accelerometers. The output from the accelerometers may be integrated to quantify movement of the array. The vari... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7444239 | Telematics terminal and method for transmitting route guidance information data fitted to a receiving terminal Disclosed are a telematics terminal and a method for transmitting route guidance information data fitted to a receiving terminal. The method includes the steps of initializing operational conditions of a mobile communication terminal by transmitting device informati... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444240 | Collision avoidance system having GPS enhanced with OFDM transceivers An object relative status determination system (54) for a vehicle (52) includes an orthogonal frequency domain modulation (OFDM) transceiver (56) that generates an object range signal (83). The system (54) may also include a global... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443314 | Communication device for a movable body A communication device for a movable body mounted to each of movable bodies for exchanging information among the movable bodies includes a surrounding detecting device for detecting a surrounding of the movable body, an appropriateness of relay determining device fo... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440851 | Method for providing navigation instructions A method for making destination guidance instructions available to a user, wherein at least two direction indications, from a current position to waypoints and to a destination, respectively, are prepared and are outputted for the user. At least one distance indicat... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440848 | Methods and systems for integrating environmental data with mobile asset tracking Systems and methods for integrating position reports from mobile assets with real time environmental data aggregated from various sources to build and continually update, in real time, an amalgamated database that contains the position information and collocated env... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437243 | Detecting device and method to detect an object based on a road boundary A detecting device and corresponding method for detecting an object in an image where the image is captured by an image pickup device mounted on a vehicle. A controller is coupled to the image pickup device. The controller extracts pixels of the image captured by th... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433779 | Method of following the course of the flight plan of a cooperative aircraft This method relates to the system of ATM air traffic management with cooperative aircraft provided with a flight management computer FMS, that are linked by a data transmission system ATN to the control authority and that have presented a flight plan to the control ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7424357 | Lane departure prevention apparatus A lane departure prevention apparatus is configured for reducing risk of a vehicle while preventing lane departure. The lane departure prevention apparatus basically comprises a lane departure tendency determining section, a running condition determining section and... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7418343 | Relative navigation for precision rendezvous and station keeping using datalink signals A follower aircraft is guided to a lead aircraft using a datalink that determines range between the two. The lead aircraft has an antenna array and processing system for determining azimuth/elevation of the follower aircraft. The lead aircraft transmits a ranging me... | 08/26/2008 |
