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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7788034 | Method for determining a flight management system rendezvous intercept position One popular military aircraft mission is to meet or rendezvous with another aircraft. Presently used systems have limitations in rendezvous distance, low accuracy of computed rendezvous intercept position, and wrong results in special rendezvous scenarios such in po... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7411486 | Lane-departure warning system with differentiation between an edge-of-lane marking and a structural boundary of the edge of the lane A driver assistance device for warning a driver of a motor vehicle of a risk of departure from the lane or from the lane is described, having at least one image-transmitting sensor, an evaluation device, connected to the image-transmitting sensor, for detecting edge... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7391305 | Driver warning device A driver warning device which serves to warn the driver when a safety-critical condition of the vehicle is reached. A warning is issued only if such issuance is to take place in accordance with a user profile. This avoids unnecessary warnings from being issued to a ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7375622 | Alarm generation method and apparatus An on-vehicle alarm generation method and an on-vehicle alarm generation apparatus for notifying a driver to be aware of safe driving by detecting a passerby or a bicycle moving at a dangerous point and generating an alarm to the driver are provided. In one aspect, ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7376510 | Map display for a navigation system A system and method are disclosed for displaying map information on a portable computing device. When approaching a location at which maneuvering guidance is to be provided by the portable computing device, the portable computing device presents alternating images o... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7365641 | Vehicle proximity alerting system and method A vehicle proximity alerting system and method is provided. The system includes: a sensor unit having a plurality of sensors for measuring distances from other vehicles; a system controlling unit for receiving measurement signals from the sensors, calculating distan... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7355510 | Telematics system vehicle tracking A method of tracking a vehicle including receiving vehicle information at a call center from a telematics unit via a wireless network, determining whether the vehicle information is associated with a vehicle station identification for a missing vehicle on a vehicle ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7333012 | Vehicle monitoring and control using radio frequency identification An embodiment of the present invention includes a technique to monitor a vehicle. A radio frequency (RF) identification (RFID) tag is installed in a vehicle to transmit vehicle information to a vehicle monitor. The vehicle monitor transmits a command to the vehicle ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330780 | Safety system for aircraft This invention relates to a safety system for aircraft, wherein prohibited airspaces which aircraft may not enter are marked on a digitally stored image of the airspace, wherein the aircraft is provided with an automatic control device that automatically steers the ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7301478 | Vehicle safety warning device Apparatus, methods, system and devices for monitoring road surface temperature to detect hazardous road surface conditions. An indicator provides the sensed road surface temperature and hazardous road condition warning to a driver while a tail light interface automa... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7274287 | Warning and information system for a vehicle A warning and information system for a motor vehicle which outputs information that is below a conscious threshold of perception of a use, and above his or her unconscious threshold. At least one signal source located in the peripheral field of vision of the user is... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7264198 | Time-to-go missile guidance method and system A method and apparatus for guiding a vehicle to intercept a target is described. The method iteratively estimates a time-to-go until target intercept and modifies an acceleration command based upon the revised time-to-go estimate. The time-to-go estimate depends upo... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7242321 | Key fob with directional vehicle locator A system for locating a vehicle includes a hand-held unit with data transceiver operation to generate a location request signal. The system also includes a location element in the vehicle, which is operative upon receipt of the location request signal to determine a... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7236121 | Pattern classifier and method for associating tracks from different sensors An interceptor-based sensor clusters tracks of objects to generate track clusters based on an uncertainty associated with each track, and generates feature vectors for a cluster under test using the relative placement and the population of other track clusters. The ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7228233 | Driving assistance method and system A driving assistance system for regulating an operation of a vehicle in a discrete manner according to different ranges of risk potentials associated with the vehicle, such that different risk potentials in different ranges are conveyed to the driver in a different ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7215254 | Driving assistance system When a driving assistance system of a navigation device in a subject vehicle is able to communicate with a cooperative remote driving assistance system in an oncoming vehicle, images are obtained from individual front monitor cameras of the subject vehicle and the o... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7185844 | Methods and systems for guiding an object to a target using an improved guidance law Systems and methods for guiding an object may comprise improved guidance laws that improve the effectiveness of the PRONAV guidance law. The improved guidance laws may utilize the same parameters as the PRONAV law and may be algorithmically simpler than conventional... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188025 | Method and apparatus for exchanging traffic condition information using peer to peer networking A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing traffic information in a data processing system in a vehicle using peer to peer connections. A traffic situation is identified. A traffic data packet is generated in response to identifying the traffic situ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7164350 | Back up alarm system A back up alarm system for a vehicle including a sensor for generating a vehicle motion status signal with a vehicle reverse gear engaged. The vehicle motion status signal includes a base electrical signal when the vehicle is stationary and the vehicle motion status... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7142130 | Driving support system for vehicle, driving support apparatus for vehicle, and driving support method for vehicle In a driving support system for a vehicle for determining the possibility that an estimated running vector of a moving object will intersect with an estimated running vector of a host vehicle using mobile communication, the possibility is three-dimensionally determi... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7093801 | Positioning system, device, and method for in-flight refueling A positioning system, device, and method are provided to facilitate the in-flight positioning of two aircraft relative to one another such that a second aircraft is guided to an in-flight refueling position relative to a first aircraft. The system, device, and metho... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7088262 | Method of operating a display system in a vehicle for finding a parking place A method of operating a display system in a vehicle (03) for finding a suitable parking place (06) with at least one camera (01) with which an observation area in the vicinity of the vehicle (03) can be recorded, with an image processing ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7085633 | System and method for improving vehicle operator driving assistance of automotive vehicle In system and method for improving operator driving assistance of an automotive vehicle, at an indication of acceleration timing and magnitude and the lane change timing, a lane change necessity is calculated and a lane change trigger signal is produced while the ho... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7061402 | Emergency vehicle warning system An emergency vehicle warning system comprising a transmitter unit positioned within an emergency vehicle, and a receiver unit positioned within a passenger vehicle, wherein upon receipt of a radio frequency activation signal from the transmitter unit, an electronic ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057499 | Communication system for communicating between moving objects and vehicular driving support apparatus In a communication system for communicating between moving objects in which a moving object determines the peripheral state based on moving object information transmitted and received using communication between moving objects, accuracy level information regarding t... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7032495 | Combat vehicle having an observation system A combat tank is converted into an artillery observation tank without requiring removal of the main gun. The combat tank is converted by integrating retrofitted equipment necessary for the artillery observation, especially the navigation system (12), into the... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6997097 | Autonomous mission profile planning The invention includes a method and apparatus for planning a mission profile in real time on board a platform or a vehicle dispensed from a platform. In general, the mission planning technique includes ascertaining a plurality of target information, including a targ... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6997716 | Continuous aimpoint tracking system The Continuous Aimpoint Tracking System is comprised of a position detection device (PDD) and a laser pointing device (LPD) that projects an infrared crosshair onto the PDD. The PDD is coupled to a computer and comprises a multitude of photodiodes and associated cir... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6970787 | Automotive lane deviation avoidance system In an automotive lane deviation avoidance system that prevents a host vehicle from deviating from its driving lane by correcting the host vehicle's course in a direction that avoids the host vehicle's lane deviation in the presence of a possibility of the host vehic... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6919822 | Parking assist device and method for assisting parking According to a parking assist device and a method for assisting parking of the invention, when a parking assist is canceled after a start of the parking assist, and the parking assist is restarted, a target parking position (P2B) is reset at a reset position ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6845303 | Micro-satellite and satellite formation for inverse and distributed proximity operations A method and apparatus for conducting proximity operations is disclosed. The method called inverser proximity operations includes maneuvering an active vehicle into general proximity to a target vehicle, transmitting from the target vehicle to the active vehicle dat... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6839662 | Command and control system architecture for convenient upgrading A military command and control system includes functional portions which respond to a set of or plurality of commands. Certain commands are mandatory. Specific responses are made in response to the mandatory commands. System tracks are handled differently than local... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6738694 | Remotely controlling a servant aircraft A remote control signal, such as a signal from a GPS satellite, is received at a servant aircraft. If the remote control signal is valid, a processor on the servant aircraft prevents or inhibits anyone on the servant aircraft from controlling the flight or course of... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6734896 | Image processor and monitoring system The image processor of the present invention generates a more natural synthesized image from camera images taken with a plurality of cameras capturing the surroundings of a vehicle. A parameter storage section stores a plurality of image synthesis parameter groups r... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6691034 | Vehicular trajectory collision avoidance maneuvering method A collision prediction and maneuver method determines which ones of many potential target objects have a close conjunction within a gross miss distance with a subject object by trajectory propagation, then determines which one of the conjunctive objects h... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6651004 | Guidance system A method and apparatus for directing a pursuing vehicle, such as a torpedo, on an intercept trajectory from a launching vehicle to a target vehicle with evasion capabilities. The guidance system bases a solution on vectors on a first Cartesian coordinate ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6643588 | Geometric based path prediction method using moving and stop objects A method for estimating the curvature in a road is disclosed. The method measures an azimuth angle range and relative velocity between a host and a target vehicle, which determines whether a host vehicle is changing lanes or whether a target vehicle is ch... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6564146 | Tracking system for providing position information Processing GPS signals received at moving targets and at a fixed location near instrumentation associated with timing and recording an event allows the determination of instantaneous target position to be made without a requirement for additional active t... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6546338 | Method for working out an avoidance path in the horizontal plane for an aircraft to resolve a traffic conflict The preparation of an avoidance path in the horizontal plane so that an aircraft can resolve a conflict of routes with another aircraft that entails a risk of collision within 5 to 10 minutes. This avoidance path minimizes the negative effects of the resu... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6477462 | Transfer location navigation method and arrangement A drive of a primary transportation means is navigated by a navigation device along a calculated route from a starting point to a destination by the device issuing appropriate travel advice, in that a transfer location from the primary transportation mean... | 11/05/2002 |
