Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location inventions 06/06

20060142902 - Method for the informative assistance of a vehicle driver by means of an on-board multimedia system: This invention relates to a method for informative support of a driver of a vehicle by means of a vehicle multimedia system, comprising a vehicle computer and an external computer, whereby the vehicle computer and the external computer exchange data over a bidirectional communication at least occasionally. According to this...

20060142903 - Dynamic guidance for close-in maneuvering air combat: A system, apparatus and method for optimizing the conduct of a close-in air combat are disclosed. A computing device is operative in the analysis of a close-in air combat situation. The computing device stores and utilizes one or more aerial aircraft-specific, weapon systems-specific and close-in air combat-situation-specific information. The computing...

20060142904 - On-board flight management system for aircraft: This onboard flight management system displays on the navigation screen the plots of the flight plan parts corresponding to the navigation procedures whose names are displayed on the MCD console during the introduction by the crew of the aircraft, by means of the MCD console, of the elements allowing the...

20060142912 - Means for detecting loss of pneumatic pressure in tire and device for the purpose: An object of the present invention is to provide a device for detecting as to whether or not the heterogeneous tires are set on the right and left wheels, respectively, and accurately detecting the loss of the pneumatic pressure in the tire, even when heterogeneous tires are set on the...

20060142911 - Method and device for locating the position, on the right or on the left, of a wheel of a vehicle: A method and device for locating the position, on the right or on the left, of a vehicle wheel. The wheel is equipped with two magnetic sensors having axes of maximum sensitivity lying in a plane that is secant to the axis of rotation of the wheel and which are...

20060142907 - Method and system for enhanced vehicle diagnostics using statistical feedback: A diagnostic information portal can communicate with one or more diagnostic devices used to diagnose problems with vehicles. The diagnostic information portal can receive from the diagnostic devices indications of various problems that have been diagnosed with the vehicles. The information received by the diagnostic information portal can then be...

20060142910 - Method for display of diagnostic procedures based on a repair technician's experience level: A display device can display a diagnostic procedure used in diagnosing a problem with a vehicle. One or more steps in the diagnostic process may be assigned a level, such as a skill level. A user of the display device, such as a vehicle repair technician, can specify one of...

20060142908 - Test procedures using pictures: A system for test procedures using pictures for a vehicle diagnostic system that includes a processor, a storage device in communication with the processor, a diagnostic routine that is executed by the processor, and a display device also coupled to the processor. The storage device may house a database that...

20060142909 - Test procedures using pictures: A method for test procedures using pictures for a vehicle diagnostic system that includes providing text items, examining text items, accessing a database of picture items corresponding to text items, correlating picture items with at least a portion of the text items, replacing the at least a portion of the...

20060142906 - Vehicle or engine diagnostic systems supporting fast boot and reprogramming: A programmable vehicle or engine diagnostic tool includes an interface for receiving a signal relating to a performance parameter of the vehicle or engine, a user interface, and a central processing unit, for processing the signal to generate information for presentation to the user. The system utilizes a fast access...

20060142905 - Vehicle or engine diagnostic systems with advanced non-volatile memory: A programmable vehicle or engine diagnostic tool includes an interface for receiving a signal relating to a performance parameter of the vehicle or engine, a user interface, and a central processing unit, for processing the signal to generate information for presentation to the user. To facilitate fast boot yet enable...

20060142914 - Vehicle data recording system with detachable recording apparatus: A system for recording, in a recording apparatus, data transmitted from a plurality of nodes provided on board a vehicle includes an in-vehicle communication line to which the nodes are connected, and a connector configured to be connected to the in-vehicle communication line and to be detachably connectable to the...

20060142913 - Vehicle tracking, communication and fleet management system: A vehicle fleet management information system identifies location and direction of movement of each vehicle in a fleet in real-time, and automatically reports such information, as well as status of predetermined events in which the vehicle is engaged, directly to the fleet manager. Each fleet vehicle has an assigned time...

20060142915 - Moving body energy management apparatus and moving body energy management method: A moving body energy management apparatus is installed in a moving body having a supply part that supplies energy and a consumption part that consumes the energy supplied from the supply part. The consumption part includes a first part that consumes the energy for moving the moving body, which is...

20060142916 - Height controlling apparatus: A height controlling apparatus for controlling at least one actual height as a relative position of (a) a body of a vehicle and (b) at least one wheel of the vehicle relative to each other, the apparatus including at least one height controlling actuator which changes the at least one...

20060142917 - Vehicle information/task manager: The present invention is operative to disable at least one infotainment device under certain conditions relative to the current driving environment of the user. The system uses a weighted matrix to assign risk to certain sensed conditions while driving. A changed condition is assigned a weight and the weighted risks...

20060142919 - Method for automatically controlling a transmission brake of an automatic transmission configured as a countershaft transmission: A method for controlling and regulating a transmission brake of an automatic transmission designed as a gear reduction unit in which the rotation speed of a countershaft of the gearbox can be decelerated in an upshift such that it corresponds to the synchronized rotation speed or comes close to it...

20060142918 - Method for operating a drive train of a motor vehicle: The invention relates to a method for operating a drive train having a drive machine and an automated variable speed transmission. In selected situations, for example when there is a change in the gear speed of the variable speed transmission, it is advantageous to calculate the profile of the rotational...

20060142921 - Lane departure prevention system: The present lane departure prevention system comprises a position detector means for detecting positional information of a vehicle with respect to a lane of travel, a determining unit for comparing the positional information with a first threshold value indicating a predetermined positional relation with respect to the lane of travel,...

20060142922 - Lane departure prevention system: The present lane departure prevention system comprises a driving-power difference generating unit for generating a driving power difference between left and right driving wheels, a braking power difference generating unit for generating a braking power difference between left and right wheels, a departure tendency determining unit for determining a tendency...

20060142920 - Method for correcting the outputs of vehicle behavior sensor: First and second acceleration sensor elements for detecting the acceleration of a vehicle in the direction in which the vehicle travels, and the acceleration of the vehicle in the direction transverse to the travel direction of the vehicle are mounted on a sensor substrate which is mounted on a control...

20060142923 - Fuel injection control apparatus for direct injection type internal combustion engine: A fuel injection control apparatus for a direct injection type internal combustion engine according to the invention includes a control unit. The control unit estimates the degree to which lubricating oil, which is used in the internal combustion engine, has been diluted with fuel based on the length of time...

20060142924 - Engine control system: An engine control system, which is adaptable for individual differences among engines, changes with time, environmental changes, etc., and which can control engine torque with high accuracy and high response. The engine control system comprises a unit for detecting engine torque in at least one of direct and indirect manners,...

20060142925 - Internal combustion engine knock determination device: An engine ECU executes a program including a step of calculating a knock intensity N as based on comparing a waveform detected as a waveform of a vibration attributed to knocking with a knock waveform model stored in a memory as a waveform of a vibration attributed to knocking for...

20060142926 - Misfire detection system for internal combustion engine: In a misfire detection system for an internal combustion engine, a product is calculated at every predetermined crank angle by multiplying a value retrieved from a periodic function defined to model torque generation of individual cylinders synchronously with each combustion cycle, by a detected crank angle velocity, and the product...

20060142928 - Internal combustion engine and control method therefor: An internal combustion engine and control method therefor in which the engine is selectively started by combustion without cranking. The temperature in the combustion chamber of an engine cylinder is stabilized upon starting of the engine, thereby allowing secured staring without cranking. When predetermined idling stop conditions (or engine stop...

20060142927 - Method for starting an internal combustion engine: In a method for starting an internal combustion engine having a sensor disk which is coupled to a crankshaft of the engine, the sensor disk having a marking via an alternating arrangement of teeth and tooth spaces, and a first sensor and a second sensor each capable of generating an...

20060142929 - Device and method for estimation of an engine torque: Alternating torque {tilde over (M)}kv(φ) or the mean indicated pressure Pml is to be determined from the angular velocity ω from the engine speed, for engine management, for example. Charge pressure compensation (5) must be effected in order for a usable result to be obtained. By preference sensor wheel error...

20060142930 - Internal cylinder pressure detection: An in-cylinder pressure sensor outputs a signal corresponding to a change rate of an internal cylinder pressure of an engine. The output signal of the in-cylinder pressure sensor is filtered so that frequency components lower than frequencies that substantially compose an internal cylinder pressure required for controlling the engine are...

20060142931 - Method for determining malfunction of pressure sensor: A method for determining a malfunction of a pressure sensor determines that a stick malfunction occurs in the pressure sensor by an ECU calculating a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of a voltage value output from the pressure sensor mounted in a fuel tank and determining...

20060142932 - Plant temperature control system: In a temperature control system of a plant such as an engine exhaust system, there are provided a catalyst heat model calculating a temperature estimated value of the plant, a temperature sensor model inputting the calculated value to calculate an output estimated value of a temperature sensor, a temperature controller...

20060142933 - Intelligent traffic system: The present invention discloses an intelligent traffic system. The system at least comprises a traffic control center, a traffic information service center, a cellular mobile communication system, a road toll collection system and an in-vehicle terminal, which are connected with each other via a wired communication network. The in-vehicle terminal...

20060142934 - System for indicating, recording and evaluating driving data mode of vehicle for fuel enconomy: A system for indicating, recording and evaluating a driving-data mode under three conditions of acceleration, speed maintenance and deceleration, in which the evaluated results are displayed on an LCD so that the vehicle is driven at a ¾ point of engine load capacity, serving as an acceleration point representing the...

20060142936 - Correction in position with hitch position sensor: An automatic guidance system for an agricultural vehicle includes a tractor, a towed implement, an absolute tractor position sensor, a relative implement position sensor, and an electronic control system. The operator inputs the implement geometry and field information into the control system. The control system combines this data with the...

20060142935 - Providing a user with location-based information: The invention relates to a system for providing a user (100) with location-based information, the system comprising a user device (110) arranged to enable the user to use the location-based information, the user device being arranged to enable the user to point the user device (110) substantially at a remote...

20060142937 - Web based land vehicle navigation system: A web based navigation system for a land vehicle accesses a land navigation website and obtains land navigation data for traveling from a selected starting point to a selected destination. The land navigation data is transferred from the computer to the land vehicle wirelessly or by a portable data storage...

20060142938 - Inertia position system: An inertial positioning system is disclosed, which includes at least one sensor, an inertial processing unit, a step-distance determination module, a external positioning module, a Kalman filter and an output terminal, wherein the step-distance determinate module estimates an inertial step-distance via analyzing peak values of velocity and time intervals, and...

20060142939 - System and method for navigation: A navigation system performs route guidance with map information, which is suited for use in navigating a vehicle or other movable object. The system includes a user interface in which starting point and destination are input to a service provider. A service provider determines the route between the starting point...

20060142940 - Method for determining deviation of a mobile object in a navigation system from a travel route: A travel route stray discriminating method of a mobile object in navigation system is disclosed in which discrimination of travel route deviation is temporarily withheld even if the mobile object has deviated from the travel route on a busy road such as a cross-road, and a warning that the mobile...

20060142941 - Car navigation device and car navigation method for three-dimensional display of route information: An information display apparatus, which displays a road and a plurality of buildings along the road three-dimensionally on a display screen installed in a vehicle, includes: an output-level acquiring unit that acquires a current output level of an audio device installed in the vehicle; and an output-level displaying unit that...

20060142942 - Device and method for creating electronic album using map data: A device for creating an electronic album using map data, including a storage device interface for providing interface to a storage device; a map database for storing the map data and Point of Interest (POI) information of specific locations in the map data; a controller for reading images of places...

20060142943 - Navigation service method and terminal of enabling the method: Disclosed is a navigation service method using geographic information, comprising the steps of: storing geographic data in a database, the geographic data including network data for indicating geographic coordinates, calculating a route, and matching a GPS (Global Positioning System) code received from GPS satellites and the geographic coordinates, point data...

20060136101 - Wireless communications system for work machine components: Wireless Communications System For Work Machine Components Systems and methods are disclosed for providing wireless communications between on-board components of a work machine. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed that includes a first on-board component associated with a first transducer for wirelessly transmitting first data signals from the first...

20060136102 - Method for correcting control surface angle measurements in single viewpoint photogrammetry: A method of determining a corrected control surface angle for use in single viewpoint photogrammetry to correct control surface angle measurements affected by wing bending. First and second visual targets are spaced apart from one another on a control surface of an aircraft wing. The targets are positioned at a...

20060136103 - Low earth orbit satellite command planning device and method, and low earth orbit satellite control system including the same: Disclosed is a command planning apparatus of a low-earth orbit satellite, and a low-earth orbit satellite control system including the same. The present invention automates the process of executing the command plan for converting the satellite task schedule planned on the ground into telecommands available by the satellite in the...

20060136104 - Distributed diagnostic system: A method and system diagnosing vehicle faults using a diagnostic tool capable of communicating with a remote host. Diagnostic data, vehicle data, and a diagnostic routine are stored in data storage of a diagnostic tool. The diagnostic data defines vehicle fault descriptions, corresponding vehicle fault symptoms, and corresponding repair instructions,...

20060136105 - Interactive data exchange system for vehicle maintenance scheduling and up-time optimization: Vehicle telematics is employed to improve maintenance scheduling by facilitating collection and integration of vehicle condition information from diverse sources. These sources include real time data collected from vehicle sensors over an intelligent vehicle controller area network. The network is provided with facilities for generating records with stamps allowing their...

20060136106 - Method of determining and predicting entertainment selections for telematics units: A method for providing entertainment in a vehicle, including monitoring entertainment selections at a telematics unit, determining at least one user entertainment selection profile based on the monitoring and activating entertainment units based on the profile....

20060136107 - Method for controlling variable damper in vehicle: The present invention relates to a method of controlling a variable damper in a vehicle wherein a rear-wheel variable damper can be controlled by estimating a vertical acceleration value of a rear wheel based on the fact that there is a certain time delay in a wheel motion between front...

20060136108 - Handwheel damping control of active steering system: An active front steering (AFS) system that provides hand-wheel damping. The AFS system includes a damping control sub-system that determines a hand-wheel angular velocity based on the rate of change of a hand-wheel angle signal. The damping control sub-system determines the damping control signal by multiplying the angular velocity of...

20060136109 - Parking assist device: A parking assist device detecting a parking stall line from an image, which is captured by a capturing portion; setting a parking target position on the basis of the parking stall line; and assisting the vehicle to travel to the parking target position; the parking assist device includes a vehicle...

20060136110 - Adaptive vibration management system for a work machine: A vibration management system for a work machine may include at least one machine component configured to respond to input commands from an operator of the machine. One or more vibration sensors may be configured to output a signal indicative of a vibration level experienced by the operator. A controller...

20060136111 - Rough road detection: A rough road detection system for a vehicle comprises a first acceleration sensor that measures vertical acceleration of a component of the vehicle. An adaptive acceleration limits module determines a first acceleration limit based upon a speed of the vehicle. A limit comparison module generates a rough road signal based...

20060136112 - Active front steer control for vehicle stability enhancement: An AFS control system that combines and weights yaw rate feedback and side-slip rate feedback to provide increased vehicle stability enhancement control. The AFS system includes a yaw rate sub-system that generates a desired yaw rate signal. The AFS system also includes a side-slip rate sub-system that generates a desired...

20060136115 - Control apparatus for internal combustion engine: A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to the invention obtains a first index that indicates the amount of fuel adhering to the wall surface of an intake passage, using intake valve timing; obtains a correction value that reduces the first index, using exhaust valve timing and the...

20060136114 - Method for controlling supply of fuel to a combustion engine: A method for controlling supply of fuel to a combustion engine, e.g. a self-igniting internal combustion engine in a vehicle, having a first group of cylinders and a second group of cylinders, the method comprising the steps of: determining if a demanded total fuel quantity to the combustion engine is...

20060136113 - System for improving engine performance and reducing emissions: A method of correcting engine performance in response to assembly deviations includes the steps of measuring the physical characteristics of each cylinder of the engine, and storing the resulting data in the associated ECM. The engine is then operated in accordance with the stored data. The physical characteristics that are...

20060136116 - Method and device for engine control in a motor vehicle: A method for engine control in a motor vehicle is specified, in particular a method for controlling a combustion engine in a motor vehicle, namely for optimally adjusting a quantity of exhaust gas, which is recirculated, in an exhaust gas recirculation branch, from an exhaust manifold situated after the engine...

20060136117 - Knock determination device for internal combustion engine: An engine ECU executes a program including a step of calculating coefficient of correlation K that is a value related to a deviation between a vibration waveform and a knock waveform model by comparing the engine's vibration waveform with the knock waveform model stored in advance at a plurality of...

20060136119 - Alternator and starter tester apparatus and method: An alternator and starter tester system is provided that includes a protective hood or cover, a controller connecting an LCD touch-screen, an alternator main harness connector, a starter harness self-test connector, a barcode connector, USB host and USB function connectors, an Ethernet connector, and a compact flash connector. A multiplexer...

20060136118 - Method and device for determining the phase position of a camshaft of an internal combustion engine: The invention relates to an internal combustion engine comprising a crankshaft, a camshaft and an adjusting device, which is used to adjust the phase position of the camshaft in relation to the crankshaft. The phase position is determined in accordance with a detected crankshaft angle and a recorded camshaft angle....

20060136120 - Car navigation system: A car navigation system includes: a vehicle-information acquiring means 14 for acquiring the vehicle information held by a vehicle 2; a setting-information generating means 15, 16 for generating setting information to be set in a processing program 19 based on the vehicle information acquired by the vehicle-information acquiring means; a...

20060136121 - Method, system, and computer program product for conveying a changing local time zone in an electronic calendar: A method, system, and computer program product for conveying a changing local time zone in an electronic document such as an electronic calendar. The method comprises: providing at least one travel document containing travel information corresponding to at least one trip; determining a local time zone for each entry in...

20060136122 - Method to dynamically select a routing service option: A method of dynamically selecting a routing service including receiving a route request at a call center from a telematics unit via a wireless connection, determining a vehicle communication configuration responsive to the request, determining map data availability responsive to the request and selecting a routing service option based on...

20060136123 - Travel route mapping: A method and system for providing a closed route for travel features a database having geographic information and input information including a starting point and a desired route length. The geographic information from the database and the input information are processed to define an outbound path from the starting point...

20060136124 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing a locator service: Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing a locator service. The method includes receiving object identification information from a mobile object and receiving location identification information from the mobile object. The location identification information indicates the presence of the mobile object at a location. The method also includes associating...

20060136125 - Digital map display: A digital map display having a zooming method and a zooming device is disclosed. By determining the number of entities such as buildings at the position, a desirable zoom scale for the display of a digital map for that location is set using a predetermined ration of total entities. This...

20060136127 - 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 disclosed. With respect to sharing a geographical location, the...

20060136126 - System, apparatus and method for mapping: The present invention provides a novel apparatus and method for mapping of urban regions. An apparatus includes the remote sensing equipment that is connected to a computer processor. The remote sensing equipment gathers imaging data about an urban region. The computer processor interprets the imaging data to generate a map...

20060136128 - Method for accelerating reprocessing of a navigation route: A method for accelerating reprocessing of a navigation route to update the navigation route includes the procedures of (1) activating reprocessing, (2) comparing route nodes, (3) integrating the navigation routes, (4) updating the navigation route. The method does not have to repeat the entire navigation process occurred to the conventional...

20060136129 - Guidance information system and portable device: A guidance information system includes: a portable device including an image pickup section and functioning to decode coded-pattern information captured by the image pickup section; and a display that displays information indicative of a destination point according to the coding system of coded-pattern information for use in the portable device....

20060136130 - Maintenance assistance for a vehicle: A system and method to provide navigational maintenance assistance for a vehicle includes a first step of estimating when the vehicle will require maintenance. A next step includes establishing a location and direction of travel of the vehicle. A next step includes searching a database for any service stations within...

20060136131 - Vehicle detector and vehicle parking management system: A detector assembly including a three-dimensional magnetic sensor adapted to detect presence of a vehicle, a transceiver operatively coupled to the magnetic sensor and adapted to send and receiver information, a microprocessor operatively coupled to the magnetic sensor and the transceiver. The detector assembly is part of a vehicle parking...

20060136132 - Vehicular control object determination system: Whether or not a radar device detects an object is determined by a detection state determinator. Whether or not a time during which the object is not detected and which is measured by a clocking device becomes a determination threshold value or more, is determined by a non-detection determinator. Based...

20060129283 - Obtaining contextual vehicle information: A system for permitting remotely located applications to obtain information about vehicle conditions and responsively perform programmatic actions based upon the vehicle conditions. The system can include a vehicle response server and a vehicle response agent. The vehicle response server can manage communications between one or more vehicles and at...

20060129282 - Vehicle control system and associated method for counteracting rogue command: A vehicle control system is for a vehicle including a data communications bus extending throughout the vehicle, and at least one vehicle device connected to the data communications bus. The vehicle control system includes a a true controller at the vehicle for controlling the vehicle device via a true command...

20060129284 - Remote vehicle control system and associated method for counteracting rogue command: A vehicle remote control system is for a vehicle including a data communications bus extending throughout the vehicle, and at least one vehicle device connected to the data communications bus. The vehicle remote control system includes a remote transmitter, and a true controller at the vehicle for controlling the vehicle...

20060129285 - Systems and methods for automated deselection of flight plan information from a display: Systems and methods for automatically switching to a track view mode on a vertical view display. The system determines aircraft position relative to a leg of a flight plan and switches display mode for a navigation vertical display to track view mode, if the display mode is in a plan...

20060129286 - Inflight graphical display of meteorological phenomena and method therefor: An improved avionics display unit graphically presents meteorological phenomena data to a pilot enroute utilizing conventional pilot report (PIREP) information which includes meteorological phenomena data including phenomena location data. The avionics display unit generates an icon defined by the meteorological phenomena data of the PIREP information and presents the icon...

20060129287 - Electronic drawbar: To minimize headways between trains at stops in short-distance rail transport systems, an electronic drawbar is proposed which makes it possible to cause a following train to approach a train ahead up to a few meters and to follow at this distance in an electronically coupled mode. A method for...

20060129288 - Vehicle information display apparatus: A vehicle information display apparatus receives multiple pieces of information on mobile vehicles, determines degrees of importance of the individual pieces of information according to specific conditions, and displays symbols of only those mobile vehicles of which importance falls within a predefined range or symbols of only a specific number...

20060129290 - Methods and systems for communicating vehicular data: Methods, systems, and vehicles are disclosed for obtaining a diagnostic message. A communication is received including the diagnostic message. The communication has been sent to a manufacturer of the vehicle. The manufacturer determines that the diagnostic message represents a signal indicative of an output of an accelerometer received by an...

20060129289 - System and method for managing emissions from mobile vehicles: A locomotive (10) is operable in two or more distinct configurations, with the change in configuration being response to a configuration input signal (35). A locomotive configuration is represented by the set of end use device control signals (13) that are generated by the locomotive control systems (22) in response...

20060129291 - System for dynamically determining vehicle rear/trunk loading for use in a vehicle control system: A control system (18) and method for an automotive vehicle (10) includes a pitch rate sensor (37) generating a pitch rate signal, a longitudinal acceleration sensor (36) generating a longitudinal acceleration signal, and a yaw rate sensor (28) generating a yaw rate signal. A safety system (44) and the sensors...

20060129292 - Vehicle driving support system: A vehicle driving support system is provided which can identify the existence of an object in a surrounding area of the vehicle which may possibly collide with the vehicle. The system comprises a camera for photographing the surrounding area of a vehicle, a road surface projector for projecting an image...

20060129293 - Method for determining a steering-wheel torque: The invention relates to a method that permits the determination of a steering-wheel torque for the steering wheel of a motor vehicle. A steering angle is predefined by the driver for the steered wheels by means of the steering wheel. A steering torque that represents the forces on the vehicle...

20060129294 - Method for synchronising a steering wheel and steered wheels of a motor vehicle: The invention relates to a method and a device for synchronizing the position (LH) of the steering handle and the steering angle (LH) which has been set at the steered vehicle wheels. By means of a control device it is possible to set a relationship function or steering characteristic curve...

20060129295 - Method and apparatus for determining symmetric and asymmetric crash events with improved misuse margins: An apparatus (10) for controlling a multistage actuatable occupant restraining system (14, 18) of a vehicle includes a crash sensor (32) sensing crash acceleration at a substantially central location of the vehicle. A crush zone accelerometer (40, 42) is provides a crush zone crash acceleration signal. A controller (50) a...

20060129296 - Working unit control apparatus of excavating and loading machine: The invention provides a working unit control apparatus of an excavating and loading machine which can always judge a start of an excavation control at a proper timing. The working unit control apparatus has excavating state detecting means (43, 44) detecting an excavating state of a vehicle, and a controller...

20060129297 - Mobile communication terminal having a gear-shifting information providing function and method of providing gear-shifting information using the same: A mobile communication terminal and method of providing gear-shifting information using the same are disclosed, by which the gear-shifting information suitable for a vehicle speed can be provided to a novice or beginning driver of the vehicle. In one embodiment, a mobile communication terminal includes a speed detection unit configured...

20060129298 - Vehicular rollover prevention control device: A start threshold value for rollover prevention control is changed based upon a ratio between an actual lateral G and a reference lateral G. Accordingly, the ratio between the actual lateral G and the reference lateral G is a parameter that indicates a vehicle condition, i.e., the potential for vehicle...

20060129299 - Method and device for controlling a roll-back prevention system: A method and an apparatus for controlling a roll-back prevention device, in which the existence of an open vehicle door is detected and a stationary state of the vehicle is detected. In the present invention, if there is an open vehicle door at the time when a stationary state of...

20060129300 - Vehicular turning control apparatus and method: In turning control apparatus and method for an automotive vehicle, the vehicle through at least one of a deceleration action section and a brake mechanism is decelerated when a turning state of the vehicle satisfies a predetermined condition, an accelerator manipulated variable by a vehicle driver is detected, and the...

20060129301 - Method and apparatus for assessing gas turbine acceleration capability: A method for monitoring performance of a gas turbine engine includes, during acceleration of an engine, accumulating regulator indices from an engine controller and times accumulated on acceleration regulators. At least one engine sensor value is also monitored after reaching a steady state takeoff power. The regulator indices, accumulated times,...

20060129302 - Method and apparatus for operating an injection system in an internal combustion engine: In a method and an apparatus for operating an injection system of an internal combustion engine, triggering of an injection actuator being performed on the basis of at least one state variable of the injection system, in order to enhance the quantitative accuracy with which fuel is metered provision is...

20060129304 - Knock determining apparatus for internal combustion engine: For each predetermined crank angular interval, an output of a knock sensor is separated into a plurality of frequency components through a plurality of band-pass filters, and peak values of each frequency component are extracted. Then, a mean and a variance of the peak values are computed for each frequency...

20060129303 - Method and device for identifying knocking: A method and a device for detecting knocking, in which a measurement signal of a knock sensor is evaluated during combustion in a cylinder of a combustion engine to determine whether the combustion occurred with knocking. The measurement signal is subdivided into a plurality of windows, and in each window...

20060129305 - Apparatus for controlling engine rotation stop by estimating kinetic energy stop position: A control apparatus for an engine increases an intake air quantity just before engine stop to increase a compression pressure in a compression stroke. As the compression pressure is increased, a negative torque in the compression stroke increases and obstructs engine rotation, and brakes the engine rotation. Thus, a range...

20060129306 - Method for producing at least one characteristic line of an air mass detecting device for an internal combustion engine: In a method for producing at least one characteristic line of an air mass detecting device for an internal combustion engine precise results can be obtained in the case of a pulsating air flow in a suction region of the internal combustion engine by an air mass detecting device, wherein...

20060129307 - Misfire detection apparatus: Misfire of an engine is detected by extracting a pressure component of combustion from an output of a pressure sensor disposed in a cylinder. An engine misfire detection apparatus obtains a combustion parameter Cr that is a correlation between a reference signal Fc synchronous with the combustion cycle of the...

20060129308 - Management and navigation system for the blind: A computer-aided communication and navigation system that uses a computer or other processor in wireless communication with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to aid a blind person. A communication module worn by the user receives information from one or more RFID tags readers and provides audio and, optionally, stimulatory information...

20060129309 - Method and system for performing programmatic actions based upon vehicle approximate locations: A system for communicating between networked applications and vehicles that includes a vehicle response server and a vehicle response agent. The vehicle response server can manage communications between at least one vehicle and at least one application remotely located from the vehicle, wherein the application can provide activation contexts to...

20060129312 - Guide route generation methods and systems: Guide route generation methods and systems. A target object is first selected by a visitor. The similarity or interest of candidate objects corresponding to the target object is calculated. Recommended objects are selected from the candidate objects according to the corresponding similarity or interest. A guide route is generated to...

20060129310 - Method and apparatus for providing travel related information to a user: A method of providing travel related information to a user is disclosed together with corresponding apparatus for the same. The method comprising the steps of recording a history of journeys undertaken by the user, determining a current journey of the user, identifying one or more recorded journeys which correlate with...

20060129311 - Remote navigation server interface: A method is provided for generating a destination address in response to a plurality of oral inputs by a user. The user is prompted to orally input a primary geographical descriptor of the destination address to the in-vehicle navigation module. Primary geographical utterance data is generated in response to an...

20060129313 - System and method for driving directions based on non-map criteria: The present invention introduces the notion of a route provider that efficiently and automatically helps and rewards drivers for traversing optimal driving routes. In particular, described is a technique for receiving one or more conditions and criteria associated with map directions over a computer network from a service bureau. The...

20060129314 - Navigation system: A navigation system is provided. The navigation system includes a path analyzer, a weight generator, an algorithm pre-processor, a genetic algorithm processor, and a path selector. The path analyzer combines a plurality of inputted intermediate point information to analyze movement path information, and the weigh generator generates weight information according...

20060129315 - Navigation apparatus and program of the same: A navigation apparatus of a vehicle includes: storage means for storing information about the vehicle and a road area; and guide route calculating means for calculating a guide route on the basis of the information stored in the storage means. The navigation apparatus determines whether to avoid an entry of...

20060129316 - Apparatus and method for displaying map in a navigation system: A map display apparatus and method in a navigation system are provided. In the map display apparatus, a map display data storage stores display data for displaying facilities on a map and index keys specific to the display data. A Point of Interest (POI) information storage stores POI information about...

20060129317 - Mobile cellular identification database for enhanced gps performance: A mobile station database of cellular identifications and associated position information is stored in mobile station memory. The mobile station uses the position information in the database to assist in determining a current position for the mobile based on an identifier, such as cell ID, base station BSIC, PSC, or...

20060116796 - System and method for testing a control system of a marine vessel: A system for testing a control system (2) in a vessel (4), in which the control system (2) is arranged to control and monitor the vessel (4), comprising the following features: one or more sensors (8) on board the vessel (4) to send one or more sensor signals (7) over...

20060116797 - Method of controlling engine stop-start operation for heavy-duty hybrid-electric and hybrid-hydraulic vehicles: This invention relates to a Start-Stop method for a heavy-duty hybrid vehicle that turns off the internal combustion engine when the vehicle stops or, optionally, when the vehicle travels downhill. The Stop-Start method automatically restarts the internal combustion engine when the vehicle starts accelerating or is no longer traveling downhill....

20060116798 - Method and system for implementing automatic vehicle control with parameter-driven disengagement: Embodiments of the present invention recite a method and system for implementing automatic vehicle control with parameter-driven disengagement. In one embodiment, a course for a vehicle is determined along which the vehicle is to be automatically guided. An indication is received that a pre-defined parameter has been exceeded. In response...

20060116799 - Method for monitoring chassis functions and chassis components: To monitor chassis functions and chassis components of a motor vehicle and/or to detect wear, wear trends, component defects or declining functions, information provided by control systems mounted in the vehicle and/or obtained by way of additional sensors is evaluated. Evaluations relating to vehicle dynamics are carried out on the...

20060116800 - Technique for effective communications with, and provision of global positioning system (gps) based advertising information to, automobiles: In an automobile, communications to and from the automobile are in the form of messages. Such messages are referred to as “electronic car-mail” or “C-mail” messages as each message has a destination or origination address which includes an identifier, e.g., a vehicle identification number (VIN), identifying the automobile. The messages...

20060116801 - Automatic braking-enhanced steering system: A system for enabling a vehicle with a conventional steering system to make tighter right and left turns. The vehicle has one or more computers that monitor the steering angle and that are also capable of independently controlling a right braking unit and a left braking unit. When the computers...

20060116802 - Suspension system for vehicle: A suspension system for a vehicle includes a roll control device, which includes an actuator, for controlling roll, and a control device including a target control value determining portion determining target control value of the actuator and an operation control portion controlling the actuator on the basis of the target...

20060116803 - Redundant control unit arrangement: The invention relates to an array of control devices having a plurality of control devices (1-3, 20-23) which are interconnected via a first data bus (4), in a means of transportation, control devices (1-3; 20-23) which are of redundant configuration with respect to a control function being provided, and in...

20060116804 - Machine tool control apparatus: The invention aims to reduce an error occurring due to the mounting condition of an acceleration sensor. In the case of a two-axis sensor, an angle θ is calculated from outputs (x′, y′) that the acceleration sensor produces when known accelerations (x, y) are applied, and the angle θ is...

20060116806 - Method and arrangement for controlling actual torque in a land vehicle driveline: Method and arrangement for controlling actual torque in a driveline of a land-based motor vehicle. Taking a direct, non-predictive measure of actual torque induced in the driveline of the motor vehicle and ascertaining a magnitude thereof. Ascertaining a magnitude of a torque demand being requested to be instituted in the...

20060116805 - Method for monitoring an adhesion actuated transmission: Method for monitoring an adhesion-actuated transmission, a monitoring variable being detected. In a first comparison step, at least the one monitoring variable is correlated with reference data and a counter value is incremented or decremented as a function of the correlation result, and, in a second comparison step, the counter...

20060116807 - Driving operation assisting system, method and vehicle incorporating the system: A driving assisting system for assisting a driver in operating a vehicle. The system includes a detection assembly configured to obtain environment information related to an environment around the vehicle. A risk potential calculation device is provided to calculate risk potential associated with the vehicle based on the environment information....

20060116808 - Air quantity estimation apparatus for internal combustion engine: An air quantity estimation apparatus for an internal combustion engine estimates intake pipe section pressure, which is pressure of air within an intake pipe section. When throttle valve opening is smaller than a threshold value, the apparatus estimates the intake pipe section pressure by use of an intercooler model constructed...

20060116809 - Signal conditioner and user interface: A signal modifying device, user interface, and method of modifying a signal. The signal modifying device includes a processor, a first input coupled to the processor and an output coupled to the processor. Instructions are stored within the processor that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to provide...

20060116810 - Method for operating an injection valve of an internal combustion engine: The present invention relates to a method for operating an injection valve of an internal combustion engine, whereby the metering of fuel is adjustable in particular by varying the stroke of the nozzle needle of the injection valve. Methods and injections valves of this type are generally known from the...

20060116811 - System: The present invention provides an onboard system for determining vehicle emissions. The emissions are determined in real-time and may be transmitted to a remote terminal for storage and/or analysis. Date is supplied solely to an emissions unit from a vehicle diagnostic system: the vehicle diagnostic system receives vehicle data from...

20060116812 - Combustion state detecting apparatus for an engine: A combustion state detecting apparatus is provided for an engine having internal pressure sensor for detecting an internal pressure of a combustion chamber of the engine and crank angle detector for detecting a crank angle of the engine. The apparatus calculates a volume of the combustion chamber based on the...

20060116813 - Stroke determination system for four stroke cycle engine: A system for performing stroke determination and cylinder determination by using intake pressure as a parameter, in order to provide a stroke determination system for a four stroke cycle engine by which accurate determination can be achieved....

20060116814 - Method and system for generating and presenting off-road travel routes: A computer-implemented method for generating and presenting off-road travel routes based on terrain and obstruction analysis. The method includes a Threat Analyzer (100) for assessing threats that may impede progress, a Graph Builder (102) for constructing a graph representing an individual's environment, a Route Generator (104) for generating a route...

20060116815 - In-vehicle navigation device: When a vehicle deviates from an initial route, a deviation route is memorized. Thereafter, when the vehicle comes back to the initial route, a cost is compared between the deviation route and a non-traveled route included in the initial route. When the cost of the deviation route is larger, the...

20060116816 - Systems and methods for providing navigation guidance in pseudo-navigation/automatic direction indicator modes: Methods and systems for providing navigation guidance in pseudo-navigation/automatic direction indicator modes. Each system includes at least one client integrated with a mobile communication device (e.g. PDA, cellular telephone, etc.) and configured to send a request for information of a nominal route to a server. The server calculates the nominal...

20060116817 - Location aware mobile-device software development: A development environment makes it easier to develop and use location aware software applications. Combining the currently separate and complex tasks of location information gathering, analysis, and display and making them integrated such that non-experts can build location services into their applications increases a developer's capability to write rich location-aware...

20060116818 - Method and system for multiple route navigation: Method and system for providing multiple route navigation guidance. The system comprises a client integrated with a mobile communication device (e.g. PDA, cellular telephone, etc.) and a server communicating via wireless carriers and networks. The server obtains a user's initial position, a user-designated destination, and calculates multiple routes from the...

20060116819 - Gps-prioritized information for gps devices: An invention for providing information to a GPS device by selecting location-specific information stored on a memory medium incorporated in the GPS device, or received by the GPS device from location-specific information broadcast by GPS satellites. The stored or broadcast location-specific information includes a GPS-advice type and a GPS-advice range....

20060116820 - Information processing device and gps positioning method: An information processing apparatus is configured to measure a Doppler shift in the frequency of a radio wave from a GPS (Global Positioning System) satellite and a pseudo-distance between the satellite and a measuring point by using the signal therefrom, and calculate the position of the measuring point by using...

20060116821 - Apparatus and method for preventing collision of vehicle at crossroads: An apparatus and method of preventing a collision of vehicle in a crossroad are disclosed. The apparatus includes: an information generating unit installed at each of roads near the crossroad for generating real-time vehicle information by integrating vehicle's information including a speed and a position provided from the vehicles on...