Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location inventions 07/06

20060167595 - Apparatus and method for determining presence of objects in a vehicle: Vehicle including a first substructure and a second substructure arranged such that an interior space is defined by or between the first and second substructures, and an arrangement for determining whether an object is present in the interior space. The arrangement includes at least one ultrasonic transducer arranged on the...

20060167592 - Execution support system and execution support method: An execution support system 1 including a car navigation system terminal 100 that communicates with TVs (291 and 292) or air conditioners (293 and 294) via an Internet (900), where the car navigation system terminal (100) includes: a prediction function unit (110) that predicts a destination to which it is...

20060167594 - Vehicle reverse warning and distance measurement system: A reverse mode detection system provides an extremely inexpensive system which can be installed in seconds and which can be used by drivers to gauge the distance from the rear of the vehicle to an object, possible an array of objects, and to provide an optional combination of a soft...

20060167593 - Wireless vehicle performance information communication system: Information related to operation of a vehicle is monitored by a vehicle performance information monitoring system. The information is gathered from an information bus of the vehicle and wirelessly transmitted to a user device upon occurrence of a transmission triggering event. The user device stores the information in a memory,...

20060167596 - Depicting the flight of a formation of uavs: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for depicting the flight of a formation of a plurality of UAVs. Embodiments include piloting a plurality of UAVs, each UAV being piloted under the control of a navigation computer in accordance with a navigation algorithm and a flight formation algorithm. While...

20060167597 - Enabling services on a uav: Methods, systems, and products are provided for enabling services on a UAV. Embodiments include determining a current position of the UAV, selecting a service module for the UAV in dependence upon the current position of the UAV, uploading the service module to the UAV, and executing the service module on...

20060167598 - Avionic system and ground station for aircraft out of route management and alarm communications: An avionic system and ground station for aircraft out of route management and alarm communications composed of an avionic device, which is fitted onboard the aircraft, with a memory unit for storing the flight paths data, runways, orography, and obstacles; processors to compute the stored or received data, available from...

20060167599 - Identifying a uav landing location: Methods, systems, and products are provided for identifying a UAV landing location. Embodiments include identifying a need to land the UAV, determining a current position of the UAV, determining an available flight distance for landing the UAV, and selecting, from a database, an available landing location in dependence upon the...

20060167600 - Architecturally partitioned automatic steering system and method: A system and method for automatically steering a vehicle along an intended path is provided. The system is architecturally partitioned. The partitioned design allows each of the system elements to be designed and maintained independently while allowing variation and flexibility in system configuration. An embodiment of the system elements may...

20060167601 - Method and apparatus for determining optimized paths of a vehicle: A computer implementable process for determining optimized paths for a vehicle includes the following steps: (a) evaluation of all nodes or grid points of a defined search space based on costs arising at these nodes for desired paths, starting from both a first reference node and a second reference node,...

20060167602 - Operating device and in-vehicle electronic device: A switch function selector collects vehicle's positional information and road data of roads surrounding the vehicle from a navigation device, and thereby determines whether the turn-signal lamps need controlling. When affirmatively determining, the switch function selector outputs an operating signal from a lever switch to a turn-signal lamp controller. When...

20060167603 - Method and device for controlling occupant protection means in a vehicle: The invention relates to a method and a device for controlling occupant protection means in a vehicle. According to said method, a first crash variable (AAA), derived from the absolute value for the crash signal of a crash sensor, preferably from the acceleration signal of an acceleration sensor, is compared...

20060167605 - Method of evaluating a movement of a motor vehicle: The invention relates to a method of evaluating a movement of a motor vehicle, in particular of a vehicle movement influencing the safety of vehicle occupants, in which the acceleration of the vehicle in at least one linear direction, in particular in the direction of a vehicle axis, is measured...

20060167604 - System and method for adjusting a zero point of a seat load sensing system: A method (60) for adjusting the zero point of a vehicle seat weight sensing system (10) includes the step of determining a zero point error (64) of the seat weight sensing system. The method (60) also includes the step of adjusting the zero point error (68) in response to determining...

20060167606 - Electronically controlled mirror system for vehicle blind spot exposure: A driver leveraging system for moving any vehicle's power side mirror outward in order to sweep and expose a vehicle's blind spot zone designed to work with existing power mirror mechanisms is disclosed. Once engaged, the corresponding power side mirror's Left-Right motor is activated, the mirror surface begins moving outward...

20060167608 - Arrangement for monitoring the location of a mining vehicle in a mine: A method and a system for monitoring the location of a mining vehicle in a mine. The mine comprises a first and a second work area. At least one identifier (29) whose exact location is known is arranged in the first work area (18a). The location of the mining vehicle...

20060167607 - Control device for working vehicle: A controller 10 includes tables 10a, 10b and tables 10e, 10f for deciding maximum pump absorption torques and engine output torques based on an engine revolution speed, and selectors 10c, 10g for switching over the decided maximum pump absorption torques and engine output torques depending on a work performance mode...

20060167609 - Industrial truck: The invention relates to an industrial truck with an on-board energy reservoir (1) and at least one drive system (2) supplied with energy from it. On the industrial truck there is a device (4) to display the remaining operating time....

20060167610 - Gear control unit for a transmission of a drivetrain of a vehicle: A gear control unit for a transmission of a drivetrain of a vehicle. The gear control unit being equipped with an electronic control unit in communication with a signal source for transmitting and receiving signals for the purpose of providing information with respect to the operating state of the motor....

20060167611 - Vehicle control apparatus: An ECU executes a program including a step of outputting a downshift command to an automatic transmission on conditions that a following distance control is being executed, that an acceleration pedal opening degree is detected, and that the detected acceleration pedal opening degree is greater than an opening degree threshold...

20060167612 - Method and device for regulating an internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a method for regulating an internal combustion engine where engine measurement and engine adjustment values are provided, and adaptation values modify the engine parameters, comprising measuring a first engine measurement parameter representative of a first physical engine parameter, measuring a second engine measurement parameter representative of...

20060167613 - Method for determining an exhaust gas recirculation quantity for an internal combustion engine provided with exhaust gas recirculation: In a method of determining the quantity of exhaust gas recirculation for an internal combustion engine having exhaust gas recirculation, the exhaust gas recirculation quantity (rAGR, mAGR) is determined from an exhaust gas temperature (Texhaust), a fresh gas temperature (Tair2), a fresh gas quantity (mair) and/or a volumetric efficiency (η)....

20060167614 - Method for detecting failed combustion in an internal combustion engine by a combination of combustion irregularity indices: where {overscore (I)}(t±Δt) is an estimated value of the index I(t) at an instant (t±Δt) different from (t), c) comprising the current value of E(t) with a predetermined threshold (S) dependent on the engine load (C) and/or speed (N), and d) diagnosing a misfire when the value of E(t) exceeds...

20060167615 - Method and apparatus for controlling an engine using a cam signal: In an apparatus, an abnormality determining circuit determines whether a crank signal is abnormal, and a switching circuit switches an input signal to an edge interval measuring circuit from the crank signal to a cam signal when it is determined that the crank signal is abnormal. The edge interval measuring...

20060167617 - Internet based highway traffic advisory system: A real time traffic control system that includes a plurality of roadside sensors and variable message displays arrayed along the highway connected to the Internet, and communicating with a central computer using the Internet. Each roadside device includes a modem and has a unique internet address. The central computer is...

20060167616 - Navigation system: The present invention aims to provide a technique that can download traffic information in a more efficient manner, in a navigation system including a traffic information distribution server and a terminal unit. The information distribution server narrows down whereas possible traffic information to that to be used for the processing...

20060167618 - Aircraft traffic warning system using an ad-hoc radio network: Methods and apparatus are provided for a traffic warning system (TWS) for light aircraft. The TWS comprises a processor coupled to a transceiver, adapted to measure signal strength and send/receive messages containing station ID and preferably altitude and position data. Memory, display and various flight data instruments, such as GPS,...

20060167619 - Architecture of an onboard aircraft piloting aid system: A function for generating guidance data from the GNSS data and the inertial data (IRS1) with integrated fault detection is distributed on the inertial reference units and the digital processing boards of said multimode receivers. Application to an augmented GLS guidance mode for category I to III approach operations....

20060167620 - System and method for guiding a vehicle: A guide system terminal device is provided to facilitate group operation vehicles. The guide system terminal device has a transceiver that receives the traveling environment information from another vehicle, such as for the turn signal, vehicle speed, running position, a road change judgment module that judges course changes by the...

20060167621 - Planning a journey that includes waypoints: Planning a journey from an origin to a destination involves establishing selection criteria that includes one or more journey parameters and one or more rules. A journey parameter describes a constraint of the journey, and a rule specifies an action to perform in response to a trigger event. A route...

20060167622 - Navigating uavs in formations: Navigating UAVs in formations, including assigning transition pattern positions of a transition pattern to each of a multiplicity of UAVs flying together in a travel pattern toward a waypoint to be orbited by the UAVs; flying the UAVs into the transition pattern, continuing toward the waypoint; and flying the UAVs...

20060167623 - Hang timer for determining time of flight of an object: The invention disclosed herein relates to systems and methods for detecting, calculating, and displaying the time-of-flight or hang-time of a moving and jumping object such as a skier or snowboarder by using at least one accelerometer secured within a small wearable device. In one embodiment, the inventive device comprises: a...

20060167625 - Method for finding path in a navigation system: Disclosed is a method for finding a path in a navigation system. The method includes selecting a sectional path option for a specific section selected by a user from an entire section between a start point and an end point, and finding a path in the specific section according to...

20060167624 - Method for mapping machine rooms and locating machines within machine rooms: A system and method automatically maps computer center rooms and locates data center components within computer centers. Radio triangulation is used to determine the locations and, optionally, orientation, of machines within a computer center....

20060167626 - Navigation system and program for controlling the same: A navigation system includes a congestion information acquisition function, a congestion determination function, a speed determination function, a calculation function, and a display function for navigating a vehicle. The navigation system uses these functions for determination of traffic congestion on a road and for calculation of an alternative route to...

20060167631 - Device and method for definition of navigation directions by a user on user interface screen: A device and a method for definition and display of navigation directions by a user on a user interface screen is provided. The device includes a memory for storing a direction key mapping table; at least one direction key for indicating a predetermined direction; and a control unit for flickering...

20060167628 - Downloading map segment(s) to a cell phone based upon its gps coordinates and mobility: A wireless terminal displays its location and navigation information (map segment) on its display. The wireless terminal accesses a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver of the wireless terminal to determine its location coordinates. The wireless terminal determines a maximum data size for navigation information to be downloaded. The wireless terminal...

20060167629 - Map display apparatus and map display method: An apparatus displays a main map image 21 showing a current position at substantially a center of a screen. The apparatus also disposes a plurality of map images 22 through 29 around the main map image 21 in thumbnail format such that each map image 22 through 29 corresponds to...

20060167627 - Method of generating a map display for a graphical user interface: A method of generating a map display for a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising the steps of displaying a map, highlighting a first area on the map surrounding a first position fix wherein the size of the area corresponds to the accuracy of the first position fix and highlighting a...

20060167630 - Vehicle planning support system: The present invention is a vehicle planning support system (1) for displaying vehicle models (84, 92, etc.) on a screen to support vehicle planning, and comprises specification value input screen display means (36) for displaying specification value input screens for inputting specification values including dimensions and angles in the vehicle...

20060167632 - Navigation device, navigation system, navigation method, and program: A navigation device (10) of this invention has a position information reception unit (12), which obtains current position information from a GPS (20); a MAPDB (14), which stores map information; a direction detection sensor (17), which detects direction information; a input unit (16), which inputs search conditions; a communication control...

20060167633 - Neighboring object information acquisition device, and parking support device using neighboring object information acquisition device: A neighboring object information acquisition device comprises a distance measuring unit measuring a quantity equivalent to a distance to a neighboring object in a predetermined direction. A storage unit stores a sequence of points indicating results of the measurement performed multiple times. An object detection unit detects existence of the...

20060161312 - Arrangement and interface module for connecting different radio telephones to operator components in a motor vehicle: The invention relates to an arrangement for remote controlling a mobile radio telephone (1) in a motor vehicle with a standard hands-free device (2), which is installed as an independent item of equipment in the vehicle, contains a microphone and a loudspeaker and which is connected to the radio telephone...

20060161314 - Software defined radio unit and vehicular information system: An automatic upgrading method in which, when software is downloaded and upgraded to change a specification of a software defined radio system on a vehicular system, convenience to a user who receives services using wireless communication is not reduced and error operations of the vehicular system is inhibited, is provided....

20060161313 - User interface for display of task specific information: A graphical user interface is configured to display information related to diagnosis and/or repair of various objects, such as automobiles. The GUI displays relevant reference information, of any type, next to procedure steps of a selected diagnostic or repair procedure. Advantageously, reference information from multiple sources may be automatically selected...

20060161315 - Vehicle position and performance tracking system using wireless communication: A real time vehicle communications system comprises an interface unit configured to communicate with an onboard vehicle performance system and an onboard vehicle positioning system; a processor unit connected to the interface unit; a memory unit connected to the processor unit; a communications unit connected to the processor unit, the...

20060161316 - Aircraft control system and method: Methods and systems for controlling model aircraft are provided. In one aspect, a model aircraft includes a section having a longitudinal axis that extends from a rear of the aircraft to a front of the aircraft, the longitudinal axis being substantially parallel to a surface of the Earth when the...

20060161317 - Method for controlling the sequence of trains during traffic control: The invention relates to a method for controlling the sequence of trains during traffic control, whereby a telephone communication between a traffic controller in a traffic control centre and a driver is carried out. In order to increase security during telephone communication, the traffic controller transmits a driving permit to...

20060161318 - Autonomous machine: A control system is provided for navigating an autonomous machine around a working area in a manner that causes the machine to traverse substantially all of the free surface of the working area. The control system is arranged to cause the machine to follow a boundary of the working area...

20060161319 - Operation checking method for adaptive front lighting system: An operation checking method for an adaptive front lighting system (AFS), which is applicable to on-line automobile inspections involves an operation checking program prepared to activate the AFS in a manner to perform its prescribed headlamp illumination redirecting function and stored in advance in an in-vehicle ECU. While a finished...

20060161320 - Portable memory automobile ignition system: A portable memory device used in substitution of an automobile key and interfaced with an automobile onboard computer and ignition system. The portable memory device contains data that, when read by the onboard computer, enables the ignition system. The portable memory device is read and write capable, thereby allowing for...

20060161321 - Method and devcie for detecting the occupancy state of a seat: A method and a device for detecting the occupancy state of a seat, e.g., in a vehicle, and for use in activating a restraint mechanism allocated to the seat, as a function of the occupancy state, are provided. With the aid of an image recording system, a 3D image of...

20060161323 - Passenger protection apparatus: A passenger protection apparatus (1) includes a rollover angular speed detection device (10), which detects a rollover angular speed during vehicle rollover, a rollover determination device (14), which conducts a determination of the vehicle rollover based on the rollover angular speed detected by the rollover angular speed detection device (10)...

20060161322 - Seat belt monitoring system: A seat belt monitoring system for registering and recording the physical conditions of occupants through an active restraint system commonly referred to as a seat belt, in commercial or private vehicles and other human-operated equipment. The restraint system is equipped with a data processor that allows body temperature and heart...

20060161324 - Engine output controller: An engine output controller provided in a bulldozer includes an output curve storage device storing a plurality of output curves of an engine and an output curve changing device selecting and shifting to one of the plurality of output curves. The output curve changing device, when a pressure of a...

20060161325 - Automated manual transmission launch control: The present invention relates to launch control of a vehicle having an automated manual transmission and an automated clutch selectively engaging an output of an engine to an input of the transmission. When a request for vehicle launch is detected, an output speed of the automated clutch and a desired...

20060161326 - Method and system for detecting damage done to a clutch having at least two components that transfer torque by frictional engagement: A method for detecting damage done to a clutch having at least two components that transfer torque by frictional engagement comprises the following steps: determining the friction power L introduced into the friction surfaces of the components by slippage between the torque-transferring components, calculating an individual damage value ESW=f(L,t), wherein...

20060161327 - Wheel sensor for detecting a vehicle motion: A device for measuring a motion of a vehicle includes an acceleration sensor situated on a wheel and an appertaining evaluation circuit. The sensor system operates especially accurately and reliably if the acceleration sensor is mounted on the wheel in such a way that the main sensing direction lies essentially...

20060161328 - Power output apparatus, method of controling the same, and automobile: The technique of the invention sets an upper limit torque Tm1max and a lower limit torque Tm1min output from a motor generator, based on input and output restrictions Win and Wout of a battery, a motor electric power demand Pm2, an auxiliary machinery electric power demand Pcsm, and a potential...

20060161330 - Cruise management method and device for a road vehicle: A cruise management method and device for a road vehicle, wherein the position of an accelerator control is detected, a current speed of the vehicle is detected and a current transmission ratio is detected; a desired speed is calculated as a function of the position of the accelerator control, the...

20060161329 - System and method for advanced tight coupling of gps and inertial navigation sensors: A system and method for generating a navigation solution in high interference and dynamic environments using Global Positioning System (GPS) and inertial measurement unit (IMU) data is described. The system configuration is a multi-satellite tracking loop structure obtained by closing each satellite's tracking loop through a single, multi-state navigation filter....

20060161331 - Drive control system for automotive vehicle: In a drive control system, a front image taken by a camera is processed by an image processor, and an electronic control unit generates control target values according to outputs from the image processor. Actuators control a driving speed and/or a lateral position of an own vehicle in a driving...

20060161333 - Control system of internal combustion engine: A control system of an internal combustion engine provided with a throttle valve passage air flow calculation equation by which the throttle valve passage air flow mt is expressed as a function of the downstream side intake pipe pressure at the downstream side of the throttle valve and a cylinder...

20060161332 - Method for determing a change in air consumption for a combustion engine: This invention relates to a method for determination of a change in volumetric efficiency for an internal combustion engine, whereby a reference volumetric efficiency is determined in advance, a first prevailing volumetric efficiency which corresponds to a sensor error is determined at a first measurement point (M1, L1) in a...

20060161334 - Average vehicle speed computation device and car navigation device: A car navigation device obtains a current position of a vehicle through a position detector, receives road traffic information through a VICS receiver. When the current position is included in congested points or congested sections of the road traffic information, a vehicle speed is not reflected on computation of an...

20060161336 - Gps-based steering needle instrument: A a flight instrument enabling a pilot to intercept and precisely follow a predefined GPS track. The instrument—known as a GPS steering indicator—provides a visual display which is similar in appearance to other aircraft instruments (and therefore instantly recognizable to nearly all pilots). However, the instrument is preferably differentiated somewhat...

20060161335 - Routing system and method: The routing system and method find efficient routings among destinations in a traffic network. A starting point and at least one destination point are identified in the traffic network. The identified points are ordered into at least one tour. Traffic conditions for the traffic network are forecast for a time...

20060161337 - Route planning process: In a process for determining a route from a predetermined starting point to a predetermined destination, firstly, weights are assigned to route segments interconnected at route nodes. At least a first weight relating to a first route segment is varied by querying at least a data source based on at...

20060161338 - Multi-port memory device providing protection signal: A memory system includes a first external device, a second external device, and a multi-port memory device connected to the first and second external devices. The multi-port memory system includes: a first port and a second port connected to the first and second external devices, respectively, a first bank group...

20060161340 - Multifunctional obe for its: Multifunctional on-board equipment (OBE) for an automobile is provided. The OBE includes a GPS terminal to commonly use a case, an electric power and an indicator, and provides a voice service through an internal speaker to notice a position of the automobile, to provide an electric toll collection function, and...

20060161339 - System and method for precision acoustic event detection: A system and method for providing precision locations for sensors which make up an array of sensors in a gunshot detection system. In a preferred embodiment sensors employ a commercial GPS which reports a sensor position or a group of pseudoranges to GPS satellites. A server collects differential information from...

20060161342 - Navigation apparatus: A navigation apparatus includes: a numerical conversion unit that converts information related to a specific suggestion to a numerical value; a suggestion unit that makes the specific suggestion to a user when the numerical value resulting from numerical conversion executed by the numerical conversion unit is greater than a threshold...

20060161341 - Navigation service: A group of two or more vehicles (21, 22, 23), each vehicle (21, 22, 23) comprising a communication unit (210, 220, 230) coupled with a navigation unit (211, 221, 231), wherein one vehicle of the group is classified as master vehicle (21) leading the group and the remaining vehicles of...

20060161344 - Information updating device, information distributing device, information processing system, method thereof, program thereof, and storage medium storing the program: A terminal unit (400) of a navigation system (100) transmits to a server (300) list request information containing a rectangular code corresponding to a predetermined display rectangular area of a travel route map. The terminal unit (400) acquires from the server (300) a server POI list corresponding to the rectangular...

20060161343 - Mobile navigation: A navigation guidance system is provided which gives direction information to a user via their mobile telephone. In one embodiment, the user pre-arranges their trip using a web-based route calculation server. The web-based server prompts the user to provide their mobile telephone number so that updated navigation instructions can be...

20060161346 - Coordinate mutual converting module: A coordinate mutual conversion module is provided which is capable of readily utilizing a global mesh code. A zone number (I-VI) and an east-west number within a block are derived from the longitude of a requested position (S1). A block number and a south-north number are derived from the latitude...

20060161347 - Data server used in a system for supplying augmentation data for the satellite navigation signals: The invention relates to a data server (40) used in a system (10) for supplying complementary data, so-called augmentation data, for satellite navigation signals. The inventive server (40) is especially adapted to be used with elements that are compatible with those used in EGNOS technology (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service)....

20060161348 - Gps device and method for displaying raster images: A GPS device adapted and operable to download and store, receive, or otherwise obtain and display any of a variety of different types of geo-referenced raster images, such as, for example, aerial photographs, and to integrate those images into a scheme of information which is relevant to navigation and travel...

20060161349 - Gps device and method for displaying raster images: A GPS device adapted and operable to download and store, receive, or otherwise obtain and display any of a variety of different types of geo-referenced raster images, such as, for example, aerial photographs, and to integrate those images into a scheme of information which is relevant to navigation and travel...

20060161345 - Motor vehicle load management system and method: A vehicle load control system, in which information on the cargo loading condition of a moving vehicle is obtained through communication between the moving vehicle and a control center via a communication network to provide centralized control of efficient cargo loading operation. A vehicle load control system provides centralized control...

20060155425 - Maintenance system for an equipment set: The invention relates to the maintenance of a rapidly installable and rapidly removable set of equipment (1-6, 11) which can be replaced by standard exchanges, furnished with individual electronic circuits for monitoring proper operation (1a-6a, 20a-23a, 30a-32a, 11a) assuming, at their level, a BITE function (Build [sic] In Test Equipment)...

20060155428 - Method for identifying mobile: There is provided a method of identifying a plurality of moving bodies that are present nearby, wherein each moving bodies includes means for transmitting, as advance information, a movement state including an operation instruction received by the moving body, together with identification information of the moving body and means for...

20060155426 - Method for monitoring at least one sensor: A method for monitoring at least one sensor is provided. In this context, error words are transmitted from the sensor to the control unit and additional different information characterizing error images is used to enable an adapted response to these parameters by the processor. Extraordinary operating states are indicated in...

20060155430 - Rfid vehicle management system and method: This disclosure describes a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) vehicle management system and method. For example, an RFID tag may be coupled with a particular vehicle and operable to store identifying information associated with the vehicle and to automatically communicate the identifying information to an RFID tag reader via a wireless...

20060155427 - Road traffic control method and traffic facilities: The invention relates to a road traffic control method and corresponding traffic facilities. The method includes: setting roads mounted or vehicles mounted devices for controlling queens passing; setting associated traffic facilities which assist controlling queens; guiding, including and controlling to vehicle flows in various directions by the above devices and...

20060155429 - Vehicle entertainment and accessory control system: A vehicle entertainment and accessory control system (10) is disclosed. The control system (10) provides a plurality of touchscreens (12,14,16) that present user interfaces (38,62) concurrently with video windows (40,64). The user interfaces (38,62) enable users to control various entertainment components, such as a video display (22) and a speaker...

20060155431 - Vehicle information system with remote communicator: An information system for a vehicle includes a computer for handling informational data. This information data includes vehicle data corresponding to operation of the vehicle and external data such as internet web pages and email. A primary display is connected to the computer and in a position to be viewed...

20060155432 - Methods and systems for monitoring atmospheric conditions, predicting turbulent atmospheric conditions and optimizing flight paths of aircraft: A method for optimizing the flight path of an aircraft is performed by collecting atmospheric information data from one or more sensors mounted on an aircraft; processing the collected atmospheric information; predicting an atmospheric condition in a flight path of the aircraft based upon the collected atmospheric information; and modifying...

20060155434 - Train control system and method of controlling a train or trains: A train control system includes positioning systems at the end of the train and at the front of the train, allowing the conductor or engineer to unambiguously determine that no cars of the train have become detached. The positioning system at the end of the train is also used to...

20060155433 - Train detection system and a train detection method: A train detection system includes transmitters receivers connected to a track circuit for transmitting and receiving a train detecting signal to and from the track circuit, and a control device on the ground, which transmits the train detecting signal to the transmitter and receives the train detection signal from the...

20060155435 - Method and system for controlling at least one actuator in the drive train of a motor vehicle: The invention relates to a method and device for securely and comfortably operating a drive train of a motor vehicle, especially for operating a drive train with several clutches....

20060155436 - Route generating system for an autonomous mobile robot: In a route generating system for an autonomous mobile robot, a plurality of nodes are designated within an area of movement of the robot and an edge is defined between a pair of nodes only if a distance from the one node to the other node is less than a...

20060155437 - System and method for data storage and diagnostics in a portable communication device interfaced with a telematics unit: A method of performing vehicle diagnostics including receiving diagnostic information from at least one electronic module of a vehicle at a portable communication device from a telematics unit via a short-range wireless connection, storing the received diagnostic information in a memory in the portable communication device to form a recent-history...

20060155438 - Data storage system: A data storage system comprises a temporary cache for temporarily storing data, a permanent cache for storing data for a predetermined period, and a memory selector for selectively having the temporary cache and the permanent cache store the data received by a terminal communicator. A data sorter sorts the data...

20060155439 - System and method for using a vehicle's key to collect vehicle data and diagnose mechanical problems, to store and compare security data to allow only authorized use of vehicles and a method to automatically set vehicle features usng the key: A method for collecting, storing, interpreting and transmitting data from vehicles of all kinds allowing vehicle users and fleet managers to diagnose problems using the IntelaKey System, to transmit vehicle feature settings to on board vehicle computers, store and analyze vehicle operating data, recognize who the driver is at any...

20060155440 - Roll angle plausibility: A vehicle safety system (20) includes a controller (24) that predicts a roll angle in response to output signals communicated to the controller (24) from each of a roll rate sensor (26), a lateral accelerometer (30), a vertical accelerometer (32), a longitudinal accelerometer (34), a yaw rate sensor (36) and...

20060155441 - Vehicle information system with steering wheel controller: An information system for a vehicle includes a computer for handling informational data corresponding to operation of the vehicle. A primary display is connected to the computer in a position to be viewed by a driver of the vehicle for presenting the informational data in multiple, sequential, interactive menu screens....

20060155443 - Deployment system for thermal radiating materials: An autonomous deployment system is described and disclosed herein for functional utilization in the physical placement and deployment of a heating or thermal mat(s). The invention is designed to enhance human productivity and ease deployment of the prior art thermal radiating or generating devices for the removal and or inhibition...

20060155442 - Method and apparatus for locating an object of interest within an image: Systems and methods are provided for identifying a position of a head of a vehicle occupant from a plurality of images of a vehicle interior. Image data is translated from the plurality of images to produce a virtual side view image of the vehicle interior. A largest grouping of pixels...

20060155444 - Automatic control of automotive rearview mirror: A side rearview mirror control system for a vehicle that automatically changes a rear viewing angle of a side rearview mirror. The control system receives various vehicle inputs to determine if and when a vehicle operator will turn the vehicle, make a lane change, merge into a lane of traffic,...

20060155445 - Sensor based anticipatory lighting of controls: A control system for selectively lighting and/or highlighting a control interface for a specific individual function generally includes at least one sensor for detecting at least one condition; a controller in operative communication with the at least one sensor and the control interface; wherein the controller sends an output signal...

20060155447 - Control system for a load-carrying vehicle: A control system for a load-carrying vehicle includes a sensor configured to measure a parameter of the vehicle and communicate a sensor signal indicative of the measured parameter. The control system also includes a control module configured to receive the sensor signal from the sensor and determine an appropriate engine...

20060155449 - Data generation and transmission system in agricultural working machines: A data generation and transmission system in agricultural working machines for exchanging data between mobile working units and/or stationary working units, and actuators includes data generation and transmission elements assignable to at least a portion of the working units, at least a portion of the data generation and transmission elements...

20060155446 - Industrial truck: A vehicle of the industrial truck type comprises a chassis (3), at least three wheels (4) arranged to support the chassis while resting on the ground and a lifting unit (8) connected to the chassis having one or more members (9) arranged to carry loads and a power arrangement to...

20060155448 - Upshift in hydrostatic drive work machine: A method of upshifting in a hydrostatic drive work machine is provided. The method includes the step of adjusting a high clutch pressure of the work machine toward an elevated pressure. While adjusting the high clutch pressure, a motor displacement in a hydrostatic drive of the work machine is increased...

20060155450 - Method for controlling selection of an automatic transmission gear ratio: A method for controlling selection of an automatic transmission gear ratio with staged ratios or constant variation for a vehicle including a control for preventing/allowing extension of the gear ratio or for controlling a shortening the transmission gear ratio if, at a current engine speed, the power is insufficient for...

20060155451 - Vehicle control apparatus: An engine ECU executes a program including a request drive force converted into an engine torque falls out of a saturation region, a step of calculating the target opening degree of a throttle, the request drive force converted into the engine torque falls in the saturation region, and the request...

20060155452 - Method for operating a drive train of a motor vehicle: 2.2. The control device determines a maximum acceptable power (Pmax) from a characteristic curve (32) as a function of temperature information of the transmission. Using a rotational speed of the drive machine the control device determines from said maximum acceptable power (Pmax) a maximum acceptable torque (Mmax) to which the...

20060155453 - Selecting transmission ratio based on performance drivability and fuel economy: A transmission control system for a vehicle includes a driver input device that generates a driver input signal and a control module that receives the driver input signal. The control module determines an operating mode of a transmission based on the driver input signal and selects a gear ratio of...

20060155455 - Method and device for controlling at least one deceleration device and/or an output-determing actuating element of a vehicle drive device: A device and a method for triggering at least one deceleration device and/or one output-determining actuator element of a vehicle propulsion system, in particular for automatic longitudinal vehicle regulation, a first surroundings sensing device being provided, which delivers longitudinal value-optimized measured values, a second surroundings sensing device being provided, which...

20060155454 - Method for improving the handling characteristic of a vehicle during emergency braked driving: The invention relates to a method for improving the handling characteristic of a vehicle during partially braked driving. The invention is characterized by a driving stability regulation device for correcting or regulating deviations from a desired lane, said device being configured in such a way that the start and the...

20060155456 - Vehicle stopped-judgement apparatus and stopped-judgement method in a velocity-calculation apparatus: A vehicle stopped-judgment apparatus in a velocity-calculation apparatus comprising: an angle-calculation means 2 that calculates the road-surface angle from the acceleration component Ax that is parallel with the road surface and acceleration component Az that is perpendicular to the road surface and that are obtained from an acceleration sensor 1...

20060155457 - Method and system for stabilizing a vehicle combination: The invention relates to a method and a device for stabilizing a car-trailer combination, including a towing vehicle and a trailer moved by the towing vehicle, wherein the towing vehicle is monitored in terms of rolling motions and measures that stabilize driving are taken upon the detection of an actual...

20060155458 - Road surface angle calculation apparatus and calculation method: When calculating velocity from acceleration information obtained from an acceleration sensor that is installed in a vehicle, the road-surface angle is calculated instead of used the vehicle-velocity pulse to improve the accuracy of the velocity. The invention comprises: an angle-calculation means 4 that calculates the road-surface angle α from the...

20060155459 - Method and device for handling an object with the aid of a location system: The invention relates to object handling method which consists in determining the positions of the arm of a handling system with the aid of a location method which is based on a reference system predetermined by an associated location system. The inventive device for carrying out said method is also...

20060155460 - Method for gps carpool rendezvous tracking and personal safety verification: Rendezvous tracking subsystem uses GPS-enabled cell phones communicating with an application server for tracking the whereabouts of carpool participants and for providing on-time status of participants en-route to designated rendezvous points. Safety subsystem can be used to verify safe arrival of participants at carpool destinations. Participants can configure safety subsystem...

20060155461 - Position information sharing system and method using mobile communication system: A position information sharing system and method using a mobile communication system is provided. The system includes: a plurality of navigation terminals for wirelessly communicating with the mobile communication system, receiving shared position information of at least one navigation system through the mobile communication system, mapping a self position and...

20060155462 - Computer product having distribution map data, distribution map data creation method, distrubution map data creation device, and terminal device: Distribution map data for distributing a map by communication includes road data representing position information on the roads contained in a plurality of compartments and integrating name data for integrating name information for the same roads contained in the plurality of compartments without duplicating them....

20060155463 - Digital map position information compressing method and device: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for compressing data of position information such as a road on a digital map in order to realize an accurate transmission of the position information in a small volume of data. A shape vector of an object road segment is resampled, and...

20060155464 - Methods and systems for deducing road geometry and connectivity: Methods and systems for generating, deriving, and enhancing drivable road databases are provided. A baseline road in a road network is defined and position and/or trajectory data collected by vehicles traveling the baseline road are compiled and compared to a representation of the baseline road in an existing database. Identity...

20060155465 - Method for route guidance on mobile terminal capable of interworking scheduling and navigation functions: Disclosed is a mobile terminal capable of interworking a navigation function with a schedule management function. If a user previously registers schedule information including the origin, destination, appointment date/time and schedule alarm time, the mobile terminal will automatically generate an alarm when the schedule alarm time is reached on the...

20060155466 - Mobile terminal with navigation function: The present invention provides a mobile terminal with navigation function which is able to display traveling directions on a photographed picture displayed on the display. The mobile terminal with navigation function of the present invention detects the present location of the cellular phone, detects the direction of the camera, sets...

20060155467 - Method and device for displaying navigational information for a vehicle: According to the invention, navigational information for a vehicle is displayed intuitively and in an easily comprehensible manner in the form of a virtual pilot vehicle, superimposed on an image of the vehicle environment. The display mode and/or position and/or orientation and/or size of the virtual pilot vehicle are determined...

20060155468 - Voice navigation device and voice navigation method: The voice navigation method relates to a voice navigation device and a voice navigation method, which may be utilized in cooperation with the Satellite Global Positioning System. The method is used to broadcast a voice-guidance-item having higher requirement importance more preferentially than a voice-guidance-item having low requirement importance, even if...

20060155469 - Crash-safe vehicle control system: A crash-safe vehicle control system for controlling operating devices of an own vehicle such as a vehicle decelerating device and an occupant protecting device, on the basis of information on at least one preceding object existing in front of the own vehicle. The vehicle control system is arranged to effect...

20060149429 - Acceleration display device mounted in vehicle: In-vehicle display apparatus includes a unit for detecting an acceleration of a vehicle and outputting an acceleration detection signal, a display control unit for outputting a display control signal to perform a graphic display of the acceleration of the vehicle in a mode according to the change therein, and a...

20060149427 - Apparatus for monitoring a supply system, in particular a motor-vehicle electrical system, and method for monitoring a supply system for this type: In order to monitor an electrical supply system, in particular of a motor vehicle, which is at least partially mounted on a carbon-fiber supporting structure, a monitoring unit is provided and electrically connected to the carbon-fiber supporting structure at preferably a plurality of measurement points. Voltage values are tapped off...

20060149426 - Detecting an eye of a user and determining location and blinking state of the user: A method and apparatus for detecting a location of an eye of a user using an automated detection process, and automatically determining a position of a head of the user with respect to an object based on the detected location of the eye. A location of an eye of a...

20060149428 - Emotion-based software robot for automobiles: An emotion-based software robot for automobiles, in which a driver's emotion and behavior caused by such emotion are anticipated when each input such as a driver's states, commands, and behaviors, automobile situations, automobile environmental situations, etc., is recognized based on results learned with respect to a change in emotion of...

20060149430 - Entertainment device storage case adapted for interconnection to a vehicle seat: A storage case that is adapted to secure an entertainment device, such as a portable DVD player is provided. The storage case may be equipped with a plurality of mechanisms that allow selective interconnection to a seat of a vehicle to facilitate use of the entertainment device and includes an...

20060149424 - Method and device for effecting a computer-aided estimation of the mass of a vehicle, particularly of a goods-carrying vehicle: A method is for effecting a computer-aided estimation of the mass of a vehicle, e.g., of a goods-carrying vehicle, based on the equilibrium ratio between the driving force and the sum of the inertial force and drive resistances, in which the mass and a gradient angle of the roadway are...

20060149425 - Motion sensor system: A vehicle includes a motion sensor and a control processor. The motion sensor optically detects motion of the vehicle with respect to an underlying surface. The motion sensor includes a variable focus imager. The control processor receives information from the motion sensor and calculates location of the vehicle, speed of...

20060149431 - Customizable remote transceiver for a vehicle: A customizable remote transceiver for communicating with a vehicle control system is provided. A customizable remote transceiver for communicating with a vehicle control system comprises: a first input for receiving a first command; a second input for receiving a second command; a processor for generating a control signal based on...

20060149432 - Flight management architecture and design methodology: A FMS architecture and design methodology wherein the critical system functions are implemented in substantially autonomous partitions. The FMS architecture and design methodology enhances system cohesiveness and reduces data coupling relative to existing FMS designs. Execution and control of the FMS is governed by central operating system and complex areas...

20060149439 - Checklist error mitigation system: A checklist error mitigation system and method are provided to reduce the chance for error when completing a checklist. The system may receive a checklist step from an electronic or voice checklist system and highlights any switch, lever, dial or control that needs to be manipulated in completion of the...

20060149433 - Failure diagnosing device and method for vehicular control apparatus: A failure determination threshold value HSH used for making a failure determination for a control apparatus, for example, a lock-up clutch (26) by failure determining means (116) is corrected by failure determination threshold value correcting means (114) based on a continuation quantity qNG, for example, a duration tNG, of an...

20060149437 - Method and apparatus for linking to a vehicle diagnostic system: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate generally to an improved off-board tool for communicating with a vehicle diagnostic system using a CAN communications protocol. In one exemplary embodiment, an off-board tool having an executable program for linking the off-board tool to a vehicle diagnostic system is provided. The program...

20060149438 - Method and system for extending the life of a vehicle: The present invention provides a system, a computer program and a method of increasing the usable life of a new vehicle including providing a warranty for the life of the new vehicle to a user, providing a maintenance schedule for the new vehicle to the user and repairing a mechanical...

20060149434 - Method and system for retrieving diagnostic information from a vehicle: Exemplary embodiments of off-board tools (OBTS) may be used in vehicle inspection maintenance programs are provided. The OBT may include a processor, vehicle communication circuitry for linking to a vehicle diagnostic system, host interface circuitry for communicating with a host computer, and voltage determination circuitry for measuring a voltage through...

20060149435 - Off-board device with read/scroll actuator: A single input having multiple functions is provided. The single input having multiple functions may be used on off-board tools. In accordance with one embodiment, an off-board tool having a read/scroll actuator is provided. The read/scroll actuator, upon being actuated, performs either a read function or a scroll function. Another...

20060149436 - Off-board tool with programmable actuator: A programmable actuator having multiple programmable functions is provided. The programmable actuator may be used on an off-board tool. In accordance with an embodiment, an off-board tool, OBT, including a user-defined programmable actuator is provided. In accordance with another embodiment, an OBT includes a processor, an internal memory, a programmable...

20060149440 - Sensor system: The present invention concerns a sensor system for monitoring at least the wear of lining material of a disc brake. It may also be used to monitor the stroke of the brake actuator. The sensor system receives signals from a first external and/or internal means and a second sensor means...

20060149441 - Failure detection device and method for oil temperature sensor for automatic transmission: A failure detection device and method for an oil temperature sensor that detects an oil temperature of hydraulic fluid of an automatic transmission mounted in a vehicle. It is determined that a failure has occurred in the oil temperature sensor if the oil temperature, which is detected by the oil...

20060149443 - Method and apparatus for communication within control systems: A method and apparatus for synchronous communication in a control system is disclosed. Within a first time interval, a first source task is executed to broadcast a first destination task, within a second sequential time interval, the first destination task is communicated over a channel to a first destination, and...

20060149442 - Vehicle integrated radio remote control: Radio remote control over a motor vehicle and particularly of auxiliary systems installed on the vehicle is effected through an onboard controller which is integrated with the vehicle's controller area network. This arrangement increases flexibility of the system for handling different systems, and potentially more than one unrelated system....

20060149444 - Method of compensating for disturbances in the straight-line stability of a motor vehicle: In a method of compensating for disturbances in the straight-line stability of a motor vehicle which is equipped with an active chassis, and includes a steering wheel angle sensor, a driving speed sensor and a yaw sensor or a transversal acceleration sensor, above a predefined driving speed limit and below...

20060149446 - Automatic steering system: Structure for converting a conventional manual steering system of an off-road vehicle to an automatic steering system utilizing remote signals. A stepper motor is connected through a belt or chain drive to a drive mounted on the upper end of a steering shaft. The stepper motor is connected to a...

20060149448 - Lane departure prevention system: A lane departure prevention system comprises a traveling status detecting unit for detecting current lateral displacement and current yaw angle of a vehicle relative to a lane of travel, a departure detecting unit for detecting whether the vehicle is tending to depart from the lane of travel on the basis...

20060149447 - Vehicle load monitoring for four wheel steering: Methods and apparatus are provided for automatically determining the steering system calibration of a vehicle in accordance with vehicle loading. The apparatus comprises a combination of a load monitor and a steering controller. The load monitor senses the actual loading of the vehicle and provides a corresponding feedback signal to...

20060149445 - Vehicle stability control device: A novel vehicle stability control device through steering wheels independently of the driver's handling operation is provided, in which a suitable steering angle parameter in determining a target value for a turning state parameter is selected. The control device calculates a provisional target steering angle for wheels based upon an...

20060149449 - Method for controlling a safety system in a vehicle: In a method for controlling a safety system in a vehicle, wherein an output signal of at least one impact sensor is subjected to frequency analysis in an evaluation unit which is integrated into an electronic control unit, the frequency analysis is performed in at least one predetermined frequency range,...

20060149450 - Method for controlling automatic transmission of a vehicle on a downhill slope: The invention concerns a method for controlling automatic transmission (3) of a vehicle comprising an engine (2) driving the transmission (3) which consists in: detecting a downhill situation of the vehicle, and selecting a transmission ratio so that the engine absorbs energy, storing a longitudinal speed of downhill start (Vmin)...

20060149451 - Method and device for detecting longitudinal and transversal acceleration of a vehicle: Disclosed is a method for detecting longitudinal and lateral acceleration of a vehicle, in which at least two sensors determine acceleration components that are aligned in a substantially perpendicular manner in relation to each other. The method is characterized in that the acceleration components have an angle ranging between 10°...

20060149453 - Vehicle travel control apparatus: An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle control apparatus which makes it possible to share information by a plurality of devices and which can improve controllability. An OS switching means (OS-CH) switches a plurality of operating system (OS1, OS2). A shared object (CO) has a memory...

20060149452 - Vehicular control object determination system and vehicle control system: In a vehicular control object determination system, the position of an object detected by a radar device is stored by a detection position memory, and a predetermined area having the position of the object as the center is set as the determination region by a determination region setter. When the...

20060149454 - Smart resolution valve pressure control: The Smart Resolution Valve Pressure Control System allows any pressure control system using valve state pulsing to modify airflow at an optimum and consistent range of operation thereby enhancing control accuracy and increasing the useable cycle life of any valve combination used....

20060149455 - Vehicle driving support apparatus: In automatic following control in a travel control unit of a driving support apparatus, a prerequisite inter-vehicle distance to a front vehicle is set, a time to reaching this requisite inter-vehicle distance is set as a control target time, an estimated position of the front vehicle after the control target...

20060149456 - Method and system for fuel injector time delay installation: State-of-the-art fuel injectors have an inherent time delay that is determined by an elapsed time from the time an electrical signal is received by the fuel injector from an ECU to the time that fuel is actually initially injected into the cylinder. That time is currently an average time and...

20060149457 - Method and system for phonebook transfer: A method for managing user nametags for a vehicle communications system includes receiving a nametag transfer request at a call center from a source, determining a target vehicle based on the request, generating a nametag data file including a text data file, a phoneme set, and an audio data file...

20060149458 - Precision landmark-aided navigation: Navigational systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide accurate processing of two-dimensional sensor images for navigation and determination of position in three-dimensions. Landmark features are extracted from two-dimensional sensor images and correlated to landmark features data stored in a database to estimate latitude, longitude, and altitude of a vehicle...

20060149459 - Information providing device: An information providing system is disclosed to provide information to a traveling user, the information providing system including: a visit history record unit (306) which detects that the user visits a place which is away from a user's living area in order to generate a travel history, and records, as...

20060149460 - Methods and systems for reporting automotive traffic conditions in response to user-specific requests: The method and system described herein provides an interface for accessing a database containing information pertaining to traffic conditions. Using the interface, a driver can receive traffic conditions potentially affecting the driver's particular commute, just prior to the time at which the driver chooses between one or more routes for...

20060149461 - Transportation routing: A computer-implemented method of providing personalized route information involves gathering a plurality of past location indicators over time for a wireless client device, determining a future driving objective using the plurality of previously-gathered location indicators, obtaining real-time traffic data for an area proximate to the determined driving objective, and generating...

20060149462 - Vehicular control object determination system and vehicular travel locus estimation system: In a vehicular control object determination system, locus correlation degree calculator calculates a degree of correlation between a future travel locus of a vehicle estimated by first travel locus estimator based on a vehicle speed and a yaw rate and a future travel locus of the vehicle estimated by second...

20060149465 - Method and apparatus for moving in minimum cost path using grid map: A method of moving in a minimum cost path using a grid map, and an apparatus to perform the method, the method including calculating a move cost to a goal, from each of a plurality of cells comprises in a space in which a mobile home appliance moves, and planning...

20060149464 - Method and system for determining the shortest elapsed time route: A method and system that can determine the shortest elapsed time route in multiple routes and provide such information to users. The method comprises the steps of: a) acquiring average driving time of each of the plural route segments; b) accumulating the average driving time of each of the plural...

20060149463 - Route guide information delivery method, route guidance method, information terminal and information delivery center: Upon receiving a request from a vehicle-mounted device 100, a distribution center 200 executes a recommend route calculation and a guide calculation and transmits recommended route information and the data size of guide information to the vehicle-mounted device 100. The vehicle-mounted device 100 calculates the estimated download time based upon...

20060149467 - Map drawing method, map drawing system, navigation apparatus and input/output apparatus: A navigation apparatus is connected to an input/output apparatus for data transmission therebetween. The navigation apparatus includes a GPS receiver and a road data storage unit, and the input/output apparatus includes map drawing data storage unit, in which map drawing data related to coordinate data is stored, and a touch...

20060149466 - Navigation device, navigation method, and program: A navigation apparatus includes: a route acquiring unit that acquires a route that connects a departure place and a destination, the route including a plurality of section routes for which different kinds of transportations are used; a guiding unit that performs a guidance based on the route acquire by the...

20060149469 - Navigation intervention apparatus, intervention method and vehicle navigation system: The present invention allows an existing single-sequentialized navigation main unit to be virtually multi-sequentialized with simple structure. An intervention device 3 receives from a front monitor 4 and a rear monitor 5 acquisition requests which request various kinds of screens from a navigation main unit 2. In response to the...

20060149468 - Navigation system: A navigation system comprising a position detector for locating a position of a vehicle in a route map, a map data storage for storing the route map with guidance setting for nodes in the route map, a route search function for searching and determining a proper route to a destination...

20060149470 - Consultation and processing system of information for hiking with the use of standard pda hardware: A system for the consultation and processing of information for hiking with the use of standard hardware of the PDA type or an equivalent integrates or cooperates with the following functions: compass, altimeter, and coordinates. It provides the following mode of use: consultation with GPS off by cartography consultation without...

20060149472 - Vision-aided system and method for guiding a vehicle: A method and system for guiding a vehicle comprises a location determining receiver for collecting location data for the vehicle. A vision module collects vision data for the vehicle. A location quality estimator estimates the location quality data for the location data during an evaluation time window. A vision module...

20060149473 - Method for determining and compensating the scale factor error cause by a wavelength change in a gps-based inertial navigation system: In a GPS-supported inertial attitude and heading reference system equipped with a Kalman correction filter and a multiple axis fiber optic gyroscope, the invention provides for only that scale factor error which is determined for the measurement axis (e.g. the vertical axis) with relatively fast motion dynamics to be used...

20060149474 - Real-time refinement method of spacecraft star tracker alignment estimates: A method of estimating the alignment of a star sensor (20) for a vehicle (12) includes generating star tracker data. A vehicle attitude and a star sensor attitude are determined in response to the star tracker data. A current alignment sample is generated in response to the vehicle attitude and...

20060149475 - Determining relative spatial information between vehicles: A method for determining relative spatial information between a first vehicle and a second vehicle, the method including monitoring a communication channel at the first vehicle and receiving a current communication signal sent by the second vehicle on the communication channel. The current communication signal is received at a received...