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Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location January USPTO class patent listing 01/07

20070021876 - Driver condition detecting device, in-vehicle alarm system and drive assistance system: When there is a preceding vehicle in a traveling direction of a subject vehicle, an ECU computes a driver condition coefficient that represents degree of change in the size of an image of the preceding vehicle as viewed from the driver is computed. The driving condition of the driver is... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070021875 - Method and apparatus to control coordinated wheel motors: A method and system providing coordinated torque control and speed control of a vehicle equipped with individual wheel motors, a steering system, and yaw-rate detection to achieve a desired yaw moment for the vehicle, based upon operator input and vehicle operation, is described. This includes determining a commanded steering angle,... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070021877 - Systems and methods of redistribution of articles of commerce: A method includes transporting with a vehicle to a first location a first article addressed to a recipient associated with the first location. The first article is deposited at the first location. A second article that includes a technical nutrient is retrieved from the first location. The second article is... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070021878 - Control system for vehicles: A system for controlling flight of an aircraft has sensors (37, 43), a receiver (45), and a digital control system (57), all of which are carried aboard the aircraft. The sensors (37, 43) determine the position of the aircraft relative to the earth and the inertial movement of the aircraft.... Agent: Law Offices Of James E. Walton, PLLC

20070021880 - Collaborative system for a team of unmanned vehicles: A system collaboratively and autonomously plans and controls a team of unmanned vehicles within an environment. A mission planning component creates a mission plan for a plurality of members of the team of unmanned vehicles. The mission planning component creates a task plan for each member based on the mission... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070021879 - System for intelligently controlling a team of vehicles: A system collaboratively and autonomously plans and controls a team of vehicles having subsystems within an environment. The system includes a mission management component, a communication component, a payload controller component, and an automatic target recognition component. The mission management component plans and executes a mission plan of the team... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070021881 - Parking assist devices, methods, and programs: Parking assist devices, methods, and programs determine a current position of a vehicle and acquire image data from a camera provided on the vehicle. The devices, methods, and programs extract a predetermined region of the acquired image data, the predetermined region being a portion of the image that will be... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070021883 - Automotive picture and data acquisition center and method: An apparatus and method for the automatic or semi-automatic acquisition of multiple photographs and VIN-coded information about an automobile. In one embodiment, four height-adjustable, digital cameras are positioned on four corner posts defining a work center. A vehicle is pulled into the center until a stop indicator light is triggered,... Agent: Michael P. Adams Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20070021882 - Validating control system software variables: A vehicle having a system for validating a variable signal for input to a processor-performed function. An input module receives the signal. A processor tests first and second storage locations of a memory. After testing, the processor stores the signal in the first and second storage locations to obtain first... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070021884 - Vehicle service system and method for returning periodic maintenance mileage thereof: A vehicle service system and a method for returning periodic maintenance mileage thereof is disclosed. The vehicle service system is applied to a vehicle and includes a mileage counter that counts the accumulated total mileage traveled by the car, a wireless communication module, and an in-car computer, which has several... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070021885 - System and method for personalizing motor vehicle ride or handling characteristics: An improved system and method for personalizing the ride and/or handling characteristics of a motor vehicle are disclosed. An example system for personalizing or individualizing the ride and/or handling characteristics of a motor vehicle is disclosed, which includes a processing unit, a memory unit, an interface unit, and a plurality... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070021886 - Vehicle suspension control system and method: A vehicle suspension control system includes a level change recognition section that recognizes a change in level in a road, e.g. roadside curb, a travel path prediction section that predicts the travel path of the host vehicle, a ride-up judgment section which predicts that a wheel or wheels will ride... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070021887 - Method and system for controlling a yawing moment actuator in a motor vehicle: A system and a method for controlling a yawing moment actuator (8) in a motor vehicle, having the process steps of detecting the current steer angle of the motor vehicle; determining the current coefficient of friction between the tire of the motor vehicle and the road; detecting the current driving... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070021888 - Auxiliary steering system for vehicles: An auxiliary vehicle steering system includes a user interface for receiving a user input and transmitting a control output signal associated with the input signal. The interface is located within the vehicle. A mechanism is included for rotating a vehicle's front wheels along an arcuate path offset 90 degrees from... Agent: Ashkan Najafi, P.A.

20070021889 - Power steering system and control method of the same: With a power steering system and a control method of a power steering system provided, a basic assist control amount is calculated based on a steered state of a driver's steering wheel. A compensation control amount used to compensate for the basic assist control amount is calculated, and corrected, during... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070021890 - Malfunction condition judgment apparatus, control method, automobile and program method: A malfunction condition judgment apparatus (MCJA) that judges malfunction condition (MC) of an observed object based on a change of observed values. The MCJA acquires time series data for values of each of a plurality of variables; calculates, with respect to each of the variables, a statistic defining a probability... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20070021891 - Empty seat detection via spectral analysis: A module and method for determining whether a seat is empty. In one embodiment, the module includes a projection module that is configured to receive force data that includes a plurality of modes. The projection module is also configured to isolate data for one of the modes. A transform module... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070021892 - Seat belt controlling system and method of controlling seat belt: A seat belt controlling system, includes: an outputting system outputting a signal showing a rotary state of each of wheels of a vehicle; a determinant determining whether or not a restraining of a seat occupant of the vehicle is necessary, based on the signals which are from the outputting system... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070021893 - Vehicle accessory adjusting system and method of adjusting vehicle accessory: A vehicle accessory adjusting system that adjusts a variety of on-vehicle accessories of a vehicle to suit a driver or a passenger according to personal data stored in an IC card or other portable data storage medium. The vehicle accessory adjusting system includes a memory that stores standard setting data... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070021894 - Method for initiating start-up of an electrical system: A method for starting a work machine includes receiving information corresponding to a current configuration of at least one component of the work machine. The method also includes comparing the received information to information corresponding to a previous configuration of the at least one component. The method further includes providing... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070021895 - System and method for monitoring the status of a work machine: A status monitoring system for a work machine includes at least a first monitoring device coupled to a first component of the work machine and at least a second monitoring device coupled to a second component of the work machine. The status monitoring system also includes at least a first... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070021896 - Technique for determining motor vehicle slip angle while accounting for road banks: A technique for determining a slip angle of a motor vehicle, while compensating for bank angle of the motor vehicle, includes a number of steps. Initially, a first lateral velocity of a motor vehicle is determined, without consideration of a bank angle and is derived from an integral of a... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070021898 - Speed control system and method for a motor vehicle: A speed control system is provided for a motor vehicle, including units for calculating a drive torque or a brake torque as a function of a pre-definable target speed, the target speed being pre-defined by the single actuation of an operable control element. A sustained actuation of the control element... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070021897 - Speedometer and motor vehicle arrangement: A speedometer includes a function storage device, which has stored therein four conversion functions, a selector, which provides four options corresponding to the four conversion functions in the function storage device, and a microprocessor, which counts pulse signals sent by the sensor device of the motor vehicle to obtain a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070021899 - Method and system for operating a multi-stage combustor: A method for operating a multi-stage combustor of a gas turbine engine comprises: (a) determining a combustor air entry temperature; (b) determining the combustor air entry flow rate; and (c) controlling the fuel split ratio to stages of the combustor on the basis of the combustor air entry flow rate... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070021900 - Control apparatus and control method for internal combustion engine: A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine provided with a fuel supply mechanism capable of adjusting a fuel supply amount includes a flow rate sensor that detects an intake air flow rate that represents a flow rate of air admitted into a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070021901 - Control system for internal combustion engine: A control system for an internal combustion engine having fuel injection valves provided in a combustion chamber and an exhaust gas recirculation mechanism. Target maximum cylinder pressure change rates are set according to the operating condition of the engine. The maximum change rate of the detected cylinder pressure and a... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070021902 - Soft-computing method for establishing the heat dissipation law in a diesel common rail engine: A soft-computing method for establishing the dissipation law of the heat in a diesel Common Rail engine, in particular for establishing the dissipation mean speed (HRR) of the heat, includes the following steps: choosing a number of Wiebe functions whereon a dissipation speed signal (HRR) of the heat is decomposed;... Agent: Bryan A. Santarelli Graybeal Jackson Haley LLP

20070021903 - Method for monitoring combustion stability of an internal combustion engine: The present invention relates to a method for monitoring combustion stability of an internal combustion engine equipped with a crankshaft, an intake manifold and at least one cylinder, including the following steps: determining the absolute deviation e of indicated mean effective pressure pind or indicated torque Tind with respect to... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC.

20070021904 - Travel assistance device for vehicle: The relative position of the surrounding vehicle to the traveling vehicle is determined from respective position information of the traveling vehicle and the surrounding-vehicle obtained through communication between vehicles. The processing area of the image picked up by the camera is restricted on the basis of this relative position. By... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070021905 - Navigation system: A navigation system for providing a navigation route of a travel between a start point and an end point based on a route search by using a predetermined condition includes a display unit for displaying the navigation route and/or a navigation route candidate with a condition name associated thereto. The... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070021907 - Navigation system: A navigation system is mounted in a vehicle positioned in a facility, whose on-site passage data is unavailable for the system. In this case, the system determines whether a facility exit is learned. When the facility exit is learned, the system defines, as a facility exit coordinates, the learned coordinates.... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070021906 - Road information system and method for providing road information based on internet protocol: A road information system and a method for providing road information based on Internet protocol are provided, wherein typically, a client sends out a connection signal, so as to establish a connection with a road information server, then, according to the current position coordinates, the client downloads corresponding road information... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070021909 - Navigation system: A current position is detected. Representative routes from a current position are extracted from map data. With respect to each extracted route, road information and congestion information are retrieved. An expected mileage is calculated with respect to each route based on (i) the retrieved information and (ii) a relationship between... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070021908 - System and method for data mapping and map discrepancy reporting: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to systems and methods for identifying and eliminating discrepancies in electronic maps. Embodiments of a method and system for correcting discrepancies in an electronic map includes receiving location information from one or more computing devices using the electronic map, identifying a discrepancy between... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070021910 - Navigation apparatus: In a navigation apparatus of guiding a vehicle to a destination, a data storing section stores an information set including at least location information for identifying a location of a travel burden point on a road network, link information indicating a road linked to the travel burden point, and a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070021912 - Current position information management systems, methods, and programs: Systems, methods, and programs for current position information management store map data and detect a current position of a vehicle using dead-reckoning navigation. The systems, methods, and programs monitor, based on the detected current position, a left-right position of the vehicle relative to a lane in which the vehicle is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070021911 - Map displaying device, map display method, and map display program: The map-display-area determining unit determines an area in which a map is to be displayed. The road-information obtaining unit obtains, from map data transmitted from a map-data distributing server, curved-point coordinate information and name information of a traffic route. A map-display-data generating unit determines a display position for each of... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070021913 - Adaptive guidance system and method: An adaptive guidance system for a vehicle includes an on-board GPS receiver, an on-board processor adapted to store a preplanned guide pattern and a guidance device. The processor includes a comparison function for comparing the vehicle GPS position with a line segment of the preplanned guide pattern. The processor controls... Agent: Mark Brown

20070021914 - Navigation system with function of destination search using synchronization service of home telematics system, and method thereof: Provided is a navigation system with a function of destination search using a synchronization service of a home telematics system. The navigation system includes: a map database for storing map data; a GPS (global positioning system) module for receiving each position signal from a plurality of GPS satellites, and calculating... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20070021915 - Collision avoidance methods and systems: Method for avoiding collisions between a host vehicle and other vehicles in which the position of the vehicles is determined, the vehicles are equipped with a transmitter/receiver, and in the host vehicle, the possibility of a collision involving the host vehicle is assessed by receiving signals from the transmitter/receivers of... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20070016340 - Controller method, apparatus and article suitable for electric drive: A control system, method and article allows a monitoring module to monitor operation of a main controller in an electric drive, by providing questions and evaluating the accuracy and/or timeliness of responses from the main controller. Upon detection of an excessive number of incorrect or late responses, the monitoring module... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070016336 - Method and system for reducing stress concentrations in lap joints: A stress concentration reduction system includes a hoop tension finger doubler coupled to a fuselage panel lap splice. The lap slice is formed by an upper fuselage panel overlapped by a lower fuselage panel. The hoop tension finger doubler is formed to fit against the fuselage panels flushly.... Agent: Ostrager Chong Flaherty & Broltman, P.C.

20070016339 - Method of distinguishing, from a moving platform, stationary objects from moving objects: A method of distinguishing, from a moving platform, stationary objects from moving objects. The method includes using a first detector mounted to the moving platform to obtain at least a first reading from a target area, advancing the moving platform relative to the target area and using a second detector... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20070016338 - Motor vehicle control device: A motor vehicle control device having a sensor unit containing several sensors and having a pertaining control unit, consists of a first and a second partial device, the first partial device containing the sensors and/or pertaining peripheries of the control unit, which are present for all vehicles of a model... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070016341 - Traveling vehicle system and stop control method for traveling vehicle: A first mark 20 is provided before a target stop position, and a second mark 22 is provided between the first mark 20 and the target stop position. When a mark sensor 24 of a traveling vehicle 8 detects the first mark 20, a speed pattern generation unit 26 generates... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070016337 - Vehicle-borne electronic control device: A constant-voltage power supply circuit unit that is fed from a vehicle-borne battery via a power switch and generates a predetermined constant-voltage output Vcc includes a power transistor and an output voltage regulating circuit unit. The output voltage regulating circuit unit includes a reference voltage generating circuit, a comparison amplifying... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070016342 - Interface to vehicle security and convenience systems: An interface system to a vehicle data bus having a communication range greater than a communication range between an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) transceiver and an OEM remote control device already integrated in a vehicle. The interface system comprises a remote control device, a control module transceiver and a control... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070016343 - System and method for converting an aircraft from a flight condition lying outside a permissible fight condition range to a flight condition lying within the permissible flight condition range: A system and method for converting an aircraft from a flight condition lying outside a permissible flight condition range to a flight condition lying within the permissible flight condition range, that can be assigned to a sensor system and a control device of the aircraft. The system includes a control... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070016345 - Synchronization of computer terminals in an aircraft: A method for providing information to a pilot computer terminal in a cockpit of an aircraft, wherein the method comprises selecting information by using the input means of a co-pilot computer terminal and synchronizing the selected information to the pilot computer terminal and a computer terminal for a cockpit of... Agent: Trask Britt

20070016344 - Systems and methods for voice communications and control using adapted portable data storage and display devices: A software application hosted on portable electronic digital data storage and display devices, such as Class 1 or 2 certified EFB computing devices in the cockpits of aircraft, integrates system components to allow users to initiate voice communications with various receiving destinations via a WiFi or other communications network. The... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070016346 - Atmosphere model: The invention relates to a time and location dependent atmosphere model and especially determining the altitude of a mobile terminal based on this model and the measured barometric pressure at the location of the terminal. The atmosphere model provides a long term, wide area barometric pressure model estimate.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070016347 - Alternative input control method and device: An electronic control unit determines whether a level of a battery supply voltage is low, and whether a feedback system of a door lock control device is in an abnormal state. If the level of the battery supply voltage is determined to be low, or if the feedback system of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070016348 - Vehicle flasher system for indicating emergency braking: One embodiment of this invention discloses a system for activating a vehicle's emergency flashers upon harsh braking or if the vehicle otherwise undergoes severe deceleration.... Agent: Marc E. Hankin, Esq.

20070016350 - Apparatus and method for fnr calibration and testing neutral safety switch thresholds in an agricultural windrower: An apparatus and method for calibration of an FNR lever or multifunction handle (MFH), wherein signal outputs as the FNR lever or MFH is transitioned to and from the neutral position and through at least one range of propulsion positions, are determined. The determined signal values are then compared with... Agent: Cnh America LLC

20070016349 - Hydraulic control apparatus for hydraulic excavator: A first group is supplied with hydraulic power from a first hydraulic pump. In the first group, an arm control valve is disposed at the most downstream position. A throttle is provided at the entrance of the arm control valve. Thus, a circuit is configured to give priority to boom... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070016351 - Transfer case having selectable driving modes suited to motor vehicle load and road conditions: A motor vehicle powertrain includes a transmission producing multiple speed ratios, and a transfer case including a second input driveably connected to the transmission output, a second output continually driveably connected to a first set of wheels and releasably connected to a second set of wheels, for producing alternately in... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20070016352 - Braking force control method for automotive vehicle and braking force control apparatus therefor: In braking force control method for an automotive vehicle and braking force control apparatus therefor, contribution degrees of both of a stroke quantity of a brake input device and a master cylinder pressure developed in a master cylinder are set in accordance with at least one of the stroke quantity... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070016353 - System and method for monitoring parking brake release: A system and method for controlling the unintended rolling of a rolling stock, the rolling stock having a driver park brake, and an in-vehicle network for signals transmission, the method comprises the steps of selecting among the signals transmitted over the in-vehicle network, a set of predefined signals, then analyzing... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070016354 - Method and device for determining a friction value representing frictions acting between a road and vehicle tires: The present invention relates to a method for determining a friction coefficient value (Fμ) which represents the coefficient of friction present between the underlying surface and a vehicle tire. For this purpose, a wheel slip value (λij) is determined for at least one vehicle wheel, said value (λij) describing the... Agent: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery

20070016356 - Device for controlling the internal combustion engine/drive train for a motor vehicle: In a device for controlling the internal combustion engine/drive train of a motor vehicle, based on process control variables of a combustion process that are distributed among a plurality of subsystems, an optimization unit stores information for carrying out the combustion process. The optimization unit determines the process control variables... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070016355 - Engine control device of work vehicle: An engine control apparatus for a work vehicle having a cooling fan or an auxiliary device driven by an engine. The engine control apparatus is capable of operating the work vehicle with the importance placed either on amount of work or fuel economy depending on the situation, and preventing the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070016357 - Engine control apparatus: An apparatus and a method of control of the engine for separating and detecting the fuel remaining in the engine and in the intake passages before the start of the engine and also detecting the fuel property, and calculating a parameter such as an optimum fuel injection quantity when the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070016358 - Apparatus for calculating amount of recirculated exhaust gas for internal combustion engine: An intake pipe downstream of a throttle valve is interconnected with an exhaust pipe via an EGR supply pipe and an EGR control valve is disposed in the EGR supply pipe. An engine load ratio (KLoff) in the engine steady operation with the EGR gas being not supplied, and another... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070016359 - Method and apparatus for providing automatic lane calibration in a traffic sensor: A method of operating a traffic sensor to define ranges of centers of traffic lanes from the traffic sensor is described. The method comprises a) providing a set of lane center variables representing the ranges of the centers of the traffic lanes from the traffic sensor; b) initializing each lane... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070016361 - Method for auto-updating application program: A method for auto updating application program suitable for a global position system (GPS) navigator is provided. The method comprises the following steps. First, a map-update short message is sent to the GPS navigator at a client terminal from a wireless station. Then, a map-downloading program inside the GPS navigator... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070016360 - Navigational device with improved user interface: A navigational device comprising navigational electronics and an improved menu-driven user interface. The navigational electronics are operable for receiving navigation signals from a source, for calculating a position of the device as a function of the signals, and for providing directions to a desired location. The user interface is operable... Agent: Garmin Ltd. C/o Garmin International, Inc.

20070016362 - System and method for synchronizing data for use in a navigation system: A system for synchronizing data for use in a navigation comprises a computing device and a vehicle onboard computer system. The computing device comprises an associated communication subsystem adapted for wireless communications, a user interface permitting entry of address data, and memory adapted to store the address data. The onboard... Agent: Brian M Berliner, Esq O'melveny & Myers, LLP

20070016363 - Interactive map-based user interface for transportation planning: Systems, methodologies, and other embodiments associated with a transportation planning system having an interactive map-based user interface are described. One exemplary computer-implemented method may include accessing a transportation plan having elements like actionable loads and displaying a map of a region related to the transportation plan. The method may also... Agent: Mcdonald Hopkins Co., Lpa

20070016364 - System and method for identifying position information of vehicle: A system and method for identifying parking position information is provided. The system includes a plurality of household equipments for displaying parking position information and vehicle unparking information; a home network management server for notifying the household equipments of the parking position and unparking information; an entrance reader for recognizing... Agent: Sherman D Pernia, Esq., PC

20070016365 - Vehicle position information providing device and method suitable to vehicle co-owner of multi-family house: A vehicle position information providing device and method suitable to a vehicle co-owner of a multi-family house is provided. The device includes: a first card reader for reading vehicle relating information from a card provided to a vehicle; a second card reader for reading parking relating information from one of... Agent: Sherman D Pernia, Esq., PC

20070016366 - Guided vehicle system and transportation method: When the destination of a guided vehicle 24 is changed from a point 20 to a point 18, the speed of the guided vehicle 24 is controlled so that a new travel route can be calculated before the guided vehicle 24 arrives at the nearest branch point 10. The guided... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070016370 - Display and operating device: In a display and operating device for the functions of a menu, which includes multiple functions, in a vehicle having a screen display and input device for preselection of a function by dialing a respective screen symbol, all the functions of the menu may be displayed simultaneously on the screen... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070016368 - Generating human-centric directions in mapping systems: Digital mapping techniques are disclosed that provide visually-oriented information to the user, such as driving directions that include visual data points along the way of the driving route, thereby improving the user experience. The user may preview the route associated with the driving directions, where the preview is based on,... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070016369 - Guided vehicle system and travel route map creation method for guided vehicle system: CAD data of a guided vehicle system is converted into layout data of a map. The layout data is displayed on a screen. Attribute data is added to the layout data to edit the map data. The edited map data is distributed to overhead traveling vehicles. By controlling a probe... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070016367 - Navigation device, method for route guidance, and program: A car navigation device sequentially selects one of the non-guidance intersections along the navigational route to the destination, and decides whether there is LXD data which show permitted directions to leave the intersection on entering it from each entrance lane in the entrance road. If the LXD data exist, then... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070016371 - Methods and systems of relative navigation for shipboard landings: A method for guiding the approach and landing of an aircraft is provided. The method involves receiving navigation information from the aircraft, receiving navigation information from an aircraft carrier, integrating the navigation information from the aircraft with the navigation information from the aircraft carrier to determine a relative velocity and... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070016372 - Remote perspective vehicle environment observation system: A system and method for enhancing situation awareness of a vehicle operator is disclosed. Object data corresponding to objects detected within a region external to the vehicle are determined from radar, imaging, GPS, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems. A three-dimensional visualization of the region is rendered on a visual display based... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070010918 - Parking assistance apparatus: In a parking assistance apparatus disclosed herein, when a lateral parking mode switch is set at an initial stop position A, a controller calculates a backward movement start position B for parking based on a yaw angle and a steering angle of a vehicle, and issues guiding information to stop... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070010919 - Tilt regulation device and method for regulating vehicle tilt: The invention relates to a tilt regulating device (16) for a vehicle (10), with detecting means (20) for detecting a roll velocity signal ({dot over (κ)}), representing the roll velocity of the vehicle (10), and for detecting a set steering angle signal (δLSET), with regulating means (21, 29, 30) for... Agent: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery

20070010920 - Automatic piloting device for rotary wing aircraft: The invention pertains to an automatic piloting device utilizing a measurement of ground speed deduced from the measurements of acceleration originating from an AHRS attitude and heading platform which it readjusts by means of ground speed information provided by a T readjustment device: satellite-based positioning receiver or a Doppler radar... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Gilman & Berner, LLP

20070010921 - Method, apparatus, and database products for automated runway selection: An apparatus, method and database for predicting which one of at least two candidate runways on which an aircraft is most likely to land includes a database. The database is configured to contain at least two runway data. The runway data includes an empirical glide slope angle and a location... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070010923 - Diagnostic tool for repairing aircraft and method of using such a tool:

20070010922 - Vehicle diagnostics: A system, apparatus and method for analyzing a condition of a vehicle is provided. The system, apparatus and method are directed to obtaining vehicle information used for analyzing select vehicle data obtained from a vehicle, wherein after obtaining this information, the analysis may be carried out. The apparatus includes a... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070010924 - Geographic data collecting system: A geographic data collecting system, comprising an image pickup unit for taking a digital image including a measuring point of an object to be measured, a GPS unit, an azimuth sensor for detecting an image pickup direction, a display unit for displaying the image taken, a receiving unit for receiving... Agent: Nields & Lemack

20070010925 - Construction target indicator device: A construction target indicator device 30 presents information to the operator of a construction machine 1 in order to facilitate the operation thereof. In the construction target indicator device 30, a laser distance measurement device 20 disposed in the operator's cabin of the construction machine 1 automatically measures the real-time... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070010926 - Adaptive shift learn control for automatic transmissions: An adaptive shift learn control system for rapidly updating an adaptive shift system that regulates shifting of a transmission includes first and second clutches and a control module that cycles the first clutch between an ON state and an OFF state while the second clutch is in a full OFF... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070010927 - Advanced power-shift transmission control system: A method for controlling a power-shift transmission comprising controlling a vehicle travel speed by simultaneously slipping two or more clutch packs associated with opposing directions of vehicle travel and adjusting an engine speed, according to a programmed response associated with a change in one or more of the engine speed,... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070010928 - Method and system for determining a tyre load during the running of a motor vehicle: A method for determining a load exerted on a tyre, fitted on a vehicle, during running of the vehicle on a rolling surface, is disclosed. The method includes acquiring a first signal comprising a first signal portion representative of a radial deformation; measuring an amplitude of the radial deformation in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070010929 - Traction control device for preventing engine stalling: In order to ensure that traction control is not initiated when an engine stalling tendency exists, no engine stalling tendency is set as a condition for initiating traction control. Furthermore, in order to ensure that an accurate determination of the engine stalling tendency can be made after the initiation of... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070010930 - Arrangement for determining an initial internal battery temperature: A method and arrangement is provided for estimating an initial value for an internal battery temperature of a vehicle using a four zone process that determines which of a predetermined set of time zones correlates with a measured period of time for an engine of the vehicle being in an... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20070010931 - Metro for controlling an internal combustion engine: A method is provided for controlling an internal combustion engine operating in a homogenous mode. The internal combustion engine exhibits a control unit for setting the air supply, the fuel supply and the ignition angle. The method reduces the fuel consumption and increases a torque reserve that is to be... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070010932 - Apparatus and method for detecting deterioration of exhaust gas sensor: A deterioration detecting apparatus for an exhaust gas sensor of an internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas sensor including a sensor element and a heater that heats the sensor element, computes a first sensor characteristic parameter, which is related to a characteristic of the sensor element, by estimating an interchange... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070010934 - Determination of an expected speed level: A method provides traffic condition data in the context of a traffic condition recognition by a motor vehicle, in particular traffic condition data for detecting the position of traffic, preferably for detecting traffic jams. In a first step the type of road along which the vehicle is traveling is determined... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070010933 - Driving route situation prediction for vehicle performance optimization: The invention relates to a method for prediction and identification of journey situations. A method for prediction of journey situations has the following steps: defining a plurality of standard journey situations, with each standard journey situation being characterized by a group of driving state parameters; defining a plurality of route... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC.

20070010935 - System and process for adjusting a zero point of a seat load sensing system: A process for adjusting the zero point of a system (10) for sensing weight on a seat (12) of a vehicle includes the steps of correcting only negative zero points errors during an ignition cycle of the vehicle and correcting positive zero point errors after the vehicle ignition cycle ends.... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070010936 - Navigation method and apparatus: The apparatus generates at least one high-accuracy navigation parameter (P, V, A) by means of a relative sensor system and a radio receiver system. The relative sensor system registers relative movements of the apparatus and produces at least one relative data signal (Δv, Δθ). The radio receiver system receives navigation... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070010938 - Navigation systems, methods, and programs: Navigation systems, methods, and programs provide appropriate driving guidance to a driver according to the level of the driving skills of the driver. The navigation systems, methods, and programs identify that the vehicle is in a predetermined specified condition based on information detected by a condition detecting device and detect... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070010937 - Road shape recognition apparatus: A front radar recognizes a still object. A process generates a still object map that shows a relative position between the still object and a subject vehicle. The process groups still objects in the still object map. In terms of each individual still object group, the process selects a left... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070010940 - Automatic past error corrections for location and inventory tracking: A system is provided for tracking and maintaining an inventory of location of containers that are stored on cargo ships or in a container yard. The system includes one or more sensors, such as GPS and INS sensors for obtaining real-time position information, as well as a processor configured to... Agent: Fliesler Meyer, LLP

20070010939 - Procedure for determining a navigation solution of a navigation system with a terrain navigation module, as well as a navigation system: A navigation solution of a navigation system with a Terrain Navigation Module is determined by a procedure including determining a supported position solution and the relative covered path between two height measurements, ascertaining a quality of each active supported position from each active supported position by way of a first... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070010942 - Determining a route to a destination based on partially completed route: Techniques are provided for suggesting an intermediate point-of-interest (POI) for a user that is traveling. A series of locations of a ground-based vehicle is received. At least some of the locations are related to at least one travel pattern. A route is identified based on relating at least some of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070010941 - Land navigation system: A navigation unit and system for land navigation particularly useful for vehicle travel. The navigation unit includes a routing program and programs to be used in conjunction with the routing programs. The programs used in conjunction with the routing program process current traffic information for segments of mapping information. The... Agent: Hitchcock Evert LLP

20070010943 - System and method for motion-based control of electronic devices: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and system for disabling distracting features of electronic devices in a moving vehicle in order to enhance vehicle operator safety. A safety controller system may be operatively connected with a motion monitor within a vehicle and with a computing device... Agent: Baker & Daniels

20070010944 - Driver-adjustable sensor apparatus, system, & method for improving traffic safety: The present invention discloses methods, apparatuses, and a system for improving intervehicular traffic safety by facilitating driver awareness of nearby vehicular traffic activity. Methods are disclosed for monitoring, detecting, and tracking “adjacent vehicles” (AVs) and “adjacent vehicle movements” (AVMs); calculating and displaying AV/AVM status data; and recommending and/or executing intervehicular... Agent: David Russell

20070010945 - Vehicle operation assisting system: When a collision avoidance operation determiner determines a collision avoidance operation by a driver, a target assist electrical current calculator calculates a target assist electrical current based on a deviation between a standard yaw rate corrected in accordance with avoidance momentum calculated by an avoidance momentum calculator and an actual... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC