Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location inventions 10/07

20070250222 - Remote control apparatus for a boat: A remote control apparatus for controlling multiple propulsion units of a boat is provided. The remote control apparatus, in one embodiment, comprises a body having a first control lever and a second control lever. An electronic control unit is disposed within the body of the remote control apparatus and comprises... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070250229 - Vehicle information early warning and parts life prediction system and method therefor: A vehicle information early warning and parts life prediction system and method therefor are provided, which includes a vehicle database connected to a mileage prediction unit, a maintenance prediction unit, a message management unit, and an auto care center management unit, in which information of vehicle is stored. The message... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070250237 - Transmission with intelligent gear synchronization and shifting: This is a constant-mesh transmission that uses special latches, electromagnetic actuators to operate said latches, and an associated computerized control unit to command said actuators and, at the same time, synchronize the speed of the motor/engine and the gear trains with the speed of the transmission output shaft. During gear... Agent: Juan Zak

20070250244 - Method for controlling a rope transport installation comprising a speed regulating section, and installation for implementation of the method: The invention relates to a method for controlling an aerial ropeway transport installation comprising a speed regulating section, that consists in assigning an individual identification code to each vehicle and in associating a setpoint value representative of the required distance between the vehicle and the vehicle preceding same, on exit... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070250221 - Parking guidance apparatus and method: A parking guidance apparatus and method are provided. The parking guidance apparatus includes a position unit and a vehicle guidance unit. A position signal is provided by the position unit which is disposed at a position point outside of the vehicle. By sensing the power strength of the position signal... Agent: J.c. Patents

20070250220 - Technique for providing management of a motor vehicle information system: A technique for providing management of a motor vehicle information system includes a number of steps. Initially, a wake-up message is received from a portable transmitter. In general, the wake-up message, unique to the portable transmitter, is provided responsive to user activation of a button that is electrically coupled to... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070250223 - Method and a device for monitoring the minimum flying altitude of an aircraft: The present invention relates to a method and a device for monitoring the minimum flying altitude of an aircraft. The method comprises a phase for calculating a vertical flight profile describing the changing altitude of the aircraft during an arbitrary period taking into account its instantaneous speed and its instantaneous... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070250224 - Method and apparatus to display landing performance data: A display system is provided for displaying runway landing data. The system includes a processor and a display device. The processor is adapted to receive data representative of an aircraft landing operation and is operable, in response thereto, to supply one or more image rendering display commands. The display device... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070250225 - Method of forecasting train speed: A method of speed forecasting a train over a track including determining location of the train on the track, the speed of the train and brake and throttle setting of the train. Speeds and suggested throttle and brake settings for spaced points along the track are calculated based on the... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070250227 - System and method for testing a control system of a marine vessel: A system for testing a vessel control system includes sensors on board the vessel to send one or more sensor signals over a signal line to the control system; command input devices on board the vessel to send one or more of desired position, course, velocity, etc. over a command... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070250226 - Watercraft comprising a free-flying kite-type wind-attacked element as a wind-powered drive unit: Disclosed is a wind-powered watercraft in which a free-flying kite-type wind-attacked element that is provided with a profiled wing and is used as the exclusive, an auxiliary, or an emergency drive unit is connected to the vessel only via one traction rope, said traction rope optionally fanning out into a... Agent: Alix Yale & Ristas LLP

20070250228 - Configurable method and system for vehicle fault alert: Configurable methods and systems allowing a user remote to a vehicle to designate the types of faults or information that an on-board diagnostic system of the vehicle should monitor and report.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070250230 - Diagnosis apparatus for internal combustion engine: In a diagnosis apparatus for an internal combustion engine which determines the abnormality of a linear A/F sensor which is disposed on the upstream side of a catalyst of the engine and detects the A/F of exhaust gas, the apparatus includes a response/gain deterioration detection unit that separately detects the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070250231 - Method and system for collecting, transmitting, and verifying vehicle emissions testing data: A vehicle emissions inspection commences when a vehicle owner connects an OBD scanning device to the OBDII system of the vehicle. Once the OBD scanning device is connected, it interrogates the vehicle to solicit the necessary information and data from the OBDII system of the vehicle. After the necessary information... Agent: Stites & Harbison, PLLC

20070250232 - Automated vehicle check-in inspection method and system with digital image archiving: A collection of software scripts, programs and web pages that capture, organize, and store wireless and digital device data and images of customer/lot vehicles for use in vehicle dealerships, service, and repair locations. Reports and views of the collected, organized data in real-time are provide.... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP

20070250233 - Electric power steering apparatus: A first restrict value calculating unit obtains a first restrict value Im1 on the basis of the integration value (Id2+Iq2) of a d-axis current detection value and a q-axis current detection value. A second restrict value calculator 50 calculates a second restrict value Im2 on the basis of the maximum... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070250234 - Sensitivity identifying device and steering assist system: A sensitivity identifying device has an operating object device configured to operate when an operation member is moved according to a force applied by a user, an assist force applying device for applying an assist force to movement of the operation member, an operation force parameter detecting device for detecting... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070250235 - Method for controlling steering device for vehicles, and steering device for vehicles: A steering device for vehicles comprising two electric motors imparting a steering force to a steering mechanism and means for performing drive control of the two electric motors with an identical gain based on the steering torque or steering amount. Means for detecting if one of the electric motors cannot... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070250236 - Differential lock control in articulated work machine: A method of operating an articulated work machine includes sensing an articulation angle in a wheel steering angle of the work machine, and controlling a locking state of a differential responsive to a steering radius of the work machine. An articulated frame wheeled work machine is further provided, and includes... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell & Mcneil Attorneys PC

20070250238 - Method for driver input gaging: In a method for parameter-related driver input gaging in motor vehicles, with the position of a moveable control element being determined, a theoretical maximum value of at least a parameter relevant for the drive system is defined and an actually recallable value of this parameter is determined. A change from... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070250239 - Method for controlling a set torque to be applied to wheels of an automatic transmission for a motor vehicle and corresponding device: A method for controlling an automatic transmission of a power train for a motor vehicle, including producing a first set torque signal to be applied to the wheels, which represents wishes of the motor vehicle driver and that includes two components: a static component and a dynamic component. The dynamic... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070250243 - Absolute acceleration sensor for use within moving vehicles: A method of and system for detecting absolute acceleration along various axes relative to a desired movement vector while moving relative to a gravity source includes steps of determining a vertical acceleration, perpendicular to the desired movement vector and substantially anti-parallel to a gravitational acceleration due to the gravity source;... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070250241 - Control device for automobile: Even when an automatic deceleration device is used, driving burden on a driver, especially deceleration or braking operation can be eased. The proposed automatic deceleration device includes a recognizing section for recognizing the driving environment; a first target deceleration calculating section for obtaining the target deceleration depending on the recognized... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070250242 - Utility vehicle having a plurality of electric devices which are controlled by at least one electronic control device: A utility vehicle having several electric devices is described. The vehicle includes an electric steering device and/or an electric braking device, which are controlled by at least one electronic control device, in addition to a pedal unit having pedals, such as a gas pedal, a brake pedal and/or a clutch... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070250240 - Vehicle braking apparatus system and method: A vehicle braking apparatus, system and method is provided including electromagnetic signals emitted from an electromagnetic loop positioned on or under a roadway, wherein the signals emitted from the electromagnetic loop correspond to the status of a traffic control zone. The braking apparatus receives signals emitted by the loop and... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070250245 - Method and apparatus for operating a gas turbine engine: A method for operating a gas turbine engine includes coupling at least one sensor within the gas turbine engine to transmit a signal indicative of a vibration level of a rotor assembly within the gas turbine engine, detecting the vibration level of the rotor assembly based on the signal transmitted... Agent: John S. Beulick (12729) C/o Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070250246 - Impending failure and failure annunciation systems for actuators and drive train components: A method of determining variations in operating characteristics of a mechanical system having a rotatory mode of operation. There are provided the steps of first monitoring operating impulses generated by the mechanical system during a first interval of operation; first analyzing the operating impulses obtained during the first interval to... Agent: Rohm & Monsanto, PLC

20070250247 - Control apparatus and method and engine control unit for internal combustion engine: A control apparatus and method, and an engine control unit for an internal combustion engine are provided for restraining a torque step and sudden fluctuations in rotation when an air/fuel mixture combustion mode is switched among a plurality of combustion modes, and for improving the fuel economy. A control apparatus... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070250249 - Workload calculation apparatus and method for internal combustion engine, and engine control unit: A workload calculation apparatus and method for an internal combustion engine, and an engine control unit are provided for accurately calculating a workload parameter indicative of the workload of the internal combustion engine. The workload calculation apparatus of the internal combustion engine ignition, which calculates the workload parameter indicative of... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070250248 - Method and device for controlling an injector: An injector has a valve pin whose position is adjustable according to the pressure prevailing in a control chamber and which blocks a fluid flow through at least one injection port in a closed position. The injector has a control chamber that is hydraulically coupled to a high-pressure fluid reservoir,... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20070250250 - Control device for internal combustion engine: The valve timing is changed to increase the internal EGR amount the moment a fuel cut process begins (FIG. 2C). Before a sufficient amount of internal EGR is obtained, control is exercised so that the throttle-opening angle TA is larger than a basic idle-opening angle TA0. When a sufficient amount... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070250251 - Combustion diagnostic for active engine feedback control: This invention detects the crank angle location where combustion switches from premixed to diffusion, referred to as the transition index, and uses that location to define integration limits that measure the portions of heat released during the combustion process that occur during the premixed and diffusion phases. Those integrated premixed... Agent: Ut-battelle, LLC Office Of Intellectual Property

20070250252 - Method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine has a plurality of cylinders having combustion chambers and each being associated with a spark plug designed for igniting a mixture of air and fuel in the combustion chamber, and at least two adjusting devices for adjusting the air supply to the combustion chambers of the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070250253 - Method and apparatus for detecting the electrical position of the rotor of an electrical machine coupled to an internal combustion engine: A method for controlling an alternator includes determining a rotor position of the alternator using data obtained from a first data source when a first condition is met, and determining the rotor position for the alternator using data obtained from a second data source when a second condition is met.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070250255 - Method and apparatus for determining piston position in an engine: The invention comprises a method to determine a position of a piston in a cylinder of an engine during ongoing operation, comprising adapting pressure sensing devices to monitor in-cylinder pressure, and, operating the engine. In-cylinder pressure is monitored along with a corresponding engine crank position. The engine is operated in... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070250254 - On-vehicle control apparatus: Provided is an on-vehicle control apparatus capable of automatically initializing control variables in a backup RAM only in rewriting a control program in the market. The on-vehicle control apparatus includes a CPU for controlling an on-vehicle device according to a control program, a non-volatile ROM for storing the control program... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070250256 - Homogeneous charge compression ignition engine operation: An HCCI engine is operated by controlling a plurality of engine operating parameters in accordance with a calibration data set representing equilibrium set-points of engine operation characterized by combustion phasing that is relatively least sensitive to cylinder charge temperature deviations.... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070250257 - Geopositional reminder updating: A preset scheduled event reminder is updated based on geopositional data. The preset scheduled event reminder is provided by a reminding apparatus. A current time is determined and a current location of the reminding apparatus is obtained. The preset scheduled event reminder is updated based on the determined current time... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070250258 - Method and system for accurate reconstruction of mileage reports: A method or system for accurately reconstructing mileage and travel expense, wherein a user inputs travel information including addresses for a starting location, intermediate destination points, an end location, and the purpose of the trip. A routing system determines a route from the starting point through all of the intermediate... Agent: Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine And Regenstreif

20070250259 - Method and system for gathering and processing data for road use charging: A method for processing road use data. A first moving vehicle has an encounter with vehicles in motion. An apparatus in the first vehicle generates and stores encounter records for the encounters. Each encounter record includes a location of the first moving vehicle and a location and identifier of a... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070250262 - Device, method and medium detecting errors generated by distortion in a magnetic field: A method, medium and electronic device using a three-axis geomagnetic sensor for quick and accurate measurement of an azimuth angle includes a first calculating unit to calculate distances between an output value of the three-axis geomagnetic sensor and an offset value, and a controller to determine that the offset value... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070250261 - Motion classification methods for personal navigation: A personal navigation system including one or more sensors that sense motion of a human and output signals corresponding to the motion of the human and a human-motion-classification processing block that receives sensor data from the one or more sensors. The human-motion-classification processing block includes a Kalman filter processing block,... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070250263 - Road information sensing system, method and program: A GPS sensor senses a current position of a vehicle. A map database stores map data. A controller obtains road information of a road ahead of the vehicle from the map data based on the sensed current position of the vehicle. Then, the controller measures a distance from the vehicle... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070250260 - Method and system for autonomous tracking of a mobile target by an unmanned aerial vehicle: A method and system for autonomous tracking of a mobile target such as a ground vehicle by an unmanned aerial vehicle are provided. The method and system utilize an approach that tracks a mobile ground target by using a ground vehicle model with an ummanned aerial vehicle model, with velocity... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070250264 - Map-data-generation device and map-generation method used therefor, and navigation device and route-search method used therefor: A map-data-generation device and a map-generation method used therefor, and a navigation device and a route-search method used therefor are provided. The map-data-generation device generates hierarchical guide-route-search-map data by using information about a road link of level 2 (reference level), the road link generating a guide-object road. A first upper-level-link-determination... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070250265 - Information generating apparatus, recording medium where information generating program is recorded, and information generating method: When an in-link type of in-link attribute data is a tunnel, a system controller specifies the positions of both ends of a tunnel on the basis of a annotation true position shape of the in-link attribute data, and generates annotation data for displaying a tunnel symbol for each of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070250266 - Information processing apparatus and gps positioning method: A composite integrated semiconductor device. In one embodiment, an input surge/noise absorbing circuit absorbs surge from an input signal, an attenuating/level-shifting circuit attenuates or level-shifts the input signal, and an electrical signal converting circuit converts the input signal to an output signal. The input surge/noise absorbing circuit, the attenuating or... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070250267 - Delta-v-free satellite cloud cluster flying: A system and method is provided for establishing a substantially delta-V-free three-dimensional atomic satellite cloud cluster. In one embodiment, a satellite cloud cluster system comprises a plurality of satellites maintaining a three-dimensional periodic motion relative to a reference point. The plurality of satellites and the reference point maintain an orbital... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070250268 - Vehicle control device and method for controlling vehicle: A vehicle control device includes: a first memory for storing a road condition data; a position detector for detecting a position of a vehicle; a first controller for detecting and controlling unusual behavior of the vehicle; a driving condition detector for detecting a driving condition; an information acquiring element for... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070244609 - Device and method for controlling electric motor: A control device including an operation monitoring section for monitoring the operating state of an electric motor, and an operation control section for controlling the operation of the electric motor in accordance with a monitored result of the operation monitoring section. The operation monitoring section includes a data obtaining section... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20070244613 - Noncontact input device for in-vehicle apparatus: An in-vehicle apparatus (such as a car navigation system or a car audio) equipped with multiple detectors mounted around the operation portion to make it possible to detect from which direction a hand has approached the operation portion. The fields of view and the positions of the detectors are so... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070244617 - Clutch control device and vehicle: An EEPROM of an ECU (engine control unit) stores regulation maps corresponding to a plurality of running modes (e.g., normal mode, swift mode and gentle mode). The regulation maps regulate the relationship between the clutch rotational speed difference and the target clutch position. When any one of the running modes... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070244606 - Driver workload-based vehicle stability enhancement control: A vehicle stability enhancement system that is adapted for an estimated driver workload. The system includes a driver workload estimation processor that estimates the driver workload based on certain factors, such as the vehicle speed or driver-behavior factors. The driver workload estimation is used to adjust the damping ratio and... Agent: Kathryn A. Marra General Motors Corporation

20070244605 - Monitoring devices for use with ground treatment equipment: The present invention provides a monitoring device suitable for use with ground treatment equipment. The monitoring device comprises a sensor that is operative for obtaining data associated with movement of the ground treatment equipment and a processing unit that is communication with the sensor. The processing unit is operative for... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20070244607 - Multifunctional automotive remote control unit: A multifunctional automotive remote control unit includes a housing and a bilateral control circuit positioned within the housing. The housing includes a plurality of operating keys and a LCD display that are electrically coupled to the bilateral control circuit, and one of the operating keys serves as a control key... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070244608 - Ground control station for uav: A ground control station to control an unmanned air vehicle during a manual mode of operation includes a processing unit, a telemetry/telecommand module, a user control module, a graphical user interface, and a wireless datalink subsystem. The wireless datalink subsystem is configured for remote communication with the unmanned air vehicle.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070244610 - Autonomous coverage robot navigation system: An autonomous mobile robot system for bounded areas including a navigation beacon and an autonomous coverage robot. The navigation beacon has a gateway beacon emitter arranged to transmit a gateway marking emission with the navigation beacon disposed within a gateway between the first bounded area and an adjacent second bounded... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070244611 - Vehicle diagnostic tool with packet and voice over packet communications and systems incorporating such a tool: In an exemplary vehicle service facility that provides vehicle related sales, maintenance services or the like, a diagnostic tool has wireless packet data communication capabilities. To support voice communication, the tool also has one or more audible input/output transducers and a vocoder, and is configured to use VoIP technology or... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070244612 - Brake performance monitoring: A system and method for monitoring brake performance, in particular, in motor vehicles, are provided. The braking distances specific to each vehicle wheel are determined and compared using an electronic control unit. If a wheel exhibits a longer than average braking distance, insufficient braking is identified and is displayed by... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070244614 - Automotive telemetry protocol: Disclosed is a method of conveying vehicle operation data from a vehicle to a remote monitoring recipient, comprising the steps of establishing a data link between the vehicle and the remote monitoring recipient; collecting vehicle operation data from data sources in the vehicle; packaging the vehicle operation data in a... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070244615 - Method for realizing a preferred in-vehicle chime: A method of realizing a preferred in-vehicle chime includes the steps of selecting the preferred in-vehicle chime from an Internet-enabled program or a call center, transmitting the preferred in-vehicle chime from the Internet-enabled program to a telematics unit operatively disposed within the vehicle, and transmitting the preferred in-vehicle chime from... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070244616 - Method and device for controlling an automatic transmission for a motor vehicle: An automatic transmission of a power train for a motor vehicle capable of producing a set operating speed and a set power train control to attain an engine speed, according to a torque applied to wheels that is adapted to wishes of the driver. The device includes: an input unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070244619 - Enhanced throttle control: A throttle control system for a vehicle includes a suspension sensor that detects suspension amplitudes of a suspension system of the vehicle, a grade sensor that detects an angular position of the vehicle, and a controller that receives first operational data from the suspension sensor and second operational data from... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20070244618 - Methods and apparatus to control electro-mechanical brakes: Methods and apparatus to control electro-mechanical brakes are disclosed. A disclosed example method of controlling a brake actuator comprises receiving a value representative of a velocity of a piston associated with the brake actuator relative to a pressure plate mounted on a wheel, and determining a control input for the... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070244620 - All wheel drive system: The present invention relates to a method for controlling a vehicle comprising an all-wheel drive coupling, which is engaged by a clutch, and an electronic stability program (ESP) system being connected to a brake system of the vehicle. In the method, the ESP system and the all-wheel drive coupling exchange... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070244621 - Diagnostic method for an exhaust gas probe and diagnostic device for an exhaust gas probe: An exhaust gas probe is disposed downstream of a catalytic converter in an exhaust gas tract of an internal combustion engine. A first quality value which is representative of a signal dynamic of the measured signal of the exhaust gas probe is determined as a function of the measured signal... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070244622 - Exhaust gas diagnosis system and vehicle control system: An exhaust gas diagnosis system and a vehicle control system for automotive vehicles to reduce the communication lines and the power lines connected to the antiweatherability-required exhaust gas sensor arranged on the exterior of the vehicle are disclosed. The exhaust gas diagnosis system is configured of an engine control unit... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070244623 - Control systems and methods associated therewith: One embodiment of the invention includes a method for managing a system. The method includes providing a plurality of system values and generating an event signal if one of the plurality of system values is logically related to a compare value. At least two of the plurality of system values... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates, LLC National City Bank Building

20070244624 - System and method for maximizing power output from an internal combustion engine: A system 10 and method for maximizing power output from an internal combustion engine includes a control module 12, a motor power output measuring member 14, a microprocessor based digital computer 16, connections 18 between a control module input 13 and the computer 16, and connections 20 between a control... Agent: Donald G. Flaynik, Jr.

20070244625 - Control system of internal combustion engine: A cylinder air filling amount is divided into a first amount of air and a second amount of air, the first amount of air and the second amount of air are calculated, and the first amount of air and the second amount of air are totaled to calculate a cylinder... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070244626 - Charge motion control valve fuzzy logic diagnostic: A method of diagnosing a malfunction of a charge motion control valve coupled to an intake manifold of an internal combustion engine is provided. The method includes: commanding the valve to at least one of close and open; determining a pressure range using fuzzy logic based on a mass of... Agent: Christopher Devries General Motors Corporation

20070244628 - Automated enrollment and activation of telematics equipped vehicles: A method for automated enrollment and activation of a mobile telematics system comprising receiving a customer data record of a customer at a communication services database, determining a command signal based on the customer data record, sending the command signal to a telematics unit of a vehicle, enrolling the customer... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20070244627 - Intelligent redirection of vehicular traffic due to congestion and real-time performance metrics: An automated traffic control system provides real time alternative traffic flow solutions to address traffic congestion on a roadway. A process will pick routes to scan for real-time statistics on the traffic conditions and calculate an average vehicle speed (AVS) for that route, road, highway, etc. If the AVS drops... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o Darcell Walker, Attorney At Law

20070244630 - Behavior determining apparatus, method, and program: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided with a behavior determining apparatus including: an elemental-behavior extracting unit configured to extract, from trajectory data in which positions of a traveling body in an observation area are held at predetermined time intervals, L (L is an integer equal... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070244629 - Navigation device and address input method thereof: Voice input of an address, which is user-friendly and has improved recognition result accuracy. First, a whole street name (full name) is uttered and voice recognition is tried. Only if the voice recognition fails, at least one letter of a character string expressing the street name is uttered, and the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070244631 - Navigation system and method for controlling the same: A navigation system and a method for controlling the same wherein navigation functions are integrally mounted in a mobile communication terminal to enable to guide the travel of a mobile object in real time. A GPS receiving module is integrally mounted in the mobile communication terminal to receive navigation messages... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070244632 - Method for storing, in a navigation system, map data that represent traffic path segments, and navigation system: A method for storing, in a navigation system, map data that represent traffic path segments, in particular for motor vehicles, is provided such that only map data within a corridor around a driving route are deposited in a memory of the navigation system. The map data within the corridor are... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070244635 - Navigation apparatus: A controller of a navigation terminal (navigation apparatus) is configured to find a plurality of paths from a current position of a vehicle and a destination based on a plurality of different and prioritized path-finding conditions, respectively, and causes a display to show the plurality of paths which includes a... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070244633 - Location-based services: Provided herein are methods and systems relating to location-based services such as social networking, providing demographic information, tracking mobile devices, providing business information, providing an adaptable user interface, remotely effecting a change on a portable electronic device, providing a geofence, outputting location-based information on a mobile device, varying transmissions to... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070244634 - System and method for geo-coding user generated content: A system and method for geo-coding user generated content is described. The system comprises a content source, a content management module, a content repository, a location source, a location repository, a geo-coding module, and a geo-location object data sheet (GDS). The content source captures the user generated content. The content... Agent: Virtual Legal, P.C. Michael A. Kerr

20070244636 - Map update system: A map update system includes a map server in which map information created by map database information stored in a map information database is hierarchized according to the area size of the map information and stored. If map information of a lower hierarchy required for an upper hierarchy or a... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070244638 - Method and apparatus for setting destination in navigation terminal: Provided is a navigation system including method of setting a destination in a navigation terminal, which includes receiving a position information message; and setting position coordinates corresponding to position information included in the position information message as position coordinates of a destination related to a certain route.... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070244637 - System and method for presenting a computed route: A method for presenting a route includes receiving a starting point and a destination point and computing a route that includes a route segment between the two points. The method further includes determining, based on a user's travel history, whether the route segment is an unfamiliar segment, and identifying, based... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070244639 - Autopilot display system: Embodiments of the invention provide an autopilot display system and method that provides a simultaneous display of two possible positions or courses. The system can display the predicted position of a vessel if a first autopilot maneuver is selected and the predicted position of the vessel if a different autopilot... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070244640 - System for autonomous vehicle navigation with carrier phase dgps and laser-scanner augmentation: A horizontal navigation system aided by a carrier phase differential Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and a Laser-Scanner (LS) for an Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGV). The high accuracy vehicle navigation system is highly demanded for advanced AGVs. Although high positioning accuracy is achievable by a high performance RTK-GPS receiver, the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070244641 - Active material based haptic communication systems: Active material based haptic communication and alert systems are provided. In an embodiment, a haptic alert system comprises: an active material in operative communication with a vehicle surface, the active material being capable of changing at least one attribute in response to an applied activation signal; and a controller in... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070244642 - Ship of the type comprising a control bridge with a direct view of the environment and an operations control room: Ship (1) of the type comprising a control bridge (2) with a direct view of the ship's environment, and an operations control room (3) receiving information in real time on the situation of the environment of the ship, prepared by analysis means (4) for analysing the environment of the ship,... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070244643 - Vehicle pre-collision countermeasure system: A vehicle pre-collision countermeasure system is provided has a communication component, a rear collision predicting component and an acceleration countermeasure component. The communication component conducts a direct communications with other vehicles, including broadcasting vehicle parameter identifiers of a host vehicle equipped with the communication component and receiving vehicle parameter identifiers... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070239322 - Generating a numerical ranking of driver performance based on a plurality of metrics: Sensors on a vehicle are used to sense different data corresponding to a plurality of metrics, which are related to a performance of driver while operating the vehicle. Values are determined for the metrics that are thus collected. These values are added together and the resulting total is normalized to... Agent: Law Offices Of Ronald M Anderson

20070239328 - Machine loss-of-control detector and shutdown system: A method and system are described for machine loss of control detection. In one aspect, the method and system detect operator intended motion of the machine or a part of it and actual motion of the machine or a part of it; and determine machine loss of control in response... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP 1 First Canadian Place

20070239330 - Procedure to diagnose a fuel tank ventilation system and device to implement the procedure: A procedure to diagnose a fuel tank ventilation system of a motor vehicle and a device to implement the procedure are proposed. The fuel tank ventilation system contains at least one first ventilation pathway discharging into the air intake area of the internal combustion engine downstream behind a supercharger as... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070239329 - Program management system: A program management system includes a center and a vehicle control device having a program in a vehicle. In management processing, the center selects one of preset examination methods, and requests the vehicle control device to send data according to the selected examination method. When receiving the request, the vehicle... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070239335 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes a display controller configured to display a first window that includes an information display area in which information associated with content is displayed and a second window having an input box for entering search reference information in the proximity of the first window when predetermined... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070239338 - Worksite preparation method using compaction response and mapping information: A worksite preparation method includes moving a compactor machine across at least one region of a worksite, and sensing values indicative of a compaction response of work material in a compacted region. The method also includes generating a machine traffic plan in real time responsive to the sensed values, outputting... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell & Mcneil Attorneys PC

20070239320 - Estimation of vehicle roll rate and roll angle using suspension deflection sensors: A system and method for estimating vehicle roll rate and roll angle. The system includes a suspension deflection sensor provided at each wheel of the vehicle that provides suspension measurement signals indicative of the roll of the vehicle. The system also includes a roll rate estimator that uses the suspension... Agent: Kathryn A Marra General Motors Corporation

20070239321 - Method and apparatus for power management of asset tracking system: A technique for controlling the state of a power supply in a mobile asset such as a cargo trailer. The technique detects motion status such as may be provided by a vibration sensor. The motion status signal is filtered by other signals, such as with inputs from a global positioning... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20070239323 - Method and device for operating a drive unit, and test device for testing a drive unit: In a method for operating a drive unit, for at least one operating quantity of the drive unit, a deviation from an initial value is represented by an adaptation value, which adaptation value is determined at various times. In an extreme value storage unit, a first adaptation value, determined at... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070239324 - Mobile asset data management system: A computerized vehicle control system and device for limiting the functionality of a mobile asset (e.g., vehicle) capable of performing a plurality of mobile asset functions. The device includes an asset monitor, a mobile wireless transceiver, and a mobile asset processor. The asset monitor is in communication with a first... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20070239325 - Electrical control systems: A control system for a gas turbine engine provides a combined power and data bus that connects a Electrical Engine Controller with electrically actuated pumps, actuators and valves. A scheduler within the Electrical Engine Controller divides the information to be sent out into minor time frames. Each electrically actuated component... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070239326 - Systems and methods for monitoring an altitude in a flight vehicle: Systems and methods for monitoring an altitude in a flight vehicle are disclosed. In an embodiment, a system includes a barometric altimeter system operable to determine an altitude of the flight vehicle relative to a pressure datum that is adjustably selectable, and at least one altitude determination system that is... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070239327 - Identification of an anomalous orientation definition condition of a remote locomotive of a train: A method of identifying an anomalous orientation definition condition of a remote locomotive (12) of a train includes monitoring an operating condition of the remote locomotive of the train, the remote locomotive configured to operate according to a defined orientation with respect to a lead locomotive of the train. The... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20070239331 - Gps, cellular, fm speed and safety control devise: A system, method and device for automatically controlling the maximum speed of a vehicle based upon the actual speed limit of a roadway being traveled by the vehicle by using a (GPS) receiver, the nationwide cellular network and FM signal to locate the position of vehicle in ‘real time’, using... Agent: Craig Kaplan

20070239332 - Vehicular electronic control device: A vehicular electronic control device includes plural electronic control units installed in the same vehicle. The plural electronic control units include at least one specific electronic control unit and at least one other electronic control unit. The specific electronic control unit and the other electronic control unit respectively include a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070239333 - Method and device for assisting an operator of a vehicle in the vehicle stabilization: The invention relates to a method for assisting an operator of a vehicle in the vehicle stabilization, wherein an additional steering torque is applied to the steering line of the vehicle. The method manifests itself by the feature that a first component of the additional steering torque is determined depending... Agent: Gerlinde M. Nattler Continental Teves, Inc.

20070239334 - Turning motion control system for vehicle: A turning motion control system for a vehicle includes an actuator, and an actuator control device for controlling the actuator so that an actual turning motion state of the vehicle becomes close to a target turning motion state. The actuator control device is designed so that its control-permitted state and... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20070239337 - System and method of optimizing ground engaging operations in multiple-fields: A method of optimizing a plurality of ground engaging operations in a plurality of geographic units, with each ground engaging operation carried out using a respective work machine, includes the steps of: for each of the ground engaging operations, establishing an assumed start time and execution time associated with the... Agent: Deere & Company

20070239336 - Work machine and method of determining suitability of work material for compaction: A method of operating a compactor machine includes determining a value indicative of a compaction state of a region of work material after each of a plurality of compactor passes, and triggering a compaction fault condition if an incipient compaction response satisfies aberrant compaction criteria. A work machine includes an... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell & Mcneil Attorneys PC

20070239339 - Vehicle transmission control system and method: A vehicle and a method for controlling a vehicle transmission is provided. The vehicle has at least one wheel and a positionable acceleration device. The vehicle includes an engine being responsive to the position of the acceleration device, wherein the engine provides torque to the wheel. In one embodiment, a... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20070239340 - Turning control apparatus for vehicle: v

20070239341 - Road hazard automatic vehicle speed control: Systems and processes for automatically bringing a vehicle into compliance with a regulation are provided in order to control for unusual situations, inexperience, reduced ability, and willful disregard by a vehicle operator. An inventive system includes a signal receiver for wirelessly receiving a signal directed specifically to the motorized vehicle... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20070239342 - Method and system for deferred maintenance of database indexes: Rectifying discrepancies between a table, from which a segment of data has been removed, and an index for the table may be deferred. Each entry in the index is sequentially analyzed to remove entries therefrom referring to any removed segment referenced in the starting location list. During this process, if... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070239343 - Failure detection apparatus for variable valve timing and lift control system of internal combustion engine: A failure detection apparatus for preventing erroneous detection due to a degradation of a sensor and thereby accurately performing failure detection of a variable valve timing and lift control system is provided. The detection apparatus detects a failure of a variable valve timing and lift control system in an engine.... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070239344 - System for a virtual dew point sensor: A system for a virtual dew point sensor is disclosed including a method for operating the virtual dew point sensor. The method includes determining a first humidity ratio indicative of the humidity associated with an ambient air as a function of at least a relative humidity associated with the ambient... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070239345 - Analysis of fuel combustion characteristics: Some embodiments of a system for determining combustion characteristics may be capable of automatically determining and displaying a plurality of combustion characteristics on a multiple-axis plot. In such embodiments, a single combustion test in the system's controlled combustion chamber may provide a user with automatic analysis and display of three,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070239346 - System and method of receiving data from a plurality of trucking companies and disseminating data to a plurality of parties: A system and method are provided for aggregating data from multiple client terminals that are located on a vehicle, processing the data and communicating the processed data to multiple agencies. The client terminal devices are coupled to vehicle engine data bus to provide performance data and location data for trucks... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070239347 - Navigation system: A navigation system includes a GPS receiver for receiving radio waves transmitted from multiple GPS satellites and producing a measured position, an error-range setting unit for setting an estimated error range in which a measured position at the time of current positioning by the GPS receiver is included, a relative-position... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070239348 - Waypoint adjustment and advertisement for flexible routing: A unique routing system and method that facilitates adjusting waypoint locations to optimize a cost function and presenting more relevant contextual advertisements based in part on the waypoint locations. The system and method involve examining waypoint locations including a start, end, and any in-between waypoint to determine whether they are... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070239349 - Route searching device, route searching method and program: A route seeking device, a route seeking method, and a program capable of determining a guide route requiring a small number of transfers of transportation means by a single route seek. In the route seeking device comprising a route seeking section for seeking a route from a start point to... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070239350 - Multi-function tracking device with robust asset tracking system: A tracking system for tracking at least one mobile multi-function device in a defined area, including at least one mobile multi-function device adapted to move in the defined area. The multi-function devices including a transmitter and a device for determining the position of the device to transmit a signal including... Agent: Kris T. Fredrick, Esq. Patent Services

20070239351 - System management user interface providing user access to status information for process control system equipment including displayed propagated status in a navigation pane: A system management human-machine interface application for use in a process control system is described herein that enables users to view/monitor information regarding system status and performance and to initiate changes to the operation of system equipment, checkpoint control stations and execute diagnostics. A system management graphical user interface (GUI)... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070239353 - Communication device for updating current navigation contents: The invention provides a communication device for updating current navigation contents stored in a navigation device. The communication device comprises a retrieving element for retrieving information indicating current navigation contents from the navigation device, a transmitter for transmitting the information indicating the current navigation contents to a remote network device... Agent: Jacob Eisenberg C/o Tom Tom

20070239352 - Embedded dynamic map generation: A unique map generation system and method are provide that facilitates automatically detecting a user's (or user's device's) current location and generating at least one customized map view of a static location based on the current (dynamic) location of the user. Many portable and handheld devices have very small user... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070239354 - Method of searching route in navigation system: The present invention relates to a method of searching a route in a navigation system, in which a user can reach a destination without passing through set detour regions when a route is searched by allowing the user to set the detour regions in advance, and a route that detours... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070239355 - Method and apparatus for preventing separation of accompanying persons: Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for preventing separation of accompanying persons by using a first apparatus and a second apparatus connected through a short-range wireless communication network. The method includes: calculating self-locations of the first and second apparatuses; exchanging the self-locations with each other; calculating a distance between... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070239357 - Driving support method and driving support device: A parking assist unit includes an image processor for setting a reference position of a vehicle, and an image data input unit for inputting image data from a camera provided on the vehicle. The image processor performs rotation processing on the image data to generate recorded data, based on a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070239356 - Synchronization of an external device using a gps receiver: A method for synchronization of an external device's clock 324 with a GPS device 104 is provided. The method can comprise processing one or more data sentences received at the external device 106 from the GPS device to determine a data sentence containing the best available time information that is... Agent: Sacco & Associates, Pa

20070239358 - Obstacle detecting control device of vehicle: An offset distance of an obstacle from a traveling-path center line of a vehicle at the time the obstacle is detected is calculated, and then this offset distance of the obstacle from the traveling-path center line of the vehicle is corrected based on a turning radius of the traveling vehicle... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070233332 - Method of controlling series hybrid electric vehicle powertrain: There is provided a method of controlling a power-train of a hybrid electric vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine, a first electric machine directly driven by the internal combustion engine for generating electricity, and a second electric machine driven at least partly with the electricity for driving the vehicle wheel.... Agent: Mazda North American Operations

20070233335 - Method and apparatus for optimizing railroad train operation for a train including multiple distributed-power locomotives: One embodiment of the invention comprises a system for operating a railway vehicle (8) comprising a lead powered unit (14/15) and a non-lead powered unit (16/17/18) during a trip along a track The system comprises a first element (65) for determining a location of the vehicle or a time from... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20070233344 - Electric power steering control apparatus: Provided is an electric power steering control apparatus, including: a motor for generating an assist torque for supplementing a steering torque; a steering torque detector for detecting the steering torque; a vehicle speed detector for detecting a speed of the vehicle; an addition command torque receiving portion for receiving an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070233345 - Electric power steering device: To provide an electric power steering device that can reliably detect the abnormality of a steering angle sensor and prevent the generation of a wrong decision. When both the two differences (|θa−θr |, |θa−θe|) between an absolute steering angle value θa obtained from a steering angle sensor and a relative... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20070233343 - Lane keeping assistance equipment for automotive vehicles: A lane keeping assistance equipment is provided, for traveling while accurately following a lane marking, without any accompanying temporary stoppages or causing discomfort to the driver. The lane keeping assistance equipment 1 has a lane marking detecting means 2 for detecting lane marking locations LR, LL; a sideways distance detecting... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070233348 - Method for controlling agricultural machine systems: For controlling several agricultural machine systems during operation on a territory, based on a reference line, an optimized route for working the territory is determined for the particular machine system, and the particular machine system is driven along this route. The reference line is determined by recording a reference path... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20070233352 - Tire transient response data calculating method, data processing method, tire designing method, vehicle motion predicting method, and tire cornering characteristic evaluation method and evaluation device therefor: Tire transient response data during cornering with a slip angle is calculated based on a tire dynamic model. A deformation response of a tread part in the tire dynamic is set as a first-order-lag response. The value of the transient response parameter is initialized, to define the first-order-lag response. The... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070233326 - Engine self-tuning methods and systems: A method is provided for controlling an engine. The method may include generating a first neural network model indicative of interrelationships between a plurality of sensing parameters and a plurality of engine operational parameters. The method may also include generating a second neural network model indicative of interrelationships between the... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070233328 - Information provision system and terminal for same and program for same: An information provision system of the present disclosure stores a current vehicle condition and a normal unattended condition of the vehicle as relevant information in a driver's unit, when a driver of a vehicle gets off the vehicle. The relevant information in the driver's unit is transmitted to a facility... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070233327 - Virtual profilograph for road surface quality assessment: A virtual profilograph is disclosed that can provide measurements indicative of the ride quality of a roadway as the road is being constructed. As a result, a more timely, less costly indication of the ride quality of a roadway is obtained as compared to prior methods. In a first embodiment... Agent: Law Office Of Jeffrey M. Weinick, LLC

20070233331 - Aircraft path verification assistance method: A method for assisting in verifying the path of an aircraft comprising a step of computing a path by means of a flight management computer, based on lateral constraints originating from a navigation database, characterized in that it comprises a step consisting in assisting the pilot to verify that the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070233329 - Aircraft vehicular propulsion system monitoring device and method: Methods and systems for monitoring rotating shaft shafts and couplings in an aircraft propulsion system is described. The measurement system/method provides for accurate and precise monitoring of a rotating shaft flexible coupling in a fixed wing aircraft vehicle propulsion system. The measuring system/method provides for a high reliability short take... Agent: Lord Corporation Patent & Legal Services

20070233330 - System and method of redundancy management for fault effect mitigation: Methods and systems are provided for redundancy management of a fly-by-wire avionics system. A control module for producing a control signal is provided comprising a common processing partition for receiving a flight input signal and at least one first mode input signal, a first processing partition coupled to the common... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070233333 - Rail wheel servicing management: A system (10) for providing rail wheel truing recommendations based on rail wheel measurements includes an input device (11) for inputting information into the system. The system also includes a processor (12) receiving measured rail wheel dimensions (14) for respective wheels of a rail vehicle from the input device and... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20070233334 - System and method for managing a power source in a vehicle: A system and method for managing a power source in a vehicle having an engine and an electric machine includes setting first and second discharge limits for the power source, where the second discharge limit is higher than the first discharge limit. A buffer value is determined as a function... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20070233336 - Method and apparatus for navigating unmanned vehicle using sensor fusion: A method and apparatus for navigating an unmanned vehicle using sensor fusion are provided. This method includes: measuring a plurality of parameters using at least two sensors that sense a result of a position estimation of the unmanned vehicle; selectively combining the measured parameters; detecting changes of the parameters within... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070233338 - Real time planning and scheduling for a team of unmanned vehicles: A method of implementing a plurality of unmanned vehicles over an obstacle field. The method includes obtaining a physical map of the obstacle field. Discretizing the physical map into traversable edges that avoid the obstacles, the traversable edges meeting at nodes. Replacing sections of the traversable edges that are beyond... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070233337 - Semi-autonomous guidance system for a vehicle: A system (and corresponding method) by which a number of trailing vehicles follows (more or less in line, one behind the other) a lead vehicle, and so forms a convoy, with each of the trailing vehicles receiving a guidance signal from the vehicle ahead of it in order to determine... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070233339 - Method and system for golf cart control: Golf cart movements at a golf course are controlled by a limited access controller that compares a golf cart's GPS-determined position against a limited access map to restrict performance of inputs by the golf cart's driver to the golf cart's motor under predetermined conditions, such as if a golf cart... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070233340 - Simultaneous vehicle protocol communication apparatus and method: A diagnostic tool for simultaneously communicating with a plurality of motor vehicle control units and implements at least two different communication protocols within a single motor vehicle. The diagnostic tool includes a processor and a field programmable gate array. The processor simultaneously executes a plurality of diagnostic routines and thereby... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070233341 - Vehicle diagnostic method and system with intelligent data collection: Vehicle diagnostic devices and methods that detect the occurrence of a maintenance process performed on a vehicle, and responsive to the detected occurrence of the maintenance process, initiate a data collection process to collect data related to the performed maintenance process, and a data transmission process to provide the collected... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070233342 - Remote programmer for a vehicle control system: A remote programmer for remotely programming a vehicle control system is provided. The remote programmer includes a display, an input for receiving user input data, a first interface for interfacing with a computer, wherein the first interface receives data associated with programming the vehicle control system from the computer; a... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070233347 - Angular velocity sensor and transporting equipment: Each output from an angular-velocity detecting element (2) and first and second signal processing sections (21, 22) is supplied to each input terminal of a switch circuit (7) having input terminals of a number corresponding to the number of the outputs, and an output terminal of the switch circuit (7)... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070233346 - Impact event countermeasure control method and system for automotive vehicle: An impact event countermeasure control method and system for an automotive vehicle includes management of impact countermeasures using not only variable timing responsive to impact severity, but also event control as a function of the displacement of a vehicle's occupant with respect to the passenger cabin environment, including various countermeasure... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070233349 - Method and apparatus for dynamic control of engine settings in a delivery vehicle: Method and apparatus for dynamic control of engine settings in a delivery vehicle. A method is provided for dynamically setting engine parameters in a vehicle. The method includes detecting one or more operational parameters, obtaining one or more engine parameters based on the one or more operational parameters, and setting... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070233350 - Method for automatically actuating longitudinal blocks in four wheel drive vehicles, in particular in working machines and service vehicles: A method for automatically actuating longitudinal blocks in four-wheel vehicles, particularly in working machines and service vehicles. The longitudinal blocks are always open when driving situations occur in which the blocking effect is absolutely unnecessary. The longitudinal blocks are closed in all other situations.... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20070233351 - Devices, systems, and methods for controlling a braking system: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method, which can comprise automatically setting a service brake of a mining haulage vehicle. The service brake can be set responsive to a determination that a wheel comprising a wheel motor is rotating at a rotational speed that is above a predetermined rotational speed. In... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070233353 - Enhanced adaptive cruise control system with forward vehicle collision mitigation: An adaptive cruise control system includes a yaw rate sensor for generating a first radius of curvature calculation representing a first projected vehicle path for the automobile, an optical sensor for generating optical sensory data and for generating a second radius of curvature calculation representing a second projected vehicle path... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070233355 - Control device of internal combustion engine: A control device of an internal combustion engine suppressing catalyst deterioration by prohibiting fuel cuts, wherein the generation of odor from the catalyst after deceleration is suppressed. The control device is provided with a fuel cut executing device for stopping the supply of fuel to an internal combustion engine when... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070233354 - Transition strategy for engine operation with spark ignition and homogeneous charge compression ignition modes: A method of operating an internal combustion engine having a combustion chamber with a piston and a spark plug, when transitioning between spark ignition combustion and autoignition combustion, creating a first mixture of air and fuel, adjusting an operating condition of the engine so that said first mixture of air... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070233357 - Control apparatus for internal combustion engine and automobile with control apparatus: In stopping an internal combustion engine, an engine stop is controlled such that, among a plurality of cylinders of the internal combustion engine, a cylinder arranged at a position close to a transmission halts in a compression stroke. More specifically, in stopping an internal combustion engine, at a point when... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070233356 - Method and device for determining a phase of an internal combustion engine: The invention concerns a method and a device for determining an internal combustion engine phase. Said device comprises an intake zone, an exhaust zone, at least one camshaft which acts on the gas exchanging valves and whereof the phase can be adjusted relative to that of a crankshaft by means... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070233358 - Method of controlling the operation of an electrical machine forming the starter of a heat engine and of electrical equipment: The invention relates to a method of controlling the operation of an electrical machine forming the starter (8) of a heat engine (2) and of electrical equipment (13). According to the invention, the starter and the electrical equipment are powered by the same power source (9) with which the operation... Agent: Nicolas E. Seckel Patent Attorney

20070233359 - System and method for aggregating probe vehicle data: A system and method for combining sequential map segments to aggregate, analyze, and display traffic data collected from one or more probe vehicles located on one or more of the map segments.... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070233360 - Fuel system: A vehicle fuel system for an internal combustion engine comprises a fuel tank, at least one fuel system component, at least one sensor (4, 5, 6) and a fuel system control unit (FSCU). The FSCU (2) is different from an engine control system (1) and has means for controlling functions... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070233363 - Navigation system for a motor vehicle: A navigation system is for a motor vehicle. The navigation system includes a motor vehicle, an isolated, immobile memory node for storing navigation data, a wireless communication connections between the isolated, immobile memory node and the motor vehicle for transmitting the navigation data from the isolated, immobile memory node to... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070233364 - Trip optimization system and method for a vehicle: A system for operating a vehicle including an engine operating on at least one type of fuel is provided. The system includes a locator element to determine a location of the vehicle, a characterization element to provide information about a terrain of the vehicle, a database to store characteristic information... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20070233365 - Vehicle travel safety device: This vehicle travel safety device improves the recognition accuracy of road shapes while preventing an extreme increase in the computation amount required for correction of road data. An inactive determination portion determines that the operating portion is inactive when a safety device does not operate for an estimated curve that... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070233361 - Centralized image processing for an automobile with a navigation system: A vehicle system 10 includes various cameras 36 that generate camera output signals. A navigation system 12 is included within the vehicle. The navigation system includes an image processor and receives the output signals from the cameras 36. The image processor 18 creates output signals suitable for display on display... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20070233362 - Manufacturing facility control system: A facility control system to determine a more efficient route for moving materials from one object to another object. A more efficient route for the material can be determined by an algorithm. The algorithm can take into account data including the priority of the material, the type of object at... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070233366 - Method and device including a map medium for correcting navigation information: A method and device including a map medium for correcting navigation information is described. The method includes the following steps: receiving a height varying signal; receiving a plane coordinate; comparing identification information with the height varying signal, the identification information predefined to represent adjacent roads on different planes in a... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC Tracy M Heims

20070233367 - Methods for interaction, sharing, and exploration over geographical locations: The present invention provides key disclosures in three aspects, geo-location information exploration, interaction over geo-locations, and geo-location information sharing. In one aspect, the present invention provides for geo-strolling, a concept of a user navigating to a geographical location on a computer graphically displayed map or environment. The user can be... Agent: Emil Chang Law Offices Of Emil Chang

20070233370 - Navigation system: A navigation system having a camera captures a front view image for guiding a driver of a vehicle to a destination. A portion of the front view image is identified as a destination image area, and the destination image area is marked by an arrow based on a processing in... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070233369 - Navigation system for a motor vehicle: A navigation system for a motor vehicle includes: a motor vehicle, a server which is spatially separate from the motor vehicle, and a wireless communication connection between the server and the motor vehicle for the time-staggered transmission of a first navigation information item and at least a second navigation information... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070233368 - Shared image database with geographic navigation: There is disclosed a system and method for operating an image database shared by a plurality of users. In an embodiment, each image captured by a user and stored in a shared image database is associating with the geographic coordinates of the location at which the image was captured. A... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20070233374 - Method for creating a route plan for agricultural machine systems: For creating a route plan for a group of agricultural working machine systems for working a territory, the machine systems include route planning data determination devices and they exchange data with each other and, based on exchanged route planning data, one shared route plan is created for the particular territory.... Agent: Striker, Stricer & Stenby

20070233371 - Navigation system for a motor vehicle: A navigation system for a motor vehicle includes: an off-board navigation system spatially separated from the motor vehicle, for calculating a suggested route for the motor vehicle; a wireless communication connection between the off-board navigation system and the motor vehicle, for transmitting the suggested route to the motor vehicle; and... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070233373 - Map scale changing method and apparatus for navigation system: A map scale changing method and apparatus for navigation system capable of automatically changing a map scale when a travel route of a mobile object is searched and displayed on a display screen, whereby a map scale is changed based on a distance between a current position of the mobile... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070233372 - Pedestrian navigation system, information delivery server, and program: A pedestrian navigation system, an information delivery server, and a program for naturally guiding (such as speech-guiding) the user of a portable terminal at an intersection. An information delivery server (20) comprises a map database (23) containing data such as nodes including paths constituting intersections, links, and costs of the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070233380 - Navigation device and method of navigating vehicle: A navigation device includes a position detector, a controller, a display portion, an imaging portion and an image processor. The imaging portion images a forward view in front of the vehicle as a forward image from a predetermined distance before a guidance point. The image processor extracts and analyzes visual... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070233379 - Real-time collision avoidance for map labels and symbols: A method of displaying a map on a wireless communications device includes obtaining map data for rendering the map to be displayed on the wireless communications device, the map data including label data for rendering labels on the map. The device generates a collision-avoidance array representative of the map to... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20070233377 - Content display and navigation interface: A user interface for navigating and viewing content is described. In one example, the apparatus includes display logic for displaying at least two content properties, wherein each of the content properties is associated with additional content (e.g., an application, service, media object, or