Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location inventions 04/08

20080097659 - Method of marshalling cars into a train: A method of optimizing marshalling rail cars into a train at a site and includes determining the track configuration at the site; determining location on the tracks of cars to be marshaled; determining characteristics of the cars to be marshaled; and determining marshalling rules. A calculation is performed to determine... Agent: Barnes & Thornbury LLP

20080097662 - Hybrid model based fault detection and isolation system: Method for detecting faults in a device comprising the steps of receiving a plurality of performance parameters, applying the plurality of performance parameters to a first model to produce a plurality of estimated performance parameters, applying the plurality of performance parameters to a second model to produce a plurality of... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20080097666 - Travel control apparatus for a vehicle: In a configuration in which a control is performed for actuating the steering cylinder 17 so that the steering angle of the front wheel 11a (steering wheel), which is detected by the steering angle detector 62, becomes a target steering angle which is set in accordance with an operational state... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080097670 - Vehicular steering system: A vehicular steering system can suppress, even upon a change in a neutral position of a steering wheel, a right and left difference in the behavior of a vehicle by keeping neutral positions of steerable road wheels from the start of control. The system includes a steering mechanism that steers... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080097671 - Control system for vehicles for decreasing controlling amount by judging abnormality: In view of the matter that an abnormality occurred in an operating portion of a control system comes out in an early stage as a result of the control, while it takes a time for an abnormality occurred in the generation of a controlling amount for controlling the operation of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080097672 - Velocity based control process for a machine digging cycle: A method and machine with an automated digging cycle is provided. The method includes moving an implement system of the machine through a work cycle, including interacting with a material. The method further includes sensing values associated with a bucket velocity parameter, such as bucket tip velocity, during interacting with... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell & Mcneil Attorneys PC

20080097674 - Control apparatus and control method of a vehicle, program for realizing that control method using a computer, and recording medium on which that program is recorded: An ECU executes a program that includes the steps of i) calculating a sporty running counting SC based on a state of a vehicle according to an operation of a driver; ii) changing a condition for executing sporty running in which an upshift is inhibited when an accelerator is suddenly... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080097675 - Electric braking control apparatus and electric braking apparatus: An electric braking control apparatus for controlling an electric braking apparatus which includes a brake pad, a motor which generates a rotational torque, and a rotation/linear motion conversion mechanism which causes the brake pad to generate a pressing force based on the torque. The braking control apparatus includes an inverter... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080097658 - Flight control system having a three control loop design: A flight control system is configured for controlling the flight of an aircraft utilizing a three control loop design to robustly increase system performance. An inner loop comprises an improved linear quadratic regulator (LQR) search method, and an outer loop comprises a classic feedback summary gain design. A third loop... Agent: Law Offices Of James E. Walton, PLLC

20080097660 - Train service managing system: A train service managing system of the invention predicts irregularity of a schedule and creates a predicted schedule on the basis of an on-rail state data and a schedule of the day, detects operation irregularity occurring in a route in which a crew member serves from crew operation information and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080097661 - Method of controlling engine stop-start operation for heavy-duty hybrid-electric and hybrid-hydraulic vehicles: This invention relates to a Start-Stop method for a heavy-duty hybrid vehicle that turns off the internal combustion engine when the vehicle stops or, optionally, when the vehicle travels downhill. The Stop-Start method automatically restarts the internal combustion engine when the vehicle starts accelerating or is no longer traveling downhill.... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080097663 - Client management apparatus: A client managing database for storing information on the diagnosis request record, the diagnosis result needing a dealer check for repair or adjustment of the mobile body, the inspection result, the inspecting dealer, and the inspection report for each client receiving a mobile object diagnosis service. The dealer having implemented... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080097665 - Method for the maintenance of application data of a vehicle component of a motor vehicle: A method for the management of application data of a vehicle component of a motor vehicle includes acquiring relevant application data for the vehicle component, an electronic control unit being associated with the vehicle component, wherein the relevant application data includes parameterization data of the electronic control unit and general... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080097664 - Vehicle-use electric generator apparatus: A vehicle power supply apparatus has first and second engine-driven electrical generators and first and second storage batteries, the first generator supplying a stable voltage to the first battery and a first set of loads, and the second generator supplying the second battery and a second set of loads, which... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080097667 - Method and device for determining a steering angle in a motor vehicle: The invention relates to a device and method for determining a steering angle of a motor vehicle. The systems make it possible to detect an elastokinematic angle on at least one steering pivoting joint (10) in correlation with a wheel offset.... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20080097668 - Control device for electric power steering system of vehicle having wheel slip control system active on steered vehicle wheels: The operations of an electric power steering system and a wheel slip control system such as a traction control system or an anti-lock brake system are co-related so as not to undesirably affect one another, by the target assisting steering force for the electric power steering system being modified differently... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080097669 - Method for correcting measurements of the torque exerted on a steering wheel of an automobile vehicle electric power-assisted steering: The method consists in the following when the instantaneous speed of the vehicle is greater than a pre-determined threshold speed: identifying that the vehicle travels in a straight line during a minimum pre-determined period without torque exerted on the steering wheel by the driver of the vehicle; if the prior... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080097673 - Construction machine: A construction machine includes: a work arm rotatably mounted at a construction machine main body; a work tool mounted at the work arm; an attitude decision device that decides an attitude of the work arm or the work tool relative to the construction machine main body; a follow-up enabling device... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080097676 - Method for controlling a drive system and/or wheel braking system: A method is provided for controlling a drive system and/or a wheel braking system of a vehicle, in which a total braking power to be exerted on the wheels of a motor vehicle is composed of a drive braking power and/or a wheel braking power. The instantaneously set drive braking... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080097677 - Driving force control apparatus: A driving force control apparatus has an electronically-controlled throttle valve for regulating an intake air mass of an engine, and an ECU for controlling this electronically-controlled throttle valve. The ECU keeps an opening of the electronically-controlled throttle valve constant to restrain increase of engine output, in a region where a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080097678 - Process for determining particle emission in the exhaust fume stream from an internal combustion engine: A process for determining particle input into a particle filter arranged in the exhaust fume stream of an internal combustion engine makes it possible to determine the mass of deposited particles by taking into account particle and nitrogen oxide emission.... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20080097679 - Internal combustion water injection engine: An internal combustion system and a water injection nozzle to position a water mist within an internal chamber of an internal combustion engine. In one form, the apical cone of the injection is altered with respect to the position of the piston within the interior chamber. In another form, the... Agent: Hughes Law Firm, PLLC

20080097681 - Controller of internal combustion engine: An engine controller performs low opening degree control during a first intake stroke period since an engine start is commenced until first intake strokes of respective cylinders end. Thus, an opening degree of an intake throttle valve is controlled to a fully closed position or proximity of the fully closed... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080097682 - System and method for control of an internal combustion engine: A method is provided for determining whether an injection parameter correction for fuel quality is required in an internal combustion engine, the engine comprising a plurality of cylinders, each one of the cylinders comprising a combustion chamber into which fuel is injected by an associated fuel injector and within which,... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080097680 - Fuel-injection control device for internal-combustion engine: A fuel injection control device performs fuel injection only once corresponding to an over-rich air/fuel ratio immediately after the end of F/C as rich air/fuel ratio control after F/C. Such fuel injection is performed with a fuel amount which is the sum of a fuel amount corresponding to a shallow... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080097683 - Control apparatus, control method, and engine control unit: A control apparatus which is capable of compensating for a control error properly and quickly even under a condition where the control error is temporarily increased e.g. by degradation of reliability of the detection results of reference parameters other than controlled variables, thereby making it possible to ensure a high... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080097684 - Hybrid electric vehicle control system and method of use: A rule-based fuzzy gain-scheduling proportional integral (PI) controller is provided to control desired engine power and speed behavior in a power-split HEV. The controller includes a fuzzy logic gain-scheduler and a modified PI controller that operates to improve on the control of engine power and speed in a power-split HEV... Agent: Tung & Associates

20080097685 - Start control apparatus of internal combustion engine: A start control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes first and second control mechanisms which are individually arranged to vary at least one of a compression ratio and an expansion ratio of a cylinder of the internal combustion engine. The start control apparatus measures a state of the internal... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080097686 - Travel-time prediction apparatus, travel-time prediction method, traffic information providing system and program: Disclosed is a travel-time prediction apparatus that is capable of making a mid-term prediction of travel time accurately by combining present conditions and statistical information. The apparatus includes a travel-time transition pattern database storing travel-time transition patterns obtained by statistically processing past time-series data of each road link according to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080097687 - Location monitoring and transmitting device, method, and computer program product using a simplex satellite transmitter: A device, method, and computer program product for monitoring and transmitting a location and a local status of a remote device using a simplex satellite transmitter. The monitoring device includes a position location unit, a simplex satellite transmitter, a power source, and a controller. The position location unit is configured... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20080097688 - Route generation based upon activity criteria: A route can be optimized according to various constraints, specifically towards non-travel constraints. A number of community activities can take place such that the activities impact traffic. Thus, a route can be produces that lowers an influence the activities have upon a route. Moreover, a route can be produced that... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080097689 - An information apparatus for an operator of a land or water based motor driven conveyance: An information system (1) including an input (2) for receiving data (5) indicative of one or more consecutive identifiers such a pair of consecutive identifiers (6) and (7) or an individual identifier (8). Each identifier (6) to (8) includes data (9) indicative of at least one geographical waypoint. A processor... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080097690 - Mobile device with on-screen optical navigation: A mobile computing device, including a main body, a processor and associated memory housed within the main body, a display screen housed within the main body and responsive to signals from the processor, an optical sensor fixed to the main body for capturing successive images and providing image signals representative... Agent: Ridout & Maybee Suite 2400

20080097691 - Vehicle navigation system: A navigation system is provided in a vehicle. The navigation system operates using a dedicated operating mode for generating navigation information and outputting such information to the vehicle user when a relevant event has occurred. The navigation system includes a positioning device for determining the vehicle position with respect to... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20080097692 - Navigation apparatus: A navigation apparatus in a vehicle displays road names of cross roads that crosses a to-be-traveled road along the to-be-traveled road at positions that area adjacent to respective cross roads. In this manner, a user of the navigation apparatus easily recognizes the road names of the roads to be traveled... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080097694 - Apparatus and method for transmitting information using an irig-b waveform generated by an intelligent electronic device: An intelligent electronic device broadcasts its own location information over an IRIG-B or similar network, avoiding the need for maintenance personnel to manually record the location of the installed device, and avoiding errors in tracking its location. The intelligent electronic device either is equipped with a GPS module, or receives... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20080097693 - Gimbaled satellite positioning system antenna: A method and apparatus for use with a satellite positioning system wherein the receive elements satellite positioning system receive antennas are maintained in an orientation with respect to the positioning system satellites in a way such that the strongest signals can be received from the greatest number of satellites. According... Agent: Weinick & Associates, LLC

20080097696 - Method and apparatus for providing gps data using network: Provided is a network global positioning system (GPS) terminal. The network GPS terminal includes: a GPS receiver receiving GPS data; a GPS processor processing the received GPS data to a predetermined form; a network communication part communicating with an external apparatus through a network in order to receive a request... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080097695 - Navigation apparatus: Disclosed is a portable navigation apparatus which positions a current position to display the position on a display section, including: an apparatus main body part in which the display section is disposed on a front side thereof; a planate GPS antenna section which is provided at an upper end of... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080097697 - Point-of-interest display system: A point-of-interest display system includes an updateable database which interfaces with a microprocessor which receives data from a GPS receiver providing the system with current vehicle location and direction of travel information. A display provides the operator textural and elemental graphic display information, and easily accessible control switches allow the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080097698 - Point-of-interest display system: A point of interest display system (20) includes an updatable database which interfaces with a microprocessor (50) which receives data from a GPS receiver (40) providing the system with current vehicle location and direction of travel information. A display (26) provides the operator graphic display data information and easily accessible... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080097699 - Vehicle motion control device: The invention provides a vehicle motion control device capable of realizing optimum avoidance control in the case of an emergency. The vehicle motion control device includes an external environment detection unit for detecting external environment, and a travel state detection unit for detecting a travel state of a driver's vehicle.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080097700 - Collision avoidance system and method of aiding rearward vehicular motion: A collision avoidance system adapted for use with a rearward traveling host vehicle, and by an operator, in a preferred embodiment includes an object locator sub-system configured to determine at least one condition for a plurality of objects, wherein the objects include infrastructure, appurtenances, and remotely traveling equipped vehicles, and... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080091310 - System and method for responding to ground and flight system malfunctions: A system for on-board anomaly resolution for a vehicle has a data repository. The data repository stores data related to different systems, subsystems, and components of the vehicle. The data stored is encoded in a tree-based structure. A query engine is coupled to the data repository. The query engine provides... Agent: The Boeing Company C/o Weiss & Moy, P.C.

20080091314 - Mode change control system for hybrid vehcile: During vehicle drive under an EV mode, a battery charge state SOC becomes smaller than a SOC(L) at time t0. As a result, EV→HEV mode change is carried out. After time t1, deceleration is desired, and an accelerator opening APO is kept at 0. At time t3, the SOC increases... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20080091316 - Occupant retained accessory power: A method for retaining accessory power in a motorized vehicle includes the steps of sensing whether an ignition in the motorized vehicle has been turned to an off position and sensing whether the vehicle doors are closed. The method also includes an occupancy detection system that senses whether a seat... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080091319 - Electric circuit for a by-wire system: The invention relates to an electrical system or circuit for a by-wire control system. The control system includes a hydraulic pump, a reservoir, a bi-directional function actuator, and solenoid operated valves for controlling the actuator in response to control signals from the electronic system. The electronic system includes first and... Agent: Deere & Company

20080091318 - Method and system for lane centering control: A system for lane centering control for a vehicle having a user-operable steering device is disclosed. The system includes a set of sensors for sensing the vehicle speed, yaw rate, and steering device angle, a target path tracker configured for tracking the target path of the vehicle, a processor responsive... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080091321 - Vehicle steering control device and vehicle steering control method: A vehicle steering control device capable of executing automatic steering and manual steering includes: an automatic control amount-setting device that sets a target automatic control amount based on information about vehicle behavior and ambient environment; a steering control amount-setting device that sets a target steering amount based on a manual... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080091326 - Electro mechanical brake: When a caliper and an ECU are separately configured in an electro mechanical brake, the number of harness is increased, and therefore, the wiring layout of the harness becomes difficult, and when bending and twisting are applied to the harness, a problem of a breaking of the wiring and the... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080091309 - Electrically controlled automated devices to operate, slow, guide, stop and secure, equipment and machinery for the purpose of controlling their unsafe, unattended, unauthorized, unlawful hazardous and/or legal use, with remote control and accountability: This application describes completely in many unique ways and detail all the devices to reduce a vehicle's speed and/or reduce a machines RPMs and/or stop any piece of equipment's as well as guide it if mobile through automated controls. First to slow it down, and guide it and/or control it... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080091311 - Apparatuses and methods for displaying and receiving tactical and strategic flight guidance information: Methods and apparatuses for displaying and receiving tactical and strategic flight guidance information are disclosed. A method in accordance with one aspect of the invention includes displaying at least one first indicator to an operator of the aircraft, with a first indicator corresponding to a first instruction input by the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080091312 - Model train control system: A system which operates a digitally controlled model railroad transmitting a first command from a first client program to a resident external controlling interface through a first communications transport. A second command is transmitted from a second client program to the resident external controlling interface through a second communications transport.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080091313 - Method for operating a hybrid drive and device for carrying out said method: A procedure to operate a hybrid-electric power train and a device to implement the procedure are proposed. The hybrid-electric power train contains at least one internal combustion engine and at least one electromotor, which together supply a drive torque, respectively a driving power output, for a motor vehicle. At a... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080091315 - Method and device for determining the speed of a vehicle: The invention relates to a method for determining a speed of a vehicle (1), whereby at least two images (A, B) of an area surrounding the vehicle are recorded in time succession using a camera on the vehicle (1), and between the images (A, B) changes (2) in a position... Agent: Continental Teves, Inc.

20080091317 - Method of controlling a roll control system for improved vehicle dynamic control: A method of controlling a roll control system includes monitoring the position of a steering mechanism of a vehicle. A rate of change of the position of the steering mechanism is determined. The rate of change is compared to a change threshold value. The lateral acceleration of a vehicle is... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20080091320 - Automatic steering device for vehicle: A first correction coefficient and a second correction coefficient are map-searched based on a steering force applied by a driver to a steering wheel. A steering actuator is controlled based on an actuator driving electric current obtained by adding the product of an automatic steering control electric current and a... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080091322 - Vehicle seating system and method: A system comprises a vehicle seating system including a seat and at least one powered seat adjustment actuator for altering the seating position formed by the seat. Additionally, the system includes a vehicle braking system including vehicle brakes and a brake pedal. The system further includes a signal sent in... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080091323 - Vehicle integrated-control apparatus and method: In a vehicle integrated-control apparatus and method applied to a vehicle provided with a power train including a drive source and a transmission, a control target value is primarily derived based on an instruction provided by a driver or an automatic operating device; two control target values that are expressed... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080091324 - Method and system for control of an automatic friction clutch arranged between an engine and a gearbox on a motor vehicle: An automatic friction clutch in a drive train of a motor vehicle is controlled to transfer a clutch torque that includes an engine torque-dependent component and a clutch slip-dependent component.... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080091325 - Front-wheel drive steering compensation method and system: A method of controlling the speed of a right front wheel and a left front wheel on a work machine includes receiving a speed command based at least partially on an operator input and monitoring at least one wheel steering angle of at least one front wheel. A first front... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080091327 - Cruise control system for a vehicle: This invention provides a vehicle cruise control system which, during recognition of a shape of a road extending in a frontward direction of host vehicle, can calculate the road shape rapidly and accurately from a positional relationship with respect to the host vehicle. The system includes at least: a position... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080091330 - Apparatus and method for diagnosing an airflow modifying control system: An apparatus and method for diagnosing an airflow control system of an internal combustion engine, the method comprising: determining if a valve is in a stable position; commanding the valve of the airflow control system to move from a first position to a second position; determining a period of time... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080091331 - Control apparatus and method for internal combustion engine: A required torque waveform, a target torque waveform, and a maximum torque that can be realized/achieved by hardware are updated at time t2. When a required torque value at time t2 exceeds the maximum torque, the time at which the target torque waveform is realized is delayed until time tb... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080091332 - Control apparatus, control method, and engine control unit: A control apparatus which is capable of compensating for a control error properly and quickly even under a condition where the control error is temporarily increased e.g. by degradation of reliability of the detection results of reference parameters other than controlled variables, thereby making it possible to ensure a high... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080091328 - Internal combustion engine system and internal combustion engine control method: The internal combustion engine control technique of the invention computes a TDC pass rotation speed Ntdc, which represents the rotation speed of an engine when one of multiple cylinders of the engine passes over a top dead center TDC (step S110). The control technique estimates an engine stop crank angle... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080091329 - Internal-combustion engine control method and engine using same: e

20080091333 - Intake quantity sensing device of internal combustion engine: An intake pressure sensor is provided in an intake manifold of a first cylinder. During steady operation, intake quantities of respective cylinders are sensed with an airflow meter provided in an intake pipe of an engine, and the intake quantity of the first cylinder is compared with the intake quantities... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080091334 - Methods of flexible fuel engine conversions: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for converting and optimizing the fuel system of an internal combustion engine in a pre-existing (used) vehicle to be fuel flexible and thus to operate on a mixture of fuels (like ethanol and gasoline) from a single fuel tank. The conversion includes adding a fuel... Agent: Brown & Michaels, PC 400 M & T Bank Building

20080091335 - Knock determining device and method for internal combustion engine: A band pass filter processing extracts the vibration component (frequency component) of the 1st to the 4th order frequency band from the output of the knock sensor. A primary frequency band is established as the frequency band containing the fundamental frequency (primary resonance frequency) which is the lowest frequency of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080091336 - Shut-down control device of internal combustion engine: A plurality of pistons are slidably provided in cylinders of an engine respectively. The engine includes a plurality of connection pipes connecting cylinders successively experiencing combustion to each other during operation of engine, a plurality of opening-closing valves for setting each of connection pipes to a connected state or a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080091337 - Method for transmitting and receiving traffic information and apparatus for receiving traffic information: A method for transmitting and receiving traffic information and an apparatus for receiving traffic information are provided. The method for transmitting traffic information encodes and transmits a traffic information message including an identifier of at least one of a plurality of location reference methods for representing location information used to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080091339 - Navigation system: A navigation system includes an information center and a navigation device installed in a probe vehicle. The information center stores limiting information for specifying a content of probe information in accordance with predefined factors, specifies a predefined factor corresponding to a navigation device, selects the limiting information based on the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080091338 - Navigation system and indicator image display system: A route guidance method for displaying to a driver depth information within a range of several tens of meters to several hundreds of meters in a forward direction indispensable for route guidance of a mobile object without introducing a large scale optical system and a route guidance system using the... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080091340 - Targeted marching: A method of finding a path from a start point to a target point, in multi-dimensional space, including: (a) determining a plurality of points in a physical space, including a start point and an target point; (b) computing, using a cost function, for said points an accumulated path cost from... Agent: Shane Peper

20080091341 - Route monetization: A user can be compensated for taking detours from a projected route. Commonly, the reason for the compensation is that the user will be subjected to advertising, the user will pass by an establishment she is likely to visit, or to ease traffic congestion. Analysis of an area takes place... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080091342 - System and method for ride matching: Users are matched for ridesharing based on where they are from (origin), where they are going (destination), when they are traveling (time), and how often (frequency). Other commuting preferences may also be considered. Geographic matching is based on cross-streets rather than exact street addresses. Locations are geocoded for latitude and... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20080091343 - Control unit for off-road vehicles including housing configured to fit within pre-existing cavity of off-road-vehicle cab: A control unit disposed in the cab of an off-road vehicle includes a user interface; an attitude and heading reference system and a housing. The attitude and heading reference system includes a processor and at least one of a positioning receiver, magnetometer, compass, gyro and accelerometer electrically connected to the... Agent: Leica Geosystems (a Hexagon Company) C/o Collin Webb

20080091344 - Map information processing apparatus and storage medium of map information: In a map information processing apparatus including a processor 5 for updating map information containing map data stored in a map information storage device 3, road network data contained in the map data stored in the map information storage device has a data structure in which the road network data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080091345 - Sub-room-level indoor location system using power line positioning: Disclosed is an indoor location system that uses an electrical power line, power line signal injection devices, and portable position receivers (tags) to generate location data relating to positions of the tags in a structure such as a residence or business. The indoor location system fingerprinting of multiple signals transmitted... Agent: Law Offices Of Kenneth W. Float

20080091347 - Map matching method and apparatus for navigation system: A map matching method and apparatus for a navigation system estimates a location of the navigation system on a correct road segment when a GPS signal is invalid. The map matching method creates a database of pairs of locations at which the navigation system encountered GPS signal loss and recovery... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20080091346 - Programmable route specific dynamic traffic warning system: A system and method for providing a user with traffic information. The system generally includes a processor, traffic and location antennas in communication with the processor, a traffic location table database in communication with the processor, and a memory unit in communication with the processor and having processor executable instructions.... Agent: Visteon

20080091348 - Navigation apparatus and route re-search method thereof: The present invention relates to a route re-search method of a navigation apparatus, and more particularly, to a route re-search method, wherein when a route is re-searched for, the location at the completion time of the re-search is estimated and a route is re-searched for from the estimated location. A... Agent: Ked & Associates, LLP

20080091349 - Navigation device and its navigation method for displaying navigation information according to traveling direction: A navigation method applied to a navigation device is used to display navigation information according to a traveling direction of the navigation device. The navigation information frame displayed is dynamically adjusted according to the traveling direction of the device, and in particular, the display position of the current position and... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080091350 - Triply redundant integrated navigation and asset visibility system: Methods and apparatus are described for a navigation system. A method includes providing a global positioning system fix having a plurality of tracking parameters; providing a theater positioning system fix; monitoring the plurality of tracking parameters for predetermined conditions; and, when the predetermined conditions are met, sending a notifying signal... Agent: John Bruckner PC

20080091351 - Gps accuracy adjustment to mitigate multipath problems for mems based integrated ins/gps navigation systems: A method of GPS accuracy adjustment for an integrated INS/GPS navigation system which utilizes microelectro mechanical systems (MEMS) based inertial sensors to mitigate multipath problems arising when a vehicle is in an area with many high-rise buildings is disclosed. Even when GPS measurement output values are deviated from that expected,... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20080091352 - Automobile collision avoidance system: A navigation system and a wireless communication device are installed on an automobile. The navigation system determines the state vector of the automobile. The navigated state vector is periodically transmitted by the wireless communication device for use by other vehicles. The wireless communication device also receives state vectors transmitted from... Agent: James K. O'hare

20080086241 - Autonomous behaviors for a remove vehicle: A system and method for allowing an operator to switch between remote vehicle tele-operation and one or more remote vehicle autonomous behaviors, or for implementing remote vehicle autonomous behaviors. The system comprises an operator control system receiving input from the operator including instructions for the remote vehicle to execute an... Agent: O''brien Jones, Pllc (w/irobot Corp.)

20080086247 - Battery management system for vehicles: Disclosed herein is a battery management system for vehicles, comprising: a plurality of slave control units, each of which manages a state of charge of a corresponding battery cell; and a master control unit interfacing with the slave control units to manage a state of charge of all the battery... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080086249 - Farm apparatus having implement sidehill drift compensation: An apparatus and method using GPS for dynamically adjusting side-to-side positioning of a farm implement along a geographical path. The apparatus includes a global positioning system (GPS) antenna disposed on the farm implement, a GPS receiver coupled to the GPS antenna for determining a location of the GPS antenna, and... Agent: Menlo Patent Agency Llc

20080086248 - Integrated control system for stability control of yaw, roll and lateral motion of a driving vehicle using an integrated sensing system with pitch information: An integrated stability control system using the signals from an integrated sensing system for an automotive vehicle includes a plurality of sensors sensing the dynamic conditions of the vehicle. The sensors include an IMU sensor cluster, a steering angle sensor, wheel speed sensors, any other sensors required by subsystem controls.... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20080086250 - Squib driver circuit diagnostic system and method: A squib driver module comprises a squib circuit for deploying a squib, e.g., in an airbag assembly, the squib circuit including a high side driver and a low side driver in combination for driving a firing signal to the squib; a circuit for activating the firing signal in response to... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080086251 - Integrated control system for stability control of yaw, roll and lateral motion of a driving vehicle using an integrated sensing system to determine a final linear lateral velocity: A method of controlling a vehicle includes determining a front lateral tire force, a rear lateral tire force, and determining a lineal sideslip angle from the front lateral tire force and the rear lateral tire force. The method also includes determining a load transfer correction. The method also includes determining... Agent: Dickinson Wright Pllc

20080086252 - Electric parking brake control system: An electric parking brake control apparatus for controlling an electric actuator for driving a parking brake is provided with: an inclination determination unit for determining an inclination of a road surface based on at least a change of a vehicle speed; and a braking force setting unit. The braking force... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080086253 - Electric parking brake control system and electric parking brake control method: In an electric parking brake control apparatus for controlling an electric actuator for driving parking brakes, a dynamically estimated road surface inclination is estimated based on a running state of a vehicle while the vehicle is running, and a statically estimated road surface inclination is estimated based on an acceleration... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080086254 - Anti-overspeed system for vehicle and associated method: An anti-overspeed system is adapted to prevent overspeeding of an engine of a vehicle. The anti-overspeed system has an anti-overspeed hydraulic circuit operably connected to the engine and a controller for controlling the hydraulic circuit in a manner that prevents overspeeding of the engine.... Agent: Deere & Company

20080086240 - Vehicle computer design and use techniques: Vehicle including a data generating system which obtains or generates information about the vehicle and a communications system coupled to the data generating system for communicating directly with a wireless Internet service provider (ISP) to enable the information obtained or generated by the data generating system to be transmitted via... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080086242 - Motor vehicle key: A motor vehicle key for locking or unlocking a door of a motor vehicle or for operating the motor vehicle includes a display configuration for displaying information which relates to the motor vehicle or for displaying the function of an operator control element of the motor vehicle key. The display... Agent: Manfred Beck, P.a.

20080086243 - Distance-jump-tolerant flight management system: Flight management systems can behave erratically when the distance measurements on which they are based are subject to value jumps because they liken these value jumps to movements of the aircraft performed at speeds exceeding the performance levels of the aircraft for which they were designed. To avoid this, the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080086244 - Linear synchronous motor with phase control: A system for controlling movements of a vehicle along a guideway includes an array of targets that are mounted on the vehicle, and a series of wayside sensors that are mounted on the guideway. A signal processor monitors the passage of targets past appropriate sensors and uses resultant signals to... Agent: Neil K. Nydegger Nydegger & Associates

20080086245 - Model train control system: A system which operates a digitally controlled model railroad transmitting a first command from a first client program to a resident external controlling interface through a first communications transport. A second command is transmitted from a second client program to the resident external controlling interface through a second communications transport.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080086246 - Portable vehicle powering and testing systems: A portable system for powering and testing the electrical circuits of a vehicle comprising a source of electrical power adapted to power the system and to provide electrical power to the vehicle. A power connector is adapted to quickly connect/disconnect the system to/from the electrical system of the vehicle. A... Agent: Bliss Mcglynn, P.c.

20080086255 - Motor vehicle and control method of the same: A gear change from a parking position is predicted, in response to an ON operation of a gearshift cancellation button concurrently with the driver's depression of a brake pedal. The control procedure of the invention sets an auxiliary driving force F* in a direction of canceling a force, which acts... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080086256 - Method for adapting torque model for improved zero torque identification: A torque adaptation system is provided. The system includes, a torque error estimator module that estimates a torque error based on an error propagation model and a plurality of torque model parameters; and an adapt torque module that adapts a model torque based on the torque error.... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080086257 - Diagnostic apparatus for internal combustion engine: A diagnostic apparatus for an internal combustion engine, comprising an adjusting device for adjusting a burning condition, a correction device for estimating or detecting an input or an output to and from the internal combustion engine so as to correct at least one of a throttle opening degree, a fuel... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080086258 - Traffic signal light control system and method: An apparatus or system and method to control traffic at an intersection which uses a digital camera with pan, tilt, zoom, fast position and autofocus to send information to an integrated central processing unit having image processing algorithms which evaluate and analyze less than the entire image to determine whether... Agent: James M. Pelton

20080086259 - Navigation sign: This invention relates to signs and cartography, and provides a sign which makes it easier for tourists to find their way around a town or city. In particular the invention provides a navigation sign (1) having a plurality of components. The components are suitable for incorporation into a paving system.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080086260 - Apparatus and method for recognizing voice in vehicles: An in-vehicle voice recognition apparatus and method for outputting a voice for notifying when a factor interfering with voice recognition is detected on a road on which a vehicle travels. A camera unit takes an image of the road on which the vehicle travels and transmits the taken road image... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080086261 - Location-based social interaction network: Systems (and corresponding methods) that enable location-based information to be incorporated within a social networking environment are provided. More particularly, the innovation can track locations and trigger notifications to users with regard to persons of interest within their proximate locale. In aspects, ‘proximate’ can be defined by a user and... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080086262 - Map data distribution system: In the case that a road is updated in units of specific areas in order to reduce the amount of communication data, the quality may degrade; for example, a network of roads is disconnected. To solve this problem, alterations to map data are grouped into map update data of the... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080086263 - Methods and systems for routing travel between origin and destination service locations using global satellite positioning: Methods and systems are provided for obtaining information related to a customer service location and directions for routing a service technician from one customer service location to another. One embodiment includes requesting at least one set of coordinates associated with the customer service location; accessing a technician server to direct... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20080086264 - Popularity based geographical navigation: Typically, users click or otherwise show interest in a particular geographic region on a map to indicate their desire to center and/or zoom in on that location. However, it is more likely that a user has a higher interest in popular points of interest in a region than with a... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080086265 - Navigational system, as well as method for illustrating a road map with isolines: The invention pertains to a navigation system, for example, for a motor vehicle, as well as to a method for simultaneously displaying isolines and a road map. The navigation system comprises a processor as well as a display device for displaying a road map. The invention is characterized in that... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080086266 - System and method for storing a vehicle location on the occurrence of an error: A system for storing the location of a vehicle during an error condition is provided. The system includes one or more vehicle electronics devices that include memory, and are configured to detect an error condition associated with the vehicle electronics device(s). The system also includes a location determination device coupled... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080086267 - Space based network for detection and monitoring of global maritime shipping using automatic identification system: A spaced-based system is provided to simultaneously track and monitor one or more ocean going vessels at any point on the earth. The system includes a plurality of space vehicles or satellites. Each satellite includes an AIS communications payload to receive AIS signals including AIS information transmitted from the one... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20080086268 - Object detection apparatus and method: A method and apparatus for determining the position of an object relative to a moving vehicle. While the vehicle is moving in a first direction, successive sensor pulses are transmitted from a vehicle sensor and toward the object. The echo or reflection from the sensor pulse is then received while... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.c.

20080086269 - Obstacle avoidance control apparatus: An obstacle avoidance control apparatus is provided with an obstacle detecting section, a first obstacle proximity distance prediction section, a second obstacle avoidance direction determining section, a target vehicle body slip angle setting section and a vehicle behavior controlling section. The obstacle detecting section detects preceding obstacles. The first obstacle... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080082220 - Vehicle stationary/moving determination apparatus: The vehicle stationary/moving determination apparatus includes an antenna mounted on a vehicle body of a vehicle; and a determination device determining whether or not the vehicle is moving or stationary on the basis of a reception intensity of a radio signal transmitted from a radio transmitter device mounted on the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080082221 - System for monitoring, controlling, and reporting vehicle operation through onboard diagnostic port: Systems and methods are disclosed to extract, monitor, analyze, and send data from a vehicle interface module (VIM) coupled to one or more vehicular electronic devices; transmitting vehicle and geographic location data to a handheld device and forwarding the data to a web server over a wide area network; and... Agent: Bao Tran Tran & Associates

20080082222 - Real-time concurrent processing system and method of telemetry data and simulated telemetry data: Provided are a real-time concurrent processing system and a method of telemetry data and simulated telemetry data. The real-time concurrent processing system includes a first operation unit connected with a satellite based on a configuration file, for receiving the telemetry data from the satellite and processing the telemetry data based... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080082223 - System and method for optimized fuel efficiency and emission output of a diesel powered system: A method for minimizing emission output from a diesel powered system having at least one diesel-fueled power generating unit, the method including determining at least one power level required from the diesel powered system in order to accomplish a specified mission, determining an emission output based on the power level... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20080082225 - A method of reporting errors in map data used by navigation devices: An end-user can input a map error report to a map error, directly on the device. The device stores the map error report and can send the report to a remote server for processing. Hence, it is no longer necessary for an end-user to simply report errors to the map... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080082228 - Engine diagnostic method: A method is provided for diagnosing an engine system. The method may include receiving a request for diagnosing an engine system, delivering a diagnostic module to the requester from a location remote from the engine system, and having the diagnostic module coupled to the engine system. The method may further... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080082226 - Method for improving vehicular comfort and protecting interior integrity: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable program code are provided for automatically initiating a set of vehicle functions for a vehicle. A set of settings is received for a set of vehicle functions. The set of settings includes a set of thresholds for the set of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080082230 - Process for estimating operational availability of a system: The invention is a process for determining the operational availability of a system and includes the following steps: 1) selecting values for flight hours per year, repair concurrency, annual preventative maintenance time and non mission capable-supply rate; 2) calculating the effects of usage rate, repair concurrency, and not mission capable-supply;... Agent: Louis L. Dachs

20080082229 - System and method of troubleshooting aircraft system failures: A method of determining a preferred order of implementing maintenance tasks and determining a plurality of maintenance tasks related to a received maintenance request is disclosed. A first expected cost of implementing the plurality of maintenance tasks in a first order and a second expected cost of implementing the plurality... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080082227 - Tire pressure monitor signal processing: System for processing tire pressure monitor (TPM) signals. The system include capabilities to support amplitude shift key (ASK) modulation of TPM data signals transmitted from TPMs included within one or more tires of a vehicle. The system may include a receiver and controller to process the TPM signals.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Lear Corporation

20080082231 - Data setting change apparatus, navigation apparatus and data setting change system: A car navigation apparatus determines whether a setting change of control data in an electronic controlling unit interfere with driving condition of a vehicle when an instruction for setting change is inputted from an occupant of the vehicle. The setting change of the control data is performed when the setting... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080082232 - Head-up display system for motor-vehicles: In a head-up display system for motor vehicles, the image generated by a display is focused by an image-formation system into a virtual image, set at a pre-set distance from the driver of the motor vehicle. The beam of light leaving the image-formation system is deviated towards an optical combiner... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20080082234 - Method and system for coordinating a vehicle stability control system with a suspension damper control sub-system: A method and system for coordinating a vehicle stability control system with a suspension damper control sub-system includes a plurality of dampers, each of which are controlled directly by the suspension damper control sub-system. A plurality of sensors sense a plurality of vehicle parameters. A supervisory controller generates vehicle damper... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080082235 - Vehicle body supporting system: This vehicle body supporting system includes a gas passage that interconnects a gas chamber of one vehicle body supporting unit and a gas chamber of another vehicle body supporting unit and a gas passage opening/closing unit disposed on the gas passage. The gas passage opening/closing unit opens and closes the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080082236 - Airbag apparatus: The airbag apparatus includes an inflator supplying inflation gas to an airbag under control of a control device. The inflator has two modes of operation; a rapid discharge mode where the inflator discharges a great amount of inflation gas and a slow discharge mode where the amount of substance of... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080082239 - Loader boom control system: A work vehicle that includes a boom; a boom actuator connected to the boom, the boom actuator being adapted to controllably move the boom about a boom pivot in response to receiving a boom control signal; and a controller having computational and time-keeping capabilities. The controller communicates with the boom... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080082240 - Rotation control device for working machine: In a rotation control device for rotating a rotation motor at speed in accordance with a boom raising operation amount, at the time of a combined operation for simultaneously performing a rotation action and a boom raising action, a limitation value of rotation torque in accordance with the boom raising... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080082238 - System for automated excavation contour control: A control system for a machine is disclosed. The control system has a ground engaging tool operable to remove material from a surface at a worksite. The control system also has a controller configured to generate a desired single-pass excavation contour prior to engagement of the ground engaging tool with... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080082242 - Mode selection and switching logic in a closed-loop pulse width modulation valve-based transmission control system: A pulse width modulated (PWM) valve-based hydraulic control system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a feedback control system includes a controller that receives a pressure command signal and a pressure feedback signal. The controller generates a duty cycle control signal that controls a PWM valve. The PWM valve provides a... Agent: Martin J. Jaquez, Esq. Jaquez & Associates

20080082243 - Method and apparatus for generating a cornering-corrected elsd control signal: Methods and apparatus are provided for generating a slip control for an active driveline device (such as an electronic limited slip differential (eLSD)) that corrects for longitudinal tire slip in the turning wheels of a vehicle. Indicia of a yaw rate of the vehicle are obtained by the eLSD, which... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080082245 - Virtual accelerometer: A vehicle control system for regulatng operation of a vehicle having a transmission includes a first module that processes an output shaft signal which is based on rotation of an output shaft of the transmission through a third order Kalman filter to determine an acceleration of the output shaft A... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080082246 - Integrated control system for stability control of yaw, roll and lateral motion of a driving vehicle using an integrated sensing system to determine lateral velocity: A method of controlling a vehicle includes determining a lateral tire force, a front lateral tire force, a rear lateral tire force, and determining a linear sideslip angle from the front lateral tire force and the rear lateral tire force. The method further includes determining a linear lateral velocity in... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20080082224 - Model train control system: A system which operates a digitally controlled model railroad transmitting a first command from a first client program to a resident external controlling interface through a first communications transport. A second command is transmitted from a second client program to the resident external controlling interface through a second communications transport.... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080082233 - Traveling vehicle: Disclosed is a traveling vehicle provided with an input device of a speed-command type. The traveling vehicle includes a vehicle speed sensor that detects a traveling speed VR of the traveling vehicle, a target speed-setting unit that sets a target speed VT based on the position of the input device,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080082237 - Rear impact detection method and system: Method and system for deploying an occupant restraint device in a vehicle includes arranging a sensor to detect a rear impact and deploying the occupant restraint device when the sensor detects the rear impact of sufficient magnitude to require deployment of the occupant restraint device to prevent injury to the... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080082241 - System and method of sub-surface system design and installation: The system and method of the present invention provides comprehensive design and installation management for agricultural water management systems. Maps and grade profiles are created from data collected by Global Positioning devices in the field. Latitude, longitude, and elevation are triangulated from GPS data to develop contour, grade, and profile... Agent: 24ip Law Group Usa, PLLC

20080082244 - Vehicle brake system for increasing friction coefficient: An auxiliary braking mechanism is operated to increase a braking effect, only after it is determined whether adding the auxiliary braking mechanism during vehicle braking by a main braking mechanism will increase the braking effect. In the case where a main braking force is generated on a tire by pressing... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080082247 - Engine start/stop control for multiple engine ohv based on operating statistics: Operation of a second or additional engine is initiated based on operating statistics. A second or additional engine is stopped based on operating statistics.... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP

20080082248 - Method for operating internal combustion engine: An internal combustion engine includes a charge motion flap which influences the combustion in at least one combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine. The function of the charge motion flap is monitored. At least one actual value of a variable characterizing the combustion in the combustion chamber is evaluated... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080082249 - Method for determining the conversion performance of an oxygen storage-capable catalytic converter of an internal combustion engine: In a method for determining the conversion performance of an oxygen storage-capable catalytic converter of an internal combustion engine, it is proposed that the catalytic converter be supplied with a stoichiometric exhaust gas composition, a known emission change is briefly undertaken and at the same time the signals of a... Agent: Stevens Davis Miller & Mosher, LLP

20080082250 - Cylinder-pressure-based electronic engine controller and method: An engine data acquisition and control system measures cylinder pressure at a high degree of resolution and then processes it for portions of the combustion cycle of interest for performing combustion calculations. The data are utilized to calculate combustion parameters, and the combustion parameters may be utilized to control the... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080082251 - Traffic information generating apparatus and traffic information generating method: A CPU specifies factors related to the month, the day of the week, and a time period including the current point in time, based on time data obtained by a timer. The CPU also specifies factors that are related to a grid ID and a road category of a given... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080082252 - Traveling apparatus and method of controlling parallel two-wheeled vehicle: A traveling apparatus is provided. The traveling apparatus includes: a driver configured to independently drive two wheels disposed in parallel; a chassis configured to connect the two wheels; a detector provided in the chassis configured to detect a posture angle of the chassis, rotating speed of the two wheels being... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080082255 - Data update system, navigation apparatus, and data update method: The system of the present invention provides easy update of a database containing a large amount of data arranged in a complicated interrelationship by use of a data file of a content limited to data differing from that already in the database, within a relatively short period of time. The... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080082253 - Navigation device: When there is an area (chargeable area) that may be avoided, a suitable bypass route is presented with suitable timing. When a retrieved recommended route passes through an area (for example, a chargeable area) that may be avoided, a navigation device searches in advance for a bypass route that starts... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080082254 - Route-assisted gps location sensing via mobile device: Augmenting data sensed using a mobile device involves detecting, via a Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor, location data along a route while a user traverses the route. Predefined route data is provided that accurately reflects the locations of the route. The detected location data is augmented using the predefined route... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20080082256 - Providing routing information based on ambiguous locations: A routing server receives a request for routing information. The request specifies one or more locations. A specified location may be ambiguous. For an ambiguous location, the routing server identifies a set of potentially-matching locations and ranks the locations according to a metric. The routing server returns routing information for... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20080082257 - Personal navigational device and method with automatic call-ahead: An electronic personal navigational aid device configured to calculate a route and to automatically call a telephone number and deliver a message depending upon the location of the device along the route. The devices may further be configured, for example, to dial at a certain estimated time enroute to a... Agent: Garmin Ltd. C/o Garmin International, Inc.

20080082258 - Portable positioning and navigation system: A navigation system to aid in the navigation through an unknown area. The navigation system includes a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, at least one a portal terminal and at least one navigation device. The plurality of RFID tags are positioned throughout an area to be traversed. The... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080082259 - Automatic turn signaling device: Introduced is an automatic turn signaling device and method of using the same. In one embodiment the device provides for (1) a navigation module with a map information database for defining a route to a predetermined destination and determining a position of a vehicle; and (2) an associated control module... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Lsi Corporation

20080082260 - Map data utilization apparatus: A map data utilization apparatus retrieves a version information of map data for a specific area when a current position of a vehicle is updated. Then, the version information of the map data of the specific area is compared with a version information of the map data of an identical... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080082261 - Vehicle on-board unit: A vehicle on-board unit is configured to communicate with other vehicles to increase an accuracy of a lane centerline determination of a road that the vehicle is traveling. The vehicle on-board unit basically has a vehicle path history generating section, a two-way wireless communications section and a lane centerline determining... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080082262 - Method and apparatus for associating brand icon with poi location for navigation system: A method and apparatus for a navigation system automatically assigns or allows a user to assign a brand icon to a particular location. The navigation system displays the assigned brand icon as well as generic icons on a map image. Thus, the navigation system enables the user to quickly distinguish... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20080082265 - Accurate positioning system for a vehicle and its positioning method: An accurate positioning system installed in a vehicle is disclosed to include a GPS, a Gyro sensor, a vehicle speedometer, and a controller. When the GPS outputs a next GPS coordinates, the controller calculates a next reference coordinates subject to the azimuth signal outputted from the Gyro sensor and the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080082264 - Gps route creation, photograph association, and data collection: Global Positioning System (GPS) route creation via server interaction or wireless terminal collection creates a GPS route data file that includes starting location GPS coordinates, ending location GPS coordinates, and at least one way point location data element. Each way point location data element includes respective way point location GPS... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080082263 - Position estimation method and related device: A method includes receiving inertial position information, global positioning information and ranging information with a position estimation device. The method determines an estimation of a position of the position estimation device based on a combination of the inertial position information, the global position information and the ranging information.... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080082266 - Multipath modeling for deep integration: A state is added to a Kalman filter to model GPS multipath errors. The multipath states may be modeled as either a random walk model or a Gauss-Markov process. The choice of the model depends on the characteristics of the multi-path error and the GPS receiver. Adding this state to... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080082267 - Vehicle wheel track indication system: A vehicle wheel track indication system including two adjustment devices and two indication devices is provided. Each of the adjustment devices includes a base, an adjusting unit pivoted on the base and an angular control unit mounted between the base and the adjusting unit to swing the adjusting unit. The... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee