Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location inventions 10/09

20090248219 - Device that enables a vehicle to be moved when a disaster occurs: A device that enables a vehicle to be moved when a disaster occurs includes a forced engine start unit and a constraint unit. When it is detected that the vehicle has stopped after a disaster detection signal is received, the position where the vehicle has stopped is stored. Thereafter, the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090248221 - Control system for payload limiting of hauling operation: In one aspect, the present disclosure is directed to a control system for a machine with traction devices. The control system may have a sensor configured to sense an ambient temperature. The control system may also have a controller in communication with the sensor. The controller may be configured to... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20090248220 - Remote control system having a touchscreen for controlling a railway vehicle: The present invention is directed to a remote control system for controlling a railway vehicle The remote control system including a remote control device for transmitting signals to a first controller module. The first controller is mounted to the railway vehicle and controls and monitors the functions of the railway... Agent: Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.c.

20090248223 - Remote control system implementing haptic technology for controlling a railway vehicle: The present invention is directed to a remote control system for controlling a railway vehicle. The remote control system including a remote control device provided with haptic technology for transmitting signals to a first controller module. The first controller is mounted to the railway vehicle and controls and monitors the... Agent: Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.c.

20090248222 - Vehicle slowdown control via short range wireless communication: A method and system for enabling police pursuing a vehicle to slow the vehicle down via short range wireless communication with the vehicle. The process can be carried out with or without involvement of a call center that provides telematics services to the vehicle. The method involves configuring the vehicle... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.c.

20090248225 - Apparatus for an automated aerial refueling boom using multiple types of sensors: A system for automated control of a refueling boom coupled to a tanker aircraft is provided. The system includes: a first inertial measurement unit (IMU) providing inertial measurements for the tanker aircraft; a first GPS receiver providing a GPS location for a GPS antenna attached to the tanker aircraft; and... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP Ip Section

20090248224 - Integrated air navigation and flight control system: A method and a device for solving air traffic congestions, improve safety, and reduce faults to simplify cockpit equipment. The method serves the navigation of airplanes from port to port with the help of GPS signals. The navigation support is based on digital maps and position control by GPS signals,... Agent: Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20090248226 - System and method for verifying a distributed power train setup: A communication system for a distributed power control system of a train is used to transmit signals between the lead locomotive and remote locomotive relative to the direction of movement of the lead and remote units. In addition, data relative to the direction the remote unit is facing relative to... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.a.

20090248227 - Multi-cylinder engine fuel control method, engine fuel injection amount control method and engine operation state discrimination method using the same, propulsion apparatus for multiple engines, and fuel injection control method during crash astern in mar: Rotation recognition means for recognizing a revolution of a crankshaft based on the cylinders before the combustion cycle of a cylinder in question is provided. When the supply of fuel by injection from an injector to a certain cylinder of the six cylinders has become impossible, then control is performed... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090248228 - Battery pack management strategy in a hybrid electric motor vehicle: A software algorithm (FIG. 3) determines the strategy by which a controller (34) will manage state of charge (SOC) of a battery pack (32) in a hybrid electric vehicle but always gives the driver the opportunity to make his/her own selection instead. The algorithm causes one of two strategies to... Agent: International Truck Intellectual Property Company,

20090248229 - Electric vehicle control device: A loss reduction module of an electric vehicle control device has a function to limit a torque to not exceed a constant loss characteristic and issue a torque instruction if a requested torque exceeds the constant loss characteristic when an ecology switch is turned ON and low fuel consumption travel... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090248230 - Motor controller: The present invention provides a motor controller capable of selecting a motor drive system that provides the best possible system efficiency, according to monitored parameters indicative of the vehicle condition and the conditions of the mounted components. A drive signal processing block of the motor controller outputs drive signals to... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090248231 - Vehicle: A vehicle includes a button switch and a remote controller for setting an autonomous or manual driving mode, a microcomputer which outputs a mask control signal that corresponds to the driving mode, a command control unit which inputs a command to the microcomputer to output the mask control signal that... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20090248233 - Automatic transmission controller and automatic transmission control method: An automatic transmission controller calculates a predicted vehicle speed with reference to a measured vehicle state variable, and calculates a target transmission ratio with reference to the predicted vehicle speed, when a sensor input signal is normal which carries information about the measured vehicle state variable. The automatic transmission controller... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090248232 - Broadcast of automobile related information: Through the present subject matter, mobile devices subscribers may be provided information pertaining to a motor vehicle. The characteristics of the motor vehicle are monitored. The information indicative of the monitored characteristics is sent to an entity that is not performing the monitoring of the motor vehicle. The mobile device... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Ww

20090248235 - Automated, targeted diagnostic probe using a vehicle telematics unit: A system and method for providing diagnostic assistance to a driver of a vehicle when calling a call center following a diagnostic warning being displayed on the vehicle instrument panel. Upon establishing the call, indicator data representative of the warning is automatically sent to the call center where it is... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.c.

20090248234 - Methods and systems for controlling testing in vehicles: A method for controlling testing in a vehicle includes the steps of receiving a request for execution of a test pertaining to the vehicle, determining whether the vehicle is in a predetermined state, and transmitting a signal to fulfill the request if the vehicle is in the predetermined state.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090248239 - Failure detection device, failure detection system and failure detection method: A failure detection device is provided that includes a failure detecting portion that detects a failure in an on-board device and sends failure information and failure notification information; a collection portion that is related to the failure detecting portion for control and receives and collects the failure information sent by... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090248237 - Methods and systems for user configurable embedded telematics service architecture: The present invention provides a configurable embedded telematics system comprising: a server suite providing automotive telematics services to a plurality of authorized service users via a global network, the server suite including a user management utility, an application server, a vehicle interface module server, a telematics database, and a user... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20090248236 - System and method for communicating vehicle diagnostic data: A system and method for communicating vehicle diagnostic data via an inactive telematics unit. A serious diagnostic condition detected in the vehicle is used to trigger a call from the telematics unit to a call center using a cleared number. During the call, diagnostic data can be transmitted to the... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.c.

20090248238 - Vehicle mounted failure information system: A failure information system that transmits various kinds of failure information of a vehicle to an outside diagnosis service center is disclosed. The failure information system includes a signal receiving unit that receives a signal indicating a failure of a vehicle-mounted system, a vehicle-run judging unit that judges that the... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20090248241 - Automotive recorder: Functional information acquired before and after an event occurrence is held on an on-chip MRAM built in a data processor, thus preventing the held functional information from being falsified and erased. An automobile recorder of the present invention comprises a one-chip data processor coupled to signal lines transmitting functional information... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge Pc

20090248240 - System for measuring lateral gravitational effect of vehicles: A system for measuring the lateral acceleration of a vehicle. The system includes an accelerometer that measures the lateral gravitational forces, an annunciator that announces the changes in the lateral gravitation forces, a data logging for storing the measured changes and the relative times and a controller. This system is... Agent: Glenn L. Webb Glenn L. Webb P.c.

20090248242 - Air deflectors adjustable in response to air drag: A method of changing the aerodynamic drag on a vehicle (14) having at least one adjustable air deflector (10, 110, 30, 46) includes disposing an air drag sensor (50) on an outside surface of the vehicle to measure an air drag value “Value”, comparing the air drag value with a... Agent: International Truck Intellectual Property Company,

20090248243 - Apparatus and method for controlling wiper position: An apparatus and a method for controlling a wiper position are provided. The apparatus to control a wiper position includes a controller to receive a wiper operation control signal output from a user input unit to control a wiper to be stopped at a desired position, a wiper motor to... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090248244 - Onboard device control apparatus: There is provided an onboard device control apparatus which controls an operation of an onboard device, comprising a plurality of sensor nodes which comprises a state-detecting sensor portion to detect a specified state, a data processing portion to conduct calculation processing of data obtained by the state-detecting sensor portion, a... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett Pc

20090248245 - Vehicle display unit: A vehicle display unit for a vehicle includes a display panel, a transmitting panel, a peripheral wall member, and a sounding body. The display panel faces a vehicle interior of the vehicle and displays visual information to a vehicle occupant of the vehicle. The transmitting panel is disposed on a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20090248247 - Control device for a wheel suspension system: In a control device for controlling a variable element of a wheel suspension system, the variable suspension element associated with one of the wheels is controlled at least according to an output of a sensor associated with a different one of the wheels. The output of the sensor may include... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090248246 - Loading and unloading stabilization in an active suspension system: An active suspension system includes a relative slow-responding force bias eliminator (such as a pneumatic actuator) and a relatively fast-responding actuator (such as an electromagnetic actuator) that together support a plant (such as a truck seat or vehicle cabin). The system also includes a load-unload detector (which may be a... Agent: Bose Corporation C/o Donna Griffiths

20090248248 - Steering control device: In a steer-by-wire steering control device for a vehicle using a model following control based on yaw rate or lateral acceleration, the target steering angle(s) of front wheels and/or rear wheels (Sfbs, Srbs) are corrected according a roll rate (Rre) of the vehicle which may be either detected or estimated... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090248251 - Headlight control device: A light control device is provided in which an operation is executed to acquire a detected result representing an own vehicle approaching an intersection (S140: YES), and an operation is executed to allow the orientation of the light axis of the headlight oriented in a turning-side to be moved to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20090248249 - Method for determining controlled variable of coordinate control on split road surface using deceleration of vehicle: Disclosed herein is a method of determining a controlled variable of coordinate control on a split road surface using deceleration of a vehicle. The method includes calculating deceleration of the vehicle by differentiating a reference velocity (Vref) calculated by an electronic stability control system, calculating an override angle of an... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group Pllc

20090248252 - Method for monitoring the operating conditions of motor vehicles: The invention relates to a method and a device for monitoring the operating conditions of motor vehicles, with a drive system with at least one differential that distributes drive torque to the driven wheels. To avoid unacceptable wear in the differential of the drive system, it is proposed that at... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg LLP

20090248250 - Steering control device for vehicle: A steering control device for a vehicle includes a yawing value obtaining means for obtaining a yawing value corresponding to a yawing motion of the vehicle, a stabilizing force calculating means for calculating a stabilizing force for assisting an operation of a steering operation member, operated by a driver for... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20090248254 - Door-lock control system, door-lock control method: A door-lock control system includes: a door lock device; a current position detection unit; a data recording unit; a public security situation determination processing unit; and a function setting processing unit configured to set, according to the public security situation at the vehicle position, a function limit state that limits... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090248253 - System and method for integration of crash signature sensor in vehicle side impact sensing: A system and method for performing side impact sensing in a vehicle including at least one side impact zone is provided. The system comprises a controller and at least one crash signature sensor. The controller is configured to deploy one or more safety restraints in response to at least one... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c./fgtl

20090248256 - Method of and apparatus for adjusting a motorcycle headlight, and motorcycle incorporating same: A headlight optical axis adjustment apparatus for motorcycle includes an ECU for adjusting an optical axis of a headlight in accordance with a vehicle body attitude. The apparatus includes a center kickstand switch and a side kickstand switch for detecting respective positions of a center kickstand and a side kickstand... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090248255 - Packaging and logistics of remote head restraint actuation technology: A remote rearview mirror system includes a transmitting module and receiving module that operate at a distance. The transmitting module is included in a rear view mirror. These modules require a matching that need to be preserved until the components are installed in a vehicle. The steps of such matching... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.c. / Lear Corporation

20090248257 - Seat device for vehicle: An egress-start determining device determines a start of egress of a passenger seated in a seat of a vehicle. A completion determining device determines completion of a driver's head moving out of a door opening of the vehicle after the start of egress of the passenger. A seat-sitting-face height adjusting... Agent: Studebaker & Brackett Pc

20090248258 - Operation parameter display system for working vehicle fitted with working implement: An operation parameter display system for an working vehicle (1) fitted with an working implement (3) comprises a parameter setting means (475) setting a group of operation parameters appropriate for the working implement (3) and the working vehicle (1) for each state of an operation executed by the working vehicle... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.c.

20090248259 - Traveling system for construction equipment: A traveling system for construction equipment is provided, which can secure an initial traveling manipulability regardless of a low-speed traveling or a high-speed traveling. If the high-speed traveling is selected and the traveling is manipulated, the inclination angle of a swash plate of a hydraulic pump is variably controlled, so... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090248260 - Shifting system with tactile feedback: Methods and apparatus are provided for a tactile feedback system. The system comprises a transmission indicator having a position, the position adapted to be adjusted by a user, a feedback device coupled to the transmission indicator, the feedback device adapted to produce a vibration in response to a feedback signal,... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.c. (gm)

20090248261 - Assumption torque setting device, automatic transmission controller, and method for learning internal combustion engine delay model: An assumption torque setting device for an engine that executes a torque reduction process during gear shifting. The device sets a torque assumed to be output by the engine and based on a target torque from which an amount corresponding to the torque reduction process is excluded as an assumption... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090248262 - Control device and control method for continuously variable transmission: An ECU executes a program including steps of setting an upper limit value of a target revolution number of a primary pulley revolution number NIN in the case where an oil temperature THO is greater than a threshold value; setting the upper limit value as a target revolution number in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090248263 - Shift control apparatus for automatic transmission: Strain gauges and a torque value calculating unit detect a value for torque acting on a sun gear based on a reaction force, an input equivalent value calculating unit calculates an input torque equivalent value based on the torque value detected, a torque reduction command unit issues a command to... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20090248264 - Control apparatus for automatic transmission: Strain gauges and a torque value calculating unit detect a torque value acting on a sun gear based on a reaction force. An input equivalent value calculating unit calculates an input torque equivalent value based on the detected torque value, and a hydraulic pressure control unit controls output from a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20090248265 - Vehicle drive device controller: A control device for a vehicle drive apparatus that includes a differential mechanism and an electric motor provided in the differential mechanism, which can be miniaturized in structure with improved fuel economy and enabling suppression of occurrence in switching shocks. With a provision of a switching clutch or a switching... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090248266 - Engaging-force control apparatus and method: An engaging-force control apparatus for a friction-engagement element controls a slip rotational speed between an input-side rotational speed and an output-side rotational speed of the friction-engagement element by increasing or decreasing an engaging force of the friction-engagement element. The engaging-force control apparatus includes an engaging-force feedback control section configured to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090248267 - Method and device for distance regulation of a motor vehicle: A method and a device are provided for distance regulation of a motor vehicle equipped with an object detection sensor which detects objects located in front and regulates the velocity of the host vehicle in the sense of distance regulation, the distance control system being able to brake the host... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090248268 - Drive force transmission apparatus, control method of drive force transmission apparatus, and limited slip differential: When determining that a vehicle is not skidding, the ECU carries out tight corner control if vehicle speed is smaller than the upper limit value of the vehicle speed range corresponding to the starting state of the vehicle and the steering wheel turning angle of a steering wheel is greater... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20090248269 - Motion control device for vehicle: A motion control device for a vehicle includes a controlling means for maintaining a traveling stability of the vehicle by controlling a braking force of a wheel of the vehicle, a friction coefficient obtaining means for obtaining a friction coefficient of a road surface on which the vehicle travels, a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20090248270 - Vehicle drive assist system: When a preceding vehicle moves away during follow-up running control, it is determined whether or not a forward obstacle is recognized. When a forward obstacle is recognized, it is determined whether or not the forward obstacle satisfies any of obstacle specifying conditions corresponding to a plurality of preset types. A... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090248271 - Control apparatus for combustion engine of premixed compression self-ignition type: At high temperature, namely, when the temperature of intake air is higher than a predetermined normal temperature range, an ECU (25) controls a variable valve timing mechanism (24) such that the timing for closing an exhaust valve (9) is adjusted to a retard side, thereby reducing the amount of high-temperature... Agent: Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP Attn: Ip Docketing

20090248274 - Fuel injection controller for engine: A fuel injection controller for an engine that injects fuel to an inlet passage in an upstream side of an inlet valve from a fuel injection unit, includes: a first calculator, configured to calculate a basic fuel injection quantity from the fuel injection unit based on an operating condition of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090248276 - Fuel injector with built-in fuel pressure sensor: A fuel injector for an internal combustion engine is provided which has a fuel supply path and a nozzle chamber. The fuel supply path extends a spray hole. The nozzle chamber is defined in the fuel supply path. A nozzle is disposed within the nozzle chamber to establish or block... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20090248275 - Fuel supply system and method for supplying fuel: A fuel supply system supplies composite fuel containing alcohol and gasoline to multiple cylinders of an internal combustion engine. The composite fuel includes main-fuel and sub-fuel. The sub-fuel is lower than main-fuel in concentration of alcohol. Each of multiple first fuel injection valves is provided to each of the cylinders... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20090248273 - Method and device for adapting the valve characteristic of a fuel injection valve: The method and the device serve to adapt the valve characteristic of a fuel injection valve, which has a piezoelectrically driven nozzle needle and by which fuel is injected directly into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, to production-related or age-related variations in the injection behaviour. The activation... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p. Patent Department

20090248272 - Method for operating fuel injection system: A machine is disclosed. The machine may have an engine having a combustion chamber. The machine may also have a first sensor configured to generate a first signal indicative of a speed of the combustion engine. Additionally, the machine may have a second sensor configured to generate a second signal... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20090248278 - Multi-cylinder engine: A multi-cylinder engine is configured to be able to perform a selected cylinder operation in which combustion is stopped in some cylinders. The multi-cylinder engine includes an ignition-timing adjustment section. This ignition-timing adjustment section retards ignition timing of each operating cylinder when the number of operating cylinders is small or... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090248277 - Multicylinder engine and method for controlling the same: In some cylinder deactivation modes (e.g. virtual V-four operation mode in which two cylinders of a V-six engine are deactivated), ignition/combustion may take place in operating cylinders at uneven intervals. In this case, the output torque varies between the immediately subsequent operating cylinders after the deactivated cylinders in the firing... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090248281 - Control apparatus and method for internal combustion engine: A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine has an oxygen storage volume computing unit for computing an oxygen storage volume of a catalyst by using a real air/fuel ratio detected by an air/fuel ratio sensor installed on the upstream side of a catalyst, a center air/fuel ratio representing a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090248279 - Fuel injection control apparatus and method for a multi-fuel engine, and engine incorporating same: A fuel injection control apparatus for a multi-fuel engine can optimize a fuel injection quantity, using only one basic injection map, irrespective of alcohol concentration of a fuel. An E-concentration determining apparatus determines alcohol concentration of a fuel, based on a measured oxygen amount in exhaust. Basic injection quantities are... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090248280 - Method and a device for operating a internal combustion engine: For operating a internal combustion engine a first characteristic value is determined depending on a distance integral of at least a portion of a control signal of an oxygen sensor control based on control reference signal characteristics across a given time period. Depending on the first characteristic value (KW—1) a... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20090248282 - Stop position control apparatus for internal combustion engine: An engine model is configured so as to include a crankshaft periphery motion equations computing block, a friction model, an intake air pressure estimation model, an in-cylinder pressure estimation model, a combustion waveform calculation block, an atmospheric pressure correction term calculation block, and an atmospheric temperature correction term calculation block.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090248283 - Method and system for automatically updating traffic incident data for in-vehicle navigation: Aspects of the invention disclose a method and system for automatically updating traffic incident data for in-vehicle navigation. This includes, but is not limited to, a method and system of notifying one or more traffic providers of a traffic accident when a telematics provider receives an automated accident notification from... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.

20090248285 - Route determining system for a vehicle with navigation system: A system for determining an optimum route to a destination by a navigation system of a vehicle is provided. The system includes a navigation system, a remote information system, and a data communication network linking the navigation system and the remote information system. A method is also disclosed that includes... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20090248284 - Travel support system and travel support method: Provided is a travel support system which sufficiently uses notified non-equipped vehicle information, and includes: an equipped-vehicle detecting unit (112) that detects presence and a position of an vehicle equipped with a communication module for communicating with another vehicle; a non-equipped-vehicle detecting unit (111) that detects presence and a position... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20090248286 - Traffic information distribution apparatus and traffic information distribution method: In a case where a CPU 11 provided in an information distribution center 3 has received a request command for requesting predicted traffic information transmitted from a navigation apparatus 2 as well as vehicle information such as a navigator identifying ID, coordinate data of a vehicle position, or coordinate data... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20090248287 - Unmanned aerial system position reporting system and related methods: Methods of communicating the location of an unmanned aerial system (UAS). Implementations of the method may include receiving position data for a UAS with an air traffic control reporting system (ATC-RS) from a ground control station (GCS) in communication with the UAS, where the ATC-RS and the GCS are coupled... Agent: Booth Udall, Plc

20090248289 - Apparatus for providing guidance route: A navigation apparatus determines an influence of a typhoon, and provides a selection of two routes towards a destination if the typhoon has a great influence exceeding an influence threshold. The two routes provided are, a stand-by route that waits the typhoon to pass by and a detour route that... Agent: Posz Law Group, Plc

20090248290 - Road shape estimating device, road shape estimating method and program: A road shape estimating device has a data obtaining processing unit for obtaining interpolation point data for a plurality of shape interpolation points which are set along a road and represent a shape of the road, a radius calculation processing unit for calculating a radius of curvature at each of... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20090248288 - Systems and methods for generating pattern keys for use in navigation systems to predict user destinations: Systems and methods for automatically generating pattern keys based on models of user travel patterns and behavior, wherein the pattern keys may be used in automated navigation systems for fast and efficient prediction of user destinations.... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.c.

20090248291 - Transmission of routes between client and server using route ids: Dehydration of routes enables transmitting a description of a route requiring much less space than full specification of the route. A series of “breadcrumbs” and hints are used for dehydration. A breadcrumb includes coordinates of a point, a heading at which the route enters the breadcrumb, and a heading at... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090248294 - Navigation apparatus: A navigation apparatus includes a route searching unit 130 for searching for a route from a current position determined by a current position determining means to a destination inputted by an input unit on the basis of map data acquired by a map data acquiring means, and for, when a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090248292 - Route guidance device, route guidance method, and route guidance processing program: To reliably avoid a dangerous zone by setting a route from a current position to a temporary destination so as to avoid the dangerous zone while reflecting prediction results of a moving direction even when a route setting is not previously made. A route to a temporary destination is set... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090248293 - Vehicle-installed navigation device and program: First, a determination is made as to whether or not an instruction to search for a route again has been issued. When it is determined that an instruction to search for the route again has been issued, a determination is made as to whether or not a destination arrival determination... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090248295 - Terrain overlay for route planner: In described embodiments, closed-loop mapping employs terrain and topology information when generating a closed-loop route given input route characteristics. Terrain and topology information collectively identify, for example, whether the road is 1) flat or inclined; 2) paved, concrete, crushed stone, or dirt; 3) in open or shaded areas, and 4)... Agent: Ip Legal Services

20090248296 - Driving support system, driving support method and computer program: When a vehicle enters a facility off a road on which the vehicle is traveling, information pertaining to an entry direction into the facility is sent to a probe center as probe information, and a current driving level of the host vehicle is identified. Meanwhile, the probe center that received... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20090248297 - Waypoint display system and method: A display system and method for a vehicle are provided. The display system includes a processor configured to receive data representative of a waypoint and terrain and to supply display commands associated with the waypoint and the terrain; and a display device coupled the processor for receiving the display commands... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090248298 - Navigation device and method for processing navigation information thereof: A navigation device and a method for processing navigation information thereof are disclosed. The navigation device includes a display unit, a radio data system (RDS) receiver module, and a central processing unit (CPU). The RDS receiving module is used for receiving an RDS signal and providing the RDS data to... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090248299 - Road shape estimating device, road shape estimating method and program: A road shape estimating device has a data obtaining processing unit for obtaining interpolation point data, a radius calculation processing unit for calculating a radius of curvature at each of shape interpolation points based on the interpolation point data, a corner detection processing unit for detecting a corner in a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20090248300 - Methods and apparatus for viewing previously-recorded multimedia content from original perspective: Methods and apparatus for processing multimedia content are disclosed. In an exemplary method, such as might be implemented a portable multimedia device, stored media data pre-associated with a current location of the multimedia device is retrieved. The retrieved media data is mixed with real-time sensor input collected by the multimedia... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20090248302 - Establishing wireless networking between a vehicle and dealership using gps location information: A method and apparatus which enables a vehicle to establish a wireless network connection to a dealership. Upon the vehicle discovering a dealership wireless node, the vehicle obtains dealership GPS coordinates and compares them to the vehicle's own GPS data to determine whether the vehicle is on the dealership's premises.... Agent: General Motors Corporation C/o Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.c.

20090248301 - Position estimation for navigation devices: A method of providing position estimation with a navigation device comprises periodically recording magnetic field strength of an area substantially surrounding a navigation device as a user of the navigation device traverses a select pathway. The method combines the recorded magnetic field strength with measurements from at least a dead... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090248303 - Power control system and method for the same: A power control system and method receives and filters a valid GPS signal received by a navigation device and outputs a corresponding performance parameter for the GPS signal, and upon determining that a power management signal is a power-off management signal, determines whether the performance parameter exceeds a predetermined first... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090248304 - Vision-aided inertial navigation: This document discloses, among other things, a system and method for implementing an algorithm to determine pose, velocity, acceleration or other navigation information using feature tracking data. The algorithm has computational complexity that is linear with the number of features tracked.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20090248305 - Estimation device, estimation method and estimation program for position of mobile unit: Enabled is to estimate a self-position even when no landmark is seen or when an article confusing the landmark is brought in. An omnidirectional camera recognizes a vertical land-mark near a wall to determine a candidate for the self-position. On the basis of the candidate determined, a break in a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP