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Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location October categorized by USPTO classification 10/10

20100274411 - Drunk driving prevention apparatus: Disclosed is a drunk driving prevention apparatus which reliably prevents drunk driving while permitting the release of control for restraining vehicle travel at an appropriate timing. A drunk driving prevention apparatus 1 prevents drunk driving of the vehicle by the driver includes a vehicle control part 13 which performs control... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20100274410 - Methods and systems for customizing content for an occupant of a vehicle: A method for customizing content for an occupant of a vehicle during a vehicle drive includes the steps of determining a driving mode of the vehicle and determining appropriate content for the occupant based on the driving mode. The driving mode represents one or more characteristics of the vehicle drive.... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gm)

20100274412 - Semiconductor data processing device and data processing system: The present invention provides an arrangement for enabling a plurality of central processing units to share specific resources while ensuring overall reliability owing to domain separation. More specifically, in a semiconductor data processing device comprising a plurality of access management circuits for managing access to resource units that are sharable... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20100274413 - Ballistic robotic vehicle: A mobile target assembly for use in small arms practice includes an armor-protected automotive unit with remote control for movement through a target area. Further, the target assembly includes a plurality of repairable/replaceable façades, wherein a selected façade is mounted on the automotive unit. For the present invention, the façade... Agent: Nydegger & Associates

20100274414 - Narrow space slow moving operational device for vehicle and operation method thereof: The present invention completely removes inconvenience when big body size drivers and passengers, who can get in/out of a vehicle only through a wide space as compared with normal body size people, or drivers sitting in wheelchairs, get in/out of a vehicle, by allowing a driver to move his/her vehicle... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100274416 - Distributed approach to electronic engine control for gas turbine engines: A distributed electronic engine control system includes an airframe module, an electronic engine control module, and an engine I/O module. The modules are arranged in locations remote from one another. A serial communications bus interconnects the modules with one another. A first engine controls device is connected to the engine... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20100274418 - Method for determining the quantity of fuel taken on board an aircraft making it possible to maintain a time requirement of the rta type: A method for determining the quantity of fuel in an aircraft and an optimization criterion such as a cost index, notably used in an FMS, making it possible to maintain a time requirement of the RTA type, comprising a first step of computing the optimization criterion CIi as a function... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20100274417 - System and method of interaction and holistic representation of tasks: The general field of the invention is that of viewing systems comprising first means making it possible to process and to store the various data necessary for the accomplishment of a technical or industrial process, second means making it possible to determine the various tasks to be accomplished by a... Agent: Lariviere, Grubman & Payne, LLP

20100274415 - Time-to-go missile guidance method and system: A method and apparatus for guiding a vehicle to intercept a target is described. The method iteratively estimates a time-to-go until target intercept and modifies an acceleration command based upon the revised time-to-go estimate. The time-to-go estimate depends upon the position, the velocity, and the actual or real time acceleration... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20100274419 - Method and device for adjusting the trajectory of an aircraft in a climb circuit: A method of adjusting the trajectory of an aircraft flying a climb circuit, of substantially helical form corresponding to a succession of racetracks, denoted HOLD, the last HOLD, called the exit HOLD, having predefined geometric characteristics and comprising a lock-on point, allowing the aircraft to enter and to exit in... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20100274420 - Method and system for controlling propulsion systems: Methods and systems are provided for controlling a propulsion system of a vessel including an engine and a propeller. In one embodiment, the method comprises independently adjusting each of an engine setting and a propeller setting responsive to real-time vessel operating data.... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20100274427 - Control apparatus for hybrid driving apparatus: An ECU 100 performs speed-change control. In the speed-change control, if a request is provided to change the speed-change mode from the stepless speed-change mode to the fixed speed-change mode, the ECU 100 engages the clutch mechanism 350 after the rotational synchronization and the phase synchronization of the clutch mechanism... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100274423 - Idle speed regulation for a hybrid vehicle: A regulating method for hybrid vehicles having an electric motor and an internal combustion engine, for rotational speed regulation of the electric motor, including detecting the driving speed of the vehicle, detecting a desired torque, and comparing the driving speed with a driving speed minimum value, in which, when a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100274425 - Method and device for failsafe control of an alternator/starter system of the micro-hybrid type, and corresponding micro-hybrid system: A method is implemented in a vehicle having an electronic control unit (15), vehicle sensors, a data communication bus (16), and an on-board electrical network. The micro-hybrid system (1) comprises at least one rotary electrical machine (2) which is provided with a device (8) for detection of rotation, power circuits... Agent: Berenato & White, LLC

20100274426 - Method for managing fuel consumption of a hybrid vehicle and vehicle adapted to such a method: m

20100274421 - Method for operating a hybrid vehicle: In a method for operating a power-branching hybrid drive having at least one first and one second electric machine coupled via a transmission, as well as having an internal combustion engine which outputs a torque MVM, the electric machines and the internal combustion engine acting together, having their drives connected,... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100274422 - Method for operating a navigation system and navigation system for a motor vehicle: The invention relates to a method for operating a navigation system for a motor vehicle in a road network, and to a navigation system. To this end, first a zone of the road network is provided with an emissions class-dependent drive-through restriction, wherein the motor vehicle is associated with at... Agent: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC (sen)

20100274428 - Motor control method and control device for electrical forklift truck: A method for controlling a motor of an electrical forklift truck which includes at least one motor for traveling of the forklift truck or providing power to a pump that supplies power for operating a vehicle or oil to operational devices, a power module for controlling the power supply to... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100274424 - Vehicle control apparatus: A control apparatus for a vehicle that includes an internal combustion engine, a fuel tank, a canister trapping vaporized fuel from the fuel tank, an open-close valve provided in a passage connecting an intake passage of the engine to the canister, a generator driven by the engine to generate electric... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20100274429 - System and method for autonomous vehicle guiding using information technology infrastructure and server apparatus therefor: An apparatus is for guiding a vehicle traveling of a vehicle by using information technology infrastructures. The apparatus includes: a control terminal for controlling the vehicle traveling; sensing devices that collect circumstance information of guidance areas desirous of guiding the vehicle by using the information technology infrastructures provided on the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20100274430 - Detection of topological structure from sensor data with application to autonomous driving in semi-structured environments: A method of creating an obstacle-free diagram using topological sensor data to form a graph corresponding to a driving path, transforming the graph using discrete heuristics, locally smoothing a plurality of edges of the graph after the transforming, and globally smoothing the graph after the locally smoothing. Transforming includes deleting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100274431 - Target route setting support system: A target route setting support system is equipped with a transiting area/starting-terminal point recognizing unit, a route candidate generating unit, and a determining unit. The transiting area/starting-terminal point recognizing unit recognizes a node or a link connecting nodes together designated by the user via a remote controller as a designated... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20100274435 - Driving assistance system for vehicle and vehicle equipped with driving assistance system for vehicle: A driving assistance system for vehicle obtains short-duration data representing a present traveling condition and driving operation and intermediate-duration data representing a traveling condition and driving operation of that day. A drive diagnosis is carried out by comparing a distribution of the short-duration data and a distribution of the intermediate-date,... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100274438 - Driving operation assisting system, method and vehicle incorporating the system: A driving assisting for calculating risk potential by considering a response delay by the driver and transmitting information related to the risk potential to the operator in a haptic manner. A controller is provided to estimate the response delay based on an operation performed by the operator. Based on the... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery

20100274432 - Gps based vehicle modification and abnormal usage monitoring: A vehicle monitoring system comprises a calculation module, an abnormal usage module, and memory. The calculation module calculates a vehicle usage value based on global positioning system (GPS) data and at least one data input, and calculates an expected vehicle usage value based on known vehicle characteristics and the GPS... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100274437 - Method and system for detecting increased internal friction in a steering mechanism: A method and system for detecting increased internal friction in a steering mechanism of a vehicle having a steering system including a steering linkage and a steering wheel. The method includes detecting a steering acceleration {umlaut over (φ)}L value of an element of the steering system and comparing the steering... Agent: Ford Global Technology LLC C/o Joseph E. Root

20100274436 - Pedal lock control device for work vehicle: A pedal lock control device for work vehicle includes : a motor driving device that drives a travel hydraulic motor in response to an operation amount of a travel pedal; a locking device that locks the travel pedal in a state of being operated; an instruction device that instructs lock... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20100274434 - Position monitoring system for a mobile machine: A system including a mobile machine and a central control station is provided. The mobile machine includes a communication device and a position monitoring system including a receiver configured to receive position data from a positioning satellite and generate a position signal. The position monitoring system also includes an inertial... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20100274433 - System for determining most probable cause of a problem in a plant: A system for determining a most probable cause or causes of a problem in a plant is disclosed. The system includes a plant, the plant having a plurality of subsystems that contribute to the operation of the plant, the plurality of subsystems having operating functions that produce operational signals. A... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.C.

20100274441 - Method of identifying positions of wheel modules: (c) for each of the one or more modules, matching the number of rotations recorded in step (b) with the measure of the number of rotation undergone by the at least one wheel as determined in step (b) and thereby associating identification codes of the one or more modules with... Agent: Wrb-ip LLP

20100274439 - System and method for indicating to a remote location operation of an auger or the like: The systems and methods of the present invention employ either a sensor in communication with the auger or a sensor in the form of a switch operated by the user of the auger. When the sensor detects that the auger is operating or the switch is operated by the auger... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20100274440 - System and method of managing vehicle and driver information: The present invention relates a system and method of managing vehicle and driver information. According to the present invention, internal status information and external environment information of a vehicle, and a driver's behavior information, are gathered to calculate the driver's workload that is required for careful driving and inform the... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20100274442 - Control system and method for sensor signal out of range detection: A method and control module for determining a sensor error includes a time-based diagnostic module generating a time-based diagnostic for a sensor and an event-based diagnostic module generating an event-based diagnostic for the sensor. A synchronizing module synchronizes the time-based diagnostic and the event-based diagnostic to obtain a diagnostic result.... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100274444 - Methodology for autonomous navigation and control of a tethered drogue: Methods and devices for estimating and controlling the orientation of a drogue relative to air mass motion where method and apparatus embodiments incorporate estimation of angle of attack and sideslip and function to correct the direction of a vehicle so as to maintain a desired angle of attack and sideslip.... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, P.C.

20100274443 - Torque sensor performance diagnostic systems and methods: A control system may include a polarity determination module, a torque variation module, and a torque sensor diagnostic module. The polarity determination module determines a first polarity of a torque signal that indicates a transmission torque. The torque sensor diagnostic module diagnoses an error of a torque sensor when an... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100274445 - Apparatus and method for active stabilization of a two wheeled single track vehicle: The herein described apparatus and method for active stabilization of two wheeled single track vehicle utilizes lateral stabilizers to actively hold a two wheeled single track vehicle upright when stationary and at an angle coincident with the resultant angle of gravitational and lateral forces acting on the vehicle when at... Agent: Robin Haynes

20100274447 - Transducer matrix film: A transducer system includes a plurality of transducer elements formed on a flexible substrate with localized circuit elements and interconnects associated with each transducer element.... Agent: John F Stumpf

20100274448 - Vehicle-mounted device, output propriety judgment method, communication system and program: An utterance type vehicle-mounted device (200) (vehicle-mounted device) is mounted on a vehicle traveling on a road and provided with a communication processing unit for receiving information from roadside apparatus (100) at a roadside and an information output unit for outputting the information received by the communication processing unit. The... Agent: Robinson Intellectual Property Law Office, P.C.

20100274446 - Vehicular parking feasibility determining system, vehicular parking space detection system and vehicular movable range detection system: A radar device (11) transmits electromagnetic waves so as to scan a predetermined angular range in the horizontal direction around a subject vehicle at predetermined time intervals, and when reflected waves of the electromagnetic waves reflected from an object are received, a reflection point where the electromagnetic waves are reflected... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20100274450 - Method and apparatus for predicting vehicle rollover during a trip-over event: A vehicle includes wheels, force sensors adapted for a vertical force and lateral force of each wheel, an onboard device, and a controller. The controller calculates vehicle values using the vertical force and lateral force, compares the values to a corresponding threshold, and automatically deploys the device when each element... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20100274449 - Occupant detection and imaging system: An active safety system for a machine and a process for operating the active safety system are disclosed. The active safety system an active ultrasonic array having a plurality of ultrasonic transducers. The plurality of ultrasonic transducers can propagate a plurality of sound waves, receive a plurality of echo waves... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.C.

20100274451 - System for performing communication between devices mounted in vehicle and communication module incorporated in the system: Electronic control unit and each of on-vehicle devices are connected to a power supply line and each includes a communication module. The power supply line has positive and negative electrode side core wire. The communication module is provided with a connection unit and a signal processor. The connection unit has... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100274452 - Grain transfer control system and method: A grain transfer control system, and method of use thereof, for automatedly controlling the transfer of grain from a mobile transferor-type vehicle, such as a combine harvester, to a mobile transferee-type vehicle, such as a crop transport, by varying the position and speed of the transferor-type and transferee-type vehicles relative... Agent: Cnh America LLC

20100274453 - Method for synchronized transmission gear ratio engagement: A method is provided for changing a gear ratio in a transmission of a motor vehicle. Engagement of a first gear-train component with a second gear-train component is initiated at a predetermined rate. Rotational speeds of the first and the second gear-train components, and whether the rotational speed of the... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20100274454 - Control device for vehicle and method for controlling vehicle: A power supply ECU executes a program including the steps of: transmitting an auto-P request signal if a power switch is in the short pressed state and if a speed V of a vehicle is lower than a predetermined speed α; starting a timer; turning off an IG relay and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100274455 - Transmission shifting responsive to borderline knock limits: A method for operating an engine and transmission in a vehicle is described. The method comprises up-shifting the transmission based on whether engine knock limits spark advance at engine conditions after the up-shift. Further, the method may include accounting for differences in fuel types, and their effects on engine knock... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20100274456 - Driving-force transmitting apparatus for four-wheel-drive vehicle: A transmitting apparatus includes a disengaging device that disengages a driving force from a front-wheel differential device to a first driving-force transmitting direction converting unit 20 and a multi-plate clutch mechanism provided between an output of a rear-wheel differential device and a right-rear wheel and capable of successively adjusting a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20100274457 - Deceleration controlled braking: A system, apparatus and method of controlling a brake system of a vehicle having a brake input device, such as a brake pedal, a plurality of rotating wheels and a plurality of brakes, each brake of the plurality of brakes corresponding to one wheel of the plurality of wheels, is... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (goodrich)

20100274458 - Electric brake architecture with dissimilar emergency braking path: A system, apparatus and method provide a means for controlling an electric brake actuator. An electromechanical actuator controller (EMAC) is configured to receive first data indicative of a desired braking force, second data indicative of a braking command generated by a brake input device, the second data different from said... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (goodrich)

20100274459 - Reaction force apparatus: When a target vehicle speed setting unit switches from a target vehicle speed to a higher target vehicle speed, a reaction force controller of a reaction force apparatus lowers, at the same ratio, a reaction force applying characteristic, which corresponds to the target vehicle speed before being switched to the... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20100274460 - Control apparatus and control method for power source: Static demand engine torque is converted into dynamic demand engine torque. The dynamic demand engine torque converted from the static demand engine torque is accommodated in relation to the dynamic demand engine torque set in another system. Static demand drive force is converted into dynamic demand drive force. The dynamic... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100274461 - Aircraft engine management for fuel conservation method and apparatus: A method includes controlling an aircraft during descent, and controlling the engine pressure ratio of a jet engine so that the engine has a substantially equal pressure at the exhaust, and at the front of the engine during the descent.... Agent: Lemaire Patent Law Firm, P.l.l.c.

20100274462 - Diagnostic systems and methods for a pressure sensor during driving conditions: A diagnostic system includes a fuel pump module and a diagnostic control module. The fuel pump module activates a first pump when an engine is operating in a diagnostic mode. The first pump supplies fuel to fuel injectors of the engine via a fuel rail. The diagnostic control module receives... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100274463 - Ignition timing control system for internal combustion engine: To provide an ignition timing control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of ensuring stable combustion without causing a misfire or knocking, by properly setting ignition timing in the compression stroke injection mode, thereby making it possible to improve drivability. The ignition timing control system for the... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100274464 - Closed-loop adaptation of homogenous charge compression ignition operating zone based on ringing index: An engine control system comprises a ringing index (RI) determination module, a fueling threshold determination module, and a combustion mode determination module. The ringing index (RI) determination module determines an RI value of a cylinder of an engine and compares the RI value and a predetermined RI threshold. The fueling... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100274467 - Fuel-pressure controller for direct injection engine: When a specified learning execute condition is established, the high-pressure pump is stopped so that the fuel pressure in the high pressure fuel passage is made equal to the fuel pressure in the low pressure fuel passage. A low pressure fuel control is executed to control a driving voltage of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100274465 - Hcci mode switching control system and method: A control system and method for operating an engine includes a transition module that commands engine control from a first homogeneous charge compression (HCCI) mode to a second HCCI mode. The control system also includes a fuel delivery module that operates the engine in a stratified charge operation mode after... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100274466 - Intake control system and method for internal combustion engine: An intake control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of suppressing a change in an intake pressure caused by a change in a target intake air amount even in a transient operating condition in which the target intake air amount is varied, thereby making it possible to... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100274468 - Systems and methods for alerting aircraft crew members of a runway assignment for an aircraft takeoff sequence: System and methods are provided alerting an aircraft crew member of a runway assignment for an aircraft takeoff sequence from a runway of an airport having a plurality of runways. In an embodiment, the method includes transmitting data comprising data relating to the runway assignment and data relating to an... Agent: Honeywell/ifl Patent Services

20100274473 - Driving assistance apparatus, driving assistance method, and driving assistance program: A method and apparatus for providing driver assistance are provided. The apparatus includes a road recognition unit, an eligibility acquisition unit, an other vehicle recognition unit, an other vehicle eligibility acquisition unit and a guidance unit. The road recognition unit determines if a host vehicle is traveling on a restricted... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100274470 - Health information guiding system and method thereof: This specification discloses a health information guiding system and the method thereof. By analyzing the user's position information and health data, the invention selects a target location to provide the user with related health and address information. The user is thus able to obtain more complete health information. This increases... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100274469 - Navigation device and data update system: Data in an update data format for performing an update of reference map data is formed by storing in each data frame divided for each data type, at least one of: a first group of one or more common map data records to be stored according to the data type... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100274472 - Navigation device and map data updating method thereof: When updating means 24 for performing a differential update on map data M using update data U performs an update on the map data M using update data U stored on a recording medium R, update data U having section identification information that matches the section identification information of the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100274471 - Route reporting method, system and recording medium using the same: A route reporting method, system, and a recording medium using the same are provided. The present method detects a touch and draws a path according to a moving trajectory of the touch. When the touch is finished, a dialog block is displayed to insert route mark information in the drawn... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100274474 - Vehicle parking assist system and method: Upon a driver of a vehicle setting a target parking position, a parking assist system calculates a recommended parking start position which the vehicle can reach with a current steering angle of the vehicle unchanged and from which the vehicle can reach the parking target position with a constant steering... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20100274478 - Image transformation method, image display method, image transformation apparatus and image display apparatus: A first road shape in camera image data generated by a camera that captures images of the surroundings of a vehicle is recognized based on the camera image data. In addition, after reading map image data in the vicinity of the vehicle from a navigation unit, second point of interest... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100274476 - Navigation device: A vehicle owner can express a display screen that displays a map in a color that matches an interior design. On a map view screen that displays a map for route guidance on a display screen, icons that indicate current navigation functions, and icons that indicate touch switches that are... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100274477 - Navigation system: Disclosed are a navigation system and/or a point information display method and a program. The navigation system consists mainly of: a stream receiver that receives broadcast streams; a data decoder that samples a data signal from the received streams and decodes the data signal into character string information; a matching... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20100274475 - System and method for providing navigational information: For providing navigational information to a user of a mobile device (150), a browser (160) of a mobile device (150) is used to access through HTIP a remote computerized LBS server (100). With the location based services data from the LBS server (100), the browser (160) receives, in addition to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100274479 - Method and system for saving and retrieving spatial related information: The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for storing, referencing, retrieving, and graphically displaying spatial and non-spatial related information of a mobile computing device, such as a laptop computer or a cellular telephone. The spatial-related information may be obtained by using positioning tracking systems such as a... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC Attn: William H. Bollman

20100274480 - Gesture actuated point of interest information systems and methods: An information system for providing point of interest information to a user in a vehicle is provided. The system includes a gesture capture device configured to capture data associated with a user gesture, the user gesture having a direction indicating a desired point of interest. The system further includes a... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (gm)

20100274481 - System and method for collaborative navigation: A system and method for collaborative navigation is provided. The system comprises a first mobile unit, at least one inertial measurement unit on the first mobile unit, and at least one environment sensor on the first mobile unit. A navigator module in the first mobile unit is configured to receive... Agent: Honeywell/fogg Patent Services

20100274482 - Method and apparatus for detecting arrival at new city and producing information on new city: An apparatus and method for a navigation system to detect arrival to a new city and provide information on the city such as dining, lodging, popular sightseeing place, etc. to the user. In addition, it can also provide the user a list of his or her friends in the new... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20100274483 - Ergonomic user interface for a portable navigation device: A portable navigation device (200) with an ergonomic user interface is described. It includes: a housing (210); a controller (220) coupled to the housing (210), the controller (220) configured to control the operations of a portable navigation device; memory (270), coupled to the controller (220), being operable to store a... Agent: Motorola Inc

20100274484 - Mobile electronic device providing display background rotation and method thereof: An electronic device allowing changing of a display background thereof obtains a current location from a navigation device. An image associated with the current location is sought in a memory system, in response to a determination that the current location does not match a location associated with the current display... Agent: Altis Law Group, Inc. Attn: Steven Reiss

20100274485 - Information communication device and navigation system having the same: A communication unit communicates information via near-field wireless communications. An information generating unit derives a travel distance, by which a movable object moves in a predetermined time period, and generates travel information including at least the generated travel distance. A transmission control unit transmits the generated travel information to a... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20100274486 - Onboard system for the prevention of collisions of an aircraft with the ground with end-of-conflict indication: The TAWS system, in addition to an FTLA function for detecting the risk of collision with the terrain, has an end-of-conflict announcement function COT which is activated after the cessation of a warning or alarm concerning the risk of collision with the ground originating from the FTLA function. This COT... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20100274487 - Route search planner: Route search planner methods and systems are described. In an embodiment, a probability map can be generated from previous sensor scans combined with a projected target location of relocatable targets in a target area. A route can be generated by a route generator, based at least in part on the... Agent: Hugh P. Gortler

20100268400 - In-vehicle equipment system: Front-mounted in-vehicle equipment arranged to a front part of a vehicle internal space, rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment arranged to a rear part of the vehicle internal space, and a connection adapted to connect the front-mounted in-vehicle equipment and the rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment is described. Rear-mounted in-vehicle equipment controls the front-mounted in-vehicle... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100268402 - Onboard starter-interrupt device incorporating wireless personal area network: An onboard starter-interrupt device uses a Personal Area Network (PAN) to facilitate communication between a wireless device (such as a cellular telephone or personal digital assistant (PDA)) and the onboard device (also referred to interchangeably as a vehicle control device or a payment enforcement device) installed on a vehicle. The... Agent: Raubvogel Law Office

20100268401 - Vehicle wireless information system: A vehicle wireless information system includes a vehicle, an onboard vehicle computer provided in the vehicle and at least one external access point adapted to wirelessly access the onboard vehicle computer.... Agent: Tung & Associates

20100268404 - Method and system to increase electric brake clamping force accuracy: The method and system for increasing accuracy of clamping force of electric aircraft carbon brakes, once braking has been commenced, provides a first pair of electric brake actuators with a range of low brake clamping force responsive to low brake clamping force commands, and a second pair of electric brake... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20100268403 - Vehicle monitoring system: An example reconfigurable vehicle monitoring arrangement includes a housing securable relative to a vehicle, a communication base at least partially disposed within the housing, and a universal connector assembly configured to selectively operatively connect the communication base with a plurality of different modules. At least one of the modules is... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20100268406 - Charging control apparatus for vehicle and vehicle: An EVSE controller generates a pilot signal and sends the pilot signal to a vehicle. A resistance circuit is connected to a control pilot line through which the pilot signal is transmitted, and is configured to be capable of reducing the potential of the pilot signal to a prescribed potential... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100268408 - Control apparatus for electric vehicle: When a diagnosis result of an ABS control system is normal, a determination is made as to whether or not to execute ABS control based on a slip ratio of a vehicle wheel, whereupon motor torque control is executed based on an operational state of an ABS. In other words,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20100268407 - Hybrid-type working machine: A hybrid-type working machine includes a plurality of electric loads and an electric storage part supplying an electric power to a motor generator and the electric loads. A priority setting part sets a priority to each electric load. A supply power computing part computes an available electric power, which can... Agent: Ipusa, P.l.l.c

20100268405 - Method for informing a driver about a capability of an electric motor in a vehicle to output a minimum power able to be requested: In a method for informing a driver of a vehicle about a capability of an electric motor in the vehicle to output a minimum power able to be requested by the driver, a variable display of a display element is implemented depending upon whether the requestable minimum power is able... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100268409 - System and method for inspection of structures and objects by swarm of remote unmanned vehicles: A method for inspecting structures that includes using a plurality of independent unmanned mobile vehicles. The unmanned mobile vehicles are equipped with a control and guidance system for enabling each unmanned mobile vehicle to operate autonomously. Each unmanned mobile vehicle may be programmed with an operating program that defines a... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20100268410 - System, working machine comprising the system, and method of springing an implement of a working machine during transport: A system for a working machine is adapted for springing the movement of a load during transport and includes at least one hydraulic cylinder for operating the load, an accumulator, and a valve adapted to control a flow communication between the hydraulic cylinder and the accumulator. The system includes a... Agent: Wrb-ip LLP

20100268411 - Charge monitor apparatus, electric vehicle, and server: In an electric vehicle equipped with a charge system, a communications condition, which is used to execute data communications to transmit to an outside, is previously designated based on an instruction by a user. When the designated communications condition becomes satisfied, the data communications from the vehicle is started to... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20100268412 - Control system for vehicle and method for controlling in-vehicle apparatus: An obtaining unit obtains information about a condition where a vehicle is placed. A detection unit detects at least one of a voice and an action of an occupant of the vehicle. An estimation unit estimates an in-vehicle apparatus to be a controlled target according to the condition where the... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20100268413 - Electronic technical logbook: A system, a method, and a computer program are provided for recording technical issues of an aircraft. A server unit is adapted to store and output data related to technical issues of an aircraft. A client unit sends an access request to a server, which receives and processes this request,... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20100268414 - Method and system for estimating the angular speed of a mobile: A method of determining an angular velocity of an aircraft includes measuring the angular velocity using at least one gyro delivering a measured angular velocity signal affected by stochastic noise; measuring the angular acceleration of the aircraft using at least one accelerometer delivering a signal representing the angular acceleration of... Agent: Young & Thompson

20100268416 - Vehicle gradient estimating device and vehicle traveling control device: A vehicle gradient estimating device includes: a vehicle speed sensor which detects a traveling speed of a subject vehicle; an acceleration calculating unit which calculates an acceleration of the subject vehicle on the basis of the traveling speed; an engine load deceleration calculating unit which calculates a deceleration due to... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20100268415 - Vehicle information storage apparatus: A vehicle information storage apparatus capable of storing necessary information dataset helpful for diagnosis. The vehicle information storage apparatus includes a status information acquiring unit acquiring a dataset of status information items of a vehicle; and a controlling unit determining a time point when the malfunction started based on the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100268417 - Method of unlocking an engine control computer: v

20100268418 - Electrical power assisted steering system: The signal processing means includes a processing means which generates a torque damping component which is representative of the sum of a first column velocity term which is a linear function of column velocity and a second column velocity term which is a function of the square of column velocity,... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20100268421 - Method of returning steering wheel using motor: A method of returning a steering wheel includes measuring steering torque and speed of a vehicle. A returning torque is determined using the measured torque, the measured speed and friction characteristics of a steering system. A motor is operated to rotate a steering wheel based on the returning torque.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20100268419 - Motion control device for vehicle: A motion control device for a vehicle having a braking means for applying a brake toque to a wheel of the vehicle and maintaining a traveling stability of the vehicle by controlling the braking means, the motion control for the vehicle, includes a steering angular velocity obtaining means for obtaining... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100268420 - Motion control device for vehicle: A motion control device for a vehicle, including a braking means for applying a brake torque to a wheel of the vehicle and maintaining a traveling stability of the vehicle by controlling the braking means, the motion control device for the vehicle, includes a steering angular velocity obtaining means for... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100268422 - Systems and methods for decoupling steering rack force disturbances in electric steering: A system for decoupling steering rack force disturbances in electric steering may comprise a steering wheel angle sensor, a yaw rate sensor, a lateral acceleration sensor, and a steering torque sensor. The system may also comprise a tire force generator configured to receive signals from the steering wheel angle sensor,... Agent: O'brien Jones, PLLC (w/ford Motor Co.)

20100268424 - Method and apparatus for door selectable automatic unlocking sensor: A vehicle door lock system may include a control unit for selectively unlocking a door, the control unit having an input for receiving a signal from an occupant detection system, a logic unit for determining whether to send an unlock signal to the door based upon the input, and an... Agent: Emerson, Thomson & Bennett, LLC

20100268423 - Occupant protection systems control techniques: Control system for controlling at least one occupant protection system of a vehicle includes a plurality of preferably electronic sensor systems mounted at different locations on the vehicle, each sensor system providing a measurement related to a state thereof system or a measurement related to a state of the mounting... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20100268425 - Preventive and persuasive actions against drunk driving: A vehicle safety system is provided that includes an alcohol concentration determining arrangement. A control unit is adapted to receive and analyze data from the alcohol concentration determining arrangement and output a blocking signal or a dissuasion signal under certain conditions. A blocking arrangement is adapted to prevent driving of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione/ann Arbor

20100268426 - Reconfigurable vehicle user interface system: A reconfigurable vehicle user interface system is presented. A vehicle user interface has a touch sensitive input devices such as touchpads and a touch screen that have specific function commands mapped to them. A user can select which function commands are mapped to which portions of the touch screen. This... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20100268427 - Clutch hold level as a function of torque: A system and method for controlling a hydraulic transmission uses a clutch fill profile having a hold level that varies as a function of torque. A pressure required for an on-coming clutch to hold the gear of the off-going clutch without a flare or over-speed condition is calculated. This pressure... Agent: Caterpillar Inc. Intellectual Property Dept.

20100268428 - Touch point calibration method for a motor vehicle: A touch point calibration method for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The method includes steps for determining if the touch point can be calibrated. The method also includes steps for determining the touch point when the system can be calibrated.... Agent: Plumsea Law Group, LLC

20100268429 - Reducing oscillations in a motor vehicle driveline: A method for reducing oscillations in a vehicle driveline includes transmitting torque to secondary wheels of the vehicle, determining a first rate of change in speed between the secondary wheels and primary wheels, if a second rate of change in speed between secondary wheels and primary wheels is greater than... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20100268430 - Method for controlling an electromechanical parking brake system of a vehicle and corresponding system: In a method for controlling an electromechanical parking brake system (EPB) of a vehicle, wherein the electromechanical parking brake system (EPB) comprises at least one actuating element (BE), at least one brake mechanism unit (BME), and at least one control device (SG), in order to statically brake the vehicle, the... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20100268431 - Control device for a vehicle: There are provided an accelerator grip, a biasing unit connected to the accelerator grip, the biasing unit biasing the accelerator grip to rotate in one circumferential direction, and a restricting unit restricting rotation of the accelerator grip against the biasing unit for placing the accelerator grip to a predetermined opening... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20100268432 - Vehicular travel control device: A vehicular travel control device according to the invention includes an inter-vehicle distance measuring section that is mounted on a subject vehicle and measures an inter-vehicle distance between the subject vehicle and a preceding vehicle, a target inter-vehicle distance setting section that sets a target inter-vehicle distance, a following travel... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20100268436 - Control device for vehicle drive unit: This invention is intended to ensure that a control device for a vehicle drive unit is capable of realizing desired torque by making the main-actuator and sub-actuator collaborate adequately while holding the interposition of the sub-actuator as low as possible. For this end, a future target of torque that is... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20100268435 - Driver selectable afm/nvh tolerance: An engine control system includes a coefficient calculation module that selects one of N coefficients based on an AFM selection by a corresponding one of N users. A switching torque calculation module calculates an adjusted active fuel management (AFM) switching threshold based on the one of the N coefficients, a... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100268438 - Exhaust purification device for hybrid electric vehicle: An ammonia selective reduction-type NOx catalyst (48) is interposed in an exhaust passage of an engine (2) provided in a series-type hybrid electric vehicle (1), and a urea water injector (52) is disposed in the exhaust passage to supply a urea water into exhaust gas existing upstream of the ammonia... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20100268433 - Internal combustion engine feedback control with variably set gain: A controller (6) for an internal combustion engine includes: a calculation section (5) for calculating an angular acceleration or an angular velocity; an operational status-determining section (5, 6) for determining an operational status based on the angular acceleration or the angular velocity; a gain-setting section (6, 3a) for setting a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100268437 - Method for detecting a periodically pulsing operating parameter: In a method for detecting a periodically pulsing operating parameter of an internal combustion engine (10) having the steps of acquiring a measured variable of the periodically pulsing operating parameter of the internal combustion engine (10) in order to generate a periodically pulsing measuring signal, discretization of the measuring signal... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20100268434 - Method of operation for an internal combustion engine: A method of operation for an internal combustion engine (1) whose output power can be controlled by means of a controlling parameter (T), in which an engine characteristic curve (11, 12) which, at a value of the controlling parameter (T) which corresponds to a maximum output power, specifies the output... Agent: Christine Johnson Esq.

20100268442 - Control device for internal combustion engine: A control device for an internal combustion engine employing PCCI combustion, capable of realizing high-stability operation of the engine throughout a large operation area, is provided. The engine control device comprises a fuel supply system which supplies light oil or mixed fuel containing light oil to the engine, a gas... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20100268439 - Control of fuel pump by quantifying performance: An engine control system comprises a fuel pump control module and a diagnostic module. The fuel pump control module controls a pressure pump to inject fuel into a fuel rail. The diagnostic module determines an estimated pressure increase within the fuel rail based on the injected fuel, compares an actual... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100268441 - Controller for fuel pump: When a starter is started, a start-control duration time is established based on a fuel pressure at engine starting and a target fuel pressure. The start-control duration time corresponds to a duration after the engine is started until a difference between an actual fuel pressure in an accumulator and a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20100268440 - Method and device for the calibration a piezo-actuator that is actuated in a motor vehicle for driving a switching valve: In a method for calibration, a piezo-actuator (1) is actuated in a motor vehicle by a control circuit and an output stage. The piezo actuator is, in particular, part of the injection valve. The piezo-actuator (1) is subjected to an electric calibration pulse that is in the high-level signal range... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20100268443 - Method and system for providing fuel to internal combustion engines:

20100268444 - Controller for diesel engine and method of controlling diesel engine: An electronic controller for a diesel engine (1) performs primary injection control in which primary injection of fuel is controlled based on an operational status of the diesel engine and additional injection control in which additional injection of the fuel is controlled for estimation of a cetane number of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20100268445 - Fleet maintenance method and in-vehicle communication system: A fleet maintenance method for generating a suggested speed for each vehicle in a fleet to maintain the vehicle in the fleet is provided. In the fleet maintenance method, vehicles are clustered into a plurality of sub-fleets, and in each sub-fleet, one vehicle is selected as a leader vehicle and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20100268446 - Traveling device and its control method: A traveling device 10 includes ground touching detection means to detect a ground touching state in which a ground touching member touches a road surface, and control means to perform inversion control by controlling the driving of a wheel. When a ground touching state of the ground touching member is... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100268447 - System and method for journey planning, finding k shortest paths through a time/space network: A method and apparatus for selecting a path defining a journey through a time-tabled transportation network comprises determining forming a data set comprising a sequence of K shortest paths through the transportation network from an origin location “o” to a destination location “d”, each path with an increasing cost; and... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20100268448 - Dynamic destination map display for navigation system: A map display apparatus and method for a navigation changes a map scale dynamically to help the driver visualize the environment of the destination when the vehicle is approaching the destination. The map scale is changed dynamically to display the destination along with at least one map attribute near the... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20100268451 - Method and apparatus for displaying image of mobile communication terminal: Techniques are described for allowing a user to intuitively check an actual image captured by a camera, rather than to recognize information regarding a peripheral area (point of interest) on a map. An apparatus includes a camera module that accesses an image captured by a camera and detects a direction... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20100268453 - Navigation device: A navigation device is provided with which output of a guidance voice is completed at an appropriate timing with respect to a reference point related to output of the guidance voice. The navigation device of the present invention includes position locating means 9 for locating a position of a vehicle,... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20100268454 - Navigation device: Apparatus for, and a method of, providing output data to a person identifying a route back to a recorded waypoint position. Personal navigation apparatus for providing output data to a person identifying a route back to a recorded waypoint position, comprising a route indication device including a visual display element;... Agent: James C. Wray

20100268452 - Navigation device, navigation method, and navigation program: Provided is a navigation device which can superpose a route guide object on an actually captured image so that the route guide object coincides with a road even if the accuracy of the road shape data is at the current level. The navigation device displays on a screen, a route... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20100268450 - Pedestrian navigation systemand method integrated with public transportation: A method according to the present disclosure includes receiving information, including a user-desired destination as an end location, from a user-operated computing device and electronically determining a current location of a user as a beginning location based on positional information received at the user-operated computing device. The method also includes... Agent: Xerox Corporation (cdfs)

20100268449 - Route planning apparatus and method for navigation system: A route planning system and method for a navigation system which allows the driver to intelligently plan the route when adding waypoints. The route planning navigation system includes a route planning processor which allows the driver to add and prioritize multiple POIs as waypoints. When one or more new waypoints... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20100268455 - Wayfinding system: Disclosed is a system to provide optimum guidance for an individual seeking the destination point in a complex building. The system can be used for a range of individuals from firemen seeking an optimized and accurately mapped path from an access point at the entrance to the building to a... Agent: Patent Docket Clerk Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

20100268456 - System and method for delivering departure notifications: The present invention provides a system and method for determining the necessary departure time to allow for an on-time or desired arrival time at a particular location over a particular route based on the evaluation of historic, present, and predicted road conditions.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20100268457 - Multiscale three-dimensional navigation: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for providing an end user with a multiscale three-dimensional (3D) navigation experience in design software application programs. An adaptive multiscale 3D navigation system allows an end user to transition between a planetary scale down to an individual building scale. The... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20100268458 - Enhanced vision system for precision navigation in low visibility or global positioning system (gps) denied conditions: A method of generating an image of a volume ahead of an aerial vehicle is provided. The method comprises determining a position of the aerial vehicle and generating a terrain image corresponding to ground features correlated to the position of the aerial vehicle. Obstacle data pertaining to a set of... Agent: Honeywell/ifl Patent Services

20100268459 - System and method for testing of navigation systems: A system and a method for testing of navigation systems are provided. The testing system may include a recording system that allows capturing radio frequency signals and other signals from a vehicle on the field. The recorded data can be then played back in laboratory environment using a playback system... Agent: Liu & Liu

20100268461 - Navigation apparatus, data processing apparatus, and geographic map data application method: The invention provides a navigation apparatus, a data processing apparatus, and a geographic map data application method. The navigation apparatus receives positioning information. The navigation apparatus sends a route request to a data processing apparatus. The navigation apparatus receives a first route and a geographic map data corresponding to the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20100268460 - Navigation system with predictive multi-routing and method of operation thereof: A method of operation of a navigation system with predictive multi-routing includes: calculating a primary route; predicting a probable deviation location on the primary route; calculating a non-primary route for the probable deviation location; and sending the primary route, the non-primary route, or a combination thereof for displaying on a... Agent: Law Offices Of Mikio Ishimaru

20100268462 - Method, system and apparatus for location-based navigation: Methodologies for alerting a user to his or her location using terrestrial wireless signals are included. The methodologies include a method for alerting a user to his or her position relative to a predetermined location in response to a unique identifying signal from a terrestrial base station as well as... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20100268463 - Navigation based on direction of travel/user-defined path: A device receives global navigation satellite system coordinates associated with a mobile user device, and determines a direction of travel of the mobile user device based on the global navigation satellite system coordinates. The device creates a user-defined path based on a user-defined starting point, a user-defined destination point, and... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20100268464 - Navigation method for a communication device: A navigation method for a communication device sends a navigational route request from the communication device to the server to generate a navigation contact group, sends a join message to join the navigation contact group as a group member, the navigational route request includes a start time and a time... Agent: Altis Law Group, Inc. Attn: Steven Reiss

20100268465 - Position determination apparatus and method: A method of determining a location of a User Equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes generating, by the UE, a database of location data for a plurality of locations; receiving at least one navigation signal at a particular area; determining an identity of a cell in which the UE... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20100268466 - Anti-collision system for railways: An anti-collision system and method for railed vehicles are provided. This system can include a camera module, a processor, and a transceiver. The camera module is configured to record images of the environment around a first railed vehicle. The processor is configured to receive an image from the camera and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C