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Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location May archived by USPTO category 05/11

20110125345 - Automated collective transport system: Automated transport system including at least one automotive vehicle (10) without a driver and one central computer (14), the vehicle being able to go automatically from a departure point to a destination point using signals transmitted by the central computer and following a rail (12) integrated in the pavement. The... Agent:

20110125344 - Automatic vehicle guidance system: A vehicle controller includes a communications unit for performing data communications with local servers; a local path generation unit for generating, in response to an automatic vehicle guidance service request, a local path based on a driving control command and sensing information received from the local servers via the communications... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110125346 - Protection envelope switching: An apparatus defines a protection envelope in an aircraft, including a processor and at least one sensor, each sensor being coupled with the processor, the processor executing at least one neural network based algorithm. The at least one sensor monitors flight parameters of the aircraft thereby generating monitored flight parameters.... Agent: Elbit Systems Ltd.

20110125347 - Apparatuses and methods for displaying autoflight information: Apparatuses and methods for displaying autoflight information and controlling autoflight systems. In one embodiment, a flight deck for an aircraft having an autoflight system includes at least one pilot seat, at least one window positioned forward of the pilot seat, and a forward instrument panel positioned forward of the pilot... Agent: The Boeing Company

20110125348 - Automatic emergency reporting: Technologies are described herein for providing automatic emergency reporting. The technologies are adapted to receive values of aircraft state parameters collected from one or more sensors arranged within an aircraft. The technologies then determine whether the collected values of the aircraft state parameters indicate normal or anomalous operation of the... Agent:

20110125349 - Integrated bird-aircraft strike prevention system - ibsps: An airborne apparatus that employs an advanced computer to analyze bird and aircraft positioning data, programmed to issue a warning about an impending strike, thereby creating the ultimate Bird-Aircraft Strike Prevention System. This system will constantly process the bird positioning data gathered by the Radar/Infrared sensors. In case of a... Agent:

20110125350 - Method and system for merge control in an automated vehicle system: Disclosed is a method of controlling merging of a plurality of streams of vehicles in an automated vehicle system. The method comprises: Defining a merge control zone associated with a merge point, the merge control zone defining at least respective sections of the upstream tracks leading to the merge point;... Agent: Posco

20110125351 - Control of regenerative braking in a hybrid vehcile: A method is provided for controlling regenerative braking in a hybrid electric vehicle. The vehicle includes an energy-storage device, a motor/generator configured to retard the vehicle via regenerative braking, and a controller arranged to control regenerative braking. The method includes receiving a regenerative braking request, and detecting whether the energy-storage... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110125356 - Drive control system for a vehicle: A drive control system for a vehicle has a power train including an internal combustion engine, a transmission and wheels. In the power train, a motor-generator is provided as a drive power source between the transmission and the wheels. A clutch is provided between the transmission and the motor-generator. A... Agent: Denso Corporation

20110125353 - Driving apparatus for vehicle: A driving apparatus includes a first transmission mechanism receiving mechanical power from an engine output shaft by a first input shaft, a second transmission mechanism receiving the mechanical power from the engine output shaft and a motor by a second input shaft, and a first clutch capable of engaging the... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20110125357 - Fuel-saving driving diagnostic device, fuel-saving driving diagnostic system, control device of electric drive device, fuel-saving driving rating device, and fuel-saving driving diagnostic method: A vehicle power indication status quantity display unit displays on an indicator a vehicle power indication status quantity obtained by dividing the torque required for driving a hybrid vehicle by the upper limit value of the torque that does not excessively increase the fuel consumption. A HV eco zone of... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20110125352 - Method for controlling output torque in powertrains: A method of controlling output torque in a hybrid or electric vehicle transmissions includes calculating a first long-term output torque constraint and a first short-term output torque constraint. A first effective output torque constraint is determined from at least one of the first long-term and short-term output torque constraints. The... Agent:

20110125354 - Method for regulating a drag torque of a motor vehicle driven by an electric motor in consideration of the coefficient of friction present on the roadway surface, and device for carrying out such a method: A method for regulating a drag torque of a motor vehicle driven by an electric motor, a regulating device influencing the drag torque in response to a corresponding change in the setting of the accelerator, a sensor device sensing a tire on a roadway surface on which the motor vehicle... Agent:

20110125355 - System and method for controlling the change in mode of an infinitely variable transmission in purely electric mode: A system for controlling change in mode of an infinitely variable transmission including a first operation mode at high torque at high speed and a second operation mode at high torque at low speed, fitted to a motor vehicle that includes at least two electric machines, with at least one... Agent: Renault S.a.s.

20110125358 - Control method for a robot vehicle, and robot vehicle: The invention relates to a method for controlling driving means which are designed to steer and move a robot vehicle (3) that is particularly designed as a lawn mowing vehicle. In said control method, the driving means are controlled in such a way that the robot vehicle (3) travels through... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20110125360 - Control apparatus for automatic transmission: An control apparatus for an automatic transmission includes: a failure shift stage setting section configured to set, to the target shift stage, a shift stage which can be attained in a state in which the one of the solenoids judged that the failure is generated is not energized; and a... Agent: Jatco Ltd

20110125361 - Diagnosing a cooling subsystem of an engine system in response to dynamic pressure sensed in the subsystem: A method of diagnosing a cooling subsystem of an engine system in response a parameter extracted from dynamic hydraulic pressure sensed in the cooling subsystem, and products and systems using same.... Agent: Borgwarner Inc.

20110125362 - Operation support apparatus and operation support method: An operation support apparatus includes: a musculoskeletal status detection unit that detects a musculoskeletal status of an operator; an operating member operated by the operator; an activating mechanism that is operated in response to an operation of the operating member; and a control unit including: a musculoskeletal status information acquisition... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20110125359 - Vehicle estimate navigation apparatus, vehicle estimate navigation, and vehicle estimate navigation program: A vehicle estimate navigation apparatus including: a speed vector calculation means for calculating, based on GPS information by a GPS receiver mounted in a running vehicle, a speed vector of a running speed of the vehicle; a tire rotation information detection means for detecting rotation information of tires attached to... Agent:

20110125366 - Automotive scan tool with enhanced audio, video and voice recognition functionality: A diagnostic tool for a vehicle, includes a signal translator communicating with the vehicle in at least one protocol, an input unit for inputting information, a processor controlling a software according to the input information from the input unit and communication with the vehicle from the signal translator, the processor... Agent: Spx Corporation

20110125365 - Driver activity and vehicle operation logging and reporting: A method for logging and reporting driver activity and vehicle operation includes identifying a driver of a vehicle, recording operating data with an on-board recorder that is hard-wired to an engine control module, coupled to a mileage sensing system, and linked to a global navigation satellite system, and recording duty... Agent:

20110125363 - Method and system for adjusting a charge related to use of a vehicle during a period based on operational performance data: A software method controlling a computer device compares operational performance data collected and stored from a vehicle to a predetermined criterion and determines, based on the comparison, whether to adjust a baseline charge for usage of a vehicle during the period. The software may compare data corresponding to one, or... Agent:

20110125364 - Method and system for diagnosing a malfunction of an automobile: A method for diagnosing a malfunction in an automobile that uses a diagnosis tool and an analysis of data or control instructions provided by a calculation module assembly onboard the vehicle and converting the operation of a set of functional members of the vehicle by dynamically displaying the values of... Agent: Renault S.a.s.

20110125367 - Accelerator reaction for control apparatus: A control apparatus of a vehicle includes a detector to detect an opening degree of an accelerator, a controller to adjust a reaction force of the accelerator, wherein the controller is configured to increase the reaction force of the accelerator when the accelerator opening degree exceeds a threshold value, a... Agent: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

20110125369 - Apparatus for keeping a traffic lane and preventing lane-deviation for a vehicle and method thereof: The present invention relates to an apparatus for keeping a traffic lane and preventing lane-deviation for a vehicle that controls a steering direction and a steering amount so as for the vehicle to keep the traffic lane by using information on a left traffic lane of a vehicle while travelling... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110125370 - Device and process for automatic locking of a steering column: e

20110125368 - Vehicle behavior control apparatus: A vehicle behavior control apparatus including a deceleration control mechanism decelerating the vehicle to reduce a deviation between a target turning index value, which is determined based on a steering angle of the vehicle, and an actual turning index value. The deceleration control mechanism reduces the decrease gradient of the... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20110125371 - Auto-steerable farming system: A steering system for a towable implement includes a steering sensor, an implement steering controller, a steering control valve, a steering cylinder, and an implement steering mechanism that steers the implement. The steering sensor measures, directly or indirectly, the angular position of the steerable wheels of the implement. The implement... Agent:

20110125372 - Method and apparatus for reducing collision injury/damage of vehicles: An on-vehicle apparatus is provided to reduce damage from collisions. In the apparatus, an object located in a field in a travel direction of a vehicle is detected and a time to collision (TTC) is detected. A controller performs automatic intervention braking in the vehicle when it determined that the... Agent: Denso Corporation

20110125373 - Adaptive front lighting system for performing highway and urban district modes of front lighting: An adaptive front lighting system for performing highway and urban district modes of front lights is provided, which includes a leveling actuator rotating a light source of front lights of a vehicle in upward and downward directions, and a control unit judging a driving state of the vehicle as either... Agent: Hyundai Mobis

20110125374 - Image acquisition and processing systems for vehicle equipment control: An improved image acquisition and processing system includes an image sensor and one or more processors that are configured to receive at least a portion of at least one image from the image sensor. The dynamic aim of the image sensor is configured as a function of at least one... Agent:

20110125375 - Control apparatus and control method for vehicle automatic transmission: In a control apparatus and a control method for a vehicle automatic transmission in which a plurality of gears with different speed ratios are achieved by selectively engaging a plurality of friction engagement devices and a one-way clutch, if an acceleration request is made in the case where the one-way... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20110125376 - Automatic downhill speed control system: A method for automatically controlling the downhill speed of a machine. The method includes establishing a target machine speed based on a current machine speed and determining whether at least one trigger condition including a grade greater than a predetermined threshold has been satisfied. If satisfied, the method activates a... Agent: Caterpillar Inc.

20110125377 - Transmission: A dual clutch automated manual transmission includes a first clutch and a second clutch, and a clutch torque capacity command value for a plurality of clutch actuators arranged to drive the first clutch and second clutch based on operation of a by-wire type of clutch lever, wherein the clutch torque... Agent: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha

20110125378 - Method for adapting the kiss point: A method for setting the engagement point of a friction clutch of a multi-step transmission for a motor vehicle. The friction clutch can be activated, controlled, by means of a clutch actuator. A set point value of the clutch actuator is set for the engagement point of the friction clutch... Agent: Getrag Getriebe- Und Zahnradfabrik Hermann Hagenmeyer Gmbh & Cie Kg

20110125381 - Brake system and method for controlling a vehicle brake: The brake system for motor vehicles has a brake pedal unit having a sensor, which has an intelligence of its own in the form of an electronic processing unit, which directly calculates actuating signals for brake actuators. Furthermore, the brake system has a central electronic control unit, which ascertains actuating... Agent:

20110125380 - Parameter estimation method for self-energized brake mechanism: A method estimates parameters for a self-energized brake mechanism having a moving part, a brake pad, a brake disc, a caliper, and a wedge profile. The method includes the following acts: applying the same actuator force to the brake mechanism and simultaneously to a dynamical model of the brake mechanism;... Agent: Knorr-bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge Gmbh

20110125379 - Vehicle brake fluid pressure control apparatus: A vehicle brake fluid pressure control apparatus includes: a control unit including a memory part for storing a valve closing map which shows a relationship between a differential pressure between an upstream side and a downstream side of a pressure regulator valve and an output current value for closing the... Agent: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.

20110125382 - Coefficient of friction based limitation of the torque of a vehicle control loop: A process is provided for limiting a torque or an amount characteristic thereof of a control loop used for stabilizing a vehicle. A coefficient of friction is detected according to the process. The coefficient of friction is estimated by way of vehicle-internal quantities. As a function of the coefficient of... Agent: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

20110125383 - Method for biodiesel blending detection based on relative air-to-fuel ratio estimation: A method is provided for biodiesel blending detection in an internal combustion engine that includes, but is not limited to a first evaluation of the relative air-to-fuel ratio (RAFR) by means of a first sensor whose output whose output is representative of the actual RAFR value, in order to use... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110125384 - Air pressure control systems and methods for turbocharger systems: A system for an engine with a turbocharger system includes a rate determination module, a limiting rate selection module, a throttle inlet absolute pressure (TIAP) calculation module, and a throttle control module. The rate determination module generates a pressure rate value based on a pressure difference between a current TIAP... Agent: Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110125385 - Control device of a motor vehicle and method for exchanging control and regulating signals: A control device for carrying out a method of exchanging control and regulating signals in a motor vehicle includes a central control unit which is an integrated semiconductor circuit and which is disposed on at least one circuit board. At least one driver unit is disposed as a further integrated... Agent: Continental Automotive Gmbh

20110125386 - Fuel injector interface and diagnostics: A method comprising receiving a fuel injection signal from a first driver circuit via a control line, feeding the fuel injection signal to a second fuel injector driver circuit, sending a control signal output from the second fuel injector driver circuit to a fuel injector, monitoring the fuel injector for... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20110125387 - Fuel supply system having pressure control valve: A pressure control valve is provided in a fuel return pipe connected between a high pressure fuel pipe and a fuel pressurizing chamber of a high pressure pump. A pressure relief valve is opened when fuel pressure in a fuel delivery pipe is higher than a first pressure. A first... Agent: Denso Corporation

20110125388 - Method for determining an index of the fuel combustion in an engine cylinder: A method is provided for determining an index representing the crank angle at which a given fuel mass fraction has been burnt in a cylinder of the engine during an engine cycle. The method includes, but is not limited to sampling the pressure within the cylinder during the engine cycle,... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110125389 - Method for the determination of the actual quantity of fuel injected in an internal combustion engine: A method is provided for the determination of the actual quantity of fuel injected in an internal combustion engine, in particular a Diesel engine. The engine includes, but is not limited to an inlet line and an exhaust line, at least one cylinder and at least an injector for each... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110125390 - Driveline system impact reverberation reduction: A method for driveline impact reverberation reduction including operating an engine coupled to a transmission; regulating operation of the engine with a controller to adjust fueling of the engine which includes providing a signal to the controller representative of a requested engine torque; determining a first fueling rate as a... Agent: Cummins Inc.

20110125391 - Pressure energy conversion systems: A process for performing energy conversion that converts pressure energy to produce expansive work in one or more devices selected from the group including a reversible fuel cell, expansion motor, and heat releasing combustor.... Agent: Mcalister Technologies, LLC

20110125392 - Traffic data collection in a navigational system: A server device collects traveling speed data from a first mobile device when the first mobile device is located within an area of potential traffic congestion; and records or updates a congestion factor, associated with the area of potential traffic congestion, based on the collected traveling speed data, where the... Agent: Verizon Patent And Licensing, Inc.

20110125394 - Advertisement systems and methods for notification systems: Advertisement systems and methods are provided for use in connection with notification services or systems. One such method, among others that are disclosed, can be practiced by performing at least the following steps: (a) monitoring travel data associated with a mobile thing; (b) contacting a party based upon the travel... Agent:

20110125393 - Systems and methods for information transformation and exchange: Systems and methods for sellers of goods and services for providing information relating to existence and features of what they provide, to buyers using a system as herein described that enables a buyer to identify and obtain collections of information that comprise a subset of the contents of a database... Agent:

20110125396 - Method and system for enabling an off board navigation solution: The present invention is directed to a method and system for providing off-board navigational information from a network server to a mobile communication device, such as a cellular phone. Specifically, upon receiving from the mobile communication device the real time location of the mobile communication device and a location or... Agent:

20110125397 - Navigation method and apparatus for mobile terminal: A navigation method, apparatus, and a computer readable medium for a mobile terminal support a display mode that provides a good field of view and enhanced readability. An input signal for enabling a route guidance function is received. Map data for route guidance is outputted when the route guidance function... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110125395 - Navigation system with vehicle retrieval reservation mechanism and method of operation thereof: A method of operation of a navigation system includes: receiving a retrieval reservation having an exit time; generating an alert with the exit time for retrieving a vehicle from a parked location; and identifying a pick-up location based on the alert for parking the vehicle at the pick-up location.... Agent: Telenav, Inc.

20110125398 - Navigation apparatus, server apparatus and method of providing point of interest data: A navigation apparatus includes a communications interface for communicating data via a communications network and a processing resource coupled to the interface and arranged to receive a request for point of interest information, and to communicate via the communications interface a message constituting a point of interest data request for... Agent:

20110125399 - Filtering of relevant traffic for display, enhancement, and/or alerting: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media described herein provide for filtering relevant traffic from sensed or received traffic information for display, enhancement, or alerting, without requiring knowledge of runway, taxiway, or taxi route locations at an airport. Traffic information is sensed or received regarding nearby aircraft or other vehicles and is... Agent:

20110125400 - Methods of generating a connectivity chart for elements of an airport for assistance in taxiing and associated devices: t

20110125402 - Navigation device: A navigation device calculates the distance difference between the position of a vehicle which is map-matched onto a road link, and the position acquired by perpendicular-mapping the actual position of the vehicle at a branch point onto the above-mentioned road link from the lane width K of a road lane... Agent:

20110125401 - Update unit and method for updating a digital map: An update device for updating a digital map for a vehicle is specified which has a multiplicity of sensors which measure the current traffic situation, the movement of the vehicle or else the road conditions. These measured values are transferred to a control center which evaluates them and then sends... Agent: Continental Teves Ag & Co. Ohg

20110125403 - Method and apparatus for utilizing geographic location information: Embodiments of the present invention provide navigation devices (10) and methods for receiving and/or forming geoblogs. The provided navigation devices (10) are generally operable to retrieve a geoblog utilizing the current geographic location of the device (10) and a user input, form a geoblog utilizing the current geographic location of... Agent: Garmin Switzerland Gmbh

20110125404 - Spatial alignment determination for an inertial measurement unit (imu): The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for determining a spatial alignment of an inertial measurement unit (IMU). By way of example, a method is described in which a first vehicle-based direction is identified, and the first vehicle-based direction is associated with a first direction that... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110125405 - Autonomous vehicle railroad crossing warning system: An autonomous vehicle collision/crossing warning system provides for simple, inexpensive and decentralized installation, operation and maintenance of a reliable vehicle collision/crossing warning system. The autonomous warning system preferably utilizes a single frequency TDM radio communication network with GPS clock synchronization, time slot arbitration and connectionless UDP protocol to broadcast messages... Agent: Ansaldo Sts Usa, Inc.

20110118897 - Protecting a vehicle from environmental events: Methods and systems for locating a vehicle are disclosed, including detecting one or more environmental conditions, the one or more environmental conditions being indicative of an occurrence of an environmental event, determining a probability of the occurrence of the environmental event in response to detecting the one or more environmental... Agent: Temic Automotive Of North America, Inc.

20110118898 - Rehabilitation device: A rehabilitation device includes a moving body, a motor, a control system and a sensor module. The moving body has a housing and a moving mechanism. The motor, disposed in the housing, connects to the moving mechanism and drives the moving mechanism. The control system is disposed in the housing... Agent: National Taiwan University

20110118900 - Autonomic traveling apparatus for a vehicle: In an autonomic traveling apparatus for a vehicle, vehicles usually travel an independent travel lane and when there are two approaching vehicles on the independent travel lane, they switch to pass-by lanes to pass by each other. To do this switching operation effectively, respective vehicles check and obtain road conditions... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110118901 - Device for securing a flight sequence of an unmanned aircraft: A device for assisting in the decking of an aircraft, the aircraft being remotely controlled from a mobile station, called a ship, includes means of receiving data originating from the aircraft, notably attitudes of the aircraft and its altitude, the aircraft being in stationary flight ready to deck, a first... Agent: Thales

20110118902 - Method and communication system for safe route control: In a communication system and an associated method for the secured control of a route followed by a vehicle running in an approach area of a moving area, the moving area is preceded by a closing signaling provided on the ground and adapted for informing the vehicle to stop. A... Agent: Siemens S.a.s.

20110118899 - Method and system for independent control of vehicle: Methods and systems are provided for controlling movement of a train including a plurality of locomotives along a route. In one example, the method comprises, generating a first plan profile, the first plan profile including synchronous settings for the locomotives over a route, and generating a second plan profile based... Agent:

20110118903 - Systems and methods of remotely controlling a materials handling vehicle: A supplemental control system for a materials handling vehicle comprises a wearable control device, and a corresponding receiver on the materials handling vehicle. The wearable control device is donned by an operator interacting with the materials handling vehicle, and comprises a wireless transmitter to be worn on the wrist of... Agent: Crown Equipment Corporation

20110118906 - Distributed flight control system: A flight control system for an aircraft, controlling a plurality of actuators adapted to actuate control surfaces of the aircraft, including: at least one communications bus; at least one computer situated in the avionics bay of the aircraft, and adapted to calculate flight commands and to transmit them over the... Agent: Airbus Operations (inc As A Societe Par Act Simpl)

20110118904 - Method and system to reduce impact of non-atc datalink messages on atc datalink messages on a shared air-ground communication link: A system to send air traffic control (ATC) data-link messages from an aircraft is provided. The system includes ATC applications in a first portion of an application layer, non-ATC applications in a second portion of the application layer; and a communication manager in the aircraft having two addresses for the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110118905 - Methods systems and apparatus for analyzing complex systems via prognostic reasoning: Methods and apparatus are provided for analyzing a complex system that includes a number of subsystems. Each subsystem comprises at least one sensor designed to generate sensor data. Sensor data from at least one of the sensors is processed to generate binary evidence of a sensed event, and complex evidence... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110118907 - Multipurpose modular airship systems and methods: Embodiments according to the methods and systems provide for the selection, assembly, deployment, exploitation of data collected, redeployment, retrieval and stowage of a remotely operated lighter than air (LTA) network of vehicles. From modular components stowed with a mobile platform, one or more LTA vehicles can be assembled, deployed and... Agent:

20110118908 - Methods and systems for management of airplane speed profile: Methods and systems for airplane speed profile management are disclosed. A method and system in accordance to one embodiment of the disclosure includes a graphical display of speed segments and constraints as well as controls for managing the speeds and associated constraints. Speed Profile Management System (SPMS) provides an integrated... Agent: The Boeing Company

20110118909 - Systems and methods of detecting low takeoff performance due to incorrect weight information: Systems and methods for performing V speeds verification. An example system determines if during a takeoff roll there is enough runway left for the aircraft to stop with a predetermined braking force. If an incorrect “too small” weight had been used to previously compute Vspeeds (e.g., V1) and engine takeoff... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110118910 - Decision aid device for assisting the landing of an aircraft on the deck of a ship: A device for aiding the deck-landing of an aircraft, the aircraft being controlled remotely from a mobile station, such as a ship, includes means for receiving data from the aircraft, notably attitudes of the aircraft, the aircraft hovering ready to land on deck, the deck-landing decision having to be taken... Agent: Thales

20110118911 - stabilized approach monitor: Systems and methods for suppressing an unstable alert when the aircraft is in the process of landing on a temporarily displaced threshold. In an example process, a processor on the aircraft determines the aircraft is on an approach to landing on a runway based on information received from one or... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110118912 - Method and system for aviation navigation: A system operates to guide an aircraft to or along a route designed to maintain the aircraft within a safe glide distance of an acceptable emergency landing area. The system uses a database of emergency landing areas with glide characteristics of an aircraft to determine a route that minimizes travel... Agent: Hoshiko, LLC

20110118913 - railroad signaling and communication system using a fail-safe voltage sensor to verify trackside conditions in safety-critical railroad applications: The present invention discloses an improved method and system for verifying trackside conditions in safety critical railroad applications by reporting the status of trackside signals and switches to a remote train control system to confirm visual signals and control train movement. The system for verifying whether a trackside signaling electrical... Agent: Convergent Communications, Inc.

20110118914 - Method and system for independent control of vehicle: Methods and systems are provided for controlling movement of a train including a plurality of locomotives along a route. In one example, the method comprises, generating a first plan profile, the first plan profile including synchronous settings for the locomotives over a route, and generating a second plan profile based... Agent:

20110118918 - Adaptation of a steady-state maximum torque of an internal combustion engine: In a method for operating an internal combustion engine, a steady-state maximum output torque and a dynamic maximum torque are ascertained. The ascertained steady-state maximum output torque is changed to a resulting steady-state maximum torque by adapting the maximum output torque in such a way that it is equal to... Agent:

20110118919 - Apparatus and method for air conditioning vehicle interior using battery charge control of electric vehicle: The present invention provides an apparatus and method for air conditioning a vehicle interior using a battery charge control of an electric vehicle, which can improve the cooling/heating performance by setting a start-up time of the electric vehicle and supplying heat generated from a battery during charge and its latent... Agent: Kia Motors Corporation

20110118924 - Control system for electric vehicle, and electric vehicle equipped therewith: A control system for an electric vehicle includes: an electricity storage device that performs charging and discharging of electrical power; a plurality of load devices that receive supply of electrical power from the electricity storage device and perform operations; and a control device that controls the electricity storage device and... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110118916 - Discrete voltage level controller: In an electrically powered vehicle, a computer-controlled switching system activates relays to switch additional discrete batteries into a circuit in response to throttle level, where a processor is configured to decide what specific batteries should be present in the circuit at any given time, in response to both throttle level... Agent:

20110118922 - Drive controller for cargo handling vehicle: A drive controller for a cargo handling vehicle including an engine, a generator motor, a cargo handling pump, a cargo handling actuator, a travel motor, and a battery. The drive controller includes an engine control unit, a rotation speed detection unit, a deviation calculation unit, and a power generation control... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

20110118917 - Method for controlling cooling of power converter for hybrid electric vehicle: A method for controlling a cooling system for controlling a power converter of a hybrid electric vehicle includes: estimating the temperature of a power converter at the time of a CAN communication error as a current temperature of the power converter and controlling a cooling system at a cooling rate... Agent: Hyundai Motor Company

20110118923 - Method for operating a hybrid drive: A method for operating a hybrid drive of a motor vehicle in particular. An internal combustion engine is connected to a generator via a force-conducting connection. In a learning mode, the generator is operated as a motor and drives the internal combustion engine. In this learning mode, a so-called zero... Agent:

20110118925 - Power transmission mechanism for hybrid vehicle: A power switcher mechanism includes an internal combustion engine, a generator motor, a controller and a power interrupter. The internal combustion engine outputs a power. The generator motor carries out electric power generation as well as outputs a power when a power is input. The controller selects and then controls... Agent:

20110118920 - Regenerative braking torque compensation device, methods for regenerative braking torque compensation and a hybrid vehicle embodying such devices and methods: The present invention compensates a regenerative braking amount by applying a target shift step and a shift phase in a case that the vehicle is in deceleration according to a brake demand and regenerative braking is performed. A regenerative braking torque compensation method of a hybrid vehicle may include a... Agent: Kia Motors Corporation

20110118921 - System and method for controlling economical driving of hybrid vehicle and a hybrid vehicle embodying same: Featured are apparatuses and methods for economical driving of a hybrid vehicle. Such methods include determining a present fuel consumption efficiency control value by considering present fuel consumption as a real consumption amount of a fuel and a battery, determining a driving pattern fuel consumption efficiency control value by considering... Agent: Hyundai Motor Company

20110118915 - Vehicle and method for controlling engine start in a vehicle: A vehicle includes a motor/generator, a starter motor, a disconnect clutch disposed between the engine and the motor/generator, and at least one clutch disposed between the motor/generator and the vehicle drive wheels. When an engine start is requested, various parameters are controlled to ensure a smooth engine start wherein driveline... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20110118926 - Method and system for augmenting a guidance system with a path sensor: In an automatic vehicle position control system, such as a satellite-based agricultural implement steering system, the satellite-based steering information is adjusted with information obtained from one or more path sensors to facilitate the automatic nudging of the vehicle to take account of inaccurate tracking of the agricultural implement relative to... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited

20110118928 - Control method of performing rotational traveling of robot cleaner: Disclosed herein is a control method of a robot cleaner in which a robot cleaner is moved at an arbitrary starting angle along a rotation trajectory having an arbitrary rotational center and rotation radius during obstacle-following traveling, whereby an obstacle-following traveling time is reduced and consequently, a movement time of... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110118927 - Systems and methods for controlling positions and orientations of autonomous vehicles: A method for controlling an autonomous vehicle includes: Receiving data relating to a plurality of proposed vehicle locations; generating a simulated vehicle path based on the received data; determining a simulated vehicle orientation for at least one point on the simulated vehicle path; presenting at least the simulated vehicle orientation... Agent: Flanders Electric, Ltd.

20110118930 - Method and device for operating a motor vehicle: A predefined operating strategy permits a predefined operating mode of the motor vehicle. A first operating variable value of the operating mode and/or one additional variable value, which is independent of the operating mode are sensed and one estimated value is determined depending thereon, which is representative of one expected... Agent:

20110118929 - Vehicle driving assist apparatus and method: A vehicle driving assist apparatus includes an input section to sense a vehicle traveling condition of a vehicle, an output section to present assist information to a driver of the vehicle, and a control section to prepare the assist information in accordance with the vehicle traveling condition sensed by the... Agent:

20110118931 - Grille control mechanism for vehicle: A grille control mechanism for a vehicle includes a movable member being switchable between opened and closed positions, an electric motor actuating the movable member, and a control device controlling a supply of electric current until detecting a lock current value to execute an opening operation or a closing operation,... Agent: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

20110118932 - Fault diagnosis and prognosis using diagnostic trouble code markov chains: A system and method for fault diagnosis includes receiving information defining a relationship between failure modes and diagnostic trouble codes and extracting diagnostic trouble code data, including set times, frequency data and diagnostic trouble code sequence information for a plurality of diagnostic trouble codes relating to a plurality of failure... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110118934 - Peripheral access devices and sensors for use with vehicle telematics devices and systems: A telematics method and system includes, and uses, a telematics device with a controller in communication with a diagnostic system configured to receive diagnostic information from a host vehicle; a position-locating system configured to determine location information of the host vehicle; a wireless transceiver configured to transmit and receive information... Agent: Htiip, LLC

20110118933 - Vehicle diagnosing apparatus: After a request for first data is received from a first diagnostic unit, when a request for second data is received from a second diagnostic unit, if the first data and the second data of the same type, then a communication unit requests the electronic control unit to send the... Agent: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

20110118935 - Road surface friction coefficient estimating device and road surface friction coefficient estimating method: A road surface friction coefficient estimating device includes a braking/driving force detecting section for detecting the braking/driving force of a wheel during traveling, a slip ratio detecting section for detecting the slip ratio of the wheel during traveling, and a road surface μ calculating section for estimating the relationship between... Agent: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd

20110118939 - Driving assistance apparatus and driving assistance method: Traveling environment information, which is information on a traveling environment around a vehicle, is obtained. If the automation level of the vehicle, which is set according to the traveling environment information, is decreased, the driving assistance level is decreased in a stepwise manner to execute a driving assistance control.... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20110118936 - Lane-keeping control method and system: Disclosed are a lane-keeping control system and method. The lane-keeping control system includes: an information acquiring device for acquiring lane information for a neighboring lane, and neighboring vehicle information for a neighboring vehicle in a lane neighboring with a lane in which a lane-keeping controlled vehicle is running; an electronic... Agent: Mando Corporation

20110118937 - Motor control unit and vehicle steering system: When the estimated motor temperature becomes equal to or higher than the first predetermined temperature, an addition angle correction unit temporarily decreases the absolute value of the addition angle output from an addition angle limiter at time intervals. The addition angle correction unit makes the time interval shorter as the... Agent: Jtekt Corporation

20110118938 - Vehicle control system: A vehicle control system having a controller and a spatial database adapted to provide spatial data to the controller at control speed. The spatial data provided from the spatial database to the controller can be any kind of data or information that has some relationship or association with “real world”... Agent:

20110118940 - Motor control unit and vehicle steering system: A motor is driven by the γ-axis current of a γδ coordinate system that is an imaginary rotating coordinate system. A command current value preparation unit sets the γ-axis command current value based on the command steering torque and the detected steering torque. The command current value preparation unit includes... Agent: Jtekt Corporation

20110118941 - System and method for stabilizing a single-track vehicle: A system for stabilizing a single-track vehicle including a front assembly and a rear assembly, said system comprising a robust controller including an inner loop which closes on a roll angular rate {dot over (χ)} of said rear assembly and reduces parametric uncertainty associated with said vehicle, and an outer... Agent: Technion Research & Development Foundation Ltd.

20110118942 - Theft security device for a vehicle coupling: An anti-theft security device for a vehicle coupling, in particular a fifth wheel coupling (1), includes a security apparatus (2) and a control apparatus (3) which are electrically connected to each other. The control device (3) is connected to at least one vehicle-side system (10a, b, c) having an emergency... Agent:

20110118943 - Security system comprising a self-mixing laser sensor and method of driving such a security system: A security system is described, comprising a sensor module (15) which accommodates a laser sensor (10) working with self-mixing interference. The laser sensor (10) generates measurement data which are related to the velocity of an object such as the body of a human being and, optionally, the distance between the... Agent: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

20110118944 - Vehicle and method of controlling thereof: A vehicle controlled by a driver comprises a primary chassis (22) supported by a road, a secondary chassis (16) movably linked to the primary chassis and at least one mechanism adapted for controlling movement of the vehicle. The controlling mechanism is adapted to change characteristics of vehicle movement and vehicle... Agent:

20110118945 - Grille control mechanism for vehicle: A grille control mechanism for a vehicle includes a movable member being switchable between an opened position for allowing air to flow into a radiator of the vehicle and a closed position for inhibiting the air from flowing into the radiator, an electric motor actuating the movable member, and a... Agent: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

20110118946 - Method and device for actuating a door or a flap of a vehicle: In a method and a device (12) for actuating a door or flap (1) of a vehicle (10), the door or flap (1), if it is closed, is automatically opened or, if it is open, is automatically closed if a movement of an object with at least one change in... Agent:

20110118947 - Control system of automatic transmission: A control system for controlling an automatic transmission that is capable of establishing a given speed stage by engaging a given frictional element. The control system comprises an actual time lag measuring section that measures an actual time lag from the time when a speed change instruction for the given... Agent: Jatco Ltd

20110118948 - Vehicle: Disclosed is a vehicle capable of improving the accuracy of wheel stopping determination. A stopping determination time which is calculated by multiplying the pulse width of a wheel speed pulse immediately before a non-output time, for which no wheel speed pulse is output from a wheel speed sensor 3, by... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20110118949 - Vehicle brake fluid pressure control apparatus: A vehicle brake fluid pressure control apparatus includes: a controller configured to control fluid pressures in wheel brakes to increase or reduce by controlling normally open electromagnetic valves and normally closed electromagnetic valves, wherein the controller perform: a pressure reducing in a pressure reducing cycle in which a basic pressure... Agent: Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd.

20110118950 - Method for estimation of at least one engine parameter: A system comprising determination of tuning parameters enabling optimal estimation of unmeasured engine outputs, e.g., thrust. The level of degradation of engine performance is generally described by unmeasurable health parameters related to each major engine component. Accurate thrust reconstruction depends upon knowledge of these health parameters, but there are usually... Agent: U.s. Government As Represented By The Secretary Of The Army

20110118951 - Control device for internal combustion engine: When the variation of the KCS learning value is large, an ISC learning control is performed in a learning acceleration mode in which the amount of the ISC learning update is large and the ISC learning is performed at high speed. By thus performing the ISC learning control in the... Agent:

20110118953 - Abnormal combustion detection method for internal-combustion engines from combustion indicator distribution modelling: An abnormal combustion detection method for spark-ignition internal-combustion engines, from combustion indicator distribution modelling is disclosed. At least one combustion indicator such as CA10 is determined. The distribution of N values of this indicator, acquired over N cycles preceding the cycle in progress, is modelled by determining coefficients of a... Agent:

20110118954 - Control apparatus for a vehicle having a prime mover: The control apparatus for a vehicle having a prime mover is applied to a vehicle having an air conditioning mechanism which performs the air conditioning in the vehicle interior by using the cooling water of the internal combustion engine. The engine stop permitting unit permits stopping the internal combustion engine... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20110118952 - Glowplug temperature control method and device for the reduction of emissions from a diesel engine: A method is provided for reducing emissions behind a catalytic converter in an exhaust gas stream of the engine. The method includes, but is not limited to controlling a power supply to a glowplug of a compression-ignition engine. The glowplug is activated if a set of at least two input... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110118956 - Internal combustion engine fuel injection control method: In accordance with a measurement quantity that changes as the temperatures of the surface, at the intake air flow path, of the intake valve and the inner wall face of the intake air flow path change, there is set the proportion of the amount of fuel injected in synchronization with... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

20110118958 - Method for adapting the performance of a fuel prefeed pump of a motor vehicle: In a method for adapting the performance of a fuel prefeed pump of a motor vehicle which has a common rail injection system and an internal combustion engine, after the ignition is switched on and before the internal combustion engine is started, adaptation values are determined and stored which are... Agent:

20110118955 - System and method for controlling engine torque: An engine control system for a vehicle includes a power request determination module, a desired speed determination module, and a torque control module. The power request determination module determines a power request for an engine based on a request from a driver of the vehicle and a speed of the... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110118957 - System and method for preparing an optimized fuel mixture: Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and method for converting ozone and fuel into mechanical energy and waste products. In some embodiments, a super-combustor may be used to provide a combustion engine with an improved ability to combust fuel. Certain embodiments of the invention may provide for an... Agent: Megaion Research Corporation

20110118959 - Method and apparatus for determining and regulating an exhaust gas recirculation rate of an internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for determining an exhaust gas recirculation rate in an internal combustion engine, in which the exhaust gas recirculation rate indicates a proportion of exhaust gas in a gas quantity delivered to a cylinder of the internal combustion engine, and combustion takes... Agent:

20110118960 - Knocking detecting apparatus for internal combustion engine: A knocking detecting apparatus for an internal combustion engine, which can more accurately perform the knocking determination based on frequency components of the output signal of the knock sensor, is provided. A frequency spectrum analysis of the knock sensor output signal is performed at predetermined angular intervals of the crankshaft... Agent: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

20110118964 - Glow plug drive control methods: At a time when post glow of ceramic glow plugs 50-1 to 50-n ends, when it has been determined that a cooling state inside a combustion chamber of an engine is not in a predetermined strong cooling state for a first predetermined amount of time or longer, post glow energization... Agent:

20110118962 - Method for controlling the starter of a combustion engine and application thereof: A method for controlling actuation of a control device to be integrated into a starter of a combustion engine. The device includes a solenoid controlling a position of a starter sprocket capable of being inserted into a ring gear kinematically connected to a crankshaft of the engine. The sprocket can... Agent: Renault S.a.s.

20110118963 - Method for starting an internal combustion engine: In a method for starting an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle which is connected to a transmission via a starting device and operated in a start/stop operating mode, a hydraulic medium is fed to the starting device via a valve device by a hydraulic pump. Before and during... Agent: Dr. Ing. H.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft

20110118961 - Push button starting system for outdoor power equipment: A starting system for outdoor power equipment that has a controller and a start button to control the activation of an internal combustion engine. The starting system includes a controller that receives a start signal from a start button. The controller monitors for the presence of an enable device in... Agent: Briggs & Stratton Corporation

20110118965 - Navigation device & method: A digital processing apparatus is disclosed for processing live traffic information in order to predict future evolution of the live traffic information. The apparatus includes, in at least one embodiment, a processing resource configured to: receive an item of live traffic information representing a traffic journey-time delay, at a respective... Agent: Tomtom International B.v.

20110118966 - Traffic data services without navigation systems: A non-navigation data system for providing traffic data service in a mobile environment can include a data decoder for decoding a digital data stream from a digital audio radio transmission source, location determining means (such as GPS or cellular location determining schemes) for determining a current location of a mobile... Agent: Sirius Xm Radio Inc.

20110118967 - Train-of-vehicle travel support device: A train-of-vehicle travel support device which enables a train-of-vehicle travel of a plurality of vehicles even on a running road in which no magnetic marker is embedded. The train-of-vehicle travel support device includes a sensor unit obtaining road line shape data of a feature on a road surface, a processor... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

20110118968 - Omnidirectional vehicle: According to a vehicle 1 of the present invention, coordinate systems of a past estimated value and an instantaneous provisional value of a two-dimensional floor inclination are conformed, by coordinate converting at least one of the “past estimated value” and the “instantaneous provisional value” of the two-dimensional floor inclination, using... Agent: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

20110118969 - Cognitive and/or physiological based navigation: A method of navigation comprising receiving, from at least one sensor, physiological sensor data indicative of at least one physiological attribute of a person and generating navigation-related information derived from at least some of the physiological sensor data.... Agent: Honeywell Intellectual Inc.

20110118971 - Efficient location referencing method: An efficient method of encoding a continuous path within a road network is described. Ideally the path to be encoded is capable of being completely represented within a digital map and expressible as a path list of lines and/or segments existing in the digital map and consecutively ordered. In at... Agent:

20110118973 - Image processing method and system: An image processing method and a system are provided. The image processing method of moving camera comprises the following steps. An image of a road is captured by a first camera unit. A coordinate of the image of an object shown in the image of the road is captured when... Agent: Industrial Technology Research Institute

20110118972 - Navigation device & method: A navigation device is disclosed including a processor; and a store containing map data. In at least one embodiment, the map data includes a temporally-variable feature and the processor is arranged, in a route planning process, to determine a status of the temporally-variable feature according to temporal information.... Agent:

20110118974 - Server, user terminal, and service providing method, and control method thereof: A control method of a server is provided. Location information is extracted from photographed data. The photographed data is linked to a course of travel having a pre-stored street image, by applying a predetermined standard based on the extracted location information. The photographed data is provided together with the linked... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110118970 - System and method for defining directions: A method and computer program product for defining a plurality of addresses. Driving directions between each of the plurality of addresses are defined, thus generating a plurality of driving directions. The plurality of driving directions are stored on a client electronic device.... Agent:

20110118976 - Method of contextually displaying points of interest on a personal navigation device according to travel purpose: A method of contextually displaying points of interest (POIs) on a personal navigation device according to a user's travel purpose includes storing a plurality of POIs into a memory of the personal navigation device, the POIs having corresponding POI category labels, entering a destination location into the personal navigation device... Agent:

20110118977 - Navigation device & method: A navigation device includes a locator for determining a location of the navigation device, a processor, an audio output device and/or a display controllable by the processor, and a store for map data and historical data. The historical data includes historical information about a location and a location identifier identifying... Agent:

20110118975 - Navigation system with multiple users and method of operation thereof: A method of operation of a navigation system includes: operating a communication unit for establishing a communication link between a first device and a second device; receiving a user defined destination; displaying a first location and a first route to the user defined destination on the first device and the... Agent: Telenav, Inc.

20110118978 - Navigation system with relative ranking mechanism and method of operation thereof: A method of operation of a navigation system includes: selecting a category of interest; receiving available information for the category of interest; and extrapolating a relative ranking based on the available information for displaying at a device.... Agent: Telenav, Inc.

20110118979 - Automotive location data integrity: A method of operating an automotive location system may include providing a timely warning if the system cannot satisfy predetermined performance criteria. An example method may include ascertaining a satellite-based position estimation ascertaining a dead reckoning position estimation, determining a location estimation by combining the satellite position estimation and the... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20110118980 - Lateral avoidance maneuver solver: A system on-board an unmanned aerial vehicle for controlling a lateral maneuver to avoid a loss of separation between the unmanned aerial vehicle and an intruder into its airspace. The system receives as inputs the desired miss distance, desired bank angle, state vectors for the unmanned aerial vehicle, wind, and... Agent: The Boeing Company

20110118981 - Method and system for aircraft conflict detection and resolution: Methods, systems, and computer program products for aircraft conflict detection and resolution are proposed. Embodiments of the present invention detect potential conflicts without a predetermined look-ahead time threshold and determine the time for issuing resolution alerts dynamically based on the relative movements of the aircraft. A method embodiment for detecting... Agent: The Mitre Corporation

20110112705 - Electronic control device for a piloting member with multifunctional microcontrollers, piloting device and aircraft: P

20110112706 - Ecp terminal mode operation: The present method operates an electrically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brake system that includes a system controller and a plurality of ECP devices on a train, in a semi-active mode between an active mode and an in active mode. The method includes setting the system controller to the semi-active mode if... Agent: New York Air Brake Corporation

20110112707 - Arrangement for determining a force acting on a rudder: In order to reduce the switching hysteresis in a dynamic positioning system and/or an autopilot system for watercraft, an arrangement is provided for determining a force acting on a rudder for watercraft. This arrangement includes a processing unit, at least one measuring device for determining values of a physical quantity... Agent: Becker Marine Systems Gmbh & Co. Kg

20110112709 - Anti-jerk control apparatus and method for hybrid electric vehicle: The anti-jerk control apparatus includes a model speed calculation unit for calculating a model speed of the motor in a state in which a vibration of a drive shaft is not considered. A vibration occurrence determination unit detects a speed vibration component while calculating a reference speed difference and an... Agent: Kia Motors Corporation

20110112712 - Cargo handling controller for cargo handling vehicle: A cargo handling controller includes a rotation speed setting unit, an engine control unit, a memory, a rotation speed detection unit, a deviation calculator, an assistance amount setting unit, and a generator-motor control unit. The deviation calculator calculates a deviation of a feedback control rotation speed, which is determined from... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

20110112708 - Method and control module for controlling the drive mode of a hybrid drive to prevent jerky movements: The drive mode of a hybrid drive is controlled by: detecting a drive mode change signal characterizing a planned drive mode change, and determining a torque shortfall, which would occur due to the drive mode change. Furthermore, the method provides for comparing the torque shortfall with a threshold value, and... Agent:

20110112710 - Method for estimating the range of a motor vehicle: A method is provided for estimating the range of a motor vehicle based on a quantity of energy carried in the motor vehicle. The method enables a driver to limit a maximum permissible velocity and/or a maximum permissible acceleration and/or a maximum performance level for a comfort system. The method... Agent: Dr. Ing. H.c.f. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft

20110112711 - Method, apparatus, signals, and medium for managing power in a hybrid vehicle: A method and apparatus for managing power in a hybrid vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle includes an engine, an electric motor, and an energy storage element coupled to the motor. The method involves receiving a request to supply operating power to drive the vehicle and responding to the request by... Agent:

20110112713 - Control method and cleaning robot utilizing the same: A control method for a cleaning robot's movement in a closed space is disclosed. The cleaning robot is activated to search a boundary of the closed space. The cleaning robot is activated to move along the boundary. When the cleaning robot moves along the boundary, the movement route of the... Agent:

20110112714 - Methods and systems for movement of robotic device using video signal: A method of navigating an area using a mobile robotic device may include receiving, from a video camera, information associated with an edge located on a surface, determining, by a mobile robotic device, a position of the mobile robotic device on the surface relative to the edge and using the... Agent: Intellibot Robotics, LLC

20110112716 - Apparatus for controlling vehicle chassis having integrated fail safe controller: An apparatus for controlling a vehicle chassis, may include an ESC (Electronic Stability Control) controller for controlling a position of the vehicle chassis, an MDPS (Motor-Driven Power Steering) controller for controlling a motor-driven power steering of a vehicle, an integrated controller receiving sensor signals or data signals from the ECS... Agent: Kia Motors Corporation

20110112715 - System and method for detecting and responding to pressure losses in a hydraulic automatic transmission: A control system for a hydraulic automatic transmission includes a fault detection module and a transmission diagnostic module. The fault detection module detects faults of components of the transmission, wherein the faults may indicate low hydraulic fluid pressure in the transmission or failure of one or more of the components.... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110112717 - Methods and apparatus for automatic internet logging and social comparison of vehicular driving behavior: In exemplary implementations of this invention, data regarding the position and operation of a vehicle is gathered by a GPS unit and an On Board Diagnostic (“OBD”) port, respectively. This data is wirelessly transmitted by a wireless transceiver located in the vehicle. The transmitted data from multiple vehicles is received... Agent:

20110112718 - On-board network system of a motor vehicle and process for operating the on-board network system: A desired-status storage device in which details concerning control devices is provided in an on-board network system and the data statuses present in each of these control devices are stored. A retrieval device addresses the control devices provided in the on-board network system and retrieves the data statuses in each... Agent: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

20110112719 - Vehicle traveling information recording device: The vehicle traveling information recording device of the present invention comprises a camera unit for acquiring image information relating to outside of a vehicle; a recording unit for recording the image information from the camera unit; an abnormality detection unit for detecting an abnormal vehicle state; an auxiliary data detection... Agent: Rohm Co., Ltd.

20110112720 - Road conditions reporting: Road conditions reporting is described. In embodiments, road conditions data is received and a condition of a roadway can be determined based on the road conditions data. The road conditions data can be received from a roadside station, vehicles, and/or from one or more sensors. The road conditions data and/or... Agent:

20110112723 - Method and device for controlling the stability of a vehicle, in particular a utility vehicle: The invention relates to a method and a device for controlling the stability of a vehicle, in particular a utility vehicle, in which an anti-tilt control method is carried out in which at least one lateral acceleration signal (ay), one steering wheel angle signal (LRW) and one vehicle speed signal... Agent:

20110112722 - Method for influencing the transverse dynamics of a vehicle: checking with the help of the disturbance variable determination device (5) whether a stationary transversal dynamics disturbance variable exists, and producing a second counter-yaw moment with the help of a second vehicle system (10) in order to at least partially compensate for the stationary transversal dynamics disturbance variable if a... Agent: Daimler Ag

20110112724 - Motor control unit and vehicle steering system: A motor control unit includes a detected steering torque correction unit that corrects the detected steering torque that is detected by a torque sensor and then subjected to a limitation process by a steering torque limiter. When the absolute value of the detected steering torque is equal to or smaller... Agent: Jtekt Corporation

20110112721 - Towable agricultural implement having automatic steering system: A steering system for a towable implement includes a steering sensor, an implement steering controller, a steering control valve, a steering cylinder, and an implement steering mechanism that steers the implement. The steering sensor measures, directly or indirectly, the angular position of the steerable wheels of the implement. The implement... Agent:

20110112725 - Method and control device for triggering passenger protection means for a vehicle: A control device and a method for triggering passenger protection means for a vehicle are provided, the passenger protection means being triggered as a function of at least one signal from an impact sensor system and at least one precrash signal. The at least one precrash signal is evaluated as... Agent:

20110112726 - Method and control device for triggering passenger protection means for a vehicle: A control device and a method for triggering a passenger protection arrangement for a vehicle are provided, at least two acceleration signals being provided by at least two acceleration sensors oriented in different spatial directions. The orientations are angled in relation to a coordinate system oriented toward the vehicle longitudinal... Agent:

20110112728 - Dynamic jack reference control system and method for extending vehicle jacks: A dynamic jack reference control system may include a tilt sensor operatively associated with the vehicle so that the tilt sensor senses a tilt angle of the vehicle. A processor operatively connected to the tilt sensor produces a jack reference value based on the tilt angle of the vehicle. A... Agent: Flanders Electric, Ltd.

20110112727 - Systems and methods for detecting jack contact with ground: A system for determining when one or more jacks on a vehicle have contacted the ground may include a pitch sensor that senses a pitch angle of the vehicle and a roll sensor that senses a roll angle of the vehicle. A jack extension system operatively associated with the vehicle... Agent: Flanders Electric., Ltd.

20110112730 - Coordination of vehicle movement in a field: The illustrative embodiments provide for a number of other vehicles that are moved on a number of paths that is substantially parallel to, and offset to at least one of a first offset side and a second offset side of, the path for the first vehicle. The number of other... Agent: Deere & Company

20110112731 - Crane apparatus: A power storage device (first power storage device) (41) stores part of a supply power, and in case of shortage of the supply power, discharges the storage power to compensate for the supply power. A power storage device (second power storage device) (42) stores part of the supply power, and... Agent:

20110112729 - Tractor-implement control system method: A tractor comprises a tractor frame, driven ground engaging means, and an electronic tractor controller. A baler comprises a baler frame coupled or connected to the tractor frame, a crop receiving means, a baling chamber, a bale size sensor associated with the baling chamber, and an electronic baler controller. The... Agent:

20110112732 - Control device and control method for vehicle: An ECU executes a program including: a step of starting up an SBW system if lock release is detected; a step of starting up a timer if setting of a reference location corresponding to a P position has been completed; and a step of stopping the SBW system if a... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20110112734 - Driveline stiffness control systems and methods: A control system for a vehicle, comprises a torque determination module, a control module, and a transmission control module. The torque determination module determines torque produced by an internal combustion engine. The control module sets a signal to an active state when the torque is greater than a predetermined torque... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110112733 - Shuttle strategy for vehicles with electronically controlled transmissions and engines: A vehicle is configured to perform shuttle-shifting and comprises an engine and a power shift transmission operably connected with the engine comprising forward and reverse mechanical gears, the power shift transmission having more forward mechanical gears than reverse mechanical gears. The vehicle comprises a processor operably connected to the power... Agent: Cnh America LLC

20110112735 - Line pressure control device for automatic transmission: Fuel economy of a vehicle is improved by enlarging a low line pressure region of mapped data (hydraulic pressure control characteristics) on the basis of temperature of hydraulic oil. The mapped data of line pressure set to any of high pressure/low pressure regions on the basis of an engine load... Agent: Honda Motor Co. Ltd

20110112736 - Vehicle control device: A vehicle control device having a shift-by-wire system that switches a driving range of a vehicle transmission by inputting a range switching signal to a shift switching device, includes: an abnormality detecting means that detects an abnormality that the shift switching device cannot switch the driving range, of the shift-by-wire... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20110112737 - Method of detecting filling of hydraulic clutch: A method of detecting substantial filling of a hydraulic cylinder of a hydraulically operated clutch of a vehicular transmission is disclosed and claimed. A pressure sensor disposed in a hydraulic line to the clutch cylinder provides a signal that the hydraulic pressure has dropped as the clutch cylinder begins to... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110112738 - Process for detecting tuning measures: m

20110112740 - Control device for internal combustion engine and method for controlling internal combustion engine: A control device performs an automatic stop operation and an automatic restart operation of an internal combustion engine of a vehicle having a steering device, which is manipulated by a driver to steer a steering wheel of the vehicle. A prohibition unit prohibits the automatic stop operation according to transition... Agent: Denso Corporation

20110112741 - Electric parking brake for vehicle: Disclosed is an electric parking brake. The electric parking brake includes driving motor generating rotational force, a driving gear formed at a driving shaft of the driving motor, a driven gear directly coupled with the driving gear, and a spindle coupled with the driven gear to linearly move by receiving... Agent: Mando Corporation

20110112739 - Gps-enhanced vehicle velocity estimation: A method is provided for estimating vehicle velocity for a vehicle using a single-antenna global positioning system (GPS). An absolute speed and a course angle of the vehicle is measured using the single-antenna GPS. The yaw rates of the vehicle are measured independently of the GPS. An integrated yaw rate... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110112742 - Method for the control of a switchable water pump in an internal combustion engine: A method is provided for the control of a switchable water pump for a water cooling circuit in an internal combustion engine. The method includes, but is not limited to monitoring a parameter representative of the cylinder head temperature and, in case the temperature is below a predetermined value, perform... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110112744 - Actuating device, controller for operating the actuating device and method for operating an actuating device: An actuating device for providing a physical output quantity includes: a control element for providing the physical output quantity; an actuator unit triggering the control element according to a triggering variable; and a communication unit receiving the triggering variable, which communication unit sends actuator information which contains an indication about... Agent:

20110112743 - Throttle compensation for second gear starts in manual transmission vehicles: A system and method for throttle control during a second gear start in a vehicle with a manual transmission. A powertrain control module (PCM) is coupled to a throttle and is configured to control movement of the throttle according to a winter mode e-throttle map that is stored in the... Agent:

20110112745 - System and method for controlling the fresh air and burnt gases introduced into an internal combustion engine during transitions between the purging of a nitrogen oxides trap and the regeneration of a particulate filter: Method for controlling the power plant of a motor vehicle with partial exhaust gas recirculation in which the fresh air flow rate and the partially recirculated gases flow rate are regulated either on a rich mixture control structure or on a lean mixture control structure and in which the flow... Agent: Renault S.a.s.

20110112746 - Vehicle information providing device: An information processing unit displays a pop-up window in a display area of a display unit when the own vehicle is in an area of a set distance or less away from an extracted intersection, when the own vehicle stops, when a brake switch is ON, and when a display... Agent: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

20110112747 - Detecting anomalous road traffic conditions: Techniques are described for automatically detecting anomalous road traffic conditions and for providing information about the detected anomalies, such as for use in facilitating travel on roads of interest. Anomalous road traffic conditions may be identified using target traffic conditions for a particular road segment at a particular selected time,... Agent: Inrix, Inc.

20110112748 - System and method for exchanging positioning information between vehicles in order to estimate road traffic: The present invention discloses a method, system and computer program embarked in a vehicle, for estimating traffic conditions based on positioning information exchanged with other vehicles using wireless communication. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: receiving positioning information repeatedly broadcast by at least one vehicle,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110112749 - Fuel-saving driving diagnosis apparatus, in-vehicle system, drive control apparatus, and fuel-saving driving diagnosis program: A fuel-saving driving diagnosis apparatus detects that a vehicle stopped, counts the number of stops, and determines whether the vehicle raced after detection that the vehicle stopped. After that, in the case where it is determined that the stopped vehicle raced, the fuel-saving driving diagnosis apparatus calculates the number of... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20110112754 - Map interface with placeable marker: A map user interface is described, including a first view transmitted from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a map, and a location marker placed at the selected location on the map upon receiving a placement request indicating selection of a selected location... Agent: Iac Search & Media, Inc.

20110112755 - Map interface with placeable marker: A map user interface is described, including a first view transmitted from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a map, and a location marker placed at the selected location on the map upon receiving a placement request indicating selection of a selected location... Agent: Iac Search & Media, Inc.

20110112751 - Navigation device and method of displaying data: A system includes a processing device arranged to send and receive data to and from a network and including an output device and schedule request input; and a first server also arranged to send and receive data to and from a network. In at least one embodiment, the processing device... Agent:

20110112752 - Positioning apparatus and positioning method: A positioning apparatus includes: a first positioning unit that measures a position by receiving a signal; a second positioning unit that measures a position by autonomous navigation; and a memory unit that stores a positioning environment when the position is measured by the first positioning unit and the second positioning... Agent: Seiko Epson Corporation

20110112750 - Route preview: A navigation device includes: a route calculation module operable to calculate a route from a start location to a destination location; a rendering module configured to use digital map data to generate images of the route for display to a user; and a route preview module operable to provide the... Agent:

20110112753 - Traffic information providing system and car navigation system: A traffic information providing system externally acquires traffic information including information relating to the travel time of a link, calculates a travel time for a non-provision link to which no travel time is provided through estimate/complement operation. The estimate/complement operation is carried out with use of travel times, emergencies, travel... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110112756 - Apparatus for and method of junction view display: A navigation method and navigation system are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method has the following actions: a.) receiving position data from a position determining device; b.) when approaching a junction with the navigation system, displaying the junction view on a display, the junction view showing data as... Agent:

20110112757 - Navigation system and method thereof: A navigation system includes a storage module, a positioning module, a time module, and an integration module. The integration module is electrically connected to the storage module, the positioning module and the time module, and compares a navigation keyword with a plurality of landmark names of a map data stored... Agent: Mitac International Corp.

20110112758 - System and method for managing mobile drive units: A method for moving a mobile drive unit within a workspace includes receiving a path. The path includes at least an initial segment and one or more additional segments. The initial segment includes a portion of the path adjacent to the first point; and at least one of the additional... Agent: Kiva Systems, Inc.

20110112759 - Transit routing system for public transportation trip planning: A public transit travel planning system and methodology that uses an extensive pre-processing approach of transit information prior to query time on order to determine optimal public transit routes for journeys. At query time, since the transit information has already been processed by the system, very little computation is needed... Agent: Google Inc.

20110112761 - Enhanced location information for points of interest: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for identifying a serviceable address that is associated with a street network connection point and a parcel drop-off point. For example, in one embodiment, the serviceable address may be associated with a street network connection point that is part of a digital... Agent: United Parcel Service Of America, Inc.

20110112760 - Method of creating map data comprising transit times for intersections: A computerised method is disclosed of creating map data from position data derived from the positions of at least one vehicle over a period of time, the map data including a plurality of navigable segments representing segments of a navigable route in the area covered by the map and the... Agent:

20110112762 - Validating map data corrections: A system is disclosed for validating a correction to map data for a geographic location, the system including: a processing resource; and a navigation device. In at least one embodiment, the processing resource includes: a user request generator that is configured to generate a user request for transmission to the... Agent:

20110112765 - Navigation device & method: A navigation device includes a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver for receiving GNSS signals broadcast by satellites of a GNSS, a receiver for receiving location information input by a user, time information and/or wireless network coverage information and a processing device. In at least one embodiment, the processing device... Agent:

20110112764 - Navigation device & method for determining road-surface features: A navigation device includes a processor, a memory accessible by the processor, and a device to determine at least one physical parameter applied to the navigation device and to output information indicative of the at least one parameter to the processor. In at least one embodiment, the processor is arranged... Agent:

20110112763 - Rear-view car mirror for accommodating a gps device: An interior rear-view mirror for cars is so designed that a portable GPS device may be readily mounted on. Depending on implementation, a portable GPS device may be slid in or clipped onto a rear-view mirror.... Agent: Infogation Corporation

20110112766 - Relative vehicular positioning using vehicular communications: The relative position of one vehicle vs. another vehicle, both driving in a vehicular environment, is determined using vehicular communications based on the IEEE 802.11 standard. The relative position determination is performed in a measuring vehicle using data provided by a measured vehicle through IEEE 802.11 communications carried through beacons... Agent: Autotalks Ltd.

20110112767 - Systems and methods for determining heading: Systems and methods for determining heading of a traveling vehicle are provided. The systems and methods employ an image system to capture and match multiple distinctive features of an image area at a first and second point in time and to determine unit-vectors associated with the multiple distinctive features. A... Agent:

20110112768 - Scalable geofences: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to location-based tracking using geofences.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20110106333 - Interface in a vehicle and method for exchanging data: A method and system provide an interface in a vehicle for connecting to a mobile computing device for exchanging data between the interface and the mobile computing device, the interface being connected to a vehicle data bus for exchanging data with at least one vehicle system. The data exchange between... Agent:

20110106335 - Microcontroller, control system and design method of microcontroller: Two data processing units having the same function, one of which is used for a master and the other for comparison, are provided, control of a circuit unit is performed by the master, the master data processing unit and the circuit unit are operated in synchronization with a first clock... Agent: Renesas Electronics Corporation

20110106334 - Vehicle and method for advising driver of same: A method for advising a driver of a vehicle may include monitoring driver torque requests, establishing categories of driver behavior based on a history of driver torque requests and associated rates of change thereof, categorizing current driver behavior into one of the established categories based on current driver torque requests... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20110106337 - Ad-hoc mobile ip network for intelligent transportation system: A method for intelligently managing a transportation network is provided. The method may include providing a roadside apparatus 18 to communicate with nodes 14A to 14D associated with vehicles 12A to 12D in a transportation network, the vehicle nodes being in a neighborhood range of the roadside apparatus. The roadside... Agent: Cisco Technology, Inc.

20110106339 - Autonomous behaviors for a remote vehicle: A method for enhancing operational efficiency of a remote vehicle using a diagnostic behavior. The method comprises inputting and analyzing data received from a plurality of sensors to determine the existence of deviations from normal operation of the remote vehicle, updating parameters in a reference mobility model based on deviations... Agent:

20110106340 - Method of accessing a device in a communication network in a motor vehicle via an external device and gateway: A method of accessing a device in a communications network in a motor vehicle via an external device is described, in which a software element is transmitted to the external device in the case of authorized access to a device in the communications network to permit control of the device... Agent:

20110106338 - Remote vehicle control system and method: A system for increasing an operator's situational awareness while the operator controls a remote vehicle using an autonomous behavior and/or a semi-autonomous behavior. The system includes a payload attached to the remote vehicle and in communication with the remote vehicle and the operator control unit. The payload comprises: an integrated... Agent:

20110106341 - Traveling vehicle system and method for controlling traveling by traveling vehicle system: In a traveling vehicle system, traveling vehicles travel along a travel route under the control of at least one controller. Each of the traveling vehicles includes a first traveling vehicle position determining section arranged to determine a position of the respective traveling vehicle, and a second traveling vehicle position determining... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd.

20110106336 - Vehicle utility communication system: A charger configured to charge at least one battery used in transportation means or stationary equipment, includes a plurality of power connections configured to couple to a plurality of power sources. The charger is adapted to receive power from the plurality of power sources simultaneously.... Agent: Alevo, Inc.

20110106342 - Absolute angle correction apparatus: The instant invention provides an absolute angle correction apparatus for correcting flight angle and direction of a wireless aircraft. The absolute angle correction apparatus includes a controlling signal module, a microcontroller, a transducer module, an output module, and a power module for supplying power. The controlling signal module receives wireless... Agent: Mark Star Servo-tech Co., Ltd.

20110106343 - Airport lighting aid simulation system: An airport lighting aid simulation system comprises a data storage unit configured to store lighting aid data relating to a plurality of airports. The lighting aid data indicates a type and a location of an airport lighting aid at a runway at each airport. The system also includes a display... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110106344 - Relative speed gauge intended for the monitoring of a pilotless aircraft: The device for checking speed intended for an aircraft ready to land on deck on a moving vehicle, the aircraft having a current vertical speed, called the first speed, and a threshold value of vertical downward speed relating to the vertical speed of the moving vehicle, called the “low threshold”,... Agent: Thales

20110106345 - Low visibility landing system: Examples of the present invention may include a low visibility landing system for guiding aircraft on landing approaches. The low visibility landing system may aid a pilot during landing in low visibility conditions such that an aircraft may descend to lower altitudes without visual contact with the runway than is... Agent:

20110106346 - Fire detection in railway vehicles: Method for detecting fires in railway vehicles. For detecting fires reliably and with a reduced error rate, it is proposed that compartment air in a railway vehicle be sucked in by means of at least two suctioning devices operated separately from one another, each in a monitoring region, that the... Agent: Fogtec Brandschutz Gmbh & Co. Kg

20110106348 - Device for driving a vehicle, in particular a watercraft: This present invention relates to a device for driving a vehicle, in particular a watercraft, which comprises a combustion engine adapted to coact with a generator for generation of electrical energy, an energy storage device adapted to coact with the generator via a rectifier for storage of electrical energy made... Agent: Fischer Panda Gmbh

20110106347 - Vessel steering system: A vessel steering system is provided with a control unit that calculates a control pivoting angle for pivoting the propulsion means based on a steering angle. Based on actual-state recognition of at least one of the type of the vessel, the type of the propulsion means, an actual pivoting angle... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

20110106352 - Automated guided vehicle: A vehicle for transporting material along a defined path includes a chassis, a source of electric power mounted on the chassis, a traction system including a traction motor connected to the power source for driving wheels supporting the chassis, a steering system including steering motor connected to the power source... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110106360 - Automatic transmission driving system for electric vehicle motor: The present invention relates to an electric vehicle motor automatic transmission driving system. The motor automatic transmission driving system includes a motor, a gear transmission, one or more battery groups and a control system. The control system includes a motor controller, a system controller, a battery voltage sensor, a battery... Agent: Wuhan University Of Technology

20110106354 - Awarding standings to a vehicle based upon one or more fuel utilization characteristics: A method may include, but is not limited to, querying a vehicle for a status indicative of combustible fuel utilization in comparison to electricity utilization for the vehicle.... Agent: Searete LLC, A Limited Liability Corporation Of The State Of Delaware

20110106358 - Cooling system of electric vehicle: A cooling system of an electric vehicle includes a cooling medium circulation path that circulates a cooling medium to an electrically powered drive unit of a vehicle, a heat exchange unit between the cooling medium and external air, a cooling medium circulation unit, a blower unit that blows air against... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110106357 - Drive system for electrically operated vehicle: A drive system is provided for a utility vehicle and includes an alternating-current (AC) motor for providing a drive torque. An AC motor controller receives a battery voltage signal, throttle pedal position signal, brake pedal position signal, key switch signal, forward/neutral/reverse (FNR) signal, and run/tow signal indicative of the utility... Agent: Textron Inc.

20110106353 - Method and device for operating a vehicle having a hybrid drive: A method for operating a vehicle having a hybrid drive, which vehicle is driven by a first drive unit implemented as internal combustion engine, and a second drive unit, which may be an electric motor, the first drive unit and the second drive unit contributing to the drive of the... Agent:

20110106351 - Method for controlling motor/generator cooling in a multi-mode transmission: A method for controlling cooling of one or more motor/generators includes monitoring the stator temperature of the motor/generator and power loss of the motor/generator. Total cooling flow is estimated from the monitored stator temperature and power loss and a cooling line pressure is determined from a lookup table. The lookup... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110106359 - Power transmission system for use in vehicle: The power transmission system for use in a vehicle includes a power split device to perform power distribution among a flywheel for storing rotational energy as mechanical energy, an internal combustion engine and an electric rotating machine. The power transmission system is provided with an interrupting device configured to interrupt... Agent: Denso Corporation

20110106350 - Traction system for electrically powered vehicles: Fixed frequency, fixed duration pulse streams are used to control power switches for one or more electrical motors of electrically powered vehicles or hybrid vehicles having one or more electric motors. The advantages of a pulse system are increased power efficiency and system simplicity over analog systems. The capability of... Agent: Lsi Industries, Inc.

20110106355 - Vehicle control device: A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle drive apparatus, the vehicle control device configured with a release control mechanism that provides feedback controlling supplied oil pressure to a release side element, and an engagement control mechanism that increases supplied oil pressure to an engagement side element as an engagement... Agent: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.

20110106356 - Vehicle control device: A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle drive apparatus, the vehicle control device configured with a phase determining mechanism that determines the end of the torque phase in a shift operation, and a rotary electrical machine control mechanism that controls the torque of the rotary electrical machine using a... Agent: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.

20110106349 - Vehicle operated on electric highway: The vehicle operated in an electric highway system has an electric motor, at least one energy storage device, an on-board power pick up device, at least one coupler, at least one power meter, at least one on-board computer, an on-board part of a lateral location sensor, an on-board lateral position... Agent:

20110106361 - Method for the calculation of a collision-preventing trajectory for a driving maneuver of a vehicle: A method for calculating a collision-avoiding trajectory for a driving maneuver of a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, in order to evade at least one obstacle approaching the motor vehicle during driving operation. The lateral speed of the motor vehicle is taken into account in the calculation independently of... Agent:

20110106362 - Control for an autonomous conveyer vehicle and method for operating an autonomous conveyer vehicle: A sensor-based control permits an autonomous conveyor vehicle to carry out intelligent driving behavior which takes into account individual properties of the freight or cargo that is to be conveyed. For example, the acceleration and braking behavior of the autonomous conveyor vehicle can be selected as a function of the... Agent: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

20110106363 - Arrangement and method for controlling a drive of an automotive, driverless transportation device: An arrangement and a method for controlling a drive of an automotive, driverless transportation device, wherein the drive of a driverless transportation device or the drives of a plurality of driverless transportation device is or are controlled by means of a stationary control device. Here, a chain of light sources... Agent: Siemens Ag

20110106364 - Device for speed control and distance control in motor vehicles: A device for speed control and distance control in motor vehicles is provided, the device having a location system for locating objects in the near field of the vehicle, a controller and a selecting device for selecting a located object as the target object for the distance control, and the... Agent:

20110106368 - Guidance control device, guidance control method, and guidance control program: Guidance control device, methods and programs control an in-vehicle apparatus of a vehicle. The devices, methods, and programs access vehicle state information that specifies a state of the vehicle and determine whether a vehicle state condition is established based on the accessed vehicle state information. The devices, methods, and programs... Agent: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.

20110106367 - In-vehicle apparatus and method for controlling same: An in-vehicle apparatus changes icon appearance of gadget-associated icons according to travel impediment information associated with respective gadgets during the travel of a vehicle. The icon appearance has an improved recognizability if the icon is associated with a gadget that does not impede the travel of the vehicle, or has... Agent: Denso Corporation

20110106365 - In-vehicle device for storing gadget: An in-vehicle device includes: a memory for storing a gadget corresponding to an icon, a display content of which is changed with time, wherein the gadget provides a process; a display having a screen, on which the icon is displayed; an operation receiver for receiving an operation to the icon;... Agent: Denso Corporation

20110106366 - Method and device for accessing maintenance functions of an aircraft from a mobile maintenance terminal: The invention in particular has as an object to access maintenance functions of an aircraft from a mobile maintenance terminal. First of all, the situation of the aircraft is determined (705). Then, if this situation allows a mobile maintenance terminal to access a maintenance information system on the ground and... Agent: Airbus Operations (s.a.s.)

20110106369 - Vehicle state judging apparatus and vehicle state judging method: A vehicle state judging apparatus includes a wheel speed sensor provided on a vehicle detecting a wheel speed, a shift position sensor detecting a position of a shift lever, an acceleration sensor detecting acceleration acting on the vehicle, and a judging unit judging a vehicle state from detection values of... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20110106370 - Method and system for driver style monitoring and analysing: The invention discloses a method and a system for determining insurance costs for a driver of a vehicle (100) comprising monitoring the location of the vehicle whilst it is being driven by the driver, monitoring parameters associated with the vehicle whilst it is being driven by the driver, generating a... Agent: Airmax Group PLC

20110106375 - Method and system for providing an integrated platform for entertainment, information, communication, control and computing applications in vehicles: Various embodiments include a method and system for providing an integrated platform for entertainment, information, communication, control and computing applications in a vehicle. The system includes an in-vehicle computer residing in user's vehicle. The in-vehicle computer is used for user's entertainment and transfer of information between user's vehicle and other... Agent:

20110106372 - Mobile advertising and compensation-verification system: A mobile advertising and compensation-verification system comprising a flexible adhesive display with embedded self-contained power source and global positioning system (GPS) device to allow for tracking from a single source that calculates and disburses payment. The display is tamper-proof via perforations or other means so that its attempted relocation or... Agent:

20110106374 - Remote vehicle programming system and method: A system and method for remotely programming a vehicle including a vehicle connector with a plurality of pins in communication with one or more vehicle sub-systems or modules, a vehicle communication device connected to the vehicle connector; a bi-directional communication link between the vehicle communication device and a remote communication... Agent:

20110106373 - Systems and methods for virtual ignition detection: Systems and methods for determining vehicle ignition state using a device added to the vehicle after the manufacture of the vehicle without a direct connection to the vehicle ignition line are disclosed. In a number of embodiments, a system includes a processor, a motion detector configured to detect vehicle motion... Agent: Calamp Corporation

20110106371 - Tool interface connector wireless adapter compact design: A vehicular diagnostic tool interface device that may be connected to a vehicular diagnostic tool, typically through an available port thereof, that enhances the functionality of the overall tool. The interface device is configured in such a manner as to provide physical protection to more sensitive components such as, for... Agent:

20110106377 - In-vehicle apparatus: An in-vehicle apparatus is disclosed. The in-vehicle apparatus is configured to perform a timer operation, acquire vehicle state information, and control the timer operation of the timer means in such manner that: the in-vehicle apparatus starts the timer operation when determining based on the vehicle state information that a condition... Agent: Denso Corporation

20110106379 - In-vehicle system: An in-vehicle system is disclosed. The in-vehicle system includes a display unit, a navigation apparatus storing therein a first flash player, and an in-vehicle apparatus storing therein a second flash player. The navigation apparatus and the in-vehicle apparatus are provided separately from each other. The first flash player and the... Agent: Denso Corporation

20110106378 - Skid detection apparatus for vehicle: In an apparatus for detecting a skid occurred on a four-wheel drive vehicle having a prime mover and a transmission, an actual rear right/left wheel speed ratio between the rear right/left wheel speeds is calculated based on detected front and rear wheel rotational speeds, a front/rear wheel slip ratio during... Agent: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

20110106376 - System and method for automatically controlling vehicle turn signal switches: A method and system to automatically control turn signals in a vehicle equipped with a lane detection system. The method includes the steps of detecting a vehicle travel path, determining whether the vehicle is deviating from the travel path, determining whether to automatically activate the turn signal indicative of the... Agent:

20110106380 - Vehicle surrounding monitoring device: A vehicle surrounding monitoring device includes an image display control section and a guide line overlapping section. The image display control section makes a view image based on a shot image of a surrounding of a vehicle and displays the view image on a display device. The guide line overlapping... Agent: Denso Corporation

20110106381 - Vehicle and method of tuning performance of same: A method for tuning a vehicle's performance may include measuring a plurality of parameters representing the vehicle's current handling condition and the vehicle's limit handling condition, determining a margin between the vehicle's current handling condition and limit handling condition, characterizing the driver's dynamic control of the vehicle based on the... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20110106382 - Vehicular steering apparatus and control method thereof: An electronic control unit determines that a vehicle is traveling in a straight line if a state in which the steering torque is less than a predetermined steering torque and an amount of change in the steering angle is less than a predetermined steering angle continues for a predetermined period... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20110106383 - Vehicle collision sensing system, and a method of operating same: A vehicle collision sensing system having sensor modules distributed about the vehicle configured to receive initialization signals for coordinating communication with a control module over a time multiplexed communication network that is part of the control module. The control module has a switch that is open when a first sensor... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20110106384 - Method and system for machinery control: A method for controlling an excavation device in one or more of the following phases of operation: digging, moving to spoil, dumping, recovery and return, the method including the steps of: providing a finite state machine having state variables reflecting the different phases of operation, including, digging, dumping, moving to... Agent: Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organisation

20110106385 - Method for actuating a shifting operation in an automatic transmission of a utility vehicle: A method of controlling a shifting operation in an automatic transmission of a commercial vehicle. A targeted gear and an associated target rotational speed are determined, via a transmission control, depending on predetermined parameters, and the shifting operation is executed upon reaching a determined shifting rotational speed. A shift interlock... Agent: Zf Friedrichshafen Ag

20110106386 - Control system for a vehicle having a transmission with autoshift function: A control system and method for a vehicle having an engine and a transmission with an autoshift function comprises a processor coupled to the engine and the transmission of the vehicle and adapted to control the power output of said engine and, in an autoshift mode of operation, the upshifting... Agent:

20110106387 - Cvt control apparatus: In an apparatus for controlling a CVT that transmits power of an engine to driven wheels with hydraulic clamping pressure supplied from a hydraulic mechanism to clamp the belt from laterally-sided pulleys, it is determined whether the ABS operation of the ABS mechanism (to reduce braking force to be applied... Agent: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

20110106389 - 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: Hydro-aire, Inc.

20110106388 - Vehicle torque management: A torque management system and method is described by which the torque provided by an engine can be controlled based on a mass of the vehicle and, if available, instantaneous and/or predictive slope information. Also, in some modes of operation, torque can be controlled based on speed limit information for... Agent: Daimler Trucks North America LLC

20110106390 - Method for operating a drive train of a vehicle and device for carrying out the method: A method for operating a drive train of a vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine (101) with an exhaust gas purification device (102) located in the exhaust gas line, characterized in that in predetermined operating states of the internal combustion engine (101) and/or of the vehicle a correction torque is... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20110106391 - Follow-up run control device: A follow-up run control device controlling a running state of a vehicle in a state where peripheral vehicles running before or behind the vehicle exist includes: deviation acquiring means for acquiring information regarding a deviation between a relative positional relation and a target relative positional relation of the vehicle and... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20110106393 - Fuel delivery system control strategy: A method for a fuel delivery system coupled to an engine is disclosed, the fuel delivery system including a lower pressure pump (LPP) fluidly coupled upstream of a higher pressure pump (HPP). The method may include during operation of both the HPP and LPP, adjusting operation of the LPP in... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20110106392 - Method and system for detecting a fault during catalyst light-off: A system and method for controlling engine operation includes a timer module that determines a time period from when a catalyst light-off mode is entered to when an oxygen sensor signal reaches an oxygen sensor threshold and a comparison module that generates an error signal and determines when the time... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110106403 - Approach for reducing overheating of direct injection fuel injectors: A method of controlling fuel supplied to an engine is provided. In one example, a cylinder includes port and direct fuel injection. The method includes supplying a second fuel type from a second tank to the direct injector and supplying a first fuel type from a first tank to the... Agent: Ford Global Technologies, LLC

20110106402 - Controller: A controller capable of immediately and high accurately controlling a detected value to a desired value in a controlled object having a large delay characteristic is provided. The controller for controlling a plant comprises a predictor (511) for calculating a predicted value (PREDNTH3EXS) of the future of a control output... Agent: Honda Motor Co. Ltd.

20110106398 - Engine control system with algorithm for actuator control: An engine control apparatus which may be employed in automotive vehicles. The engine control apparatus is equipped with at least one of a combustion parameter or a controlled variable arithmetic expression. The combustion parameter arithmetic expression defines combustion conditions of the engine needed to achieve required values of engine output-related... Agent: Denso Corporation

20110106399 - Engine control system with algorithm for actuator control: An engine control apparatus which may be employed in automotive vehicles. The engine control apparatus is equipped with a controlled variable arithmetic expression which defines correlations between combustion parameters associated with combustion conditions of an engine and controlled variables actuators for an operation of the engine. This eliminates the need... Agent: Denso Corporation

20110106400 - Engine control system with algorithm for actuator control: An engine control apparatus which may be employed in automotive vehicles. The engine control apparatus is equipped with at least one of a combustion parameter or a controlled variable arithmetic expression. The combustion parameter arithmetic expression defines combustion conditions of the engine needed to achieve required values of engine output-related... Agent: Denso Corporation

20110106397 - Fluid measuring device: Provided is a fluid measuring device for measuring flow speed of a fluid in detail. A fluid measuring device (10) is provided with a plurality of detecting sections (30, 40) and a calculating section (50). The detecting sections are arranged with a space in between on a pipe line (22)... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

20110106396 - Method and controller for checking an exhaust gas aftertreatment system of an internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a method for checking the operability of an exhaust gas after-treatment system (12) of an internal combustion engine by evaluating signals (S—22, S—26) of a first exhaust gas sensor (22) and a second exhaust gas sensor (S—26), between which a catalyst 24 is disposed. The method... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20110106394 - Method and system for controlling an engine using in-cylinder pressure sensor signals: A method and a control system that includes a window module that determines a piston position window, a mean effective pressure determination module that generates a mean effective pressure with in-cylinder pressure signals within the piston position window and an engine control module that controls the engine using the mean... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110106401 - Method for controlling a powered system: A method is provided for controlling a powered system including an engine operating on a plurality of fuel types. The method includes generating operational input signals from operational input devices, and generating a respective configuration signal indicative of a particular location of the powered system along a predetermined course comprising... Agent:

20110106395 - Plasma ignition device for internal combustion engine: A plasma ignition device comprising: an ignition plug; an ignition circuit applying a high voltage to the plug to start discharge; a power supply circuit including a battery section for supplying an electric energy to a discharge space of the plug having impedance reduced by discharge start, and a charging... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

20110106406 - Control apparatus and control method for variable valve operating mechanism: A control apparatus and a control method for a variable valve operating mechanism are employed for a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine including the variable valve operating mechanism and a valve stop mechanism. The variable valve operating mechanism includes a variable mechanism portion that changes a valve characteristic of an engine... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20110106410 - Control device for internal combustion engine having variable valve mechanism: In a control device for an internal combustion engine includes an intake valve, a variable valve mechanism capable of controlling a closing timing and an operating angle of the intake valve continuously and variably, a detection unit for detecting a possibility of pre-ignition, and a throttle for controlling an intake... Agent: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

20110106408 - Engine control system with algorithm for actuator control: An engine control apparatus which may be employed in automotive vehicles. The engine control apparatus is equipped with a controlled variable arithmetic expression which defines correlations between a plurality of combustion parameters and a plurality of controlled variables of actuators for control of an operation of the engine to calculate... Agent: Denso Corporation

20110106405 - Method and system for detecting operating errors in a variable valve timing engine: A method and control module includes a manifold absolute pressure comparison module that determines a function of the manifold absolute pressure and an average manifold absolute pressure for a plurality of cylinders and that compares the manifold absolute pressure parameter to a manifold absolute pressure threshold. The control module includes... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110106409 - Method and device for the pressure wave compensation during consecutive injections in an injection system of an internal combustion engine: A method and a device for controlling an injection system of an internal combustion engine are described, in which at least two consecutive partial injections are compensated for using pressure wave compensation, it is provided in particular that two test injections having a specified time interval to one another are... Agent:

20110106407 - Method and system for controlling fuel pressure: Methods, a fuel supply system, and a computer readable medium embodying a computer program product are provided for controlling rail pressure in a fuel supply system comprising a fuel pump, an injector and a rail connecting the injector to the pump. At least one of the methods includes, but is... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110106404 - Method for controlling at least one solenoid valve: Described is a method for controlling a magnet valve for controlling the injection of fuel into an internal combustion engine, which method permits precise fuel metering in the no-load running or in the lower partial load range without changes to the hardware of the fuel injection system being necessary.... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20110106411 - Systems and methods for diagnosing oxygen sensors and catalytic converters of exhaust systems: A diagnostic system for an engine includes a stage transition module and a control module. The stage transition module generates a command signal based on a fuel control signal. The command signal commands a fuel system of the engine to intrusively transition between rich and lean states during a diagnostic... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc

20110106412 - Method and apparatus for reducing spark plug fouling: A control module and method for controlling an engine operation includes a runtime module that determines a previous run period, a fuel mass module that determines a fuel mass during the previous run period, a spark fouling condition estimation module that determines a spark fouling condition based on the fuel... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110106413 - Apparatus and method for idling control of a vehicle: An idling control apparatus for a vehicle includes an engine control unit for determining an idling state of the vehicle, in which the vehicle is stopped while an engine is in a turned-on state, to control the engine of the vehicle based on information of a traffic signal. The engine... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunication Research Institute

20110106414 - Engine with electronically controlled starting method: A method of starting an engine is provided. A starter is initiated to impart a first engine speed to a crankshaft of the engine. Fuel injects at a first rate into at least one cylinder of the engine. Fuel in the at least one cylinder of the engine combusts to... Agent: International Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC

20110106415 - Analog-to-digital converter control using signal objects: A method and apparatus for detecting an event and sampling first value from a pin in response to the event. A plurality of signal objects is stored in a memory. Each signal object identifies a single analog input pin and a trigger.... Agent:

20110106416 - Predicting expected road traffic conditions based on historical and current data: Techniques are described for determining and using information regarding expected road traffic flow conditions information for vehicles traveling on roads. The expected road traffic flow conditions for a particular portion of a road may be generated by combining historical representative information about road traffic flow conditions for that road portion... Agent:

20110106418 - Adaptive sensor-based activity classification: An activity state (e.g., stationary or moving) of an intermittently moving mobile device is classified using sensor measurements provided by one or more on-board sensors. The activity state can be determined by a classifier that exploits the separable log-normal distributions of the short-time variance of sensor measurements. The activity state... Agent: Apple Inc.

20110106420 - Map display device: A map display device includes a map data acquiring unit 21 for acquiring map data, an HOV lane determining unit 26 for determining whether or not HOV lane information showing that an HOV lane exists is included in link data defining roads included in the map data acquired by the... Agent:

20110106419 - Methods for reducing the consumption and cost of fuel: The present invention features a method of calculating a path that minimizes fuel consumption and costs thereof. In preferred embodiments, the method includes forming a driving speed profile by predicting a change in driving speed and forming a path that minimizes fuel consumption and costs thereof by applying a fuel... Agent: Kia Motors Corporation

20110106417 - Path planning in a warehouse: A method of path planning for a working resource to access storage bins in a warehouse, the warehouse comprising a plurality of storage bins, the warehouse being divided into a set of activity areas, each activity area comprising a number of the bins of the warehouse; the method comprising the... Agent: Sap Ag

20110106432 - Guide display device and guide display method, and display device and method for switching display contents: The present invention provides the simple operation for displaying the information that is expected to be necessary for the user and the simplified procedure of the hands-free operation when displaying the map information on the screen. The display device 20 in which an arrangement state of the screen can be... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Kenwood

20110106428 - Information displaying apparatus and method thereof: An information displaying apparatus and method thereof capable of accurately displaying event information on a captured actual image are provided. The information displaying apparatus may include a controller configured to detect a location of a specific point within an image captured by a capture unit and to match event information... Agent:

20110106422 - Method and apparatus for guiding a vehicle: A device for aligning a vehicle with a next pass through a field comprises a camera which takes a corresponding natural picture. A receiver is provided for receiving a navigational signal from a navigational satellite system. A central processing unit is connected to the camera for receiving the natural picture... Agent: Teejet Technologies Illinois, LLC

20110106423 - Method of determining mode of transportation in a personal navigation device: To provide useful information to a user of a personal navigation device (PND) related to their current mode of transportation the PND receives a plurality of satellite navigation signals, utilizes the plurality of satellite navigation signals to determine position of the PND, determines a plurality of data based on the... Agent:

20110106426 - Navigation apparatus and method of detection that a parking facility is sought: A navigation apparatus is disclosed including a location determination unit and a processing resource arranged to support, when in use, a user interface. In at least one embodiment, the processing resource is operably coupled to the location determination unit in order to obtain location information therefrom. The processing resource is... Agent: Tomtom International B.v.

20110106425 - Navigation device & method for providing parking information: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a navigation device including a parking place notification module. In at least one embodiment, the navigation device is arranged to wirelessly receive a message indicating a location of a parking place and, in response, the parking place notification module is arranged to either... Agent: Tomtom International B.v.

20110106431 - Navigation device, navigation method and navigation system: A navigation device receives a differential map data from a map delivery server via a communication line. The map delivery server checks whether there is a new intersection on a navigation route searched by the navigation device after updating a map data. The navigation device acquires a differential map data... Agent: Clarion Co., Ltd.

20110106424 - Navigation method and human-machine interface apparatus thereof: A human-machine interface apparatus and a navigation method provide navigation information to users according to data provided by a location system. The human-machine interface apparatus comprises a pointing module and a microcontroller unit. The pointing module comprises a pointer. The microcontroller unit receives a first directing point, a second directing... Agent: National Taiwan University

20110106427 - Navigation method of mobile terminal and apparatus thereof: A navigation apparatus including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with an entity; a controller configured to search a plurality of candidate paths from a current location to a destination from map data, and to calculate a fuel consumption index based on multiple road information conditions for a... Agent:

20110106430 - Navigation system and navigation method: A navigation system and method having a function of alerting the driver to potential wrong way driving comprises means 102 for determining a position of a vehicle 300, means 107 for calculating a driving route of the vehicle 300, means 108 for determining a driving manoeuvre in accordance with the... Agent: Harman Becker Automotive Systems Gmbh

20110106421 - Navigation system with single selection mileage single capture mechanism and method of operation thereof: A method of operation of a navigation system includes: generating a travel route having a business location for displaying on a device; calculating a current location along the travel route; identifying a travel segment with the current location; calculating a travel distance for the travel segment; and verifying the travel... Agent: Telenav, Inc.

20110106429 - Point of interest search along a route: A system includes a GPS module, user interface module, database and routing engine. To find nearby POIs in one embodiment the routing engine identifies POIs in the database located within a threshold distance from the planned route in Euclidean distance. The routing engine filters the results by exploring the road... Agent: Decarta Inc.

20110106434 - Image capturing system for vehicle: An image capturing system for vehicle includes an object-to-be-captured information storage unit (12a) for storing information about an object to be captured on a map, a camera (18) for capturing an image of the object to be captured, an object-to-be-captured position determining unit (27) for determining a distance from the... Agent:

20110106433 - Method of recording and retrieving recent location data, and related personal navigation device: A method of recording and retrieving data regarding recent locations visited with a personal navigation device includes detecting the personal navigation device staying at a stopping point, the stopping point consisting of a departure point for a trip entered into the personal navigation device, a destination point for a trip... Agent:

20110106435 - Method of assisting a user of a personal navigation device with parking nearby a destination location and related personal navigation device: A method of assisting a user of a personal navigation device with parking nearby a destination location includes receiving instructions from the user to create navigation instructions to the destination location, determining that the destination location is in an urban area, querying whether the user requires parking, and presenting a... Agent:

20110106436 - Determining a route to a destination based on partially completed route: Techniques are provided for predicting a destination for a ground-based vehicle. Travel patterns are accessed and a series of locations of a ground-based vehicle are received. At least some of the received locations are related to at least one accessed travel pattern, and a destination of the ground-based vehicle is... Agent: Aol Inc.

20110106438 - Methods of wirelessly adding navigational content to a personal navigation device: A method of wirelessly adding navigational content to a personal navigation device includes changing a mode of the personal navigation device to pairing standby mode, adding navigational content to a computing device, and establishing a direct wireless connection between the personal navigation device and the computing device to add navigational... Agent:

20110106437 - Navigation system with monitoring mechanism and method of operation thereof: A method of operation of a navigation system includes: selecting a monitored threshold including a group association, a time association, or a combination thereof; selecting a monitored boundary; monitoring a monitored person's traversal of the monitored boundary; and generating an alert based on the monitored person's traversal and the monitored... Agent: Telenav, Inc.

20110106442 - Collision avoidance system and method: Systems and methods for collision avoidance. The systems and methods include a global positioning system (GPS) device, motion sensors, and a geographic information system (GIS) device.... Agent: Indian Institute Of Technology Bombay

20110106443 - Display control apparatus, navigation system and display control method: A display control apparatus having a display unit that displays a plurality of images in respective areas on a screen, an illuminating unit that includes a plurality of light sources configured to be set so as to have different power consumptions from each other, and that illuminates the images displayed... Agent: Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.

20110106439 - Method of displaying multiple points of interest on a personal navigation device: A method of displaying points of interest in a personal navigation device includes displaying a map on a display of the personal navigation device, receiving touch input at a touched position of the display, searching an area within a search radius of the touched position for points of interest, displaying... Agent:

20110106441 - Method of performing mixed category and point of interest search and related personal navigation device: To provide a simple interface that can operate seamlessly across a mix of databases with different categorization, individually or concurrently, and limit categories offered to those categories directly relevant to a search term entered, a method of querying and displaying point of interest category and point of interest item information... Agent:

20110106444 - Mobile object position detecting device: A mobile object position detecting device 1 which matches the position of another vehicle existing in a predetermined region to the map information regarding the predetermined region includes: a vehicle-to-vehicle communication unit 2 which receives the positional information and the moving state information regarding another vehicle; a road-to-vehicle communication unit... Agent: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

20110106440 - Vehicle speed determination from audio input for dead reckoning determination in a portable navigation device: A portable navigation device displaying map information and navigation instructions for use in a vehicle is disclosed. The portable navigation device includes a memory, a display for displaying the map information and navigation instructions, and a microphone for inputting sound signals to the portable navigation device. A processor is used... Agent:

20110106446 - Display method for a display system, display system and operating method for a navigation system of a vehicle: A display system includes a display for the graphic representation of changeable information, an operating unit for the control of the displayed information by a user, a proximity sensor which is arranged to detect an approach of the user to the operating unit, and a control unit. The control unit... Agent: Volkswagen Ag

20110106445 - System for transferring information for persons in the area of an airport, method for transferring information and a personal end device: A system for transferring information for at least one person in the area of an airport, comprising a) at least one personal end device which can be worn by the at least one person, b) a detection means for detecting the current spatial position of the at least one person... Agent: Art + Com Ag

20110106447 - System for providing a pilot of an aircraft with a visual depiction of a terrain: A system for providing a pilot with a visual depiction of a terrain includes, but is not limited to, a data storage unit for storing terrain data, a position determination unit for determining a position of an aircraft, a near to eye display unit worn by the pilot for displaying... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110106448 - database system and method of obtaining and communicating data: A database system and method for obtaining and communicating data is provided, wherein the system includes a plurality of mobile nodes, wherein at least a first mobile node has an environmental data collection device, a location determination device configured to determine a geographical location that is associated with environmental data... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20110106449 - Methods and applications for altitude measurement and fusion of user context detection with elevation motion for personal navigation systems: Methods and apparatuses for estimating a user's altitude with respect to the mean sea level are provided. According to some aspects, the present invention is able to estimate altitude in both open sky as well as in degraded GPS signal environments such as dense urban canyon environments where GPS performance... Agent:

20110106450 - Satellite navigation/dead-reckoning navigation integrated positioning device: Disclosed is a satellite navigation/dead-reckoning navigation integrated positioning device with improved accuracy of navigation data including position, velocity, and the like, which can be constituted at low cost. A tracking processing module (31) performs, based on a GPS positioning signal, acquisition processing and tracking processing thereof and demodulation processing of... Agent: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.