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Data Processing: Vehicles, Navigation, And Relative Location > Navigation NavigationNavigation patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.12/07/06 - 20060276959 - Navigation system According to the 1st aspect of the invention, a navigation system comprises: a storage unit that stores map data managed with links representing smallest road units; a road map display unit that displays a road map based upon the map data; a depressed position detection unit that detects a depressed ... 12/07/06 - 20060276958 - Inertial navigational guidance system for a driverless vehicle utilizing laser obstacle sensors A navigational control system for, and method of controlling the operation of, a driverless vehicle. The system includes a vehicle travel path and a visual object detection system for generating data relating to the position of the vehicle relative to objects in readable proximity to the travel path. The system ... 11/30/06 - 20060271276 - Navigation apparatus and processing method of the same A navigation apparatus includes a receiving section for receiving program via a communication unit, a driving determining section for determining whether a vehicle equipped with the navigation apparatus is running or not if receiving a start request for the program, and an execution control section for activating the program if ... 11/30/06 - 20060271275 - System and method for notification and correction of constraint violations in vehicles The present invention provides a system and method for notifying vehicle operators and owners of violations of constraints, which may be road rules or other vehicle operating parameters. Such constraints by vary from one geographic location to another, or such constraints may impose geographic limitations on the operator. A vehicle ... 11/30/06 - 20060271274 - Navigation tags The invention relates to a method for navigating within a navigation area (2), wherein a plurality of navigation tags (1) have been mounted at predetermined positions within the navigation area (2). To solve the object of the invention to provide a method and system for accurate and flexible navigating in ... 11/16/06 - 20060259233 - Road precursory and vehicle trip recording method of navigation system A road precursory and vehicle trip recording method of a navigation system employs a GPS and an inertial measurer to access respectively the present coordinate point and driving direction of the car in an electronic map, defines a comparative coordinate point by using an estimated distance before the present coordinate ... 11/02/06 - 20060247848 - Driving route planning system and method A driving route planning system includes a data processing center for collecting real-time traffic information and storing the collected real-time traffic information in a database. The data processing center includes a transmission interface for emitting the stored real-time traffic information receiving requests. The system further includes an electronic device including ... 11/02/06 - 20060247847 - Navigation systems and methods for wheeled objects A navigation system uses a dead reckoning method to estimate an object's present position relative to one or more prior positions. In some embodiments, the dead reckoning method determines a change in position from the object's heading and speed during an elapsed time interval. In embodiments suitable for use with ... 10/19/06 - 20060235608 - Message integration method A message integration method utilized in a satellite navigation device, which is used to integrate satellite positioning information and traffic condition information, thereby performing a real-time route-programming operation. Firstly, the satellite positioning information and the traffic condition information are received respectively. Next, the data format of the traffic condition information ... 10/19/06 - 20060235607 - Navigation device for a vehicle A navigation device for a vehicle comprises a current position detection unit for detecting a current position of the vehicle and a control unit. The control unit executes, when the detected current position approaches a point of guidance along a route, route guidance indicating a path to be taken at ... 10/19/06 - 20060235606 - Navigation system for a vehicle A navigation system for a vehicle includes a man-machine interface to enter at least one key word for characterization of a point of interest and to enter a geometric figure and a search module to search for at least one of the points of interest assigned to the key word ... 10/19/06 - 20060235605 - System and method for providing a location snapshot service and associating a snapshot with location container data A system and method for providing a location snapshot service and associating a snapshot with location container data. The system includes a snapshot service for detecting the position of the computing device. The position of the computing device is associated with a street address. The street address is an identifier ... 10/12/06 - 20060229803 - Guided vehicle system A guided vehicle 20 has an RF tag 22 and an RF tag reader 24. The RF 22 tag of a leading guided vehicle is read for collision avoidance based on the read information. ... 10/12/06 - 20060229802 - User interface system and method for a vehicle navigation device A user interface for use in a vehicle navigation and traffic information device. Various adaptable menu commands and intuitive UI elements are provided to ease user navigation of the interface and to minimize driver distraction while providing information in an optimized manner. ... 10/05/06 - 20060224302 - Navigation system A navigation system comprising an apparatus and method for navigating a vehicle along a detour route when appropriate. A destination is set, and the current location, or site, is detected. Guiding is performed along an optimum route from the current location to the destination. When a traffic obstacle that requires ... 10/05/06 - 20060224301 - Communication system between vehicles A communication system between vehicles of the present invention is equipped in each of the vehicles with an image taking device for taking an image around the vehicle; a moving body detection unit for detecting a moving body from the image taken by the image taking device; a display unit ... 10/05/06 - 20060224300 - System and method for providing information of moving objects' states of move, location data collection system, and car navigation system A mobile phone base station sends to a mobile phone device information requesting location data thereof, receives location data sent back by the mobile phone device according to the information, and outputs the location data to a location data collection system. The location data collection system inputs the location data, ... 09/28/06 - 20060217875 - Method and system for monitoring and retrieving device usage A method and system for monitoring and retrieving device usage for a device at a vehicle including storing a vehicle data record in the telematics unit, monitoring the device usage for device data, storing the device data at the vehicle, requesting the telematics unit to upload the device data, and ... 09/21/06 - 20060212213 - Navigation system A navigation system (1) having a navigation system housing (2), which has an internal position-finding unit (9), a data memory (5) and/or a data memory reader unit (6), a display unit (3), an interface (7) to a separate voltage supply source, and a computation and control unit (4) for route ... 09/07/06 - 20060200306 - Methods, systems and computer program products for ride matching based on current location information Systems, methods and computer program products match a passenger with a driver for a trip to a destination. Candidate driver(s) for the trip are automatically identified based on a current location for the candidate driver(s) responsive to a request from the passenger. The passenger is provided an identification of the ... 09/07/06 - 20060200305 - Method and system for identifying and defining geofences The preferred embodiments of the present invention are directed to an improved mapping and navigational system. Specifically, the present invention is directed to a system for defining and assigning geographical boundaries to points of interests on a graphical map, where the geographical boundaries preferably correlate to spatially defined boundaries of ... 09/07/06 - 20060200304 - Navigation apparatus and method for searching for point of interest using the same Searching for a Point of Interest (POI) in a navigation apparatus includes accessing a preset driving route that includes a group of route points. A POI is associated with each route point in the group. The associated POIs are stored in a first storing unit. A current position of a ... 09/07/06 - 20060200303 - The static or dynamic roadway travel time system to determine the path with least travel time between two places The static or dynamic roadway travel time system determines the path with least travel time 26, 28 between two places by using user input 8 and traffic data input 14 in the form of volume and occupancy, or speed, or travel time to inform a user of the roadway network ... 09/07/06 - 20060200302 - Navigation system Techniques for a navigation system realizing a large cost reduction and speedy on-demand functions of a portable terminal device are provided. In an embodiment of the present invention, a navigation system comprises a navigation terminal 3 for downloading and displaying information and a content server 1 for transmitting content generated ... 08/31/06 - 20060195252 - System and method for navigating a mobile device user interface with a directional sensing device A manual input navigation device and a sensor are utilized to manipulate graphical elements in a mobile device graphical user interface. The manual input navigation device generates an input navigation signal for altering a relative position of the graphical element in the graphical user interface, and the sensor measures a ... 08/31/06 - 20060195251 - Walker navigation device, walker navigation method, and program A pedestrian navigation device (10A) of this invention has a position information reception unit (12), which obtains current position information from a GPS (20); a position information analysis unit (13), which calculates the current position by analyzing received current position information; a MAPDB (Map Data Base) (14), which stores map ... 08/17/06 - 20060184313 - System and method for providing information to travelers Systems and methods for providing “point of interest” information to travelers. Large databases can be populated with information relating to a wide variety of different “points of interest.” Individual users can use the system to automatically focus on information that is likely to be interesting to the user, while ignoring ... 08/10/06 - 20060178810 - Navigation system A navigation system in a subject vehicle for organizing a navigation route having a blind alley toward a destination in map data as a route guidance by using a node and a link includes a blind alley detection means for detecting the blind alley in the navigation route, and a ... 08/10/06 - 20060178809 - Resolving discrepancies between location information and route data on a navigation device A navigation system and method for resolving discrepancies between a reported position and route data is presented. Based on a reported position, the navigation system identifies prospective road segments within a radius of the reported position. For each road segment, the navigation system generates a series of scores according to ... 08/03/06 - 20060173610 - Device for making available and/or evaluating navigation data and method for releasing navigation data in a navigation system A device for providing and/or evaluating navigation data, in particular in motor vehicles, as well as a method for clearing navigation data in navigation systems. An initial license is stored during the manufacture of the device as an authorization for use. ... 07/27/06 - 20060167620 - System and method for guiding a vehicle A guide system terminal device is provided to facilitate group operation vehicles. The guide system terminal device has a transceiver that receives the traveling environment information from another vehicle, such as for the turn signal, vehicle speed, running position, a road change judgment module that judges course changes by the ... 07/20/06 - 20060161336 - Gps-based steering needle instrument A a flight instrument enabling a pilot to intercept and precisely follow a predefined GPS track. The instrument—known as a GPS steering indicator—provides a visual display which is similar in appearance to other aircraft instruments (and therefore instantly recognizable to nearly all pilots). However, the instrument is preferably differentiated somewhat ... 07/20/06 - 20060161335 - Routing system and method The routing system and method find efficient routings among destinations in a traffic network. A starting point and at least one destination point are identified in the traffic network. The identified points are ordered into at least one tour. Traffic conditions for the traffic network are forecast for a time ... 07/06/06 - 20060149458 - Precision landmark-aided navigation Navigational systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide accurate processing of two-dimensional sensor images for navigation and determination of position in three-dimensions. Landmark features are extracted from two-dimensional sensor images and correlated to landmark features data stored in a database to estimate latitude, longitude, and altitude of a vehicle ... 06/29/06 - 20060142937 - Web based land vehicle navigation system A web based navigation system for a land vehicle accesses a land navigation website and obtains land navigation data for traveling from a selected starting point to a selected destination. The land navigation data is transferred from the computer to the land vehicle wirelessly or by a portable data storage ... 06/29/06 - 20060142936 - Correction in position with hitch position sensor An automatic guidance system for an agricultural vehicle includes a tractor, a towed implement, an absolute tractor position sensor, a relative implement position sensor, and an electronic control system. The operator inputs the implement geometry and field information into the control system. The control system combines this data with the ... 06/29/06 - 20060142935 - Providing a user with location-based information The invention relates to a system for providing a user (100) with location-based information, the system comprising a user device (110) arranged to enable the user to use the location-based information, the user device being arranged to enable the user to point the user device (110) substantially at a remote ... 06/22/06 - 20060136121 - Method, system, and computer program product for conveying a changing local time zone in an electronic calendar A method, system, and computer program product for conveying a changing local time zone in an electronic document such as an electronic calendar. The method comprises: providing at least one travel document containing travel information corresponding to at least one trip; determining a local time zone for each entry in ... 06/22/06 - 20060136120 - Car navigation system A car navigation system includes: a vehicle-information acquiring means 14 for acquiring the vehicle information held by a vehicle 2; a setting-information generating means 15, 16 for generating setting information to be set in a processing program 19 based on the vehicle information acquired by the vehicle-information acquiring means; a ... 06/15/06 - 20060129309 - Method and system for performing programmatic actions based upon vehicle approximate locations A system for communicating between networked applications and vehicles that includes a vehicle response server and a vehicle response agent. The vehicle response server can manage communications between at least one vehicle and at least one application remotely located from the vehicle, wherein the application can provide activation contexts to ... 06/15/06 - 20060129308 - Management and navigation system for the blind A computer-aided communication and navigation system that uses a computer or other processor in wireless communication with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to aid a blind person. A communication module worn by the user receives information from one or more RFID tags readers and provides audio and, optionally, stimulatory information ... 06/08/06 - 20060122767 - Map based estimations, and information search Typically a family relocating to a new place is faced in making a number of decisions with respect to identifying a location to live. Identification of such a location, is dependent on the distances from places of work and the amenities available at the various locations that fit the distances ... 05/18/06 - 20060106532 - Navigation system, display changeover method and program, and display device Navigation systems, display changeover methods and programs, and display devices display an image, detect a turn amount and a turn direction, and scroll the displayed image based on the detected turn amount and the detected turn direction. The navigation systems, display changeover methods and programs, and display devices determine whether ... 05/18/06 - 20060106531 - Information gathering systems, methods, and programs Information gathering systems, methods, and programs transmit a request for other-vehicle drive information to an information center; and as a result of the transmitted request, only receive other-vehicle drive information of vehicles that are within a predetermined area, the predetermined area set based on the present location. Information gathering systems, ... 05/11/06 - 20060100777 - Method and system to configure and utilize geographical zones A method to define a geographical zone is disclosed. The geographical zone can be utilized to regulate a movable entity and the actions within the geographical zone. The geographical zone can be defined by allowing a user to define and load to a transponder a plurality of waypoints, each waypoint ... 05/11/06 - 20060100776 - System and method for large route data handling within a telematics communication system The present invention provides a method of operating a telematics enabled mobile vehicle communication system. The method includes receiving a navigation request at a service provider from a telematics unit. The navigation request includes current location information of the telematics unit, destination information, and telematics unit memory capacity information. The ... 05/11/06 - 20060100775 - Vehicle guidance system A method is provided for generating control variables for guiding a motor vehicle as a function of input quantities representing the traffic situation, and as a function of dynamically changeable parameters. The method provides that a single evaluation quantity is formed from a set of a plurality of input quantities, ... 05/11/06 - 20060100774 - Navigational device A navigational device for guiding a vehicle within a network of traffic routes provides, for guidance purposes, a guide object that is shown in relation to the traffic route in such a manner that the guide object's movement represents driving maneuvers to be performed by the driver. The driver emulates ... 05/04/06 - 20060095200 - Operating device An operating device has multiple operating switches that are displayed in a display device. Each time each operating switch is operated, an operation frequency that is stored is incremented. A control circuit mixes, on the display device, display colors of a background and display colors of the operating switches. When ... 04/27/06 - 20060089786 - Personal navigation device for use with portable device A navigation system used by a user includes a navigation unit and a portable device. The navigation unit generates navigation-related output. The navigation unit transmits the navigation-related output to the portable device over a wireless communication link. The portable device receives the navigation-related output and uses at least a portion ... 04/20/06 - 20060085121 - Apparatus and method for controlling display luminosity according to an operational mode in a navigation system An apparatus and method of controlling display luminosity in an operational mode in a navigation system is provided. The method includes determining a current operational mode from a plurality of operational modes of a navigation system, and automatically adjusting a display luminosity based on the determined current operational mode. The ... 04/06/06 - 20060074547 - Method of operating a navigation system to report effects of updated portions of a geographic database A method for operating a navigation system that executes a navigation application software program to provide a navigation-related feature is provided. The method comprises identifying that the navigation application software program uses both updated geographic data and un-updated geographic data from a geographic database associated with said navigation system. The ... 03/30/06 - 20060069499 - Motorcycle navigation device A navigation device for a motorcycle operable in a comfortable position during driving by solving a problem that it is hard to operate the navigation device during driving and easily mounted on a vehicle by solving the problem that it is hard to mount the navigation device on the vehicle. ... 03/23/06 - 20060064239 - Navigation device A navigation device for navigating an operator of a vehicle to a destination by showing a path to the destination on a map includes a map display means, a information retrieval means, a information storage means, a current time retrieval means, an information comparison means, and a information notification means. ... 03/16/06 - 20060058945 - Navigation apparatus, driving direction guidance method, and navigation system A navigation apparatus and a driving direction guiding method are capable of clearly indicating a correct direction in which a vehicle should be driven at an exit when the vehicle exits a parking area through the exit. When a position measurement unit detects that the vehicle has entered a parking ... 03/16/06 - 20060058944 - Trail analysis method and apparatus A trail analysis method of movable object includes acquiring first stay event data indicating a first location, a first arrival time of a first movable object to the first location and a first staying time, and second stay event data indicating a second location, a second arrival time of a ... 03/16/06 - 20060058943 - Data correction method and apparatus using key filtering function for entering data in navigation system An input data correction method and apparatus for a navigation system that has a key filtering function to assist the user to determine possible entries for inputting data. The input data correction method includes the steps of displaying a keyboard screen, inputting data through alphanumeric keys on the keyboard screen, ... 03/16/06 - 20060058942 - Location information sharing method based on wired and wireless internet using location id Disclosed is a location information sharing method based on wired and wireless internet using location ID. The location information sharing method is characterized by: inputting the location information including a location coordinate and a location ID corresponding to the location coordinate through one or more wired and wireless Internet terminals ... 03/09/06 - 20060052933 - Navigation device and approach information display method A present position calculating unit calculates a present position, an orientation and a velocity. In the case where a travel road determining unit determines that a road on which a subject vehicle is currently traveling is the mountain road or the narrow road on which visibility is low, the travel ... 03/02/06 - 20060047413 - Gnss navigation solution integrity in non-controlled environments The present invention consists of a method to ensure the integrity of the navigation solution even when the user is in a non controlled environment as it is the case of urban and road applications. The method requires the existence of a Signal In Space with guaranteed integrity as the ... 03/02/06 - 20060047412 - Service system and method for addressing problems via a distant third party translation A service system supplies a 24-hour service to assist a traveler such as a traveler to effectively address everyday problems occurring in places where the local language is incomprehensible to the traveler. The system provides the traveler a mobile communication device rented from a local telecommunications company. When a problem ... 02/23/06 - 20060041373 - System for safe and effective communication between a vehicle and a telecommunication center A multi-task communications system which is used to transmit, receive, and store information from various sources. This communications system allows vehicles to enhance road safety while communicating using a unique user input and display mechanism. The basic framework of the system comprises a telecommunications center which collects information from various ... 02/23/06 - 20060041372 - Navigation system A navigation system presents and updates information that allows the driver to determine an appropriate vehicle speed and a steering angle depending on a condition or a feature of a road. The navigation system includes storage means for storing map data, a display for displaying information, a vehicle speed sensor ... 02/09/06 - 20060031006 - Process for generating computer flight plans on the internet A process for generating computer flight plans on the Internet with the elements of: a raw XY&Z database of chart data, a data base containing aircraft data, a software system to create VFR, IFR and Road charts, an Internet web site accessible by a Client computer, a software system which ... 02/09/06 - 20060031005 - Navigation apparatus and program In a vehicle navigation apparatus, displaying an enlarged view of an intersection within a guide route is suppressed when a value N associated with a corresponding passing direction of the intersection exceeds a learning reference value. When the value N is not more than the learning reference value, the enlarged ... 02/09/06 - 20060031004 - Method and device for planning a trajectory The present invention relates to planning of a trajectory for minimum threat exposure in a given geographical region. A trajectory is planned from a start node to a final node in a digital representation of the geographical region. The threat exposure for a vehicle moving along the trajectory is determined. ... 02/02/06 - 20060025920 - On-vehicle apparatus and content providing method The present invention is applied to, for example, a multimedia terminal having a function of navigation equipment and a function of playing back video and switches a display from a map display to a source display also with source switching operators 13P, 13R. In addition, menus of upper and lower ... 01/12/06 - 20060009907 - Navigation system, data server, traveling route establishing method and information providing method A navigation system, portable information processing device and its control program, data server, information processing server, navigation method, traveling route establishing method, information providing method, and area information providing method are disclosed having a portable terminal (10,54,210) to read out code data, indicative of area information of a destination and ... 01/12/06 - 20060009906 - Data security system for a navigation system A data security system for a navigation system comprising an enabling/disabling unit for enabling or disabling a data transfer from a data memory to a data storage unit of the navigation system, an identification unit for identifying an identification code, such as a vehicle or navigation system identification code, and ... 01/12/06 - 20060009905 - Communication device for alerting passengers of their destination A system and method for alerting a person riding on a vehicle of at least one location along the route of the vehicle is disclosed. The system includes a base station, mounted along a track of a railroad transportation system, wherein the base station emits a signal which contains a ... 01/12/06 - 20060009904 - Vehicular navigation system In a vehicular navigation system, it is determined that a branching point is present along a guidance route within a given distance from a guidance intersection. It is then determined that approaching the branching point by using a natural exit lane results in entering a road that is not included ... 01/05/06 - 20060004511 - Navigation system, traffic prediction method, and traffic prediction program A navigation system, traffic prediction method, and traffic prediction program search for a plurality of routes to a destination. The system, method, and program calculate, if any of the plurality of routes passes through a predetermined area, a predicted time at which a link within the predetermined area will be ... 12/29/05 - 20050288851 - Car navigation system and program When a corridor operation is conducted in a car navigation system, a stoppable place where a vehicle is able to stop is retrieved before a map disk is removed. The stoppable place is a place that is located along a route to a destination and also as close as possible ... 12/22/05 - 20050283307 - Optical navigation using one-dimensional correlation A technique for optical navigation involves summing intensity values from a photodetector array on a per-column and a per-row basis for both reference image data and sample image data and then performing separate one-dimensional cross-correlations on the per-column sums and on the per-row sums to separately determine displacement in the ... 12/22/05 - 20050283306 - Aircraft navigational assistance method and corresponding device The invention relates to a method of automatic navigation assistance for an aircraft. A capture zone being a zone in which the aircraft can capture a predetermined vertical profile segment by applying a transition between the guidance submode which the aircraft is in and the guidance submode adapted to the ... 12/15/05 - 20050278112 - Process for predicting the course of a lane of a vehicle The present invention relates to a method for estimating the course of a lane of a motor vehicle, where the course of the lane is detected by detecting the trajectory of a vehicle traveling in front in the lane, where the detected course of the trajectory subjected to filtering in ... 12/15/05 - 20050278111 - Image processing system, method and apparatus for correlating position data with image data A navigation system includes a processing unit for generating route data relating to a route along which a vehicle has actually traveled, from position data acquired by a position acquiring unit, an image data acquiring section for acquiring image data, a first storage section for storing the image data acquired ... 12/15/05 - 20050278110 - Vehicle navigation system A control unit of a vehicle navigation system receives a voice input signal collected from a microphone included in a voice input unit when a synthesized voice is outputted from a voice output unit. An analog-to-digital converter of the control unit converts the voice input signal to a digital signal ... 12/08/05 - 20050273250 - System and method for dynamic navigational route selection A navigation system and method factors into its routing decisions information pertaining to transient delays encountered from time to time, one example of such a transient delay is accident information obtained from currently available broadcast traffic flow sources. The system can also factor in historically available traffic delay data based ... 12/01/05 - 20050267676 - Vehicle-mounted apparatus, information providing method for use with vehicle-mounted apparatus, and recording medium recorded information providing method program for use with vehicle-mounted apparatus therein A vehicle-mounted apparatus is disclosed which includes a displaying unit for providing information to a user, an inputting unit for inputting operations carried out by the user, and a controlling unit for controlling a display of the displaying unit based on the operations input through the inputting unit. The inputting ... 12/01/05 - 20050267675 - System for interferometric sensing An exemplary navigation system uses a master navigation component at a first location with a first sensor in a vehicle and a slave navigation component with a second sensor at a second location that is a variable displacement to the first location due to physical deformation of the vehicle. Static ... 12/01/05 - 20050267674 - Navigation system for a motorcycle, and motorcycle incorporating same An arrangement of motorcycle navigation system components enables both a meter display unit and a navigation display unit to be easily viewed by the vehicle operator. A motorcycle includes a meter display unit for displaying drive information such as a vehicle speed or a travel distance, and a navigation display ... 11/24/05 - 20050261823 - Intelligent geocoding of location information A geocoding method including receiving input location information (212) for a particular location, decomposing (210) and purifying (220) the input information before decomposing (230) the information, and generating (240) multiple candidate locations based on components of the decomposed information, and then normalizing the candidate locations before comparing the candidate locations ... 11/24/05 - 20050261822 - Navigation method and apparatus to define favorite spot and extract information concerning the favorite spot A method and apparatus for use with a navigation system allows a user to define and edits a favorite spot and retrieves points of interest (POI) information or other information associated with the favorite spot. The method is comprised of the steps of creating a favorite spot by selecting a ... 11/10/05 - 20050251328 - Navigation system applications of sigma-point kalman filters for nonlinear estimation and sensor fusion A method of estimating the navigational state of a system entails acquiring observation data produced by noisy measurement sensors and providing a probabilistic inference system to combine the observation data with prediction values of the system state space model to estimate the navigational state of the system. The probabilistic inference ... 11/10/05 - 20050251327 - Route-setting device, map display device and navigation system A route is set by reading map data of an area used for calculating the route. When this area includes a road pricing area, it is determined if there exists a road pricing area into where the user is permitted to enter based on the permission data (road pricing area ... 11/10/05 - 20050251326 - Web service for mobile device tracking A method and system for providing location data of a mobile device using a web service is provided. In one embodiment, a method for providing location data of a mobile device using a web service includes receiving location data associated with a mobile device, the mobile device operable to transmit ... 11/10/05 - 20050251325 - Information acquisition method, information providing method, and information acquisition device In an information acquisition system such as a car navigation system, a history accumulation DB 104 accumulates user's travel history. A condition determination section 107 determines a condition for retrieval for performing accurate prediction, and a prediction section 108 predicts a travel destination using the condition for retrieval. An information-to-be-presented ... 11/10/05 - 20050251324 - Route calculation around traffic obstacles using marked diversions A vehicle navigation system (100; FIG. 1) that includes a route calculation module (204; FIG. 2) that is operable to use marked diversions to avoid traffic events. The navigation system includes a simulation module (212) that is used to simulate traffic events that may occur along a route to a ... 11/03/05 - 20050246091 - Curvature radius estimating apparatus and method A curvature radius calculator employs point sequence data of map information representing a road shape, for calculation to determine a curvature radius of a curved interval of a travel path of a vehicle, a shape pattern decider employs the point sequence data to decide a shape pattern of the curved ... 10/27/05 - 20050240341 - Low-power photonic telemetry system and method for spacecraft monitoring An optical telemetry system and method for monitoring the location and status of a spacecraft (e.g., a satellite, a missile, a manned vehicle, etc.) using an optical communication link in an extraterrestrial environment. The system is optimally suited for monitoring the status and location of the spacecraft during a separation ... 10/20/05 - 20050234637 - Technique for effective navigation based on user preferences In a navigation device in accordance with the invention, user profiles may be stored and used to navigate a user who may be driving in a vehicle, on foot, or in other mode of transportation. Each user profile corresponds to one of the user's personae. For example, the user business ... 10/20/05 - 20050234636 - Electronic device and method for executing functions In an electronic device, in particular a navigation device, having operator-input devices and communications devices for exchanging data with an external, central computer, at least one operator-input device is assigned a function for sending a specific input-identification code uniquely assigned to the electronic device and to the respective operator-input device, ... 10/13/05 - 20050228582 - Navigation system with licensing function When a navigation system is started for the first time, a time/position information item unique to each navigation system is generated based on a position and time detected for the first time by a GPS receiver of a position detector. This generated time/position information item is stored both in a ... 10/13/05 - 20050228581 - Device for automated fishing information acquistion Generally, a method and apparatus for the automated acquisition of information related to fishing is provided. In one embodiment, a data acquisition system is provided comprising a memory, a processor coupled to the memory, a communication port for coupling to a vessel navigation system and a switch, which when actuated, ... 10/13/05 - 20050228580 - Method and device for predicting the course of motor vehicles A method for travel course prediction in a motor vehicle having a position finding system for objects situated ahead of the vehicle is provided. In accordance with the method, a function describing the shape of the roadside is calculated on the basis of measured distance data and angle data for ... 10/06/05 - 20050222754 - Sms vehicle information system A transportation vehicle information (TVI) system comprising at least one CPU, operatively associated with at least one vehicle, having at least one database and including TVI on at least one vehicle and at least one position signal receiver adapted to receive at least one position signal, the at least one ... 10/06/05 - 20050222753 - Imaging apparatus for vehicles A vehicle is provided with a plurality of imaging cameras for imaging the front left side, front right side, rear left side, rear right side and rear side. Imaging conditions such as a position where the imaging is scheduled, imaging camera used for the imaging, vehicle traveling direction, shift position ... 10/06/05 - 20050222752 - Method for enabling communications dependent on user location, user-specified location or orientation A system and method for enabling communications in a wireless communications network on the basis of user-specified locations or orientations, having particular utility to vehicle-based communications. Users of the network broadcast their locations and orientations (headings) to a central server. Using his user interface, a user can specify either a ... 09/29/05 - 20050216185 - Travel guidance device and travel warning announcement device The present invention provides a travel direction device in which a user can listen to voice directions or warning voice direction about a traveling route. The travel direction device according to the present invention sets a direction about the traveling route, and if the user drives the same traveling route ... 09/29/05 - 20050216184 - System and method for providing information to an operator of a motor vehicle An information system and method provides information to an operator of a motor vehicle. A destination location and a current position of the motor vehicle are established. A planned route as a function of the destination location and the current position is established and communicated to at least one traffic ... 09/29/05 - 20050216183 - Non real time traffic system for a navigator A system for improving the operation of a GPS based navigator. Statistical and/or time of day information is used to select the best route between a current location and a desired location. The statistical information may take into account anomalies, and a user can select the amount of risk they ... 09/29/05 - 20050216182 - Vehicle routing and path planning A method of determining a path having an ordered set of waypoints to be visited by a mobile agent to accomplish a mission includes: producing candidate paths using a multi-objective optimization algorithm, subject to a path production heuristic; selecting a path from the candidate paths, subject to a path selection ... 09/29/05 - 20050216181 - System and method for adaptive path planning A path planning system and method for an object, such as a vehicle, provides a randomized adaptive path planning that handles real-time path planning for a vehicle operating under kinodynamic constraints in dynamically changing and uncertain environments with probabilistic knowledge of vehicle and obstacle movement. ... 09/22/05 - 20050209772 - Navigation systems, methods, and programs Navigation systems, methods, and programs store traffic information and crated prediction traffic information based on the stored traffic information. The systems, methods, and programs search a plurality of routes to a destination, each route including at least one link and calculate a predicted passage time of each link in each ... 09/15/05 - 20050203699 - Moving body system It is an object of the present invention to provide a moving body system which can determine the moving position of a vehicle, stacker crane, or other moving body wherever on a moving path having a branching portion or a joining portion the moving body is, the system being able ... 09/15/05 - 20050203698 - Navigation system using poi code numbers, and operating system and method therefor Disclosed is directed to a navigation system using POI code numbers, and an operating system and method thereof. In the system according to the invention, information matching to real states, including POI code numbers, local information, and business information, is stacked on a database to provide a user with geographic ... 09/08/05 - 20050197765 - Vehicle image display apparatus and vehicle having the same A vehicle image display apparatus includes a traveling condition judging unit for repeatedly judging the traveling condition of a vehicle, an operating unit for generating a parameter for abstractly representing the traveling condition of the vehicle based on the previous traveling condition and the current traveling condition currently judged by ... 09/08/05 - 20050197764 - Navigation system for a vehicle The invention relates to a navigation system for a vehicle which allows route planning depending on the current traffic volume. For this purpose, the navigation system is provided with an evaluation unit for detecting one of a vehicle and topographical data, for example the average speed of the vehicle. This ... 09/08/05 - 20050197763 - Key-based advanced navigation techniques The present invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates navigating smoothly and gracefully through any type of content viewable on portable devices. Such navigation can be performed while preserving perspective and context with respect to a larger amount of content. The navigation can be key-based such that one ... 08/18/05 - 20050182559 - Method for inputting local names A method is proposed for entering place names into a device for processing the place names, in particular into a navigation device in a vehicle, where in the case that a match of a place name is ambiguous, a graphical representation for distinguishing the respective places of the same name ... 08/18/05 - 20050182558 - Car navigation system and speech recognizing device therefor A car navigation system is provided with a voice recognition capability to search position information by voice recognition without requiring registration of voice recognition standard patterns for words to be recognized. Acoustical analysis of users speech is compared with stored acoustic models to obtain a relevant scanned recognition string. The ... 08/04/05 - 20050171687 - Electronic parking control device, system and method for this An electronic parking control device for displaying a parking time of vehicles should be easy to operate. This is achieved by a mobile electronic display device (10) which can be positioned in the vehicle and which is configured chargeable my means of a charging device (11) by electronic signals which ... 08/04/05 - 20050171686 - Method and apparatus for obtaining and providing information related to a point-of-interest In an exemplary embodiment of the present technique, a particular POI (66) may be assigned a code (68) representative thereof. Advantageously, by entering the code (68) into a telematics system (16), information about the POI (66) may be obtained. Moreover, in accordance with an exemplary aspect of the present technique, ... 08/04/05 - 20050171685 - Navigation apparatus, navigation system, and navigation method In a navigation apparatus, voice input information comprised of a sentence or a plurality of words are divided into respective words and then one or more predetermined words are extracted from the plurality of words, and word-based POI information related to each of the predetermined words is retrieved. Next, one ... 08/04/05 - 20050171684 - Vehicle guidance software, method and system The present invention relates to vehicle guidance software for use with an agricultural vehicle having a guidance system. The software includes a processing portion (24) for generating a set of guidance indicators from a set of waypoints. The software further includes an adapting portion (26) for analysing the guidance indicators ... 07/28/05 - 20050165542 - Image pickup apparatus, navigation apparatus and ic card An IC card inserted into a navigation apparatus that provides guidance regarding a route to a destination so as to store information about the route. The information about relations and image data related to the route are recorded in the IC card in correspondence with locations along the route. ... 07/28/05 - 20050165541 - Image pickup apparatus, navigation apparatus and ic card A navigation apparatus including: recording means for recording information about a route to a destination to a removable storage medium, and associated means for automatically relating the route information to image data and updating information about relations as management data in the removable storage medium. The navigation apparatus further includes ... 07/28/05 - 20050165540 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program storage medium Disclosed is an information processing method comprising the steps of: storing measured position information in association with first time information representing times of day at which the measured position information is obtained; storing video information in association with second time information representing times of day at which the video information ... 07/28/05 - 20050165539 - Navigation system and method for operating a navigation system A navigation system for a motor vehicle includes at least one storage device, at least one navigation map being stored on each storage device, which is read out using a reading device. Associated with the reading device is a changeover device for exchanging storage devices that are to be read ... 07/21/05 - 20050159882 - System and method for performing flood zone certicifications After FEMA flood maps are scanned and converted to raster maps on a computer system, they are georeferenced. The georeferenced raster maps are stored on the system. Map inset polygons are surrounded by a virtual bounding box and a determination is made whether each grid rectangle intersects any bounding box. ... 07/21/05 - 20050159881 - System and method for managing navigation information A system and method for managing navigation information is disclosed. The system and method can send and receive navigation information. In some cases, requests for navigation information can be sent to a service provider, which then prepares an appropriate response and sends the response back to the requesting party. The ... 07/21/05 - 20050159880 - Smart storage and transmission of navigation information A method for sending navigation information is disclosed. The method can gather various items of navigation information and send those items of navigation information in a certain order. In some cases, the order is established by information that has been received. In other cases, the order has been predetermined. This ... 07/21/05 - 20050159879 - Method and system, computer program comprising program code means, and computer program product for forming a graph structure in order to describe an area with a free area and an occupied area A graph structure is generated to describe an area with a free area and an occupied area. In this case a topological graph structure for the free area is determined. A point of the topological graph structure is selected and for this a nearest adjacent occupied area point is determined. ... 07/07/05 - 20050149252 - Navigation system with voice output control The invention relates to a navigation system for vehicle having a position detector for detecting the position of the vehicle, memory for storing a route description to a predetermined destination, voice output device for outputting driving indications by voice output and/or for informing the user of the navigation system of ... 07/07/05 - 20050149251 - Real time high accuracy geospatial database for onboard intelligent vehicle applications A geospatial database management system includes a geospatial database containing data elements that identify locations of a plurality of road features of a tangible road. The road features are displaced from each other in a widthwise direction that is transverse to the road. ... 07/07/05 - 20050149250 - Maintenance assistance for a vehicle A system and method to provide navigational maintenance assistance for a vehicle includes a first step of estimating when the vehicle will require maintenance. A next step includes establishing a location and direction of travel of the vehicle. A next step includes searching a database for any service stations within ... 06/30/05 - 20050143907 - Driver agent device for supporting remote device driver development environment in embedded system and operation method thereof Provided is a driver agent device for supporting a remote device driver development environment in an embedded system, in which a host system having a device driver development tool and a target system having a device driver are separated from each other and interconnected with a communication network. The driver ... 06/30/05 - 20050143906 - Systems, methods, and data structures for smoothing navigation data Systems and methods of smoothing navigation data may accumulate traffic information including, for each link, a congestion degree at a plurality of trip times, calculate a link travel time on the basis of the congestion degree for each trip time, and smooth the calculated link travel time. ... 06/30/05 - 20050143905 - Navigation system and method A navigation system collects life information associated with a user and extracts a life pattern from the collected life information. The navigation system registers the extracted life pattern as life pattern information. The navigation system determines a predicted start time and a predicted destination based on the life pattern information ... 06/23/05 - 20050137786 - Communication method and arrangement Arrangement for transferring information between a vehicle and one or more transmitters separate from the vehicle includes an antenna mounted on the vehicle and capable of receiving radio frequency waves emitted by the transmitter and containing information, a position determining device for determining the position of the vehicle, and a ... 06/23/05 - 20050137785 - Motor vehicle navigation device having a programmable automatic notification operating mode The invention relates to a motor vehicle navigation device comprising an automatic notification operating mode in which the processor automatically initiates the reproduction of a notification text via the loudspeaker at predetermined intervals of time or after predetermined segments of the journey have been travelled. ... 06/23/05 - 20050137784 - Apparatus and method for discerning a driver's intent and for aiding the driver Methods and apparatus are provided for determining the intent of a driver of a motor vehicle in moving a trailer towed by the motor vehicle along a desired path. The method comprises the step of positioning a first reference point at a first location spaced apart from the motor vehicle ... 06/16/05 - 20050131632 - Digital map position information transfer method An encoder and a decoder are utilized for a location reference system in which different digital maps are installed in a transmitting side and a receiving side. The encoder comprises a selecting section for selecting supplemental points located around an endpoint of a target shape points set and a data ... 06/16/05 - 20050131631 - Guiding device, system thereof, method thereof, program thereof and recording medium storing the program A route processor searches for a travel route based on current-position information, destination information and traffic information with use of map information. Predicted required time to arrive at a destination from a current-position of a vehicle is calculated based on the set travel route. Predicted departure time for the vehicle ... 06/16/05 - 20050131630 - Methods and systems for generating a terrain elevation map in a cartesian format Methods, systems, and computer program products for re-sampling terrain data in a vehicle from latitude/longitude format into a Cartesian format. The present invention permits incremental updates of the terrain elevation map as the vehicle travels. The present invention includes memory for storing terrain elevation data, a navigation component for generating ... 06/16/05 - 20050131629 - Roadway travel data exchange network Disclosed herein are systems and methods for exchange of travel data in a roadway information system associated with a first roadway vehicle and a second roadway vehicle. In one embodiment, the roadway information system may comprise, for example, a first mobile client system associated with the first roadway vehicle, a ... 06/16/05 - 20050131628 - Traffic flow data collection agents A method and apparatus to compute a fastest route is described. The method uses the speed of a plurality of informer vehicles as data collection agents to summarize traffic conditions. A central processing point collects the data. Navigation systems in receiving vehicles use the summarized traffic conditions data to generate ... 06/09/05 - 20050125144 - Navigation system A navigation system is provided which obtains facility information and displays a facility icon in a position corresponding to the position of the facility on a map shown on a display. The navigation system includes a facility designating device to designate the facility icon, and a designated facility route guidance ... 06/09/05 - 20050125143 - System and method for estimating impedance time through a road network A method and apparatus are provided for estimating an impedance through a node at an intersection between roads in a roadway network. The impedance may be measured in time or distance, for example. Characteristic information describes at least one feature of the intersecting roads. One or more pieces of characteristic ... 06/09/05 - 20050125142 - Navigation apparatus and navigation method with image recognition A navigation apparatus with image recognition, includes: an imaging section for obtaining a stereo image of a target spot; an inertial information detecting section for measuring an attitude angle of a body and an acceleration of the body; an image process calculating section for calculating a relative position of the ... 06/09/05 - 20050125141 - System and method for using multiple aiding sensors in a deeply integrated navigation system A navigation system with resume logic and mode logic provides as an output an accurate navigation solution using multiple RF sensors. The resume logic determines which sensors are currently providing good data to the navigation system. The mode logic selects an operating mode of the navigation system and selects which ... 06/02/05 - 20050119824 - System for automatically integrating a digital map system A method and system for integrating a digital map system with a source document is disclosed including detecting a location description in the source document, and replacing the detected location description with a hyperlink linking to a depiction of the location description. Another embodiment may include a method and system ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |