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10-11-2014 дата публикации

Система для тренировки водительских навыков

Номер: RU0000147525U1
Автор: Мэтью Алан БОУШ, Фазаль Уррахман САЙЕД
Принадлежит: Форд Глобал Технолоджис, ЛЛК

1. Система тренировки водительских навыков для транспортного средства, которая включает в себя входное устройство, выполненное с возможностью генерировать входной сигнал с индикацией дорожных условий, устройство оповещения, выполненное с возможностью обнаружения и передачи выходного сигнала водителю, причем выходной сигнал содержит информацию о коэффициенте топливной эффективности, полученном с учетом фактической скорости транспортного средства и оптимальной с точки зрения потребления топлива скорости движения, а устройство оповещения выполнено с возможностью воздерживаться от понижения коэффициента, когда дорожные условия не гарантируют движения транспортного средства со скоростью, оптимальной с точки зрения потребления топлива.2. Система по п. 1, в которой устройство оповещения выполнено с возможностью воздерживаться от понижения коэффициента топливной эффективности, когда установлено, что изменение условий движения связано со знаком ограничения минимальной скорости, которая выше оптимальной с точки зрения потребления топлива скорости, а также когда фактическая скорость транспортного средства находится, по крайней мере, на нижнем пределе ограничения минимальной скорости.3. Система по п. 1, в которой устройство оповещения выполнено с возможностью понижать коэффициент топливной эффективности, когда установлено, что изменение условий движения связано со знаком ограничения минимальной скорости, а также когда фактическая скорость транспортного средства меньше нижнего предела ограничения минимальной скорости.4. Система обучения водителя по п. 1, в которой устройство оповещения выполнено с воз� РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ (19) RU (11) (51) МПК G07C 5/00 (13) 147 525 U1 (2006.01) ФЕДЕРАЛЬНАЯ СЛУЖБА ПО ИНТЕЛЛЕКТУАЛЬНОЙ СОБСТВЕННОСТИ (12) ТИТУЛЬНЫЙ (21)(22) Заявка: ЛИСТ ОПИСАНИЯ ПОЛЕЗНОЙ МОДЕЛИ К ПАТЕНТУ 2014107766/08, 28.02.2014 (24) Дата начала отсчета срока действия патента: 28.02.2014 (72) Автор(ы): БОУШ Мэтью Алан (US), САЙЕД Фазаль Уррахман (US) (73) Патентообладатель(и): ...

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Номер записи: 1
12-01-2012 дата публикации

Positioning system, communication device, positioning method

Номер: US20120010778A1
Автор: Mitsuru AKATSUKA
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

There is provided a positioning system including a communication device which includes a connector configured to engage with a connector provided to a vehicle, a vehicle communication section configured to receive vehicle speed information or travelling distance information of the vehicle from the vehicle via the connector, and an information processing device-communication section configured to transmit, to an information processing device, transmission information based on the vehicle speed information or the travelling distance information acquired by the vehicle communication section, and the information processing device which includes a communication section configured to receive the transmission information from the communication device, and a position calculation section configured to calculate a current position based on the vehicle speed information or the travelling distance information.

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Номер записи: 2
12-01-2012 дата публикации

Method and System for Enabling Location Entry

Номер: US20120011463A1
Автор: Bruce Payne, Ryan James Fioravanti
Принадлежит: Trapeze Software Inc

A method and system for enabling location entry is provided. A text string entered into a free-form location entry field of a user interface is received. At least one location potentially matching the text string is retrieved from a location database managed by a computer system. The at least one location is provided to the user interface for presentation to a user of the user interface.

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Номер записи: 3
19-01-2012 дата публикации

Electronic device and method for indicating position of the electronic device on electronic map

Номер: US20120016579A1
Автор: Chang-Jung Lee, Chih-Ping Lo, Hou-Hsien Lee
Принадлежит: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd

An indication method indicates position of an electronic device on an electronic map. The electronic device includes a global positioning system (GPS) and an e-compass. The method detects a position and an orientation of the electronic device using the GPS and the e-compass, indicates the detected position on an electronic map on a display screen of the electronic device, and marks the detected position and the detected orientation of the electronic device in the electronic map. Upon the condition that the detected direction is initialized, a default orientation of the electronic device is pointed North and the electronic map is initially oriented accordingly, the indication method then adjusts the electronic map as needed according to the detected orientation of the electronic device, and displays the adjusted electronic map on the display screen.

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Номер записи: 4
02-02-2012 дата публикации

Providing cost information associated with intersections

Номер: US20120029800A1
Автор: Alexey Pryakhin, Peter Kunath, Sebastian Kluge
Принадлежит: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH

A method and device for providing cost information associated with intersections of a road network are provided. Driving data indicative of at least one condition of a vehicle upon passage of the vehicle through a plurality of intersections are retrieved. For each intersection of the plurality of intersections, a set of feature values associated with the respective intersections is determined based on map data. Parameters of an intersection cost module are adjusted. The intersection cost module is configured to provide a cost value in response to a set of feature values associated with an intersection. The parameters of the intersection cost module are adjusted based on the received driving data and the sets of feature values determined for the plurality of intersections. The intersection cost module may also be used for route searches.

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Номер записи: 5
02-02-2012 дата публикации

Apparatus and method for providing road view

Номер: US20120029809A1
Автор: Eun-Jung CHA, Mi-Young HWANG, Seok-Kyu YUN, Sun-Dong Lee, Young-II Kwon, Yun-Jae CHOI
Принадлежит: PANTECH CO LTD

An apparatus and method for providing road view data corresponding to an inputted location. The apparatus includes a manipulation unit to received user information containing a road view data request signal; a display unit to output image data containing road view data; a camera to capture an image in a specific photographing direction and output the captured image; a sensor unit to output sensing information containing a photographing direction of the camera; and a control unit to detect, at an inputted reference position, road view data corresponding to the photographing direction of the camera output from the sensor unit and output the detected road view data.

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Номер записи: 6
02-02-2012 дата публикации

Notification systems and methods where a notified pcd causes implementation of a task(s) based upon failure to receive a notification

Номер: US20120030525A1
Автор: Scott A. Horstemeyer
Принадлежит: Eclipse IP LLC

Systems and methods are disclosed for automated notification systems. A representative system, among others, can be summarized as follows. A host computer system, or base station, is designed to monitor travel data corresponding to a mobile thing and to initiate a notification communication to a personal communications device (PCD) indicating travel status of the mobile thing (MT) to a remote computer system. The remote computer system, within or associated with the PCD, is designed to detect a failure to receive the notification communication and to cause one or more tasks to be performed based upon the notification communication failure.

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Номер записи: 7
09-02-2012 дата публикации

Method and apparatus for correlating and navigating between a live image and a prerecorded panoramic image

Номер: US20120033032A1
Автор: Mikko Tapio Kankainen
Принадлежит: Nokia Oyj

An approach is provided for correlating and navigating between a live camera image and a prerecorded panoramic image. A mapping and augmented reality application correlates at least one live image with a prerecorded panoramic image, when a first location of a device used to capture the at least one live image substantially matches or falls within a predetermined proximity of a second location of a device used to capture the panoramic prerecorded image. The mapping and augmented reality application causes, at least in part, alternating of the at least one live image and the prerecorded panoramic image in a presentation on a screen of the device capturing the at least one live image.

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Номер записи: 8
16-02-2012 дата публикации

Display device and display control device

Номер: US20120038685A1
Автор: Miki Ozawa, Minoru Maehata, Naotoshi Miyamoto, Satoshi Harumoto, Shinya Tanaka, Shogo Tanaka, Tomofumi Mizuno
Принадлежит: Denso Ten Ltd

A display device includes a display panel on which images are displayed and which includes a plurality of display regions; a plurality of driving units that display the images in the plurality of display regions; a displayable region detecting unit that detects a displayable region at a time of abnormality of the display panel; an abnormality-time display image generating unit that generates an abnormality-time display image according to the displayable region detected by the displayable region detecting unit; and an abnormality-time display control unit that displays the abnormality-time display image generated by the abnormality-time display image generating unit in a displayable region while causing a driving unit of the plurality of driving units of which a corresponding display region is the displayable region to display an image in the corresponding display region.

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Номер записи: 9
01-03-2012 дата публикации

Internet telematics service providing system and method for providing personalized and social information

Номер: US20120054035A1
Автор: Choong Hee Lee, Kyung Bo NAM
Принадлежит: NHN Corp

An Internet telematics service providing system and method that may provide personalized point of interest (POI) information using various types of Web information are provided. The Internet telematics service providing system may include an interest information provider to provide interest information based on information that is found on the Internet and/or a telematics system associated with a user, a route receiver to receive a location of the user and/or a travel route from the telematics system, a POI extractor to extract POI information corresponding to the interest information based on the location of the user and/or the travel route, and a POI providing unit to provide the POI information to the telematics system.

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Номер записи: 10
01-03-2012 дата публикации

Traffic situation prediction apparatus

Номер: US20120054145A1
Автор: Takamitsu Suzuki
Принадлежит: Denso Corp

A traffic situation prediction apparatus for predicting a traffic situation based on a traffic situation statistical data is disclosed. The traffic situation prediction apparatus includes a map information storage and a controller. The apparatus determines, in response to an update of the map information, whether a specific factor affecting a traffic flow has emerged based on a difference between the map information before and after the update. The apparatus identifies an effect on the traffic flow resulting from emergence of the specific when the specific traffic flow effect factor has emerged. The apparatus predicts the traffic situation by incorporating the identified effect into the traffic situation predicted based on the traffic situation statistical data.

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Номер записи: 11
15-03-2012 дата публикации

Vehicle navigation system

Номер: US20120066232A1
Автор: Hans-Peter Engelhardt, Sebastian Kluge
Принадлежит: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH

A vehicle navigation system having a database configured to store map data. The database includes links corresponding to road segments and attributes associated with the links. The map data includes at least some links associated with a curvature attribute. A mean absolute curvature ( κ ) is stored for the curvature attribute for corresponding links. The mean absolute curvature ( κ ) may be determined from a normalized sum or integral of absolute curvature values along the road segment corresponding to the link. The system includes a processing unit configured to estimate an energy consumption of the vehicle for a link using the curvature attribute retrieved from the database for the link.

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Номер записи: 12
22-03-2012 дата публикации

Terminal device, mobile terminal, and navigation program

Номер: US20120069711A1
Автор: Kaori Endo, Yoshiteru Tsuchinaga
Принадлежит: Fujitsu Ltd

A terminal device includes an orientation calculating unit that calculates the orientation of a device with respect to the target. Furthermore, the terminal device also includes a degree-of-processing determining unit that determines the degree of processing related to an attribute of a sound that indicates the target in accordance with the orientation calculated by the orientation calculating unit. Furthermore, the terminal device also includes an output control unit that controls an output of a sound in accordance with the degree of processing determined by the degree-of-processing determining unit.

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Номер записи: 13
22-03-2012 дата публикации

Method and apparatus for determining a relative position of a sensing location with respect to a landmark

Номер: US20120072100A1
Автор: Francesco Cricri, Igor Danilo Diego Curcio, Radu Ciprian Bilcu, Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate
Принадлежит: Nokia Oyj

An apparatus may include a landmark selector configured to receive selection of a landmark. A sensory device may determine at least one position indicator relating to alignment with the landmark from a sensing location, such as orientation, attitude, and/or altitude. The apparatus may further include a position determiner configured to determine a relative position of the sensing location with respect to the landmark based at least in part on the position indicator. Accordingly, the apparatus may determine the relative position of the sensing location with respect to the landmark. In some embodiments the apparatus may be further configured to determine the absolute position of the sensing location. Thereby position information may be used, for example, to create collaborative content captured at an event occurring near the landmark.

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Номер записи: 14
05-04-2012 дата публикации

Information display apparatus for map display

Номер: US20120081281A1
Автор: Kazumasa Morichika
Принадлежит: Casio Computer Co Ltd

An information display apparatus, including a nonvolatile database memory 14 that stores map data, a display unit 16 , a user state detection unit 31 that detects a kind of user movement state indicative of a current user movement state from among a plurality of kinds of user movement states, a display setting unit 32 that sets a display form of the map data to be displayed by the display unit based on the user movement state detected by the user state detection unit, and a display control unit 33 that controls a display of the map data by the display unit in the display form set by the display setting unit.

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Номер записи: 15
12-04-2012 дата публикации

Computation of travel routes, durations, and plans over multiple contexts

Номер: US20120089322A1
Автор: Eric J. Horvitz
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

A route planning system comprises a receiver component that receives a request for directions between a beginning point and a destination point. An analysis component analyzes a traffic system representation that varies as context varies and outputs expected amounts of travel time between the beginning point and the destination point for multiple contexts based at least in part upon the analysis. A method is described herein that includes techniques for searching over routes and trip start times simultaneously so as to identity start times and routes associated with maximal expected value, or equivalently minimum expected cost, given preferences encoded about one or more of the leaving time, the travel time, and the arrival time.

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Номер записи: 16
12-04-2012 дата публикации

Systems and Methods for Determining a Destination Location from a Communication

Номер: US20120089331A1
Автор: Eric Randell Schmidt, Jeffrey Edward Pierfelice
Принадлежит: Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America Inc

Systems and methods for determining a destination location from a communication are described. One embodiment of a method includes receiving electronic communications data from a mobile communications device, at a computing device. The electronic communications data is parsed to identify a partial address term of interest related to the destination location in the electronic communications data. A position of the destination location is determined from the partial address term of interest. Routing data of a vehicle from a current location of the vehicle to the destination location is determined and provided to a user of the vehicle.

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Номер записи: 17
19-04-2012 дата публикации

Information processing apparatus, navigation system, and data updating method

Номер: US20120094644A1
Автор: Kazushige Hayashi, Masao Sasaki, Ryuuji Sakata, Soichi Saito, Suguru Matsushita, Takahisa Ozaki
Принадлежит: Denso Corp, Toyota Motor Corp

An information processing apparatus includes a data storage portion that stores data records in which second data is associated with first data; a communicating portion that communicates with an external device; an updating portion that receives the data records from the external device and updates the data records; a screen controlling portion that displays one or more of the first data or the second data, and that receives a specifying operation specifying the first data; a determining portion that determines whether the information processing apparatus is in a state, in which control that uses the first data will be started in response to the screen controlling portion receiving the specifying operation; and a caching portion that caches the first data specified by the specifying operation separately from the data records stored in the data storage portion, when it is determined that the information processing apparatus is in the state.

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Номер записи: 18
19-04-2012 дата публикации

Telephone directory data sharing system, navigation device, terminal device, program, and storage medium

Номер: US20120094693A1
Автор: Kentaro Yamamoto, Masahiko Morinaga, Toshiyuki Murata
Принадлежит: Pioneer Corp

A telephone directory data sharing system includes a mobile terminal and a navigation device. The mobile terminal includes an information obtaining unit, a telephone directory data generating unit, and a telephone directory data supplying unit. The information obtaining unit obtains objective information including latitude-longitude information based on an external input. The telephone directory data generating unit generates telephone directory data in which the latitude-longitude information is inserted into a field of a name and/or a field of a telephone number. The navigation device includes a telephone directory data obtaining unit and a latitude-longitude information extracting unit. The telephone directory data obtaining unit obtains the telephone directory data supplied from the terminal device. The latitude-longitude information extracting unit extracts the latitude-longitude information from the obtained telephone directory data.

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Номер записи: 19
19-04-2012 дата публикации

Gps navigator

Номер: US20120095680A1
Автор: Dwight C. Olson, Gary M. Nath
Принадлежит: Individual

Disclosed is a method and system for identifying a location of interest between a user and an identified endpoint and creating a user preference profile containing at least one location of interest to the user. A sampling bandwidth is designated based on current distance to the identified endpoint, wherein the navigation unit dynamically expands the sampling bandwidth as the user approaches within a predetermined distance of the endpoint. At least one user preference profile location of interest is selected that is within the sampling bandwidth that is between the user and the indentified endpoint. A sampling vector is computed for the at least one location of interest within the sampling bandwidth, and the user is alerted to the sampling vector for the at least one location of interest within the sampling bandwidth.

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Номер записи: 20
26-04-2012 дата публикации

Method for assessing driver attentiveness

Номер: US20120098678A1
Автор: Oliver SCHEPP, Ralf RATHMACHER, Thomas Schramm
Принадлежит: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC

A method is provided for assessing the attentiveness of the driver of motor vehicle traveling in a lane including, but not limited to detecting the position of the motor vehicle on the lane transverse to the direction of travel, determining the extent of fluctuations of the position, and assessing the attentiveness as insufficient if within an observation period at least one first significant period is detected in which the extent of fluctuations of the position falls below a first low limiting value and a second significant period is detected in which the extent of the fluctuations exceeds a second high limiting value.

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Номер записи: 21
26-04-2012 дата публикации

Display device, display method, and display program

Номер: US20120098769A1
Автор: Hidenori Nagasaka
Принадлежит: Aisin AW Co Ltd

Display devices, methods, and programs detect a position of a user's finger contacting a touch panel. When the user's finger lifts from the touch panel, the devices, methods, and programs detect a distance and a direction from a first position of the user's finger to a second position of the user's finger, in which the user's finger was last detected, calculate a reference moving amount and a moving direction, and update the display position of the image by moving the display position of the image in the moving direction by the reference moving amount, and then update the display position using an updated moving amount, the updated moving amount being the reference moving amount multiplied by a predetermined coefficient of less than one The devices, methods, and programs continue to newly update the display position by repeating the updating of the moving amount.

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Номер записи: 22
26-04-2012 дата публикации

Display device, display method, and display program

Номер: US20120098770A1
Автор: Hidenori Nagasaka
Принадлежит: Aisin AW Co Ltd

Display devices, methods, and programs display an image on a touch panel. The devices, methods, and programs detect a start position, which is a detected position where a user's finger starts to contact the touch panel, calculate a moving amount by multiplying a distance between the detected start position and a detected second position of the user's finger by a predetermined coefficient of less than one, and update the display position of the image in a direction moving from the detected start position toward the detected second position until the moving amount is equal to or less than a minimum moving amount.

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Номер записи: 23
26-04-2012 дата публикации

Method and device for controlling a vehicle cruise control

Номер: US20120101698A1
Автор: Anders Eriksson, Johan Bjernetun
Принадлежит: VOLVO LASTVAGNAR AB

A method and device are provided for controlling a vehicle cruise control in a vehicle, the method including registering a starting point and an end destination for a possible traveling route of the vehicle, registering a desired traveling time for the traveling route, calculating and setting limits for parameters of the cruise control in order to arrive at the end destination on the desired traveling time with as low fuel consumption as possible.

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Номер записи: 24
03-05-2012 дата публикации

Range of Focus in an Augmented Reality Application

Номер: US20120105476A1
Автор: Erick Tseng
Принадлежит: Google LLC

A computer-implemented augmented reality method includes receiving one or more indications, entered on a mobile computing device by a user of the mobile computing device, of a distance range for determining items to display with an augmented reality application, the distance range representing geographic distance from a base point where the mobile computing device is located. The method also includes selecting, from items in a computer database, one or more items that are located within the distance range from the mobile computing device entered by the user, and providing data for representing labels for the selected one or more items on a visual display of the mobile computing device, the labels corresponding to the selected items, and the items corresponding to geographical features that are within the distance range as measure from the mobile computing device.

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Номер записи: 25
10-05-2012 дата публикации

Travelling route guidance system and car-audio apparatus and method of guiding route using the same

Номер: US20120116669A1
Автор: Bum Tae Lee, Chi Nam Oh, Heung In Park, Min Suk Kim, Young Eon Ma
Принадлежит: Hyundai Motor Co, Kia Motors Corp

A route guidance system, a car-audio apparatus thereof, and a method for providing route guidance using the same are provided. The route guidance system using a car-audio apparatus which includes an input module for receiving destination information to be visited by a driver from the driver via, e.g. a voice command, a location tracking module which determines a present location information of a vehicle, and a control module which transfers voice information for the present location information of the vehicle and the destination information to the server. Route guidance information, received from the server, is searched via an electronic map on the server. The control module transfers the route guidance information to the car-audio apparatus and allows the car-audio apparatus to display the route information through an interface of a display module of the car-audio apparatus.

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Номер записи: 26
10-05-2012 дата публикации

Range marker for a navigation system

Номер: US20120116670A1
Автор: Darin Paul Rosekrans
Принадлежит: Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America Inc

Devices, methods and systems are disclosed herein to describe a range marker for a navigation system. The range marker may delineate a bounded area within a navigation map that a vehicle may travel based on the amount of fuel remaining. As the fuel continues to decrease during operation of the vehicle, the range marker may become smaller and smaller indicating a shrinking range since the fuel remaining decreases, thereby allowing the driver to easily identify which gas stations may be within a range of the vehicle (based on a current vehicle fuel level) and which gas stations might not be within the range of the vehicle.

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Номер записи: 27
24-05-2012 дата публикации

Road estimation device and method for estimating road

Номер: US20120128217A1
Автор: Taichi Satoh
Принадлежит: Denso Corp

A road estimation device receives data including a core point being assigned along a road and being assigned with attributes including at least a shape-relevant attribute being relevant to a road shape for identifying the road. A map data input unit inputs map data including links having attributes. A link narrowing down unit sets a search area for the core point in a map and extracts links in the search area from the map data, according to the attributes of the link and the shape-relevant attribute of the core point. The link narrowing down unit further narrows down the extracted links into a candidate link being candidate of the road represented by the core point for estimating the road on a map, according to parallel road information being the shape-relevant attribute.

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Номер записи: 28
24-05-2012 дата публикации

Control device, control method of control device, and computer program

Номер: US20120130510A1
Автор: Hidenori Nagasaka
Принадлежит: Aisin AW Co Ltd

Control devices, methods, and programs set a final control value by smoothly shifting from the control value to a final control value. The devices, methods, and programs specify an operation amount of a user operation with respect to a prescribed control value, and access a pre-change control value that is a value of the control value before a completed change. Based on the accessed pre-change control value and the specified operation amount of the user operation, devices, methods, and programs set a final control value by changing the control value in a stepwise manner from the pre-change control value to the final control value within a prescribed control value range.

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Номер записи: 29
24-05-2012 дата публикации

System and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets both indoors and outdoors

Номер: US20120130632A1
Автор: Amrit Bandyopadhyay, Benjamin E. Funk, Carole A. Teolis, Daniel Hakim, Eric Asher Kohn, Gilmer Blankenship
Принадлежит: Individual

A system and method for locating, tracking, and/or monitoring the status of personnel and/or assets (“trackees”), both indoors and outdoors, is provided. Tracking data obtained from various sources utilizing any number of tracking methods may be provided as input to a mapping application. The mapping application generates position estimates for trackees using a suite of mapping tools to make corrections to the tracking data. The mapping application further uses information from building data, when available, to enhance position estimates. Indoor tracking methods including, sensor fusion methods, map matching methods, and map building methods may be implemented to take tracking data from one or more trackees and compute a more accurate tracking estimate for each trackee. Outdoor tracking methods may be implemented to enhance outdoor tracking data by combining tracking estimates such as inertial tracks with magnetic data, compass data, and/or with GPS, if and when available.

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Номер записи: 30
24-05-2012 дата публикации

Location Based Tracking

Номер: US20120131048A1
Автор: Gregory N. Christie, Imran A. Chaudhri, Robert E. Borchers, Scott Forstall
Принадлежит: Apple Inc

Location information is used to build a database of locations having associated audio, video, image or text data. In some implementations, a device includes a touch-sensitive display and collects data associated with a geographic location of interest. The geographic location of interest can be displayed on a map using an indicator. A touch selection of the indicator provides access to the data through an interface displayed on the touch-sensitive display. One or more locations of interest can be displayed and grouped together by an attribute.

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Номер записи: 31
07-06-2012 дата публикации

Vehicular video mirror system

Номер: US20120140080A1
Автор: David W. Taylor, Kenneth Schofield, Kevin C. McCarthy, Niall R. Lynam
Принадлежит: Donnelly Corp

A video mirror system for a vehicle includes an interior rearview mirror assembly having an electrochromic reflective element and a video display screen disposed to the rear of the reflective element. The video display screen, when actuated, emits light that passes through a transflective mirror reflector of the reflective element to be visible to a driver of the vehicle viewing the reflective element. The video display screen includes a thin film transistor liquid crystal display element that is back lit by a plurality of white light emitting light emitting diodes. A camera having a field of view rearward of the vehicle is mounted at the rear of the vehicle and, during a reversing maneuver of the vehicle, a video output of the camera is displayed by the video display screen as video images so as to assist the driver in reversing the equipped vehicle.

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Номер записи: 32
07-06-2012 дата публикации

Method for providing a navigation route according to a point of interest on the navigation route and device thereof

Номер: US20120143491A1
Автор: Ying-Tz Cheng
Принадлежит: Mitac International Corp

A method for providing a navigation route according to a point of interest on the navigation route includes determining a current position and a destination, utilizing a personal navigation device to generate a plurality of navigation routes from the current position to the destination, calculating the weightings of the plurality of navigation routes and providing a navigation route according to the weightings of the plurality of navigation routes. If a predetermined point of interest is located on a first navigation route of the plurality of navigation routes, the personal navigation device adjusts the weighting of the first navigation route.

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Номер записи: 33
07-06-2012 дата публикации

Navigation system with destination-centric en-route notification delivery mechanism and method of operation thereof

Номер: US20120143501A1
Автор: Ky Tang
Принадлежит: Telenav Inc

A method of operation of a navigation system includes: receiving an entry for a destination; identifying a category of interest for the destination; generating a route to the destination; recognizing a traveling context for traveling along the route to the destination; and generating an en-route notification based on matching a delivery profile to the category of interest for traveling within the traveling context for displaying on a device.

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Номер записи: 34
07-06-2012 дата публикации

Method and apparatus of route guidance

Номер: US20120143504A1
Автор: Andrew Tesch Miller, Andrey Yuryevich Ulanov, Iljya Kalai, Keith Ito, Michael Siliski
Принадлежит: Google LLC

Systems and methods of route guidance on a user device are provided. In one aspect, a system and method transmit partitions of map data to a client device. Each map partition may contain road geometries, road names, road network topology, or any other information needed to provide turn-by-turn navigation or driving directions within the partition. Each map partition may be encoded with enough data to allow them to be stitched together to form a larger map. Map partitions may be fetched along each route to be used in the event of a network outage or other loss of network connectivity. For example, if a user deviates from the original route and a network outage occurs, the map data may be assembled and a routing algorithm may be applied to the map data in order to direct the user back to the original route.

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Номер записи: 35
14-06-2012 дата публикации

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

Номер: US20120146945A1
Автор: Tatsushi Nashida, Yusuke MIYAZAWA
Принадлежит: Sony Corp

An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit for detecting a contact operation and a pressure of an operating object on a contact operation surface, a display switching unit for switching display on a display screen according to the pressure of the operating object detected by the detection unit, and an execution unit for performing a predetermined process, in a case a predetermined operation of the operating object on the contact operation surface is detected by the detection unit while the display on the display screen is being switched by the display switching unit, according to the predetermined operation.

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Номер записи: 36
14-06-2012 дата публикации

Manipulation information input apparatus

Номер: US20120147032A1
Автор: Takahiro Ishikawa
Принадлежит: Denso Corp

Several images are displayed based on instructions. A map image is displayed first as a base image. A destination setup image is then displayed as a manipulation image. A telephone number input image is then displayed also as a manipulation image. Then, an input of a telephone number of a destination is made to the telephone number input image. When an event occurs in the middle of the input, a present map image is alternatively displayed while the previously displayed images from the map image as a closest displayed base image up to the telephone number input image as an interrupted displayed manipulation image are recorded as an image transition in an image recording portion. When the event disappears, the recorded image transition is displayed from the closest displayed base image up to the interrupted displayed manipulation image, enabling smooth resumption of the interrupted input.

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Номер записи: 37
14-06-2012 дата публикации

Providing information through interaction with a printed page

Номер: US20120147433A1
Автор: Jacqueline Anne Lapstun, Kia Silverbrook, Paul Lapstun
Принадлежит: SILVERBROOK RESEARCH PTY LTD

A method for providing information is disclosed. Page descriptors are stored in a server. A printed page is printed by a printer with visible and invisible data. The invisible data is indicative of one or more of the page descriptors. A sensing device senses the invisible data when placed in an operative position relative to the printed page, and transmits information extracted from sensed invisible data to the server. The page descriptor of the printed page is identified by the server, and information associated with the page descriptor and positioning of the sensing device relative to the printed page is provided by the server.

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Номер записи: 38
14-06-2012 дата публикации

Pedestrian-crossing marking detecting method and pedestrian-crossing marking detecting device

Номер: US20120148104A1
Автор: Hirofumi Nishimura, Takuya Nanri
Принадлежит: Panasonic Corp

Provided are a pedestrian-crossing marking detecting method and a pedestrian-crossing marking detecting device, wherein the existence of pedestrian crossing markings and the positions thereof can be detected accurately from within a picked up image, even when detection of the intensity edges of painted sections is difficult. In the pedestrian-crossing mark detecting device ( 100 ), a road-surface distance of a predetermined range is calculated with respect to image data picked up from the periphery of the vehicle including the road, using camera installation information or a stereo camera's distance information, and the period of the pedestrian crossing markings is calculated on the basis of the road-surface distance of the predetermined range, and furthermore, a power of frequency is calculated using an even function and odd function of a square wave of the period as the basis function. In such a way, the existence of pedestrian crossing markings and the positions thereof can be detected accurately from within the captured image, even with pedestrian crossing markings where the paint has faded.

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Номер записи: 39
14-06-2012 дата публикации

Path determination

Номер: US20120150379A1
Автор: David Andrew Wragg, Peter Stephen Day
Принадлежит: BAE SYSTEMS plc

A system for controlling a vehicle to follow at least one person includes a detection device for detecting a location of at least one person. The system further includes a storage device for recording locations of at least one person at a plurality of points in time, and a path determination device for determining a driveable path for a vehicle based on the recorded locations. The system further includes a control device for operating vehicle to follow one or more persons over the driveable path.

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Номер записи: 40
14-06-2012 дата публикации

Method and arrangement relating to navigation

Номер: US20120150429A1
Автор: Georg Siotos
Принадлежит: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB

The present invention relates to a navigation system ( 100 ) comprising a navigation device ( 10 ) and a data providing device ( 20 ). The data providing device is configured to monitor a user and provide said navigation device ( 10 ) with biometric data relating to at least one physical behaviour of said user.

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Номер записи: 41
14-06-2012 дата публикации

Navigation device, navigation method, and program

Номер: US20120150432A1
Автор: Daisuke Tanizaki, Michitaka KONO
Принадлежит: Aisin AW Co Ltd

Navigation devices, methods, and programs acquire a vehicle location, access stored map information including road width information, and set a destination. The devices, methods, and programs search for a route to the set destination based on the stored map information, perform route guidance based on the searched route, and acquire a last branch point on the searched route. The devices, methods, and programs determine a road width of an entering link entering the acquired last branch point, and determine a distance from the last branch point to the destination. Based on the determined road width and the determined distance, the devices, methods, and programs determine a last communication point on the searched route at which last guidance to the destination is to be communicated to a user.

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Номер записи: 42
21-06-2012 дата публикации

Method and Apparatus for Route Searching

Номер: US20120158285A1
Автор: Jun Yamazaki, Mariko Okude, Shinichi Amaya, Tomoaki Hiruta
Принадлежит: Clarion Co Ltd

Provided is a route through which a user can smoothly travel and on which an evaluation of traveling environment is reflected. A route search system includes a user input receiving unit which uses a delay time from an expected travel time as an index indicating comfort of a route and selects a factor such as traffic conditions and pedestrians set as a condition that a user desires avoidance, a delay time calculation unit which calculates a delay time from an expected arrival prediction time according to map information, traffic information, and traveling environment information so as to reduce a delay as far as possible due to the selected factor, and calculates a cost based on the delay time, and a route search unit which calculates a cost of a link used for a route search from the delay time, and searches a route by using the calculated cost.

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Номер записи: 43
21-06-2012 дата публикации

Methods and systems for augmented navigation

Номер: US20120158287A1
Автор: Francesco Altamura, Simone Cortesi
Принадлежит: Boeing Co

A navigation device is described that includes a processing device, a memory communicatively coupled to the processing device, the memory including a database of cartographic navigation map data, a first sensor operable to provide location data to the processing device, a display operatively coupled to the processing device, and an image acquisition device operatively coupled to the processing device. The processing device is programmed to, when in a first mode of operation, to cause the display to display a portion of the cartographic navigation map data, the displayed portion based on the location data received by the processing device. The processing device is further configured, when in a second mode of operation, to cause the display to display an image acquired by the image acquisition device, the image overlaid by one or more symbols indicative of one or more points of interest within the database of cartographic navigation map data, the one or more symbols correlated to the acquired image based on the location data received by the processing device.

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Номер записи: 44
21-06-2012 дата публикации

Multi-level image viewing

Номер: US20120159384A1
Автор: Michael Zyskowski, Xin-Yi Chua
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

An image viewing system may display multiple levels of images, where images with different data or other information may be presented at each level. The levels may represent different information derived from or related to the data from which the images were derived. Within each level, different levels of resolutions of the images may be presented to allow a user to zoom into and out from the data. Some embodiments may present two or more levels of images on the same display, where one level may represent data zoomed into from a higher level, and where the views of the images may be coordinated with each other. In some embodiments, the images may be pre-processed images, while other embodiments may have dynamically generated images.

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Номер записи: 45
28-06-2012 дата публикации

Providing guidance for locating street parking

Номер: US20120161984A1
Автор: EYAL Amir
Принадлежит: AI Incube Inc

A facility for providing guidance for locating street parking is described. The facility receives an indication of a geographic location with respect to which provide parking guidance, and determines an effective time for which to provide guidance. The facility then provides parking guidance relating to the indicated location at the effective time for a use.

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Номер записи: 46
28-06-2012 дата публикации

Navigation system with congestion estimation mechanism and method of operation thereof

Номер: US20120166071A1
Автор: Ilya Eckstein, Munir Estevane, Nikhil Shirahatti, Pierre-Emmanuel Mazare
Принадлежит: Telenav Inc

A method of operation of a navigation system includes: receiving a real-time traffic flow of road links; determining congestion candidate links from the road links by thresholding the real-time traffic flow of the road links; smoothing spatially the real-time traffic flow of the congestion candidate links; calculating a flow confidence of the real-time traffic flow of the congestion candidate links; determining a congested segment by tracking the real-time traffic flow and the flow confidence of the congestion candidate links over a time period; and generating a congestion message for the congested segment for displaying on a device.

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Номер записи: 47
28-06-2012 дата публикации

Systems and methods for adaptive gesture recognition

Номер: US20120167017A1
Автор: Andy Oh
Принадлежит: SLING MEDIA LLC

Systems and methods are described for adaptively recognizing gestures indicated by user inputs received from a touchpad, touchscreen, directional pad, mouse or other multi-directional input device. If a user's movement does not indicate a gesture using current gesture recognition parameters, additional processing can be performed to recognize the gesture using other factors. The gesture recognition parameters can then be adapted so that subsequent user inputs that are similar to the previously-rejected inputs will appropriately trigger gesture commands as desired by the user. Gestural data or parameters may be locally or remotely stored for further processing.

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Номер записи: 48
05-07-2012 дата публикации

Navigation device, control method, program, and storage medium

Номер: US20120173145A1
Автор: Masayoshi Suzuki, Tetsuro Shimamura
Принадлежит: Pioneer Corp, Pioneer System Technologies Corp

A determination unit determines whether or not the vehicle is running on a road known by a user. A mode setting unit sets an output mode to a known road running mode in a case where the determination unit determines that the vehicle is running on the known road, and sets the output mode to a normal mode in a case where the determination unit determines that the vehicle is not running on the known road. A function suppressing unit suppresses the interrupt function in the known road running mode. A valuable information presenting unit displays, in the known road running mode, some or all valuable information in a larger scale compared to the normal mode among plural piece of information displayed in the normal mode, and/or which displays other valuable information which is not displayed in the normal mode.

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Номер записи: 49
05-07-2012 дата публикации

Progressive spatial searching using augmented structures

Номер: US20120173500A1
Автор: Kaushik Chakrabarti, Surajit Chaudhuri
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

A location associated with a user of a computing device and a prefix portion of an input string may be received as one or more successive characters of the input string are provided by the user via the computing device. A list of suggested items may be obtained based on a function of respective recommendation indicators and proximities of the items to the location in response to receiving the prefix portion, and based on partially traversing a character string search structure having a plurality of non-terminal nodes augmented with bound indicators associated with spatial regions. The list of suggested items and descriptive information associated with each suggested item may be returned to the user, in response to receiving the prefix portion, for rendering an image illustrating indicators associated with the list in a manner relative to the location, as the user provides each successive character of the input string.

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Номер записи: 50
12-07-2012 дата публикации

Position determination using horizontal angles

Номер: US20120178469A1
Автор: Slawomir K. Grzechnik
Принадлежит: Qualcomm Inc

An access terminal of a wireless communication system includes a transceiver configured to receive wirelessly multiple reference keypoints and a geographical location of each respective reference keypoint, each geographical location being a location near an estimated position of the access terminal; at least one camera communicatively coupled to the transceiver and configured to capture an image; and a processor communicatively coupled to the at least one camera and configured to calculate a refined position of the access terminal, that is more accurate than the estimated position, using first and second horizontal angles between the geographical locations of respective first and second pairs of reference keypoints determined as each corresponding to a respective image keypoint identified within the image captured by the at least one camera.

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Номер записи: 51
12-07-2012 дата публикации

Method and Apparatus for Charging Station Guidance

Номер: US20120179323A1
Автор: Brian Petersen, Edward Andrew Pleet, Elizabeth Profitt-Brown, Joseph Paul Rork, Kelly Lee ZECHEL
Принадлежит: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC

A computer-implemented method, executable by a vehicle associated computing system, includes receiving a request for display of local refueling points. The method also includes determining current coordinates of vehicle and determining one or more fuel point locations within a defined map range. The method additionally includes displaying a map display containing the current vehicle location and the location of the one or more fuel point locations.

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Номер записи: 52
26-07-2012 дата публикации

Proactive low fuel warning system and method

Номер: US20120191289A1
Автор: Christina Wang, Jonathan Lasch, Youliang Guo
Принадлежит: Continental Automotive Systems Inc

A proactive low-fuel warning system provides notifications to a vehicle operator that the energy or fuel remaining in a fuel supply or energy storage device is insufficient to reach a fueling station. When fuel level is too low or the energy stored in a batter is insufficient, the system can be configured to inhibit vehicle operation. Emergency communications can be sent automatically when fuel is depleted, nearly depleted with inclusion of location information by which the vehicles current location can be determined by emergency service providers.

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Номер записи: 53
26-07-2012 дата публикации

Method and System for Providing Environmentally-Optimized Navigation Routes

Номер: US20120191290A1
Автор: Francis Bourque, Mark Hansen, Sanjay Gupta
Принадлежит: Individual

A method ( 500 ) and navigation system ( 100 ) are provided that generate a navigation route that is environmentally optimized between an origin and destination. Upon receiving an origination location and destination from a user or other source, such as a GPS satellite ( 104 ), a route determination module ( 302 ) determines multiple routes between the origination location and destination. An environmental analysis module ( 301 ) then processes each route to determine an environmental impact value. An evaluation module ( 303 ) then can selects a proposed route for presentation to the user via a presentation module ( 304 ). Alternatively, the evaluation module ( 303 ) may select two or more routes, which the presentation module ( 304 ) may present with corresponding environmental impact data such that the user may select a particular route. Additionally, a green coach module ( 306 ) may provide instructions to the user for more environmentally beneficial operation of a vehicle ( 102 ).

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Номер записи: 54
26-07-2012 дата публикации

Navigation system having maneuver attempt training mechanism and method of operation thereof

Номер: US20120191343A1
Автор: Ambreen Haleem
Принадлежит: Telenav Inc

A method of operation of a navigation system includes: generating a maneuver instruction for a driving maneuver, the maneuver instruction including an explanation of how to turn, merge, park or operate a driver's vehicle; monitoring a maneuver attempt for a compliance to the maneuver instruction; modifying the maneuver instruction based on the maneuver attempt; assigning a driver skill grade for the maneuver attempt based on the compliance to the maneuver instruction; and generating a training feedback to improve the driver skill grade of the maneuver attempt for displaying on a device.

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Номер записи: 55
26-07-2012 дата публикации

Method and apparatus for displaying lane complexity information for navigation system

Номер: US20120191344A1
Автор: Andrew de Silva, Mari Hatazawa, Mike Iao
Принадлежит: Alpine Electronics Inc

A display method and apparatus in a navigation system to provide lane complexity information is disclosed. In one embodiment, the navigation system provides guidance information by displaying one or more color indicators on each lane to indicate lane complexity thereon. The lane complexity can be determined by the number of freeways connected at an interchange or how many lane changes the driver has to make before approaching the maneuver point. In another embodiment, each lane on the map is highlighted with the same color as each color indicator which is located on or above the lane. In a further embodiment, a lane and an exit may be highlighted to differentiate from the lane which the vehicle is currently is travelling on to remind the driver of the exit.

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Номер записи: 56
26-07-2012 дата публикации

Device with camera-info

Номер: US20120191346A1
Автор: Marc Mattu, Pieter Geelen
Принадлежит: TomTom International BV

The present application relates to a device, such as a navigation device, for vehicular and non-vehicular use, e.g. by pedestrians. The device is arranged to receive a feed from a camera. The navigation device is further arranged to display a combination of a camera image from the feed from the camera and virtual signage on the display. The virtual signage relating to roads, buildings, points of interest and the like.

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Номер записи: 57
02-08-2012 дата публикации

Driving assistant method and system for electric vehicle

Номер: US20120194346A1
Автор: Channing Chang, Cheng-Yu Wu, I-Ta Tsai, Yi-Chun Lin, Yu-Hui Lin
Принадлежит: Industrial Technology Research Institute ITRI

A driving assistant method for an electric vehicle is provided with the following steps. When the electric vehicle is started up, a battery energy safe driving region is calculated and displayed. The battery energy safe driving region is updated dynamically according to vehicle information. The vehicle information includes battery information of the electric vehicle.

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Номер записи: 58
02-08-2012 дата публикации

Ar glasses with sensor and user action based control of external devices with feedback

Номер: US20120194553A1
Автор: Charles Cella, Edward H. Nortrup, John D. Haddick, Ralph F. Osterhout, Robert J. Nortrup, Robert Michael Lohse
Принадлежит: Osterhout Group Inc

This disclosure concerns an interactive head-mounted eyepiece with an integrated processor for handling content for display and an integrated image source for introducing the content to an optical assembly through which the user views a surrounding environment and the displayed content, wherein the eyepiece includes sensor and user action based control of external devices with feedback.

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Номер записи: 59
02-08-2012 дата публикации

Course guidance system, course guidance method, and course guidance program

Номер: US20120197521A1
Автор: Takayuki Miyajima
Принадлежит: Aisin AW Co Ltd

Course guidance systems, methods, and programs determine that a vehicle is exiting from a facility to an out-of-facility road via an exit lane, and determine an estimated connection angle of the exit lane at an exit/entrance node. The systems, methods, and programs generate course guidance information based on the determined estimated connection angle when the vehicle is determined to be exiting. Based on the vehicle location information and the road information, the systems, methods, and programs detect whether an actual traveling road and the guidance road differ. Based on the vehicle location information and the road information, the systems, methods, and programs correct the estimated connection angle at the exit/entrance node based on a relative angle between the actual traveling road and the guidance road, and record the corrected estimated connection angle.

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Номер записи: 60
02-08-2012 дата публикации

Interactive Geographic Feature

Номер: US20120197713A1
Автор: James D. Lynch, Matei Stroila
Принадлежит: Navteq BV

One or more systems, devices, and/or methods for providing and/or using a navigation/geographic feature are disclosed. For example, a method of operation of a navigation system may include providing a graphics user interface. A data representation of a geographic object, such as a path sign or icon, text, or character thereof, is provided in the graphics user interface. The data representation of the path sign may be provided as a feature of a navigation display. Input identifying a portion of the data representation of the geographic object is received. A navigation-related function is provided based on receiving the input.

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Номер записи: 61
09-08-2012 дата публикации

Method for providing poi information for mobile terminal and apparatus thereof

Номер: US20120203460A1
Автор: Chae-Guk CHO, Ki-Hyung Lee
Принадлежит: Individual

A method and apparatus for providing point of interest (POI) information of a mobile terminal. The method and apparatus extract POI information, where the POI information and/or associated road information is included in an image captured by a camera. Location information of an image capture place and image capture direction information are read from the digital photo image, and the POI information corresponding to the location and image capture direction information is extracted from a map data, and the extracted POI information is thereafter displayed on the digital photo image.

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Номер записи: 62
09-08-2012 дата публикации

Comprehensive multiple feature telematics system

Номер: US20120203557A1
Автор: Gilad Odinak
Принадлежит: Individual

A comprehensive system and method for telematics including the following features individually or in sub-combinations: vehicle user interfaces, telecommunications, speech recognition, digital commerce and vehicle parking, digital signal processing, wireless transmission of digitized voice input, navigational assistance for motorists, data communication to vehicles, mobile client-server communication, extending coverage and bandwidth of wireless communication services, and noise reduction.

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Номер записи: 63
16-08-2012 дата публикации

Efficient pre-computing of simplified vector data for rendering at multiple zoom levels

Номер: US20120206469A1
Автор: David Eustis, Tudor Hulubei
Принадлежит: Google LLC

Aspects of the invention relate generally to accessing, storing, and processing vector data to represent various geographical features such as roads, rivers, lakes, countries, continents, and oceans on one or more maps. More specifically, the vector data may be pre-simplified for rendering at different zoom levels. The simplification process is based on removing vertices from vector data in order to reduce the number of points in a given polygon or line. As this process is very expensive in terms of time and processing power, the system and method allow for estimation of the proportion of vertices which that would be removed from the original geometry. Based on this estimation, one may decide whether or not the simplification is worth the effort to compute and store the simplified data.

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Номер записи: 64
16-08-2012 дата публикации

Process for Operating a Route Acquisition System and a Route Acquisition System

Номер: US20120209511A1
Автор: Andreas Winckler, Carsten Isert
Принадлежит: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG

A process is provided for operating a route acquisition system, configured for determining route data during movement of the route acquisition system along preset routes, and for storing the latter as electronic routes in the data memory. A preset selection of routes is determined as a function of the stored electronic routes. For each route of the preset selection, a route count and a route point in time, and a first and a second route time indication, are determined. A route evaluation is determined for each route based on the assigned route count, the assigned route point in time, and the first and second route time indication. As a function of a determined size of the occupied storage space of the data memory, the respective route of the preset selection is deleted from the data memory as a function of its assigned route evaluation.

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Номер записи: 65
16-08-2012 дата публикации

Action history recording apparatus, action history recording method, and program

Номер: US20120209521A1
Автор: Naoyuki Sakazaki
Принадлежит: Casio Computer Co Ltd

With use of GPS, an action-history recording apparatus obtains latitudes and longitudes representing places of user's action where a user is acting, and stores action-history data containing place names indicating the places of user's action at a predetermined processing timing. In the case where, the place of user's action is a specific place unique to the user, where the user visits customarily or frequently, the user is allowed to enter an arbitrary name independent of the latitude and longitude. The name entered by the user is used as a pace name to be contained in action-history data. In this way, the apparatus obtains a place name appropriate for the user and the user can use the name conveniently as the place name of the user's action.

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Номер записи: 66
16-08-2012 дата публикации

Navigation device, server device, navigation system and program

Номер: US20120209523A1
Автор: Hiroaki Takatsuki, Kimio Okamoto, Norikazu NARA, Noriyuki Abe, Takaaki Ishii, Takashi Shioya
Принадлежит: Clarion Co Ltd

Provided is a navigation technique which allows a person other than a user who received a route guide to operate a navigation device through an interaction process. The navigation device is characterized by being provided with an instruction reception unit, a process unit, and an output unit. The instruction reception unit receives an instruction for a process from an external device. The process unit executes a process in accordance with the instruction received by the instruction reception unit. The output unit outputs output information which is obtained as the result of the process executed by the process unit.

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Номер записи: 67
23-08-2012 дата публикации

System and Method for Responding to Driver Behavior

Номер: US20120212353A1
Автор: Kin Fung, Timothy J. Dick
Принадлежит: Honda Motor Co Ltd

Methods of assessing driver behavior include monitoring vehicle systems and driver monitoring systems to accommodate for a driver's slow reaction time, attention lapse and/or alertness. When it is determined that a driver is drowsy, for example, the response system may modify the operation of one or more vehicle systems. The systems that may be modified include: visual devices, audio devices, tactile devices, antilock brake systems, automatic brake prefill systems, brake assist systems, auto cruise control systems, electronic stability control systems, collision warning systems, lane keep assist systems, blind spot indicator systems, electronic pretensioning systems and climate control systems.

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Номер записи: 68
23-08-2012 дата публикации

Automated annotation of a view

Номер: US20120212507A1
Автор: Martin Vetterli, Serge Ayer
Принадлежит: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL

In a view, e.g. of scenery, of a shopping or museum display, or of a meeting or conference, automated processing can be used to annotate objects which are visible from a viewer position. Annotation can be of objects selected by the viewer, and can be displayed visually, for example, with or without an image of the view.

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Номер записи: 69
23-08-2012 дата публикации

More accurate navigation method

Номер: US20120215439A1
Автор: Stephen Chen
Принадлежит: E Lead Electronic Co Ltd

A more accurate navigation method allowing the user to check the destination information online with personal computer and then performs steps of settings, searching and modifying the destination position on the website, draws the route inside the large destination from entrance to the final parking space, downloads the edited data and import the data to the navigation device by external transmission device. The navigation device is therefore capable of navigating the users to an approximate destination position and then accurately navigating the users to the specific parking space that is closest to the final destination.

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Номер записи: 70
30-08-2012 дата публикации

Method and apparatus for providing route information in image media

Номер: US20120221241A1
Автор: Mikko Antero Nurmi
Принадлежит: Nokia Oyj

An approach is provided for recognizing objects in media content. The capture manager determines to detect, at a device, one or more objects in a content stream. Next, the capture manager determines to capture one or more representations of the one or more objects in the content stream. Then, the capture manager associates the one or more representations with one or more instances of the content stream.

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Номер записи: 71
30-08-2012 дата публикации

Sharing gps navigation information

Номер: US20120221243A1
Автор: Dimitri Kanevsky, Edward Emile Kelley, Peter Gustav Fairweather, Sara H. Basson
Принадлежит: International Business Machines Corp

A host application on a host computer system receives annotations made by drivers of respective navigation information displayed to the drivers by GPS devices in vehicles of the respective drivers. The host application saves the annotated navigation information for the respective drivers on a computer readable memory accessible by the host application. The host application receives a request from a first one of the drivers for annotated navigation information made by one or more of the other drivers. Responsive to the request, the host application selects one or more items of the saved annotated navigation information. The host application sends the selected one or more items of the saved annotated navigation information to the GPS device of the first one of the drivers.

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Номер записи: 72
06-09-2012 дата публикации

Navigation device with augmented reality navigation functionality

Номер: US20120226437A1
Автор: Hung-Tai Shin, Lu-Ming Liu, Wei-Tim Li
Принадлежит: Mitac International Corp

A navigation device includes a display, a recording medium, a navigation camera, a global positioning system (GPS), and a processor. The processor is operable to determine a current position for generating a navigation route to a destination. Based on a real-time traffic image received from the navigation camera, the processor adjusts a display scale and a display position of the navigation route, superimposes the navigation route on the real-time traffic image to generate a superimposed image, and outputs the superimposed image for viewing on the display and storage in the recording medium.

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Номер записи: 73
13-09-2012 дата публикации

Method and system for fast clipping of line segments

Номер: US20120229502A1
Автор: Ramgopal Rajagopalan
Принадлежит: Research in Motion Ltd

A method of static graphics rendering in a mobile device. Panning increments are received for panning a previously rendered frame to a panned frame. A rendering region is then determined based on the panning increments. A candidate line segment or polyline is then clipped to create clipped line segments contained within the rendering region. The clipped line segments can then be rendered, and a portion of the previously rendered frame can be copied, to provide the panned frame.

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Номер записи: 74
20-09-2012 дата публикации

Navigation system

Номер: US20120239281A1
Автор: Ole Hinz
Принадлежит: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH

A system provides a description of a road segment using location reference points. The system may receive traffic information about a road segment along a road. The system may determine two sets of location reference points based on the traffic information. The system may generate a description of the road segment based on the two determined sets of location reference points.

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Номер записи: 75
27-09-2012 дата публикации

Image processing apparatus and control method thereof

Номер: US20120242474A1
Автор: Kyunggeun Kim, Soohwan OH, Sungah Ahn, Sungha CHOI
Принадлежит: LG ELECTRONICS INC

An image display device is provided to receive a image corresponding to a program and identification information regarding the program from a mobile terminal, determine an image processing scheme with respect to the received image based on the identification information, and process the received image based on the determined image processing scheme, thus allowing a user to conveniently and effectively view the image provided from the mobile terminal in a stable environment in a vehicle. The image display device includes: a communication unit configured to receive an image corresponding to a program and identification information corresponding to the program from a mobile terminal; a controller configured to determine an image processing scheme corresponding to the received image based on the received identification information, and process the received image based on the determined image processing scheme; and a display unit configured to display the processed image.

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Номер записи: 76
04-10-2012 дата публикации

GPS Navigation System

Номер: US20120253580A1
Автор: Khaled Abdullah M. Al-Mahnna
Принадлежит: Individual

A GPS navigation system for a motor vehicle mounted within sight of a driver and/or navigator. The system comprises and/or consists of a memory module that contains a pre-stored map database including a plurality of locations and a receiver supported within the motor vehicle for receiving signals indicative of the current position of the map. The system also includes a monitor positioned in the position within sight of the driver and/or navigator for displaying the location of the vehicle with the respect to a pre-stored map. Means including the memory module, receiver and said monitor display an area of about ½ km in all direction and up to ½ km to 1 km from the current position of the vehicle. Further, means including a zoom optical system for zooming in and out of the ½ to 1 km radius of the vehicle location on the stored map and means for summoning help to the present location of the vehicle. In addition, radar means for sensing an object that obstructs the projected pathway of the vehicle and a plurality of sensors and running control means perform the auto-drive control running of the vehicle based on the detection of signals from the plurality of sensors wherein said auto-drive control includes speed control, steering and breaking. The system includes a change over means for switching between the auto-drive and manual drive modes.

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Номер записи: 77
04-10-2012 дата публикации

Systems and methods for assessing vehicle handling

Номер: US20120253587A1
Автор: Mark J. Davidson
Принадлежит: United Parcel Service of America Inc

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a fleet management computer system configured for assessing vehicle backing According to various embodiments, the fleet management computer system is configured to assess operational data associated with one or more vehicles and identify vehicle backing events occurring during a particular time period. In various embodiments, the fleet management computer system is also configured to determine one or more backing characteristics for the identified backing events and generate a graphical display providing backing information indicative of the backing characteristics.

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Номер записи: 78
04-10-2012 дата публикации

Data mining in a digital map database to identify intersections located at hill bottoms and enabling precautionary actions in a vehicle

Номер: US20120253605A1
Автор: Robert Denaro
Принадлежит: Navteq BV

Disclosed is a feature for a vehicle that enables taking precautionary actions in response to conditions on the road network around or ahead of the vehicle, in particular, an intersection located at the bottom of a hill. A database that represents the road network is used to determine locations where an intersection of roads is located at the bottom of a hill and then, precautionary action data is added to the database to indicate such locations. A precautionary action system installed in a vehicle uses this database, or a database derived therefrom, in combination with a positioning system to take a precautionary action as the vehicle approaches such a location.

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Номер записи: 79
04-10-2012 дата публикации

Mobile state determination of location aware devices

Номер: US20120253656A1
Автор: Eli U. BRANDT
Принадлежит: Google LLC

Systems and methods are provided for determining the mode of travel of a location aware device. Data from the location aware device is received, which includes location aware data about the speed, location, and navigational route of the location aware device and data about the connection of the location aware device to a power source. These features of data from the location aware device are used to determine the mode of travel of the location aware device. The data from the location aware device can also be used to determine preferred routes of navigation, speed of roads, and traffic on roads.

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Номер записи: 80
11-10-2012 дата публикации

Navigation Device and Guiding Method Thereof

Номер: US20120259539A1
Автор: Akio Sumizawa
Принадлежит: Clarion Co Ltd

Disclosed is a navigation device capable of guiding HOV lanes more intelligibly. The device comprises a storage unit that stores installation information relating to traffic lanes that become passable when predetermined conditions are satisfied (hereinafter referred to as “conditional traffic lanes”) and a guiding unit that guides entrances to the conditional traffic lanes. The guiding unit displays entrance guide images for guiding the car in which the device is installed to the entrances to the conditional traffic lanes instead of images that have been displayed until then when the position of the car approaches the entrances to the conditional traffic lanes.

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Номер записи: 81
11-10-2012 дата публикации

Navigation guidance system

Номер: US20120259542A1
Автор: Daniel Hünig
Принадлежит: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH

A navigation system may calculate a route to a destination and output guidance information with an output device to guide a user of the navigation system along the calculated route. If it is determined that a navigation device has left the calculated route, the navigation system may prompt the user asking whether output of guidance information should be suspended. If the output of guidance information should be suspended, the navigation system may suspend the output of guidance information and calculate a new route to the destination while the output of guidance information is suspended. The navigation system may calculate an estimated arrival time at the destination based on the calculated new route and output the estimated arrival time while the output of guidance information is suspended.

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Номер записи: 82
18-10-2012 дата публикации

Data synchronization for devices supporting direction-based services

Номер: US20120264457A1
Автор: Lev Novik, Moe Khosravy
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

With the addition of directional information and gesture based input in a location based services environment, a variety of service(s) can be provided on top of user identification or interaction with specific object(s) of interest. For instance, a device can interact with various endpoints of a direction-based location service and any of the content or other information exchanged between clients and services can be synchronized for efficient exchange of information and efficient utilization of network bandwidth and resources. For example, change input is received by a device that alters, deletes or augments dynamically updateable information associated with a point of interest and the changes resulting from the change input are synchronized from the mobile device to a location based network service. Optionally, the synchronization can be according to a knowledge exchange to identify what should be synchronized prior to transmitting the updates.

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Номер записи: 83
25-10-2012 дата публикации

Method and control unit for controlling a hybrid drive of a vehicle

Номер: US20120271497A1
Автор: Jobst Gercke, Thomas Kleine-Besten
Принадлежит: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH

A method for controlling a hybrid drive of a vehicle, the hybrid drive having an electric drive and a fuel drive. A database which has assignments between route information and first and second route criteria is provided. The route information represents routes which may be traveled by the vehicle. The first route criterion represents a preferred use of the electric drive on the particular assigned route, and the second route criterion represents a preferred use of the fuel drive on the particular assigned route. Current route information which represents a route traveled by the vehicle is received, and a current route criterion assigned to the current route information is provided from the database, and control information is also provided for using the electric drive if the current route criterion is the first route criterion or for using the fuel drive if the current route criterion is the second route criterion.

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Номер записи: 84
25-10-2012 дата публикации

Dynamic Highlighting of Geographic Entities on Electronic Maps

Номер: US20120271848A1
Автор: Fabrice Caillette, Shiro Kadowaki
Принадлежит: Google LLC

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, can be used to dynamically generate electronic maps with highlighted entity boundaries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request for an electronic map segment for a geographic region, with the request identifying a geographic entity to be highlighted in the requested electronic map segment. A plurality of layers of map data associated with the geographic region and data defining a boundary of the identified geographic entity are retrieved in response to the request. The electronic map segment is rendered based on the retrieved plurality of layers of map data and the data defining the boundary of the geographic entity, with one or more of the retrieved layers are rendered over a rendering of a highlighted boundary of the geographic entity. The rendered electronic map segment is transmitted in response to the request.

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Номер записи: 85
25-10-2012 дата публикации

System and method of fixing mistakes by going back in an electronic device

Номер: US20120272177A1
Автор: Pedram Vaghefinazari, Ritchie Huang, Stuart Masakazu Yamamoto
Принадлежит: Honda Motor Co Ltd

A system, method, and computer program product for allowing a user to fix errors in a user input is described. An original user input providing a destination address or a point of interest is received by an in-vehicle computing system. Upon receiving a user input indicating an error in interpreting the original user input, the user is presented with a new query requesting the user to enter a portion of or a category associated with the original input. Once the updated user input providing a portion of the original input is received, the user input is identified and executed based on the original user input entry and the updated user input.

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Номер записи: 86
01-11-2012 дата публикации

Method of analyzing points of interest with probe data

Номер: US20120277985A1
Автор: James Alan Witmer
Принадлежит: TomTom North America Inc

A method of analyzing points of interest ( 22 ) using traces from probe data is provided. The method includes providing a database of a digital vector map ( 18 ) configured to store a plurality of traces ( 1′ - 14′ ) representing roads. The method further includes collecting probe data from vehicles traveling along the traces. Then, bundling a group of select traces ( 2′, 5′, 7′, 9′, 11′ ) having routes with a common origin ( 20 ) and at least one divergence point ( 24, 1 ) downstream from the origin ( 20 ) and building a database of vehicle maneuvers over the routes. Further, computing average speeds and delay times of a random population of vehicles traversing the vehicle maneuvers. Further yet, computing average speeds and delay times of all vehicles traversing the routes. Then, comparing the computed results from the random population of vehicles with the computed results from all vehicles traversing said routes.

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Номер записи: 87
01-11-2012 дата публикации

Incremental map generation, refinement and extension with gps traces

Номер: US20120277993A1
Автор: Heiko Mund
Принадлежит: TomTom Germany GmbH and Co KG

A method for improving and extending an existing road network and generating new networks from statistically relevant amounts of probe data recorded by GPS-enabled navigation devices. New probe data is matched to the existing digital vector map, then the data merged into the existing network using a weighted mean technique. When new roads are detected, appropriate junction points are made with the existing network elements. The updated network data is simplified to improve computing speed and reduce data storage requirements.

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Номер записи: 88
08-11-2012 дата публикации

Method of determining drive lane using steering wheel model

Номер: US20120283941A1
Автор: Eunsung Lee, Eunsup Sim, Giwook Nam, Moonbeom Heo, Wooyong KANG
Принадлежит: Korea Aerospace Research Institute KARI

Provided is a method of determining a drive lane using a steering wheel model. The method includes a step S 100 of preparing a precise digital map having an accuracy capable of differentiating a road lane; a step S 200 of estimating a vehicle location on a road using GPS information; a step S 300 of checking whether the vehicle location information is normal using a difference between variation in the azimuth angle of the vehicle obtained by using the GPS information and variation in the azimuth angle of the vehicle obtained by using the steering wheel model; and a step S 500 of determining and outputting a drive lane occupied by a running vehicle.

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Номер записи: 89
15-11-2012 дата публикации

Methods And Apparatus For Associating Mapping Functionality And Information In Contact Lists Of Mobile Communication Devices

Номер: US20120289259A1
Автор: Jesse Joseph Boudreau, Nicholas Bryson Wilson, Ronald Anthony Dicke
Принадлежит: Research in Motion Ltd

A technique to provide mapping functionality in an address book of a communication device involves displaying a menu list of functions associated with a contact entry of the address book, including a function to display on a map a location of an address listed in the contact entry; receiving an input request to display on a map the location; and displaying a map corresponding to the location, in a display of the communication device.

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Номер записи: 90
15-11-2012 дата публикации

Real-time route optimization for real estate open house tours

Номер: US20120290203A1
Автор: Lance R. King
Принадлежит: Individual

A system and method are disclosed for optimizing a route and schedule for visiting real estate open houses. The system may update the route and schedule in real time where a user deviates from the provided route and schedule. The system and method may further receive notes from a user while at an open house, and automatically store those notes in association with a property where the notes were received.

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Номер записи: 91
22-11-2012 дата публикации

Navigation system with location-based supplemental incentive notification mechanism and method of operation thereof

Номер: US20120296565A1
Автор: XIANG Liu
Принадлежит: Telenav Inc

A method of operation of a navigation system includes: generating a notification of an initial offer; identifying a consumer's vacillation to the initial offer; and generating a second notification of the supplemental incentive offer based on the consumer's vacillation for displaying on a device.

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Номер записи: 92
29-11-2012 дата публикации

Optimization of navigation tools using spatial sorting

Номер: US20120303263A1
Автор: Juan Pablo Candelas Gonzalez, Mudassir Alam
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

Digital map navigation applications for use with a mobile computing device are optimized using a spatial sorting method. Spatial sorting entails partitioning a digital map into tiles and maintaining information that links tiles to points on the route. When a particular map navigation application is invoked, a set of relevance rules are defined for that map application to determine which of the route points to process. This determination is made by extracting from the look-up table a subset of the full set of route points, based on the relevance rules. Because the subset of route points is processed instead of the original full set of route points, the mobile device is capable of efficiently handling a complex route that otherwise would entail considerable expenditure of processor time and use of computer memory to store and retrieve unnecessary data.

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Номер записи: 93
29-11-2012 дата публикации

Start-of-route map navigation with suppression of off-route feedback

Номер: US20120303270A1
Автор: Aarti Bharathan, Chien-Wen Danny Su, Juan Pablo Candelas Gonzalez, Mudassir Alam
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

A map navigation tool provides a start-of-route buffer area in which off-route feedback (e.g., audio or visual warnings or alerts) can be suppressed in some circumstances. For example, a mobile computing device implements a map navigation tool that can output off-route feedback when the user strays from a route, but also can suppress off-route feedback when the user is within a start-of-route buffer area. Off-route feedback can continue to be suppressed until some other event, such as the user leaving the start-of-route buffer area, occurs. Off-route feedback can be suppressed even if the user is not within a start-of-route buffer area, such as when the map navigation tool generates a route when the user is at an initial location that is far away from any part of the route and then joins the route later (e.g., at the start location or downstream from the start location).

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Номер записи: 94
06-12-2012 дата публикации

Systems and methods for collecting and providing map images

Номер: US20120306922A1
Автор: Mohammed Waleed Kadous, Russell Heywood
Принадлежит: Google LLC

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to collecting images of maps at plurality of client devices, orienting the images with respect to the Earth, and providing the oriented maps to users. The map images may be collected by users who orient the maps by arranging the position of the image over a picture of the Earth. In another example, users may orient the maps by using “pushpins” to indicate the location of two or more points in the map image to two or more locations on the image of the Earth. The images may be processed in order to generate high quality images which may then be downloaded and used by other users.

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Номер записи: 95
06-12-2012 дата публикации

Route calculation apparatus

Номер: US20120310520A1
Автор: Hiroki Ukai, Hiroyuki Hirano, Masamiki Andoh, Yasunori Kanno
Принадлежит: Denso Corp

An information center calculates, from a specific departure point to a specific destination, (i) an optimal route for an in-vehicle terminal when a request terminal of a route search request is the in-vehicle terminal and (ii) an optimal route for a mobile terminal when the request terminal of the route search request is the mobile terminal, respectively. The calculated optimal route for the in-vehicle terminal is different from the calculated optimal route for the mobile terminal.

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Номер записи: 96
06-12-2012 дата публикации

Navigation server and navigation system

Номер: US20120310525A1
Автор: Koji Sengoku, Tadafumi Nogawa, Yuichiro Ishido
Принадлежит: Honda Motor Co Ltd

Disclosed is a navigation system which creates “environment contribution information” in accordance with a deviation (δ(k)) between the total cost (C 1 (k)) of a first route (RT 1 (k)) which is searched by using a traffic information indicating the amount of cost required to pass through each link and the total cost (C 2 (k)) of a second route (RT 2 (k)) which is searched without using the traffic information. The traffic information used in searching the first route (RT 1 (k)) to a target position (TP(k)) of a vehicle ( 2 ) is used in searching a route to a shared target position by a navigation device ( 200 ).

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Номер записи: 97
06-12-2012 дата публикации

Asymmetric dynamic geo-fencing

Номер: US20120310527A1
Автор: Brian C. Beckman, Eran Yariv, Vadim V.K. Kuper
Принадлежит: Microsoft Corp

Architecture that enables location based notifications (e.g., geo-fences) using standard polygons the capture of complex regions. As applied to geo-fencing, it extends geo-fencing beyond the mere representation of the virtual perimeter (fenced) area. More specifically, the architecture takes into consideration geographical and demographical features, such as the layout of the roads and streets, the types of available of transportation (e.g., car, bus, walk, biking, etc.), the traffic conditions, and the dynamic properties of a point of interest (POI) such as opening hours, total wait time, etc. More specifically, the architecture enables the dynamic modification of polygon geo-fence based on POI properties, dynamic modification of polygon geo-fence based on road/street layout, dynamic modification of polygon geo-fence based on means of transportation, dynamic modification of polygon geo-fence based on traffic conditions, dynamic modification of polygon geo-fence based on user's state, and dynamic recalculation of regions and directions tailored to user interests.

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Номер записи: 98
13-12-2012 дата публикации

System and method for ensuring a person reaches a destination on time

Номер: US20120316763A1
Автор: Anthony W. Ulwick, James Haynes, III
Принадлежит: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC

A system includes a first interface module and a route determining module. The first interface module interfaces with a scheduling program and retrieves from the scheduling program a meeting time and a meeting location for a meeting scheduled by a user using the scheduling program. The route determining module determines (i) a route from a first location to the meeting location and (ii) a departure time for the user to depart from the first location to reach the meeting location at the meeting time. The route determining module determines the route and the departure time based on (i) predicted traffic conditions and (ii) predicted weather conditions surrounding the first location and the meeting location prior to the meeting time.

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Номер записи: 99
13-12-2012 дата публикации

Methods and systems for performing charting tasks

Номер: US20120316776A1
Автор: Ross McNeil Brown
Принадлежит: Boeing Co

A method for accessing information on an electronic version of an navigation information display is described. The method includes displaying navigation information on a display of a device, the device incorporating a touch screen, sensing a user touch on the touch screen, determining, by the device, a location on the touch screen where the user touch has occurred, correlating the location on the touch screen where the user touch has occurred with a location on the navigation information display, and displaying a magnified area of a portion of the navigation information proximate the location on the touch screen where the user touch occurred.

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Номер записи: 100