http://www.freshpatents.com/Data-processing--vehicles-navigation-and-relative-location-dtnewntc701.php USPTO Class 701 - Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location en-us Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 1000 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 141 31 http://www.freshpatents.com/index.php?rss=true http://www.freshpatents.com/images/freshpatentsnav_rss.gif http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116857.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 An environment estimation apparatus includes an image area dividing unit for dividing a camera image taken with a vehicle camera into a plurality of image areas, a camera image information extracting unit for extracting, from an image area that has the sky taken and is acquired from among the plurality... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116854.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A lane tracking system for tracking the position of a vehicle within a lane includes a camera configured to provide a video feed representative of a field of view and a video processor configured to receive the video feed from the camera and to generate latent video-based position data indicative... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116856.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A method for operating a vehicle system of a motor vehicle for determining at least one state variable which describes the state of the driver, in particular the attention and/or fatigue of the driver, wherein the state variable is determined by using a reference data set which describes a reference... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116855.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 Geo-referenced and/or time-referenced electronic drawings may be generated based on electronic vehicle information to facilitate documentation of a vehicle-related event. A symbols library, a collection of geo-referenced images, and any data acquired from one or more vehicles may be stored in memory for use in connection with generation of such... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116859.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A driver assist system for a vehicle includes an object detection sensor disposed at the vehicle and having an exterior field of view and a receiver operable to receive a wireless communication from a communication device remote from the vehicle. The wireless communication is associated with a driving condition of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116858.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 The present invention provides a vehicle control system, for example for use with an emergency services vehicle such as an ambulance, fire engine, police car or the like, and which provides enhanced security, functionality and improved fuel consumption for such vehicles when at the scene of a situation such as... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116861.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A vehicle control system includes: a communication device provided in a vehicle to receive information relating to another vehicle from outside the vehicle; and a control device that performs travel control on the vehicle on the basis of information pertaining to a transfer function for a control target value used... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116860.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A wireless communication system including a portable device and a vehicle device configured to transmit information including a vehicle state. The portable device includes a telecommunication unit that obtains, through an information network, information including procedures that should be taken in accordance with the vehicle state or state of the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116862.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 An electric autobrake interlock system for an aircraft includes an autobrake power interlock mechanism that prevents inadvertent (uncommanded) application of brakes. The autobrake power interlock removes operating power from the brake actuators whenever the autobrake actuation data does not indicate a legitimate autobrake application condition. The interlock processing occurs in... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116863.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 The detection device includes, but is not limited to a device that is configured to determine a control error corresponding to the difference between a first control instruction and a control surface position, a second device that is configured to calculate the difference between this control error and a second... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116864.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 An onboard apparatus includes: a route database that stores start and end distances from a start point and a section length of the radiowave-reception difficult area; and an onboard control device that checks the rout database to determine whether the own train is in the radiowave-reception difficult area, and when... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116865.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A system includes a control unit that is configured to be disposed on-board a first vehicle that moves along a route of a transportation network having a vehicle yard. The control unit also is configured to receive, from off-board the first vehicle, an updated time of entry into the vehicle... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116868.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A battery-powered vehicle and a vehicle battery maintenance system that includes a battery charger that monitors energy consumption data from the vehicle battery to generate charging instructions to a charger. A central data unit (CDU) can determine whether if a vehicle electrical load is consuming too much energy and then... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116872.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 An engine includes variable valve mechanisms capable of causing an intake valve and an exhaust valve to stop. An ECU estimates poisoning states of catalysts, and executes and prohibits stopping of the valves based on the poisoning states. When stopping of the valves is prohibited during a fuel-cut operation, the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116871.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 An electric vehicle includes a wheel-driving motor, a motor inverter that supplies electric power to the wheel-driving motor, a pump that delivers a cooling medium to at least one of the motor inverter and the motor, a capacitor that stores a counter electromotive force generated by the pump, and a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116876.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 The present invention relates to an electric vehicle and a method for controlling an emergency thereof, wherein: a plurality of control units are comprised in such a manner that the plurality of control units monitor one another; and emergency control is performed through a control unit which will normally operate... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116875.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 The present invention relates to an electric vehicle and a method for controlling same, which involve monitoring the state of PRA which switches power supply so as to stably supply power or cut off the supply of power during the operation of the electric vehicle, and controlling of a plurality... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116867.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 Methods and systems are provided for raising the speed of a hybrid electric vehicle operating in an electric-only mode. During conditions when the vehicle is driven only by an electric motor, vehicle speed may be raised by spinning the engine unfueled using power from a system battery, while adjusting valve... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116866.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 Methods and systems are provided for raising the speed of a hybrid electric vehicle operating in an electric-only mode. During conditions when the vehicle is driven only by an electric motor, vehicle speed may be raised by spinning the engine unfueled using power from a system battery, while adjusting valve... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116877.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 The invention relates to a device and a method for cooling an electricity storage means, in particular a high-capacity battery (110), said device comprising: cooling means (130) for cooling said storage means; a “low voltage” battery (120); means (130), supplied with power by the low voltage battery (120), for increasing... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116873.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 When two (in particular electric) drives operate on wheels decoupled from each other in a motor vehicle, the drives should have an identical construction and the same properties. However, if one drive is stronger than the other, distribution factors other than 0.5 must define the target torque for the two... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116870.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A telematics-navigation device detects that a hybrid vehicle propelled by at least two energy sources is traveling to a destination not provided to the vehicle (i.e., an unknown destination). As the vehicle travels to the destination, the device identifies a road segment between a current position of the vehicle and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116874.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 This pitch control device for an electric vehicle, configured to conduct pitch control for suppressing the change in the attitude of the vehicle due to the pitch motion of the electric vehicle, controls the vehicle so that a braking/driving torque command value that is output to a motor for driving... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116869.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A hybrid electric vehicle has a controller, an engine, a traction motor, and a transmission. The controller is configured for calculating, using a costing function, the total system losses incurred at each operating point of the HEV, including the losses for each of the engine, the traction motor, and the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116878.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 Automatic monitoring to determine whether, during a parking process of a parking assistance system of the vehicle, the vehicle is at an end of a current maneuver of the parking process. If the vehicle is at the end of the current maneuver of the parking process, a braking request of... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116879.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A method to park a vehicle using a parking assistance system, a target position of the vehicle within a parking space is automatically determined. A parking process of the parking assistance system is considered successfully ended when the vehicle reaches the target position. In order to carry out the parking... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116880.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 An autonomous mobile body includes a storage unit arranged to store a size D2 of the autonomous mobile body, a laser range sensor arranged to acquire obstacle information, an obstacle identification unit arranged to identify, based on the acquired obstacle information, edge points indicating positions of both ends of a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116881.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A method for responding to conditions detected in an on-board diagnostic unit of a motor vehicle and signaling degradation of a component of the motor vehicle. The method includes providing a first response if the conditions signal degradation of the component due to tampering, and providing a second response if... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116882.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 Provided are methods, systems, and apparatuses for telematics navigation.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116883.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 An arrangement and a method for the automatic documentation of situations during fieldwork in which an operating parameter sensor records an operating parameter of an agricultural machine during field work or a crop sensor records a characteristic of the crop that is gathered or processed by the agricultural machine during... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116884.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 An apparatus and method for aggregating health management information includes an aircraft having a flight computer coupled to a plurality of aircraft systems. Each system has a built in test (BIT) protocol that self-diagnoses a health of the system and outputs corresponding BIT data to the flight computer for contemporaneous... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116885.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A single input having multiple functions is provided. The single input having multiple functions may be used on off-board tools. In accordance with one embodiment, an off-board tool having a read/scroll actuator is provided. The read/scroll actuator, upon being actuated, performs either a read function or a scroll function. Another... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116886.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A monitoring system is for an electric vehicle and an electric vehicle supply equipment. The electric vehicle supply equipment is structured to communicate with the electric vehicle to charge the electric vehicle. The monitoring system includes a monitoring component structured to monitor communication and monitor energy or power flow between... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116888.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A driver-state detection system and method with an accelerator pedal control function detects a driver's state and controlling an accelerator pedal to prevent an accident. The driver-state detection system with an accelerator pedal control function includes a driver-state detector detecting a driving state of a driver and determining whether the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116889.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 An energy storage system of a vehicle includes a first energy storage device and a second energy storage device, a voltage and current regulator device coupled to the first and second energy storage devices, a control unit for controlling the regulator device, and a plurality of sensing devices for sensing... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116887.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A system, controller, and method for displaying an image corresponding to a field of view about a vehicle. The controller stores images from a camera, and outputs a processed signal to display to a vehicle operator stored images from a time period prior to the controller receiving an operator input... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116890.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A steering angle detecting unit, a reaction force actuator that applies steering reaction force to a steering member, a yaw angle detecting unit that detects a yaw angle of a vehicle body, and a reaction force actuator control unit that sets the steering reaction force as a function of a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116891.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 In a material handling vehicle such as an electric forklift, a depression amount of an accelerator pedal that provides an instruction on a control amount of a drive motor for driving a drive wheel is detected. When the depression amount of the accelerator pedal is equal to or larger than... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116892.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A vehicle has a security and anti-theft system that senses movement of the vehicle in a forward or backward direction when the vehicle is in a locked state, such as by detecting wheel rotation. Upon this detection, the security system signals the motor to counteract the wheel movement by rotating... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116893.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 Disclosed is a headrest position adjusting device provided with a distance measuring device and drive motor units. The distance measuring device is provided with a plurality of detection electrodes and a detection circuit including a plurality of capacitance detection circuits and a computation circuit. The computation circuit uses capacitance values,... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116895.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A combination tractor and baler is provided to automate tractor stopping and baler wrapping while incorporating operator interaction to improve the efficiency of the tractor and baler combination in operation. Automated control systems and manual operator devices are utilized to improve the timing of the tractor stop and baler wrapping... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116894.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 Sugar cane harvester automatic cutter height control systems maintain consistent cutter heights even as a harvesting machine traverses changing field conditions. After an operator chooses an initial cutting height the automatic systems maintain that height even as ground conditions change.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116897.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A swing control apparatus and a swing control method for a construction machine are provided. The swing control apparatus includes a start position estimation unit, a stop target position calculation unit, and a swing motor position control unit. Even if an operator releases a lever or commands a stop at... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116896.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A system and a method for controlling a work machine. A plurality of sensor arrangements provide a respective output value. A data transmission network connects the sensor arrangements to a processor unit. The processor unit is operated to convert output values from the sensor arrangement into a standard data format... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116899.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A coasting control device for avoiding dangerous modes such as tire lock up upon the end of coasting control. The device, which performs coasting control to disengage the clutch and to reduce the engine revolutions per minute (RPM), also prevents a gearshift operation during coasting control.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116898.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A system and method for controlling automatic stop-start of a motor vehicle is provided. The system and method is configured to enable an automatic stop-start mode of operation based on vehicle conditions. In addition, the system and method is configured to selectively actuate an accumulator to prime the transmission for... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116900.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 An abnormal state diagnosis method for an automatic transmission oil temperature sensor includes: a warm-up judging step of judging whether a sensor value from an engine side temperature sensor in an engine warm-up state indicates the engine warm-up state; a sensor normal operation judgment step of starting to judge whether... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116901.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A method for ascertaining a rotational speed parameter for determining a setpoint torque for driving a drivetrain. The drivetrain comprises a first and at least one second drive assembly for driving a hybrid vehicle. The first drive assembly can be coupled to the drivetrain by means of a clutch. The... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116902.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A method of determining clutch parameters at the initial start of operation of a friction clutch in a motor vehicle comprising the steps of: in a first phase, moving the clutch from an open state into a closed state and into an open state again at a predetermined constant slip... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116903.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A method of operating a vehicle powertrain, includes: sensing a vehicle speed; selecting a plurality of control strategies; activating one of the plurality of control strategies, the control strategy including: (i) operating the vehicle in a stationary start-stop mode when the vehicle speed is below a first threshold; and (ii)... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116905.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 The invention relates to a monitoring system for monitoring the surrounding area, in particular the area behind motor vehicles and trailer vehicles having a plurality of distance sensors, which are arranged in a main plane and in at least one additional plane, for detecting objects or obstacles in the respective... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116904.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A vehicle brake control device is configured to correct deformation failure of a seal member and inhibit insufficient pullback of a pressing member caused by insufficient deformation of the seal member. Within a time period from a start of a lock operation to an end of the release operation, a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116906.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 The invention relates to a method and a device for operating a motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine in a coasting operating mode in which the motor vehicle rolls essentially in a propulsionless fashion and essentially without a perceptible engine drag torque on an essentially level road if there... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116907.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A method for increasing active duration time of an automatic freewheeling function in a vehicle with cruise control and during a cruise control active period is provided. The function includes an arrangement for determining a vehicle set speed (Vset speed) for when the function is allowed to be activated and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116908.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A method and system of controlling a relative position between vehicles using a mobile base station is provided. GPS information is received from a satellite at a mobile base station and a target vehicle. The current position information the mobile base station is calculated with reference to a moving speed... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116909.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A vehicle control system includes a controller that is provided in a host vehicle and that controls an acceleration of the host vehicle with the smallest acceleration, from among a first required acceleration that is required based on information related to a running state of a vehicle on a road... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116910.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A system and method for judging an abnormal condition of a combustion pressure sensor, may include determining whether a driving condition of a vehicle, a fuel injection condition, and an intake air condition may be satisfied, deriving a relational equation from an amount of air measured in real time and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116911.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine including a plurality of combustion chambers and a catalyst that cleans exhaust gases includes a controller configured to execute individual air-fuel ratio control in which an air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture generated in at least one non-specific combustion chamber is controlled... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116912.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 In a method for adapting an electric control of a fuel injector with a nozzle needle, with which fuel is metered for injection into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, wherein a momentary operating state of the internal combustion engine is monitored and the electric control is adapted... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116913.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 The invention relates to a control apparatus for a hybrid system that output engine drive force and electric motor drive force, and selectively performs an engine operation mode in which at least the engine is operated, and an engine operation stop mode in which engine operation is stopped. In cases... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116914.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A vehicle control system includes an alternator configured to generate power by driven by torque transmitted from an engine as a power source of a vehicle and capable of adjusting a power generation amount, wherein the power generation amount of the alternator is controlled based on physical amounts which change... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116915.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 Systems, methods, software, and apparatuses for coordinating traffic proximate to a potential conflict zone, such as a roadway intersection, where travel conflicts, such as crossing traffic, can arise. Coordination involves forming an ad-hoc network in a region containing the conflict zone using, for example, vehicle-to-vehicle communications and developing a dynamic... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116917.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 The present method and system is intended to provide improved communication between multiple vehicles. This is achieved by a system which has mobile telephones networked in wireless manner via a shared central server, each mobile telephone being connected to a communication line of a vehicle which provides vehicle data, such... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116916.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A method includes determining candidate schedules for plural vehicles traveling in a transportation network comprising and identifying a gridlock area in the transportation network by simulating travel of the vehicles according to the candidate schedules. The gridlock area includes a geographic subset of the transportation network during a time window... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116918.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 The device, intended for air traffic controllers and for assisting the tracking of aircraft ascents and descents, includes: a means for receiving data transmitted by an aircraft, said data including at least the spatial position of the aircraft and requests that are optionally transmitted by the crew; a display making... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116919.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A navigation system comprises a detection part for detecting a location and a speed of a navigation apparatus, a voice message weight storage part for storing voice message weight association information, which associates a weight with each of multiple voice messages, a rule storage part for storing priority rule information... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116920.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A travel routing system, method and program product therefor. A location detector detects a current location. A geographical database provides details of a given area. Selecting a destination causes a route generator to generate routes through the area from the current location. A flood simulator receives meteorological data and determines... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116921.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 A vehicle navigation system includes a GNSS position engine (GPE) that uses GNSS satellite measurements to compute a first position and velocity of a vehicle and a first quality metric associated with the position and velocity. The system also includes a dead reckoning engine (DRE) that operates parallel with the... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116922.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 An emergency guiding system is provided. The emergency guiding system includes an emergency guiding server and a portable device. The emergency guiding server includes a guiding scheme determination unit producing a guiding scheme and an augmented reality information unit. The portable device transmits an image characteristic signal including image data... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116923.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 There is provided an information processing apparatus including, a track list generation unit that generates a track list that is a list of track groups including at least a movement trajectory track generated from movement trajectory information containing position information and time information corresponding to the position information, and a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20130509ptan20130116924.php Mon, 13 May 2013 13:45:07 -0700 Various embodiments may include a method and system for testing data defining one or more navigation routes. A starting location may be input at a computer remote from the starting location. A destination location may also be input. Map data including GPS information based on the starting location input and...