Patents Examined by Jonathan Sample
  • Patent number: 7599771
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a parking assisting apparatus for assisting a vehicle driver in parking a vehicle more easily than the conventional apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Kazufumi Mizusawa
  • Patent number: 7599797
    Abstract: A method and system for mitigating risk of well collision in a field includes receiving an anti-collision standard exemption request containing a description of risk of collision between a subject well and one or more offset wells, generating an assessment of the anti-collision standard exemption request using a stored multidimensional decision matrix, reviewing the assessment, and selectively updating the decision matrix based on the review.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Benny Poedjono, Tamara San Antonio
  • Patent number: 7561962
    Abstract: This abridged map generating apparatus includes a route searching unit that searches for a plurality of routes from a departure point to a destination which has been set, an abridged map generation unit that generates an abridged map in which road shapes of the routes which are searched out by the route searching unit are simplified, based upon road map data which specifies shapes of roads by shapes of links set for each predetermined road section, and a link compactification unit that compactifies links of the routes based upon relative positional relationships of the routes before the abridged map generation unit generates the abridged map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Xanavi Informatics Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Sumizawa, Manabu Morita, Atsushi Hiroike, Kishiko Maruyama, Akinori Asahara
  • Patent number: 7561968
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a resolver system has at least one resolver and at least one amplifier in electrical communication with each resolver. A reference circuit is in electrical communication with the amplifiers. The reference circuit provides reference signals to the amplifiers. A non-linearity calibration and compensation circuit in communication with each amplifier uses the amplified reference signals to provide scale factors, so as to enhance a precision of the resolver system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Ketao Liu, Yeong-Wei A. Wu, Jeffrey L. Lee