Patents Issued in February 8, 2011
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Patent number: 7885731Abstract: A mobile unit input control apparatus can include an operation member, output means, determining means, display control means, input control means, and driving control means. A mode determining unit of the mobile unit input control apparatus can determine whether a driving mode is to be set or not and whether a text input mode is to be set or not in accordance with an operation signal supplied from an operation input apparatus and notifies it to an operation detecting unit. The operation detecting unit detects and analyzes the operation signal supplied from the operation input apparatus and outputs operation information as the analysis result to a text input control unit, for example. On the basis of the operation information, the text input control unit outputs a text input screen, for example, to the multi-display apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2006Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Osaka Electro-Communication UniversityInventors: Hirotaka Uoi, Ayako Suzuki
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Patent number: 7885732Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for haptics-enabled teleoperation of vehicles and other devices, including remotely-controlled air, water, and land-based vehicles, manufacturing robots, and other suitable teleoperable devices. In one embodiment, a system for teleoperation of a vehicle comprises a control component configured to provide position and orientation control with haptic force feedback of the vehicle based on a position measurement of the vehicle and configured to function in a closed-loop feedback manner. In a particular embodiment, the position measurement may include six degree-of-freedom position data provided by a motion capture system to the control and/or haptic I/O components of the application. The system may also use differences in position and/or velocity between the vehicle and a haptic I/O device for feedback control.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: James J. Troy, Charles A. Erignac, Paul Murray
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Patent number: 7885733Abstract: The present application provides systems and methods for providing navigational guidance during off-course operations, and techniques to revert back to a desired flight destination upon completion of such operations. In one aspect, an aviation navigational and/or flight management system is configured to alter guidance instructions from a predetermined flight plan for a desired destination to a particular set of radar vectors resulting in off-course flight operations. In another aspect, the system is configured to recalculate a flight plan to the desired final destination upon completion of the off-course operations without resulting in the loss of current historical flight data.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey Mitchell Simon
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Patent number: 7885734Abstract: A method for detecting an error in input of one of the takeoff parameters into a flight management system includes a step of calculating a limit value based on one or more takeoff parameters input into the flight management system. The method further includes a step of comparing the calculated limit value with characteristic takeoff values.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2006Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Airbus FranceInventors: Frederic Lemoult, Jean-Pierre Demortier, Fabien Pitard, Damien Betouret, Frederic Marani, Isabelle Lacaze, Jean-Louis De Menorval, Gael Marchand, Adrien Ott, Maxime Wachenheim
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Patent number: 7885735Abstract: A wireless DCC model railroad throttle comprises a throttle program operable on a portable data processing device to display a graphical user interface and communicate a user's control inputs to a layout controlling interface managing communication with a digitally controlled model railroad layout.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2010Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Inventor: Matthew A. Katzer
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Patent number: 7885736Abstract: A system for computing car switching solutions in a railway switch yard. The system is computer based and has an input for receiving data conveying information about one or more arrival trains arriving at the switch yard and data conveying information about departure trains to depart the switch yard. A processing entity processes the data and computes car switching solutions for the railcars.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2010Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Canadian National Railway CompanyInventors: Kari Muinonen, Anshu Pathak, Matthew Barker, Vincent Morency, Gordon Doyle
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Patent number: 7885737Abstract: A hybrid vehicle control system for cutting off fuel to an internal combustion engine of hybrid vehicle while providing smooth transitions from a hybrid drive mode to an electric drive mode is provided. The hybrid vehicle control system includes an integrated controller configured to receive inputs corresponding to vehicle speed and an indicated driving force, and to select an appropriate mode transition pattern from a group of mode transition patters according to the change in indicated driving force.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Hirata, Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Hiroshi Kaneko
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Patent number: 7885738Abstract: A method, medium, and apparatus of a self-propelled mobile unit with obstacle avoidance during wall-following. In the self-propelled mobile unit, a carrying unit may move the mobile unit by using a transmitted power, and a sensor unit can detect an obstacle and a wall, which may be respectively placed in front of and to the side of the mobile unit, with respect to a moving direction of the carrying unit. A controller may direct the carrying unit by generating a path along which the carrying unit moves according to a detection result from the sensor unit. Accordingly, the controller can direct the carrying unit to move while maintaining a predetermined distance (within a predetermined range) from the wall. If the sensor unit detects an obstacle, the controller directs the carrying unit to move in an obstacle free direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2005Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun-ho Park, Jay-woo Kim, Jong-chan Won
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Patent number: 7885739Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided that allow a user to increase the functionality of a vehicle data recorder. An option card can be connected to the option card connector on the vehicle data recorder. The option card includes at least one component thereon, such as a software, a processor, a FPGA, a memory, a power supply, a data port, a communication protocol controller, pins, a multiplexer, a hardware and a combination thereof. The components can allow the vehicle data recorder to communicate with new communication protocols that are developed, with current ones that may not have been included in the vehicle data recorder or additional functions required by the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2004Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: SPX CorporationInventors: Manokar Chinnadurai, Matthew Jordison
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Patent number: 7885740Abstract: Upon searching control parameter used to adjust damping force of a damper from a map in accordance with damper speed and target damping force decided based on moving condition of the vehicle, the map sets the control parameter, which are relatively higher than the actual damping force characteristics, as map data in the area where the damper speed is less than a predetermined value, the area where the noise has the great influence on the sensor outputs. Therefore, it can be prevented that the control parameter of the damping force is varied largely or varied in a short period by the influence of noise, and the driving stability control of the vehicle can be executed exactly and the noise caused by switching the damping force of the damper can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2009Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masaki Izawa, Takafumi Kato, Shigenobu Sekiya
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Patent number: 7885741Abstract: In a vehicle equipped with a power steering device for assisting the steering of the steered wheels by the steering wheel, when the steering angle of the steered wheels reaches the maximum steering angle, a steering control device restricts a target steering angle for operating the power steering device so that the steering angle or a reaction force acting against the power steering device does not exceed a value determined therefor, so to maintain the steering condition of the steered wheels stably without applying an excessive load on the power steering device. The target steering angle may be calculated as a value based upon rotational angle of the steering wheel and turning behavior control of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2005Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Advics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshitaka Fujita, Yoshiaki Tsuchiya, Takahiro Kojo, Masato Suzumura, Kenji Asano
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Patent number: 7885742Abstract: A target turning angle calculation part 51 calculates a target turning angle ? on the basis of a steering angle ? and a vehicle speed V. A correction turning angle calculation part 52 calculates a transfer function K(s) which is a second transfer function, depending on the vehicle speed V, by using a difference between a transfer function G(s) which is a first transfer function determined on the basis of the specification of the vehicle and a stationary component G(0) of the transfer function G(s), the first transfer function having as an input a turning angle ? and as an output a yaw rate ? of the vehicle, the second transfer function having as an input a target turning rate ?*? obtained by temporally differentiating the target turning angle ?* and as an output a correction turning angle ?c. The correction turning angle calculation part 52 calculates a correction turning angle ?c by multiplying the transfer function K(s) by the target turning rate ?*?.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2010Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Ippei Yamazaki
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Patent number: 7885743Abstract: An electric mirror control device provided with a proportionality constant conversion means for converting the proportionality constant of a detection output voltage to the angle of a mirror surface to be positive or negative. When an up-down sensor and a right-left sensor for detecting the angle of the mirror surface have a plurality of specifications, each of which has a different proportionality constant of the detection output voltage to the angle of the mirror surface, controller determines the specification of the angle sensors based on whether the proportionality constant of the detection output voltage output via the proportionality constant conversion means is positive or negative, and controls an up-down motor or a right-left motor in accordance with the determined specification stored in advance.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2008Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiki Noro, Kenji Shioiri
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Patent number: 7885744Abstract: Hardware of each of controllers (11, 12, 13) for controlling a plurality of instruments to be controlled, which are provided in a reach stacker as a heavy duty industrial vehicle, for example, a vehicle body (3), a spreader (9), and a cabin (10), is rendered common. The configuration of driver software for performing basic control is also rendered common. Only the configuration of minimum required application software is constructed to be suitable for the instrument to be controlled. Because of these features, the software of the controllers (11, 12, 13) can be easily changed. Regardless of the instrument to be controlled, as a subject of control, the controllers can be easily used for any instruments to be controlled.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2004Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Akiko Shinozaki, Hiroyuki Suzuki
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Patent number: 7885745Abstract: A GNSS control system and method are provided for guiding, navigating and controlling a motive component, such as a tractor, and a working component, such as an implement. A vector position/heading sensor is mounted on the motive component and includes multiple antennas connected to a GNSS receiver. The sensor also includes inertial sensors and a direction sensor, which are connected to a microprocessor of a steering control module (SCM). The SCM can be hot swapped among different vehicles and can interface with their respective original, onboard control systems. The implement can be provided with an optional GNSS antenna, receiver or both, and can be guided independently of the motive component. The SCM can be preprogrammed to guide the vehicle over a field in operating modes including straight line, contour, concentric circle and point+direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Hemisphere GPS LLCInventors: John A. McClure, Richard W. Heiniger, Kent D. Funk, John T. E. Timm, Richard B. Wong, Dennis M. Collins
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Patent number: 7885746Abstract: A transmission control system for a vehicle includes a first module that generates a first modified signal based on a first position of a driver input device and a second module that receives the first modified signal from the first module. The second module generates a second modified signal based on a second position of the driver input device and regulates operation of a transmission of the vehicle based on the first and second modified signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2006Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Inventors: Ananth Krishnan, David A. Thatcher, Timothy J. Hartrey
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Patent number: 7885747Abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for automatically adjusting a continuously variable transmission (CVT) in a motorized vehicle. A microprocessor processor in the vehicle receives data about the operating status of the vehicle from a plurality. Examples of vehicle data include vehicle speed, motor speed, throttle position, current draw from a battery, and battery level. A servo motor is in mechanical communication with the CVT and provides an axial force to adjust the CVT. The microprocessor uses lookup tables of optimal set points for vehicle data to instruct the servo motor to adjust the transmission ratio of the CVT according to the vehicle data provided by the sensors.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Fallbrook Technologies Inc.Inventors: Keith Miller, Peter Poxton
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Patent number: 7885748Abstract: A vehicle control system for regulating operation of a vehicle having a transmission includes a first module that processes an output shaft signal which is based on rotation of an output shaft of the transmission through a third order Kalman filter to determine an acceleration of the output shaft A second module calculates the acceleration of the vehicle based on the acceleration of said output shaft. A third module regulates operation of the vehicle based on the acceleration of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2006Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Inventors: Haytham A. Fayyad, Min K. Kim
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Patent number: 7885749Abstract: In a drive system, where power from a motor is transmitted to a drive shaft and a transmission ratio is changed by a transmission, if the absolute value of the difference between the reference torque Tm2r0, which is the drive shaft side torque Tm2r at the onset of a change in the shift speed of the transmission, and the driving shaft side torque Tm2r during the change is less than the threshold value ? until the end of the change (S280), the application state of a brake in the transmission during the change and the state of the hydraulic pressure supplied to the brake are learned (S290). During the change, and actuator of the transmission is controlled using those learned results. Accordingly, any deviations that may have occurred due to changes over time in the transmission, etc. are corrected and the shift speed of the transmission is changed more appropriately.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2006Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aisin AW Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kensuke Kamichi, Kiyoshiro Ueoka, Masaya Yamamoto, Kazuomi Okasaka, Yoichi Tajima
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Patent number: 7885750Abstract: A method of controlling a vehicle includes determining a desired sideslip angle in the moving road plane, determining an actual sideslip angle in the moving road plane, a desired yaw rate in the moving road plane, and an actual yaw rate in the moving road plane. A controller controls the vehicle system in response to the desired slip angle, the actual sideslip angle, the desired yaw rate and the actual yaw rate in the moving road plane.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2006Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Ford Global TechnologiesInventor: Jianbo Lu
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Patent number: 7885751Abstract: A driving support target braking/driving force is calculated by a driving support electronic controller, and transmitted to a first arbiter of a driving force control electronic controller. A vehicle driver requested target braking/driving force and the driving support target braking/driving force are arbitrated by the first arbiter, whereby a vehicle total target braking/driving force is calculated, and the vehicle total target braking/driving force is distributed to a vehicle target driving force and a vehicle target braking force by a braking/driving force distributor. A final target driving force is calculated by a second arbiter on the basis of the target driving force, and a driver requested braking force and the target braking force are arbitrated by an arbiter of a braking force control electronic controller, whereby a vehicle total target braking force is calculated.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2006Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hirotada Otake
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Patent number: 7885752Abstract: A control system for an internal combustion engine in which fuel containing alcohol is used. In the control system, a maximum opening of a throttle valve of the engine is set, and a target opening of the throttle valve is set to a value which is equal to or less than the maximum opening. An opening of the throttle valve is controlled so as to coincide with the target opening. The maximum opening is according to a concentration parameter indicative of a concentration of alcohol in the fuel, a temperature parameter indicative of a temperature of the engine, and a number of ignitions performed after start of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2008Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazunori Kawamura, Futoshi Nishioka, Osamu Kitamura
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Patent number: 7885753Abstract: In a first operating state, the fuel metering of one of the cylinders is controlled in first metering pulses with the same pulse characteristic during a respective one working cycle, and the metering of fuel into the other cylinders by at least one second metering pulse with a different pulse characteristic. The first pulse number and characteristic is predefined such that the same fuel mass should be metered based on an assumed injection valve characteristic as with the one second metering pulse. Depending on the measurement signal, a correction value for the one cylinder is determined. To meter the fuel based on the assumed injection valve characteristic, a single first metering pulse would be generated during a respective one working cycle. The correction value for the one cylinder is used during the rest of the operation to adapt the first metering pulse in the second operating state.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Erwin Achleitner, Dirk Baranowski, Carlos Eduardo Migueis, Paul Rodatz
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Patent number: 7885754Abstract: A fuel injector is coupled to an engine. The fuel injector includes an injection opening configured to vary in cross-section between a open state and a fully closed state. The fuel injector is configured to provide a plurality of discrete commanded fuel injections into an engine cylinder by modulating the size of the injection opening without completely closing the opening to the fully closed state.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jennifer Ann Topinka, James Peter DeLancey, Roy James Primus, Florian Peter Pintgen
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Patent number: 7885755Abstract: A fuel injection amount control apparatus controlling an amount of fuel supplied to an internal combustion engine is disclosed. An intake passage extends from the engine, and the intake passage is branched into a plurality of branch passages in an upstream section. The apparatus includes a plurality of intake air temperature sensors and an ECU. Each of the intake air temperature sensors is provided in one of the intake passages and detects an intake air temperature in the corresponding intake passage. The ECU selects an intake air temperature that most directly expresses the engine state or the environment from the intake air temperatures detected by the intake air temperature sensors. The ECU controls the amount of the fuel supplied to the engine by using the selected intake air temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso CorporationInventors: Daisuke Kobayashi, Satoshi Masuda
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Patent number: 7885756Abstract: A control system is provided and includes a catalyst module that generates a multi-mode enable signal based on a catalyst light off enable signal. A transition control module controls transitions between a single pulse mode and multi-pulse mode based on the multi-mode enable signal. The transition control module receives a first torque signal and generates a second torque signal based on the first torque signal. The engine torque control module generates an air per cylinder signal, a throttle area signal, and a spark timing signal based on the second torque signal. The single pulse mode is associated with a single fuel injection pulse per combustion cycle. The multi-pulse mode is associated with multiple fuel injection pulses per combustion cycle.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2009Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Inventors: Michael Livshiz, Jeffrey M. Kaiser, Christopher R. Graham, Christopher E. Whitney, Robert Francis Semrau, Brian D Francis
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Patent number: 7885757Abstract: There is provided a dither control means that performs a dither control, which compulsively changes an air-fuel ratio alternately to rich side and to lean side by increasing and decreasing fuel injection quantity of an injector (fuel injection valve) in a stepped manner. A predicted value (ideal A/F value ID), which indicates an ideal change of a detection value of an A/F sensor (oxygen concentration sensor) in a case where the A/F sensor is not degraded, is set as a standard value. Then, an integral of a difference between the detection value of the A/F sensor, which changes in accordance with the dither control, and the standard value is calculated. If a calculated value of the integral is larger than a predetermined value, it is determined that the A/F sensor is degraded.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2009Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Masahiko Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 7885758Abstract: A traffic monitoring system comprises a traffic estimating module that estimates an average traffic level on the road during prior ones of first periodic periods. A traffic monitoring module estimates a current traffic level on the road during a first portion of a current one of the first periodic periods based on vector and location information received from at least one of cellular phones and vehicles during the first portion. A traffic predicting module predicts traffic levels on the road during a remaining portion of the current one of the first periodic periods based on the average traffic level and the estimated current traffic level during the first portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2006Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.Inventor: Sehat Sutardja
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Patent number: 7885759Abstract: A traffic monitoring system comprises a cellular phone system that communicates with a plurality of cellular phones and that generates vector and location data for the plurality of cellular phones. A traffic monitoring module generates traffic reports based on the vector and location data and selectively enables use of the vector and location data from at least one of the cellular phones when at least one of a speed of the at least one of the cellular phones is greater than a predetermined speed and the traffic monitoring module receives vector and location data from a second one of the cellular phones and the second one of the cellular phones is traveling in the same or an opposite direction as the first one of the cellular phones and has a speed that is within a predetermined difference of a speed of the first one of the cellular phones.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.Inventor: Sehat Sutardja
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Patent number: 7885760Abstract: A traffic monitoring system comprises memory for storing map data, a traffic report generating module that receives vector and location data from at least one of cellular phones and vehicles and that generates and transmits traffic reports based on the vector and location data. A map monitoring module includes a path determining module that determines a travel path of the at least one of the cellular phones and the vehicles based on the vector and location data, a comparing module that compares the travel path to roads defined by the map data, and an identifying module that selectively identifies new roads based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.Inventor: Sehat Sutardja
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Patent number: 7885761Abstract: A destination display apparatus includes: a position obtaining unit (114) which obtains a current position of a mobile terminal; a situation obtaining unit (100) which obtains a current situation of the mobile terminal; a history accumulating unit (101) which obtains the current situation and a destination history; a destination predicting unit (102) which predicts destinations; a destination obtaining unit (103) which obtains the predicted destinations; a label accumulating unit (104) which accumulates a name label as a hierarchical structure including parent-child relationships between name labels; a number-to-be-displayed obtaining unit (105) which obtains the number of the name labels to be displayed on the mobile terminal; a label selecting unit (106) which selects a label to be displayed; an information obtaining unit (111) which obtains information from an external network medium (200); and a display unit (113) which displays the selected label and calculated information.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2008Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Takashi Tajima, Takahiro Kudoh, Jun Ozawa
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Patent number: 7885762Abstract: A destination display apparatus includes: a position obtaining unit (114) which obtains a current position of a mobile terminal; a situation obtaining unit (100) which obtains a current situation of the mobile terminal; a history accumulating unit (101) which obtains the current situation and a destination history; a destination predicting unit (102) which predicts destinations; a destination obtaining unit (103) which obtains the predicted destinations; a label accumulating unit (104) which accumulates a name label as a hierarchical structure including parent-child relationships between name labels; a number-to-be-displayed obtaining unit (105) which obtains the number of the name labels to be displayed on the mobile terminal; a label selecting unit (106) which selects a label to be displayed; an information obtaining unit (111) which obtains information from an external network medium (200); and a display unit (113) which displays the selected label and calculated information.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2010Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Takashi Tajima, Takahiro Kudoh, Jun Ozawa
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Patent number: 7885763Abstract: A system and method for tracking movements of an object of interest using an contact or contactless tag, having a writable memory. A plurality of scanners are dispersed throughout an environment in which movement of the object is to be tracked, wherein when a scanner detects the tag an entry is added to the tag. The entry can include a variety of data including, for example, the location entry indicating a time the tag was detected and a location of the detection. The system and method are particularly, but not exclusively, suited for use with airline travel.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2006Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.Inventor: William H. Havens
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Patent number: 7885764Abstract: A method for constructing and revising road maps in a vehicle map database using vehicle location signals to provide traffic flow information for recognized vehicle patterns from past vehicle travel. The method includes identifying vehicle travel segments as a series of exemplar points from the location signals. Exemplar points in each travel segment are eliminated to define the travel segment by a beginning exemplar point and an ending exemplar point. A potential ending exemplar point may be redefined if an average location of the exemplar points from a line connecting the beginning point and the potential ending point is outside of a threshold distance. The travel segments are stored in a database, where each stored travel segment includes a travel time. The method compares new vehicle travel segments to the stored vehicle travel segments to identify a match, and then revise the vehicle travel time for the stored travel segments.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventor: Darrel J. Van Buer
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Patent number: 7885765Abstract: A method and an apparatus for estimating behaviors of a vehicle are provided. At least two GPS antennas are located along a longitudinal axis of a vehicle so that speed vectors at the positions where the GPS antennas are located can be determined based on GPS signals received by the GPS antennas. The speed vectors are known to be estimated with high accuracy based on the GPS signals. The positions of the GPS antennas on the local coordinate system are estimated based on such highly accurate speed vectors, so that the estimated positions may also have high accuracy. Based on a line connecting these highly accurate positions of the GPS antennas, an inclination of the longitudinal axis of the vehicle is estimated. Use of the high-accuracy speed vectors enables high-accuracy estimation on the positions of the GPS antennas and the vehicle direction on the local coordinate system.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Minoru Okada, Mamoru Sawada, Takehito Fujii, Hiromichi Tanaka
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Patent number: 7885766Abstract: A vehicle departure determination apparatus includes: an object detection device which detects objects present in a direction of travel of a subject vehicle, and detects a relative position and relative speed of the objects and the subject vehicle; a running state detection device which detects a running state of the subject vehicle; a speed detection device which detects a speed of the subject vehicle; an oncoming vehicle determination device which determines whether any of the objects serving as oncoming vehicles for the subject vehicle are present, based on the relative speed detected by the object detection device, and the speed of the subject vehicle detected by the speed detection device; and a departure determination device which determines whether or not the subject vehicle has departed from an appropriate route for the subject vehicle, or the oncoming vehicle has departed from an appropriate route for the oncoming vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2005Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoichi Sugimoto, Yoshihiro Urai
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Patent number: 7885767Abstract: In order to estimate the size of an initial population of nucleic acids in a sample of interest, in particular by PCR, the following steps are performed: a) providing a model of the effectiveness (En) of the PCR, the model comprising a constant stage (E0) followed by a non-constant stage, the stages being united by a changeover region having a changeover index (CEEP); b) using the model of effectiveness to express a relationship between the changeover index and a parameter representative of the initial population size; and c) determining the changeover index by comparison with the experimental measurements, and deducing therefrom the initial population size in the sample of interest.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2004Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignees: Bio-Rad Pasteur, Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueInventors: Karine Piot, Pierre Martineau, Claire Lamoure, Franck Molina
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Patent number: 7885768Abstract: A method and systems for locating a source of particles, molecules, or fragments of molecules using particle, molecule, or fragment of molecule reception rate is disclosed. According to the invention, the particle, molecule, or fragment of molecules diffusion parameters in the search space are determined and a lattice is designed on the search space. After having determined whether or not at least one particle, molecule, or fragment of molecule is detected by a sensor, a probability is computed for each node of said search space lattice. The probability associated to each node of the search space lattice corresponds to the probability that the particle, molecule, or fragment of molecule source is located on the node. Then, the move of the sensor is evaluated according to the entropy of the computed probabilities.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2006Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Massimo Vergassola, Boris Shraiman, Emmanuel Villermaux
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Patent number: 7885769Abstract: Reference data are subtracted from corresponding actual measurement data, and unprocessed binding quantity data, each of which represents a quantity of binding of a ligand and each of analytes, are thereby acquired. Calculation is made to find a relationship between the reference data and the unprocessed binding quantity data acquired in cases where the binding does not occur. In accordance with the relationship, variation components, which are contained in the unprocessed binding quantity data, are calculated. The variation components are subtracted from the corresponding unprocessed binding quantity data, and processed binding quantity data are thereby acquired. The processed binding quantity data are utilized for extracting an analyte capable of binding with the ligand.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Toshihito Kimura, Hisashi Ohtsuka, Hiroaki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 7885770Abstract: Set up methods, analysis methods and monitoring methods for capillary gel arrays are provided which rigorously determine the number of capillaries for which standards should be used and/or the capillaries in which standards should not be considered and/or for which performance is impaired.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2002Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: The Secretary of State for the Home Department c/o The Forensic Science ServiceInventors: Peter Gill, Peter Koumi, Kam Tsang
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Patent number: 7885771Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the acquisition and interpretation of expirograms comprising: a gas measuring probe that is designed to determine the gas concentration ƒmess of a gas in exhaled respiratory air; a reading device that is connected to the gas measuring probe via signal and is designed to read for a plurality of values x1, . . . , xN of an exhaled volume of the exhaled respiratory air the respective determined gas concentrations ƒmess(x1), . . . , ƒmess(xN) from the gas measuring probe; a storage device that is designed to store the values x1, . . . , xN assigned to the gas concentrations ƒmess(x1), . . . , ƒmess(xN); a function fitting unit that is connected to the storage device via signal and that is designed to determine a non-linear fit function ƒ(x)=g(x)·h(x)+OffsetGas ?for the stored gas concentrations ƒmess(x1), . . .Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2005Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Universitaetslinkum FreiburgInventors: Kai Roecker, Stephan Prettin
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Patent number: 7885772Abstract: The IT and FT values for coal and coke samples can be accurately predicted by applying equations to determine ST and HT temperatures. For reducing atmospheres, the equations are IT=C1×ST?C2×HT+C3 and FT=C4×HT?C5×ST+C6. For oxidizing atmospheres, the equations are IT=C7×ST?C8×HT+C9 and FT=C10×HT?C11×ST+C12. IT is the initial deformation temperature. ST is the softening temperature. HT is the hemispherical temperature. FT is the fluid temperature. C1-C12 are constants determined by multi-linear regression coefficient analytical techniques on a collection of data.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Leco CorporationInventor: John T. Riley
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Patent number: 7885773Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide restrictive-flow flow measurement devices, valve improvements and signal control devices and processes that control the flow of liquids, including control processes for single-liquid calibration. In some embodiments, a fluid flow device can be calibrated using a single standard calibration fluid. The fluid flow of a first fluid through a flow meter is measured by calculating a first pressure difference between pressures sensed by two pressure sensors of the flow meter. The fluid flow of a second fluid through the flow meter is measured by calculating a second pressure difference between pressures sensed by the same two pressure sensors. A calibration coefficient is determined based upon the relationship between the flow rate, the fluid density and the calculated pressure difference for the first and second fluids. A relationship between the calibration coefficient and the kinematic viscosity of each fluid is then determined and stored.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2008Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Entegris, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Wargo, J. Karl Niermeyer, Jieh-Hwa Shyu, Craig L. Brodeur, William Basser
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Patent number: 7885774Abstract: A system and method for measuring and analyzing power flow parameters in RF-based excitation systems for semi-conductor plasma generators. A measuring probe (8) is connected to an RF transmission line for receiving and measuring voltage (10) and current signals (12) from the transmission line (4). A high-speed sampling process converts the measured RF voltage and current signals into digital signals. The digital signals are then processed so as to reveal fundamental and harmonic amplitude and phase information corresponding to the original RF signals. Multiple measuring probes may be inserted in the power transmission path to measure two-port parameters, and the networked probes may be interrogated to determine input impedance, output impedance, insertion loss, internal dissipation, power flow efficiency, scattering, and the effect of plasma non-linearity on the RF signal.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2006Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Bird Technologies Group Inc.Inventor: John D. Swank
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Patent number: 7885775Abstract: The invention proposes a method of processing a noisy digital time signal yk corresponding to an initial time signal xt after having been conditioned by a conditioning chain, the said initial signal xt representing information about radiations coming from a radiation source, these radiations having an energy distribution, characterised in that a state model is implemented, representing the conditioning imposed by the said chain to pass from the initial time signal xt to the noisy digital time signal yk in order to obtain from the noisy digital time signal yk a non-noisy digital estimate signal of the initial time signal xt. The invention furthermore proposes a system capable of implementing said method.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2005Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie AtomiqueInventors: Eric Barat, Thomas Dautremer, Jean-Christophe Trama
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Patent number: 7885776Abstract: There is provided a waveform generator for generating an analog signal, including a data changing section which changes an input data sequence, which is a sequence of binary data and which is to be modulated to the signal which the waveform generator should generate, to generate an after-change data sequence such that in the signal to be obtained by MSK modulation, a residual phase obtained by dividing an initial phase of the signal by 2? and a residual phase obtained by dividing a final phase of the signal by 2? are continuous, a waveform generating section which generates basic waveform data representing a waveform corresponding to the signal obtained by subjecting the after-change data sequence to MSK modulation, and an output section which outputs the signal repeating the waveform represented by the basic waveform data.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Advantest CorporationInventor: Makoto Kurosawa
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Patent number: 7885777Abstract: A method of calibrating a probe is disclosed said probe being mounted on a machine and having a stylus with a workpiece contacting tip, comprising calculating calibration information for the probe for a first orientation of the probe, and rotating the calibration information by an angle to obtain a probe calibration information for when the probe is oriented by that angle with respect to the first orientation. Also disclosed is a method of calibrating a probe during a measurement process. The calibration information may include a vector which relates probe head axes to machine axes; a calibration matrix; datum data; an inertial matrix. The stylus tip may be datumed at the orientation of the probe or inferred from datum information obtained at different orientations. The rotation step may be carried out by a software/computer program which may be stored on a controller for the machine.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2006Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Renishaw PLCInventors: Kevyn Barry Jonas, Jean-Louis Grzesiak, Geoffrey McFarland
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Patent number: 7885778Abstract: An optical detection device comprising an optical sensing section that has an optical detection transistor, a threshold voltage detecting section that has a threshold value detection transistor, a sensor output value generating section that generates a sensor output value on the basis of a signal outputted from the optical sensing section, a correction coefficient determining section that determines a correction coefficient that is used for correcting a change in the sensor output value that corresponds to a threshold voltage detected at the threshold voltage section, and a correction processing section that corrects the sensor output value on the basis of the correction coefficient.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2009Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Yukiya Hirabayashi, Takashi Kunimori
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Patent number: 7885779Abstract: A measurement error correcting method and electronic component characteristic measuring device capable of accurately coping with an electronic component which includes nonsignal line ports and whose electrical characteristics are changed by a jig. The method includes the steps of measuring an electrical characteristic, with correcting-data-acquisition samples mounted on a test jig enabling measuring nonsignal line ports, and the samples mounted on a reference jig; measuring a through device in which a signal line port and a nonsignal line port are electrically connected to each other; determining a numerical expression for calculating, from results of measurement on the test jig, an estimated electrical characteristic value obtained on the reference jig; measuring an arbitrary electronic component, on the test jig; and calculating the estimated electrical characteristic value obtained on the reference jig.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2006Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Taichi Mori, Gaku Kamitani, Hiroshi Tomohiro
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Patent number: 7885780Abstract: The invention relates to an operating device for testing torque wrenches with a data storage. A carrier is provided for fixing a torque wrench to be tested. A transducer is arranged at the carrier and coupled to the head portion of the torque wrench to be tested. A grip holder arranged on the carrier fixes the grip of the torque wrench to be tested. A deflecting mechanism generates a torque on the head portion of the torque wrench to be tested. A communication unit is coupled to the data storage of the torque wrench for data exchange.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2009Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: Eduard Wille GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Michael Lucke