Based On User Input Preference Patents (Class 701/425)
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Patent number: 10514697Abstract: Systems and method are provided for controlling a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes calculating, via a router of a vehicle system that accesses road map data, at least one route to a destination based on the road map data, thereby producing route solution data. The vehicle system enters a remote assistance mode in response to remote assistance decision data received from a blockage arbiter of the vehicle system. In the remote assistance mode, the method includes determining, via the router, at least one road segment of the road map data that is permitted to be blacklisted, thereby producing permitted blacklist data. The method includes transmitting the permitted blacklist data and the route solution data, via a vehicle communications module of the vehicle system, to a remote vehicle assistance system. The method includes updating, via the router, the road map data to exclude at least one blacklisted road segment defined by the permitted blacklist data.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Matthias Wisniowski, Drew Gross, Solomon Bier, Ian Rust
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Patent number: 10509777Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying and recursively populating a geographic tile with entities. Recursively populating a geographic tile with entities includes: sending a request to a third-party server for entities located near a representative point of the geographic tile; calculating a maximum distance from the representative point among the entities received; and determining whether a bounding perimeter based on the maximum distance encompasses the geographic tile. If the bounding perimeter encompasses the geographic tile, the retrieved entities located within the geographic tile are stored in association with an identifier for the geographic tile. If the bounding perimeter does not encompass the geographic tile, the geographic tile is divided and the subdivision tiles are recursively populated.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Ivan Vladimirov Ivanov, Marian Gelu Olteanu, Pol Mauri Ruiz, Victor-Cristian Ionescu
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Patent number: 10488208Abstract: A communication system, a control method, and a storage medium, which can guide a user to an action for having the predetermined feeling in accordance with a feeling map. A communication system including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire present position information of a user; a guiding information generation unit configured to generate guiding information in accordance with the present position information and map information in which feeling data is mapped; and a supply unit configured to supply the guiding information to the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2015Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Takatoshi Nakamura, Akira Tange, Masakazu Yajima, Mitsuru Takehara, Yasunori Kamada, Katsuhisa Aratani, Kazunori Hayashi, Takayasu Kon, Kohei Asada, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Abiko, Yuki Koga, Tomoya Onuma
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Patent number: 10482731Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a garment that includes a receiver, configured to receive at least one coded command from a notification generator, and at least one haptic feedback generator that delivers haptic feedback to a user while wearing the garment during a transit, corresponding to the at least one coded command, where the notification generator is configured to determine a notification to be sent to the user in response to at least one event of interest determined by an input analyzer, and to generate the at least one coded command that indicates the notification, and where the input analyzer is configured to analyze input data corresponding to the transit of the user of the garment to identify the at least one event of interest, occurring during the transit of the user. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Juliette Niebuhr Zerick, William Charles Cottrill, Eugene Henry Rascle, Jr.
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Patent number: 10464213Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic detection of spills are disclosed. In some exemplary implementations, a robot can have a spill detector comprising at least one optical imaging device configured to capture at least one image of a scene containing a spill while the robot moves between locations. The robot can process the at least one image by segmentation. Once the spill has been identified, the robot can then generate an alert indicative at least in part of a recognition of the spill.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Brain CorporationInventors: Dimitry Fisher, Cody Griffin, Micah Richert, Filip Piekniewski, Eugene Izhikevich, Jayram Moorkanikara Nageswaran, John Black
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Patent number: 10456623Abstract: A wearable device assembly has a housing supporting a controller, display and indicator system thereon. The controller has at least one sensor wherein activity of a user wearing the device is detected. The controller selectively illuminates the indicator system to indicate a level of activity of the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Aaron B. Weast, Jamian R. Cobbett
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Patent number: 10417910Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for operating an autonomous vehicle based upon a driving preference. For example, a driving profile, comprising a driving preference (e.g., a speed preference, a route preference, etc.) of a user, may be provided to an automated driving component of the autonomous vehicle. An operational parameter for the autonomous vehicle may be generated based upon the driving preference of the user. The autonomous vehicle may be operated based upon the operational parameter. In an example, a condition of the user traveling in the autonomous vehicle may be determined, and the operational parameter for the autonomous vehicle may be adjusted based upon the condition of the user not corresponding to the driving preference.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: INRIX, Inc.Inventors: Christopher L. Scofield, Scott Sedlik
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Patent number: 10417834Abstract: Devices, methods, and products are disclosed for collecting tolls for the use of traffic areas which are subject to tolls by a vehicle. To book an authorization for the use of one out of several alternatively usable traffic areas by a vehicle in sufficient time, first position data of the vehicle are associated with alternatively usable traffic areas with regard to the imminent potential use thereof. Use authorizations are booked for the traffic areas. The use of these authorizations can be voided, with the exception of the one that was verifiably used, insofar as second position data of the vehicle are associated with the same traffic areas with respect to a verified non-use.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2013Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: TOLL COLLECT GMBHInventors: Timm Buchheim, Hartmut Janssen
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Patent number: 10408629Abstract: A navigation system includes an acquisition unit that acquires position information indicating a position of a client terminal device and information related to a feeling of a user of the client terminal device. The system includes a generation unit that generates a degree of security of the position indicated by the position information on a basis of the position information and the information related to the feeling of the user, to generate a feeling map. The system includes an estimation unit that estimates a location with a high degree of security on a basis of the feeling map. The system includes a guidance generation unit that generates guidance for guiding the user of the client terminal device to the location with the high degree of security. The system includes a provision unit that provides the guidance to the user of the client terminal device.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Takahiko Sueyoshi
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Patent number: 10323954Abstract: A method of operation of a navigation system includes: identifying a non-default selection for a selected route; determining a contextual parameter corresponding to the non-default selection; and generating with a control circuit a user preference profile based on the contextual parameter of the non-default selection for representing a preference of a system user for navigation information.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2016Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Telenav, Inc.Inventors: Feng Wan, Hengbin Luo, Yogesh Agrawal, Shannph Wong
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Patent number: 10288442Abstract: In a method for exchanging navigation data between a portable device and a head unit of a vehicle, implemented in a portable device that includes one or more processors executing a navigation service application and a companion application, the navigation service application sends a destination to a navigation server, and receives first navigation data from the navigation server. The first navigation data describes at least one of a plurality of steps for navigating between a source and the destination. A companion application invokes a navigation application programming interface (API) of the navigation service application, at by using a syntax and a list of parameters specific to the navigation API to obtain, from the navigation service application, the first navigation data, and sends the first navigation data to the head unit to cause the head unit to display navigation information indicating at least the one of the plurality of navigation steps.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2018Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Andrew Foster, Nicholas J. Pelly
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Patent number: 10281287Abstract: A route generation device configured to generate a travel route of a traveling body that travels through a network configured of a node and a link, the route generation device includes a route model storage unit configured to store a route model that is data in which a frequency of travel through each link by the traveling body in a past trip performed by the traveling body is classified by destination of the trip; a trip acquisition unit configured to acquire a route starting point and a destination of a traveling body; and a route generation unit configured to extract a set of links corresponding to the acquired destination from the route model, and generate at least a part of a route of the traveling body from the route starting point to the destination based on the travel frequency associated with the extracted link.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2015Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tadashi Yanagihara, Sayaka Yoshizu, Kenji Horiguchi, Chihiro Sannomiya, Toshiro Hikita, Teruhide Hayashida
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Patent number: 10267641Abstract: A navigation method and device are provided. The method includes: receiving start point information and end point information sent by a target device; acquiring a target path navigation video from a start point to an end point based on the start point information and the end point information; and sending the target path navigation video to the target device. Accordingly, the target path navigation video is broadcasted in real time, thereby the user may determine whether a deviation occurs between the target path and the actual route in real time, and an accuracy of navigation is improved.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: XIAOMI INC.Inventor: Guoming Liu
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Patent number: 10254122Abstract: Herein is disclosed methods and systems for automated route analysis and recommendation of preferred routes. Recommended routes may be vehicle specific, and custom-selected based on historical data and weighting factors such as road roughness and traversal time.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Tierra Bills, Reginald Bryant, David Kaguma, Michiaki Tatsubori, Aisha Walcott, John Mbari Wamburu
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Patent number: 10235850Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a garment that includes a receiver, configured to receive at least one coded command from a notification generator, and at least one haptic feedback generator that delivers haptic feedback to a user while wearing the garment during a transit, corresponding to the at least one coded command, where the notification generator is configured to determine a notification to be sent to the user in response to at least one event of interest determined by an input analyzer, and to generate the at least one coded command that indicates the notification, and where the input analyzer is configured to analyze input data corresponding to the transit of the user of the garment to identify the at least one event of interest, occurring during the transit of the user. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Juliette Niebuhr Zerick, William Charles Cottrill, Eugene Henry Rascle, Jr.
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Patent number: 10228256Abstract: Systems and methods are described for improved navigation assistance by providing overview directions focusing on points where other users tend to make mistakes or display emotional responses, such as stress, that indicate that they feel they may make mistakes. In an exemplary method, a navigation process receives information about a present user's navigation route, the present user's status, and the user history. The navigation service compiles the received information and determines an enhanced navigation route.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: PCMS Holdings, Inc.Inventor: Mona Singh
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Patent number: 10192437Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to selectively utilize one or more networks in order to reliably communicate the information regarding one or more traffic signals and one or more intersections controlled by respective traffic signals. In the context of a method, the method includes communicating with a first network in order to receive information with a mobile platform regarding one or more traffic signals and information regarding one or more intersections. At least one traffic signal is associated with a respective intersection. The method also includes identifying a first switching condition and communicating with a second network, different than the first network, in order to receive the information regarding the one or more traffic signals and the information regarding the one or more intersections following identification of the first switching condition.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: HERE Global B.V.Inventors: Arnold Sheynman, Jingwei Xu, Weimin Huang, Bruce Bernhardt
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Patent number: 10013858Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a garment that includes a receiver, configured to receive at least one coded command from a notification generator, and at least one haptic feedback generator that delivers haptic feedback to a user while wearing the garment during a transit, corresponding to the at least one coded command, where the notification generator is configured to determine a notification to be sent to the user in response to at least one event of interest determined by an input analyzer, and to generate the at least one coded command that indicates the notification, and where the input analyzer is configured to analyze input data corresponding to the transit of the user of the garment to identify the at least one event of interest, occurring during the transit of the user. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.Inventors: Juliette Niebuhr Zerick, William Charles Cottrill, Eugene Henry Rascle, Jr.
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Patent number: 9987752Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic detection of spills are disclosed. In some exemplary implementations, a robot can have a spill detector comprising at least one optical imaging device configured to capture at least one image of a scene containing a spill while the robot moves between locations. The robot can process the at least one image by segmentation. Once the spill has been identified, the robot can then generate an alert indicative at least in part of a recognition of the spill.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2016Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: BRAIN CORPORATIONInventors: Dimitry Fisher, Cody Griffin, Micah Richert, Filip Piekniewski, Eugene Izhikevich, Jayram Moorkanikara Nageswaran, John Black
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Patent number: 9958289Abstract: A mapping between controls of the head unit of a vehicle and functions of a navigation service application running on a portable device is received. Subsequently, an indication that one of the controls has been actuated is received via a communication link between the portable device and the head unit. A function is selected from among the functions of the navigation service application in accordance with the received mapping and the received indication. The selected function of the navigation software application then is executed. In this manner, the navigation service application is safely and efficiently controlled via the head unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventor: Andrew Foster
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Patent number: 9945673Abstract: An electronic navigational route developer may accept user input regarding the user's boat, such as height, draft and beam, and develop a route from a start point to end point based on cartographic information and the boat information.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Navionics S.R.L.Inventor: Giuseppe Carnevali
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Patent number: 9946767Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for generating a list of trips on an associated transportation network, the list ranked in accordance with time-dependent modeling of passenger preferences. User preferences of choosing a specific public transportation service or change point are modeled by a set of latent variables. Any actual trip on the network is converted into a set of pairwise preferences implicitly made by the passenger during the trip. Sequences of services matrices and change points matrices from the retrieved set of trips and non-negative factorization of the services and change points matrices is performed to smooth the matrices. The set of pairwise preferences are used to learn a ranking function and the output of a journey planner is re-ranked using the ranking function.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Conduent Business Services, LLCInventor: Boris Chidlovskii
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Patent number: 9862380Abstract: A method for automatically controlling a vehicle includes giving a reference local path and a potential speed of the vehicle. The method also includes calculating a stirring angle automatic setpoint that makes it possible to calculate a lateral acceleration proportional to the square of the potential speed of the vehicle, making the vehicle describe an arc of a circle including a point of intersection with the reference local path at a distance from the vehicle. A speed setpoint is generated and set to a value equal to that of the potential speed when the lateral acceleration has a value lower than a maximum permissible lateral acceleration value and the value of the potential speed is decreased when the lateral acceleration has a value higher than or equal to the maximum permissible lateral acceleration value so as to calculate a reduced lateral acceleration by repeating the calculating.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: RENAULT S.A.S.Inventor: Nicoleta Minoiu Enache
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Patent number: 9857190Abstract: In one embodiment a pickup location and a destination location associated with a subscriber to a first transportation service are accessed. A first route from the pickup location to the destination location is identified, the first route comprising a plurality of segments, wherein a first segment of the plurality of segments of the first route is to be serviced by a driver of the first transportation service using a first type of transportation vehicle, and wherein a second segment of the plurality of segments of the first route is to be serviced by a second transportation service using a second type of transportation vehicle. The driver of the first transportation service is directed to service the first segment of the plurality of segments of the first route.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2015Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: GT Gettaxi LimitedInventors: Sunny Marueli, Talmon Marco
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Patent number: 9820103Abstract: A device accesses not only an electronic map to provide directions on the device, but also accesses personal experience information of a user to augment the directions.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: LENOVO (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Suzanne Marion Beaumont, Paul Plaskonos, Rod D. Waltermann
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Patent number: 9798985Abstract: A method of providing at least one journey option computation to user and a journey information computer system is provided. The journey information computer system comprising: a client interface configured to receive a calendar email invitation comprising appointment details and user identity information; a decode module operable to identify and extract the user identity information and the appointment details from the email; a travel information processor configured to compute at least one journey option based on the appointment details together with data received from a least one travel information source; and a communication module configured to send the at least one computed journey option to a user device.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2010Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: INRIX HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Jonathan Charles Burr, Gary Gates, Alan George Slater
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Patent number: 9798821Abstract: A method of operation of a navigation system includes: generating a signal weight with a control unit based on a feature extracted from a user activity; generating an activity model based on the signal weight for representing the feature as a positive weight or a negative weight depending on an activity type, a category of interest, or a combination thereof; classifying a user entry based on comparing the feature of the user entry to the feature represented in the activity model; and determining a user's intention based on the user entry classified for presenting a point of interest on a device.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Telenav, Inc.Inventors: Jianyi Yang, Kumar Maddali
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Patent number: 9778060Abstract: An approach is provided for determining one or more previous behaviors made by at least one user traveling at least one calculated route. The one or more previous behaviors include, at least in part, one or more deviations from, one or more matches on, or a combination thereof for the at least one calculated route. The approach involves determining one or more predictor values for one or more predictors associated with the one or more previous behaviors. The approach also involves causing, at least in part, a creation of at least one predictive model based, at least in part, on the one or more predictor values. The at least one predictive model is used to predict one or more potential behaviors by the at least one user while traveling the at least one calculated route, at least one other route, or a combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: HERE Global B.V.Inventor: Wanli Cheng
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Patent number: 9696171Abstract: A map application includes a mechanism to perform context-based analysis to determine the purpose of a journey. The context-based analysis can include an analysis of any or all of the following: the destination, one or more calendars, social media, and historical data. Once the context-based analysis determines the purpose of the journey, the map application suggests one or more stops based on the purpose of the journey, and displays the suggested stop(s) on the map displayed to the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: James E. Bostick, John M. Ganci, Jr., Martin G. Keen, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Patent number: 9606626Abstract: At least a first vibration output apparatus and a second vibration output apparatus used while physically separated from the first vibration output apparatus are included. The first vibration output apparatus includes a first vibration unit. The second vibration output apparatus includes a second vibration unit. It is possible to output a first vibration signal and a second vibration signal for, by changing a ratio of intensities of vibrating the first vibration unit and the second vibration unit, causing a user to perceive a single vibration source between the first vibration output apparatus and the second vibration output apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2015Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazutoshi Obana, Kochi Kawai, Junichiro Miyatake, Shoji Masubuchi, Takafumi Aoki, Kei Yamashita, Masahiko Inami, Kouta Minamizawa
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Patent number: 9484029Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a method of speech recognition thereof are disclosed. According to the method of speech recognition of the electronic apparatus, the method includes receiving a speech of a speaker, extracting phonemic characteristics for recognizing a speech and voice print characteristics for registering the speaker by analyzing the received speech of the speaker, and in response to the speech of the speaker corresponding a registered trigger word or phrase, based on the extracted phonemic characteristics, changing an execution mode to a speech recognition mode of the electronic apparatus and registering the extracted voice print characteristics as voice print characteristics of the speaker who spoke the speech.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Chi-sang Jung, Byung-jin Hwang
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Patent number: 9395203Abstract: An electronic direction system accesses navigation data describing at least one instance in which a direction was missed during provision of electronic navigation along a route and tracks instances in which directions have been missed based on the accessed navigation data. The electronic direction system accounts for the tracked instances in which directions have been missed in handling provision of future directions.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2014Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Inventor: Jason Adam Denise
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Patent number: 9335182Abstract: Vehicle navigation systems and methods for presenting information originating from a mobile device on a vehicle navigation system display of a vehicle are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of presenting information originating from a mobile device on a vehicle navigation system display of a vehicle includes receiving, by a vehicle navigation system, application data from an application operating on the mobile device, wherein the application data from the application represents an entity in proximity to the vehicle. The method further includes displaying an icon representing the application data from the application on a map presented on the vehicle navigation system display. The icon is positioned on the map according to a geographic location of the entity.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Jeffrey E. Pierfelice
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Patent number: 9218503Abstract: A device may receive a request for analytics information associated with a user device. The device may retrieve application programming interface (API) information associated with the request for analytics information. The API information may include information associated with providing an authorization token and with providing user device information. The device may determine demographic information based on the request for analytics information. The demographic information may be associated with a user of the user device. The device may determine the analytics information based on an analysis of the API information and the demographic information. The device may provide the analytics information.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Raymond C. Counterman
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Patent number: 9103681Abstract: A method for providing navigation instructions on a device is described. As the device traverses a navigated route according to a first mode of transportation, the method displays a first turn-by-turn navigation presentation defined for the first mode. Based on data gathered by the device, the method determines that the device is navigating the route according to a second mode of transportation. The method automatically displays a second, different turn-by-turn navigation presentation defined for the second mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2013Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Christine B. McGavran, Bradford A. Moore, Christopher D. Moore, Harold O. Habeck, Marcel van Os, Wesley Yue, Eric L. Grundstrom
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Patent number: 9097520Abstract: A system includes a position sensing system for determining a position of a machine and a work implement configured to engage material to form a raised contour. A controller determines a plurality of positions of the machine as the machine moves about the work site and the work implement forms the raised contour, determines a plurality of reference positions along an edge of the raised contour as the work implement forms the raised contour, and generates a map of the edge of the raised contour based upon the plurality of reference positions.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2013Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Kenneth L. Stratton, Andrew J. Vitale, Craig L. Koehrsen
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Patent number: 9087453Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for spontaneously identifying and directing motorists to available parking spaces is provided. Parking spaces are tracked to determine a status of each space. A destination of a user is received. At least one parking space is identified as available and near the destination of the user. An estimated arrival time of the user to the available parking space is determined. An arrival threshold is applied to the estimated arrival time of the user and a reservation offer for the available space is sent to the user when the estimated arrival time satisfies the arrival threshold.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2013Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center IncorporatedInventors: Robert T. Krivacic, Roger Hoover, Ellen Isaacs, James Glasnapp
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Publication number: 20150149077Abstract: A user may indicate a preference of a route when alternative routes are available between an origin and a destination. The mapping system may enable a user to identify a region, a point or a set of points to help control, guide or otherwise influence the determination of a route favored by the user. While the identified region, point or set of points may be included in the route, the identified region, point or set of points need not necessarily be included in the route.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2014Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventor: David W. Nesbitt
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Patent number: 9037397Abstract: A system and method for generating routes is provided. Weights may be computed and associated with route segments. A start and end point may be received. At least one base route from a start to an end point may be generated. A number of alternative routes may be generated and related to the base route. Scores may be computed for routes based on weights associated with relevant segments. Routes may be selected for presentation based on their respective scores.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2010Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Omer Shmuel Peri
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Publication number: 20150134237Abstract: A method of operation of a navigation system includes: determining candidate locations for the location query; determining a candidate associated location specific to each of the candidate locations; determining a waypoint destination from an instance of the candidate locations based on a selected instance of the candidate associated location specific to the instance of the candidate locations; and calculating a travel route including the waypoint destination and the selected instance of the candidate associated location for displaying on a device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2014Publication date: May 14, 2015Inventors: Changzheng Jiang, Kumar Maddali, Maneesha Jain
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Patent number: 9031779Abstract: A system and method for a navigation system including a hazard avoidance feature is disclosed. The system and method allows for professionals, civilians, vehicles, robots and computer systems to collaborate and share information regarding hazards, defects, obstacles, flaws, and other abnormalities that exist in any environment. Routes may be planned that avoid these hazards reducing lost time or frustration. Moreover, the system and method is configured for participants to detect, catalog, and share information related to obstacles.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventor: Joseph Maria Angelo Djugash
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Patent number: 9026940Abstract: The mobile terminal includes a wireless communication unit configured to receive terminal position information and object related information of at least one object corresponding to the terminal position information; a display module configured to display at least one object indicator indicating the at least one object and display a storage target object indicator region on a background image corresponding to the terminal position information; a user input unit configured to receive a selection of an object indicator; a memory configured to store object related information; and a controller configured to control the components of the mobile terminal. The display module is further configured to display an identifier corresponding to the selected object indicator within the storage target object indicator region, and display an object item list including an object item corresponding to the stored object related information.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2011Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sungho Jung, Jieun Lee
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Patent number: 9020743Abstract: A computer implemented trip-planning method includes accessing one or more destination elements of a matrix of driver information, the accessing based at least in part on a trip start time and day of week. Each accessed element has a probability associated therewith, indicating the likelihood of the element being the destination at which a vehicle trip will end, based at least the start time and day of week. The method also includes selecting, from the one or more elements, a destination having the highest probability of being the destination at which the vehicle trip will end. Further, the method includes utilizing the selected destination as an end destination for the purposes of trip planning.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2012Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dimitar Petrov Filev, Ryan Abraham McGee, Johannes Geir Kristinsson, Payam Naghshtabrizi, Fling Tseng
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Patent number: 9008967Abstract: In some aspects, a processor may receive a starting point and an ending point from a runner. The processor may receive calorie information from the runner. The processor may receive pace information from the runner. The processor may receive a mile marker input from the runner. The processor may display a he route based on the starting point and the ending point. The processor may display the number of calories burned based on the route and the calorie information. The processor may display a pace of running the route based on the route and the calorie information. The processor may display a mile marker on the route in response to the first mile marker input.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Strategic Design Federation W, Inc.Inventors: Sandra Lynn McBride, Thomas Charles McBride
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Patent number: 9002637Abstract: In one aspect, a system for generating a navigation chart is provided. The system includes a display device and a computing device coupled to the display device. The computing device is configured to receive at least one of current geographic position data from a navigation instrument and a desired geographic position input by a user and to generate a navigation chart having a geographic area that corresponds to one of the current geographic location and the desired geographic position and that includes at least one navigation aid, the navigation chart includes at least one navigation aid symbol corresponding to a position of the navigation aid within the geographic area. The computing device is further configured to determine whether each navigation aid is visible at a predetermined position within the geographic area and to display the navigation chart on the display device.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2013Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Marco Tognoni
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Patent number: 8996304Abstract: An embodiment of the invention includes (a) acquiring a tour start location, a tour constraint, and a first user travel preference for a first user; and (b) determining a tour route, including first and second tour segments, based on the tour start location and the tour constraint. The first tour segment is determined based on the first user travel preference. The tour constraint includes a time constraint that is defined by the first user and includes a maximum allowable time for the tour route. Other embodiments are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Bradford H. Needham, David A. Cobbley, David A. Sandage, Matthew D. Wood
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Patent number: 8996295Abstract: Vehicle range projection is implemented by a host system having logic executable thereon. The logic identifies a starting location of a vehicle and identifies destination locations for the vehicle. The logic also builds routes from the starting location to the destination locations based on routing objectives and travel constraints. The logic further outputs at least a portion of at least one route and travel cost information associated with the at least a portion of at least one route.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventor: Edward D. Tate, Jr.
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Publication number: 20150081209Abstract: A device includes at least one computer readable storage medium bearing instructions executable by a processor and at least one processor configured for accessing the computer readable storage medium to execute the instructions. The instructions configure the processor for accessing terrain information representing preferred terrain of a user of the device, accessing map information, accessing location information indicating current location of the user, and receiving user input indicating a desire for route information. Based at least in part on time constraints indicated from calendar information, the instructions configure the processor for accessing the location information, terrain information, and map information to determine a route and audibly and/or visually displaying the route on the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2013Publication date: March 19, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Sabrina Tai-Chen Yeh, David Andrew Young, Steven Friedlander
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Patent number: 8977488Abstract: In one embodiment, a navigation system may include one or more processors, a display, a satellite antenna, one or more memory devices, and map data. A route distance icon can be presented on the display, automatically, when the current location is not coincident with the route and the start offset distance is less than a predetermined distance. The route distance icon can provide the on-the-route distance. A geodesic distance icon can be presented on the display, automatically, when the current location is not coincident with the route and the start offset distance is greater than the predetermined distance. The geodesic distance icon can provide a geodesic distance from the current location to the destination.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey E. Pierfelice
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Publication number: 20150066356Abstract: Systems and methods for providing navigation information based on a user request and a user-refined search area are discussed. One such system for navigation search area refinement provides an efficient system and method for refining a navigation information search area based on a default search area and an intuitive gesture input marking an area of a map display. Additionally, a method for navigation search area refinement can include receiving a gesture input originating at a default search area and concluding at a user-refined search area.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: David M. Kirsch, Cesar Cabral