Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
348116000 | Direction finding or location determination | 20 |
20100225756 | Navigation apparatus and navigation method - A navigation apparatus includes: a current-position information acquisition section obtaining measured current-position information; a camera section obtaining a captured image of a subject; a direction detection section detecting a direction when obtaining the captured image by the camera section; from characteristic-point information related to multiple predetermined characteristic points stored in a storage section, a characteristic-point information extraction section extracting the characteristic-point information related to the characteristic points located in the vicinity of the current position and in a range shown in the direction; and a control section displaying the captured image on a display section, wherein the control section displays a predetermined direction line indicating a distance from the current position on the captured image, obtains a distance and a direction from the current position to the characteristic point, and displays the characteristic-point information at a position corresponding to the distance and the direction on the captured image. | 09-09-2010 |
20100321489 | Determining Geographic Position Information from a Single Image - Systems, devices, features, and methods for determining geographic position information from an image are disclosed. For example, one method for determining the geographic position information is used to develop a navigation database. The method comprises capturing a plurality of images of geographic features by a camera mounted on a vehicle or a pedestrian. A single image from the plurality of images is identified or selected. A real-world ground distance between a reference ground point in the single image and a ground point corresponding to an object in the single image is determined based on determined calibration values corresponding to the camera. Real-world geographic position information, such as a latitude coordinate and a longitude coordinate, of the ground point corresponding to the object in the single image is determined based on the determined real-world ground distance. | 12-23-2010 |
20110018990 | APPARATUS FOR DETECTING DIRECTION OF IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND MOVING BODY COMPRISING SAME - A polarization camera that can capture polarization images and a color image at the same time is used. Specifically, a clear sky polarization image, which provides information about the polarization of a part of the sky, is captured by a clear sky polarization image capturing section | 01-27-2011 |
20110063432 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING, STORING AND UTILIZING IMAGES OF A GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION - A system and method synthesizing images of a locale to generate a composite image that provide a panoramic view of the locale. A video camera moves along a street recording images of objects along the street. A GPS receiver and inertial navigation system provide the position of the camera as the images are being recorded. The images are indexed with the position data provided by the GPS receiver and inertial navigation system. The composite image is created on a column-by-column basis by determining which of the acquired images contains the desired pixel column, extracting the pixels associated with the column, and stacking the columns side by side. The composite images are stored in an image database and associated with a street name and number range of the street being depicted in the image. The image database covers a substantial amount of a geographic area allowing a user to visually navigate the area from a user terminal. | 03-17-2011 |
20110199479 | AUGMENTED REALITY MAPS - A user points a handheld communication device to capture and display a real-time video stream. The handheld communication device detects geographic position, camera direction, and tilt of the image capture device. The user sends a search request to a server for nearby points of interest. The handheld communication device receives search results based on the search request, geographic position, camera direction, and tilt of the handheld communication device. The handheld communication device visually augments the captured video stream with data related to each point of interest. The user then selects a point of interest to visit. The handheld communication device visually augments the captured video stream with a directional map to a selected point of interest in response to the user input. | 08-18-2011 |
20110242311 | IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM AND POSITION MEASUREMENT SYSTEM - An image processing system inputs a captured image of a scene viewed from a vehicle, extracts image feature points from the captured image, and obtains image-capturing situation information indicating a possibility that a specific subject is included in the captured image. The system determines importance degrees of the extracted image feature points based on the image-capturing situation information and generates image feature point data using the extracted image feature points based on the importance degrees. The system generates reference data by associating the image feature point data with image-capturing attribute information and creates a reference data database. The image-capturing attribute information includes an image-capturing position at which the image is captured to obtain the captured image corresponding to the image feature point data. | 10-06-2011 |
20110267452 | IMAGE COMPRESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE COMPRESSING METHOD AND VEHICLE-MOUNTED IMAGE RECORDING APPARATUS - A road shape recognition device checks a position of a currently travelling vehicle detected by a position detection device with map information so that a road shape at each travelling spot of the currently travelling vehicle is recognized. An image division device divides a display screen of surrounding image data of the currently travelling vehicle into a plurality of divided regions depending on the road shape and sets a data compression rate suitable for the road shape in each of the plurality of divided regions. An image compression device compresses the surrounding image data in each of the plurality of divided regions into codes based on the data compression rate set for each of the divided regions. | 11-03-2011 |
20110285842 | MOBILE DEVICE POSITIONING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method that relates to mobile platform positioning through landmark recognition. The method includes receiving a captured image of a landmark, wherein the captured image was captured from an onboard camera system located on the mobile platform. A comparison of the captured image to a plurality of stored images, that are images of landmarks at known locations is made. The method recognizes the captured image based on the comparison and then determines the location of the mobile platform, based on the recognition. The method may be employed with a locomotive. A system and computer program product for mobile device positioning is also disclosed. | 11-24-2011 |
20120007979 | MULTISPECTRAL ENHANCED VISION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AIRCRAFT LANDING IN INCLEMENT WEATHER CONDITIONS - Apparatus for detecting airfield light emitters, the apparatus including a plurality of light detection cameras, each detecting at least one respective waveband of electromagnetic radiation within the electromagnetic spectrum, each of the light detection cameras producing a plurality of respective spectral images, and a processor coupled with the light detection cameras, thereby generating a multispectral image of the airfield light emitters from the spectral images, the multispectral image including a multi-dimensional set of spectral values, wherein the processor further determines which combination the multi-dimensional set of spectral values corresponds with a plurality of distinct light emission characteristics of the airfield light emitters by identifying a particular spectral signature corresponding to the multi-dimensional set of spectral values, wherein the processor produces an enhanced image from those spectral values of the multi-dimensional set of spectral values which correspond to the determined combination. | 01-12-2012 |
20120038764 | SPATIAL INFORMATION INTEGRATED DATABASE GENERATING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING SPATIAL INFORMATION INTEGRATED DATABASE GENERATING PROGRAM - An image receiving unit receives an image captured by a capturing device at a capturing interval of the predetermined distance. A movement direction acquiring unit acquires a movement direction of the vehicle based on calibration information acquired in advance and the image information. A database generating unit determines whether capturing position information of the image information and setting points of spatial codes are matched with each other. When they are matched with each other, the database generating unit associates the image information and the spatial codes with each other. When they are not matched with each other, a capturing position allocating unit executes a process of allocating the image information between the setting points of the spatial codes, and the database generating unit associates the allocated image information with a position between the spatial codes. | 02-16-2012 |
20120176492 | CAMERA-BASED INERTIAL SENSOR ALIGNMENT FOR PND - An apparatus and method to enhance dead-reckoning navigation using inertial sensor measurements based on images from a camera are disclosed. A camera build into a mobile device is used to calibrate inertial sensors and rotation matrices. Images from a camera may be used (1) to remove a gravitational element from accelerometer measurements; (2) to set a scaling factor and an offset for a gyrometer; and (3) to set initial and updated values for rotation matrices. | 07-12-2012 |
20130010103 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, VACANT SPACE GUIDANCE SYSTEM, VACANT SPACE GUIDANCE METHOD AND PROGRAM, IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM - A mobile terminal ( | 01-10-2013 |
20130107034 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING, STORING AND UTILIZING IMAGES OF A GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION | 05-02-2013 |
20130250097 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING BACKGROUND SCREEN IN NAVIGATION DEVICE - When a vehicle is driving, a camera image can be selected that photographing a front or other direction of a vehicle in real time to display the selected image on a background screen of a menu screen in a navigation device. In addition, selection buttons of the menu screen is displayed to be transparent or translucent. Since a driver can keep eyes a moving direction of the vehicle while manipulating a navigation device, possible accidents of the vehicle can be prevented in advance. | 09-26-2013 |
20140132753 | DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE - A display control element of a driving assistance device is equipped with a function of displaying a detailed guide information of navigation information to an indicator, in a case where a current position of a vehicle is inside a detailed guide zone, and a function of displaying the captured image of side-rearward to the indicator, in a case where a course change of the vehicle is detected in case the current position of the vehicle is outside the detailed guide zone, and also maintains the display of the detailed guide information without relying on a detection of the course change of the vehicle, in case where the current position of the vehicle is inside the detailed guide zone. | 05-15-2014 |
20140218507 | VEHICLE DRIVING SUPPORT DEVICE - A vehicle driving support device capable of performing vehicle support with consideration given to the current behavior of a suspension mechanism includes a vehicle behavior calculation module configured to calculate a current behavior value of each wheel suspended by the suspension mechanism, a driving support image generation unit configured to generate a driving support image in which a behavior image made by imaging the behavior value obtained for each wheel is disposed at a corresponding position in a vehicle image, and a monitor configured to display the driving support image. | 08-07-2014 |
20140300731 | Onboard Environment-Recognition Device - Disclosed is an onboard environment-recognition device | 10-09-2014 |
20150296185 | HANDHELD OBSERVATION DEVICE COMPRISING A DIGITAL MAGNETIC COMPASS - The invention relates to a handheld observation device including a digital magnetic compass for measuring a magnetic field direction of a magnetic field present, a gravitation sensor for measuring a gravitational field direction of a gravitational field present, and a control and evaluation unit configured for determining an externally referenced orientation of the observation device depending on a measured magnetic field direction and a measured gravitational field direction and with application of an algorithmic disturbance suppression, for which compensation parameters are stored. The observation device can also include a video tracking system ( | 10-15-2015 |
20160005164 | EXTRINSIC PARAMETER CALIBRATION OF A VISION-AIDED INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM - This disclosure describes various techniques for use within a vision-aided inertial navigation system (VINS). A VINS comprises an image source to produce image data comprising a plurality of images, and an inertial measurement unit (IMU) to produce IMU data indicative of a motion of the vision-aided inertial navigation system while producing the image data, wherein the image data captures features of an external calibration target that is not aligned with gravity. The VINS further includes a processing unit comprising an estimator that processes the IMU data and the image data to compute calibration parameters for the VINS concurrently with computation of a roll and pitch of the calibration target, wherein the calibration parameters define relative positions and orientations of the IMU and the image source of the vision-aided inertial navigation system. | 01-07-2016 |
20160123742 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - To provide navigation to a destination to a user even in a state in which acquisition of a current position via a positioning module is difficult. There is provided an image processing device including: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image onto which a real object including a visual recognition target is projected; a recognition unit configured to recognize relative arrangement of a terminal that has captured the image to the real object by executing image recognition of the recognition target; and a control unit configured to display a display object indicating a direction toward a destination of a user on a screen of the terminal on the basis of the relative arrangement of the terminal recognized by the recognition unit. | 05-05-2016 |