Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
701487000 | User interface | 28 |
20120065882 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDICATING REMINDERS VIA A PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE - A method of processing location data at a portable computing device is provided and includes receiving information associated with a user defined location at the portable computing device. The information includes a central point and an entry indication perimeter. An entry alert associated with the user defined location is received at the portable computing device. The location of the portable computing device is monitored to determine when the portable computing device crosses the entry indication perimeter associated with the central point of the user defined location indicating that the portable computing device is proximate to the user defined location. The method further includes switching the portable computing device from a roaming state to an entry state indicating that the portable computing device is about to enter the user defined location. An indication can be provided to the user that the portable computing device has switched to the entry state. | 03-15-2012 |
20120109521 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF INTEGRATING LANE POSITION MONITORING WITH LOCATIONAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS - A system and method for an integrated lane positioning monitor with locational information systems is provided. The system and method gather and process information and data to assist an automobile operator in selecting and changing driving lanes. Further, the system and method is integrated with a locational information system to inform the operator of upcoming congestion and traffic issues as well as an appropriate distance to change lanes before a highway exit or entrance. | 05-03-2012 |
20120109522 | METHOD FOR GPS MOBILE PHONE TO ACHIEVE NAVIGATION ON PERSONAL COMPUTER AND SYSTEM THEREOF - A method for a GPS mobile phone to accomplish navigation on a PC and a system thereof are disclosed. The method comprises: the GPS mobile phone acquires a current GPS signal, transforms the GPS signal into NMEA data, and then transmits the NMEA data to the PC driving module through communication with the PC driving module; the PC driving module receives the NMEA data and transmits the NMEA data to the virtual serial port driving module; the virtual serial port driving module transforms the NMEA data into serial data, generates a second virtual serial port, and transmits the serial data to the navigation module via the second virtual serial port; and the navigation module reads the serial data for displaying. In this way, the navigation function of the GPS mobile phone can be achieved on the PC, which brings about great convenience to the user. | 05-03-2012 |
20120143502 | SENDING LOCATION INFORMATION FROM WITHIN A COMMUNICATION APPLICATION - A method in a wireless communications device for transmitting current location information representing a current location of the wireless communications device. The method entails, from within a communication application executing on a processor of the wireless communications device, causing the wireless communications device to obtain the current location information representing the current location of the wireless communications device, including the current location information in a communication generated from within the communication application, and transmitting the communication that includes the current location information. The method optionally entails a further step of performing a reverse look-up of GPS coordinates representing the current location to determine address information for including in the communication. Location information, such as maps or URLs to maps can be sent directly from an e-mail application or instant messenger without having to separately launch a mapping application. | 06-07-2012 |
20130124086 | GENERATING OPTIMAL ITINERARIES BASED ON NETWORK CONNECTIVITY - An approach for generating optimal itineraries based on network connectivity is presented. A computer receives a first message from which a current position of a vehicle on a trip, destination, a service being requested for a mobile device in the vehicle, service providers and network(s) are extracted. Network connectivity measures are retrieved and signal qualities in respective cells are determined based on the network connectivity measures. Based on the signal qualities, an itinerary is determined as paths and a hop indicating a position on one of the paths at which a connectivity change from a first to a second service provider is to occur. A response to the first message indicates the itinerary. Sending the response results in the mobile device making the connectivity change when the vehicle reaches the position indicated by the hop. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124087 | GENERATING OPTIMAL ITINERARIES BASED ON NETWORK CONNECTIVITY - An approach for generating optimal itineraries is presented. As a response to a first message sent to a remote computer system by a global positioning device transported by a vehicle on a trip, the device receives a second message indicating optimal itineraries of the trip. The device receives a selection of an optimal itinerary indicating a path, a hop, an updated service provider to provide a service to a mobile device transported by the vehicle, and an updated network for providing the service. The device detects the vehicle at a position indicated by the hop, and in response, generates a third message indicating the updated service provider and the updated network. The global positioning device sends the third message to the mobile device and as a result, the mobile device makes a connectivity change to the updated service provider and/or to the updated network. | 05-16-2013 |
20130138341 | Point Of Interest Search Along A Route With Return - A routing module identifies POIs that can be reached from a route with a cost less than distance m. A routing engine performs a reverse exploration on nodes in the planned route to locate POIs from which the route can be reached with a cost of less than a second cost n. POIs identified as being reachable from the route with a cost of less than m, and from which the route is reachable with a cost less than n are then further filtered to identify a subset of the POIs for which the sum of the time or distance from the route to the POI and the time or distance from the POI back to the route is less than a threshold time or distance, t. | 05-30-2013 |
20130179072 | METHOD TO GEO-TAG STREAMING MUSIC - Songs titles and song artists or other content received on an HD-radio are cross-referenced to one or more geographic locations where they were heard on the radio by identifying a song title or artist in the HD radio data stream and instructing a global positioning system navigation unit to contemporaneously determine its location. The determined location and song title and/or artist are cross-referenced to each other in a list or database. A touch-sensitive display device is configured to display the location or portion of a route where a listened-to song was heard. Song titles and/or artists can be determined by tactile selection of portions of a route displayed on the map. | 07-11-2013 |
20130191021 | Trackback Electronic Device - A system and method for identification of a particular one device from an array of networked devices. Each of the devices are individually addressable by a controller on the network, and a technician preferably identifies a particular one device by use of a handheld remote control. Pointing one of transmitter/receiver pair at a device including the complementary component allows remote disambiguation based upon ranging and signal strength, particularly when using a pair of orthogonal antennas to discriminate and confirm which particular device is being pointed to by the remote. Optional confirmation helps improve identification robustness, and then the properly identified device may be configured/commissioned. | 07-25-2013 |
20130245935 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE DISPLAYING CURRENT LOCATION AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In an information processing device, when a positional information acquiring unit acquires positional information calculated from GPS signals and the like, a movement area setting unit sets a movement area with a size corresponding to a distance between a current location and a destination. When the positional information acquiring unit acquires positional information indicating a current location after setting this movement area, a judgment unit judges whether the positional information is within the movement area. Then, as a result of this judgment, in a case of being within the movement area, a display control unit executes display control of a display unit so as to display on a map the positional information, and in a case of being outside of the movement area, so as not to display on the map the positional information. | 09-19-2013 |
20130275043 | Location-Based Service System and Wishing Service Method Thereof - A location-based service (LBS) system and a wishing service method thereof, including a user's equipment end, a server and a merchant's equipment end. The user equipment receives current location information of the user's equipment end and a user's wishing message and transmits them to the server. The server analyzes a wishing category of the user's wishing message and issues the user's wishing message to a region range of the corresponding current location information. The merchant's equipment end receives the user's wishing message in the region range according to the wishing category, and transmits a merchant's feedback message to the server according to the user's wishing message. Wherein, the server receives the merchant's feedback message to be transmitted to the user's equipment end, and the user's equipment end receives the merchant's feedback message through the server to automatically guide to a position corresponding to merchant's location. | 10-17-2013 |
20130325332 | USER TERMINAL DEVICE PROVIDING SERVICE BASED ON PERSONAL INFORMATION AND METHODS THEREOF - A service providing method of a user terminal device connected to a display apparatus mounted on a moving means includes displaying a stored contact list and guiding one or more routes which displays a route guide screen to selected address information by utilizing a display apparatus if the address information is selected from personal information recorded on the displayed contact list. Accordingly, various services can be provided based on the personal information. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325333 | Sharing GPS Navigation Information - A host application on a host computer system receives annotations made by drivers of respective navigation information displayed to the drivers by GPS devices in vehicles of the respective drivers. The host application saves the annotated navigation information for the respective drivers on a computer readable memory accessible by the host application. The host application receives a request from a first one of the drivers for annotated navigation information made by one or more of the other drivers. Responsive to the request, the host application selects one or more items of the saved annotated navigation information. The host application sends the selected one or more items of the saved annotated navigation information to the GPS device of the first one of the drivers. | 12-05-2013 |
20130332073 | Combination Headband and Tracking Device - A combination headband and tracking device that includes: a headband with a snap attachment mechanism, an elastic band and a camera lens; an ankle bracelet that includes a locking mechanism, an on and off switch and a GPS locator; a charge cord that includes a cord and an electrical plug; and a monitor that includes a volume control, a charge port and a visual display that displays a desired GPS location or a desired video. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332074 | TERMINAL APPARATUS, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SETTING UP DESTINATION AND PROVIDING INFOMATION - A terminal apparatus, a method and a system for setting up a destination and providing information are provided, in which the terminal apparatus includes a communicator which is configured to communicate with other terminal apparatuses, an input unit which is configured to receive a user command, a display which is configured to display a list including at least one item which corresponds to at least one of the other terminal apparatuses, and a controller which is configured to control the communicator to transmit destination information to a first terminal apparatus which corresponds to a selected item that is selected from among the at least one item included in the displayed list via the input unit. Accordingly, a user is provided with routes to the destination, without having to input address or name of the intended destination on his own terminal apparatus. | 12-12-2013 |
20140046588 | WEARABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, DATA ANALYZER, AND TRAVEL RECORD CONTROL METHOD - An electronic apparatus refers to location measurement information measured in the past at each time when the latest location measurement information is output from a location measurement module with a predetermined measurement period, if measurement accuracy is good and it is regarded that a direction change has been made, determines the latest location measurement information as saving “necessary” and stores the information. If the measurement accuracy is no good or it is regarded that a positioning point shown by the latest location measurement information is an intermediate point during linear traveling, the latest location measurement information is not saved. Therefore, a data size to be saved is made smaller than that in related art and draining of a battery taken for writing of data is reduced. | 02-13-2014 |
20140095068 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REDUCING TRAFFIC CONGESTION - A point-based method, system and processor-readable medium for reducing traffic congestion. A license plate number associated with a vehicle can be captured utilizing an image capturing unit and/or a GPS (Global Positioning System) enabled mobile communication device to store/deduct points with respect to a user account on a point storage server. The points can be stored in a user account based on a dynamic policy if a user selects a sub-optimal path (e.g., general-purpose lane or a far-away parking spot) and the level of urgency related to travel is low to reduce congestion. The points can be deducted later if the user decides to take an optimal path (e.g., HOT lane or a near-center parking spot). The points on each path can be dynamically set based on time of day to maintain traffic flow at an optimal level. | 04-03-2014 |
20140350850 | ROUTE SMOOTHING - A method is disclosed involving receiving GPS data from a personal portable training device. A smoothing operation is performed on the GPS data to generate a more accurate representation of the route travelled for display to a user ( | 11-27-2014 |
20150127251 | STREETWISE NAVIGATION SYSTEM USING INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENTS - A system and method for providing directional information to a user using existing infrastructure elements ( | 05-07-2015 |
20150308852 | NAME BASED GPS NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A system for providing navigation service based on information distributed online to users listed to the navigation service. The system comprises (a) a satellite navigation device operable to receive satellite navigation signals, determine the navigation device current geographic location, and direct the user of the navigation device to a desired geographic location; (b) a wireless Ethernet transceiver embedded in the navigation device, operable to communicate with a remote server over the Internet; and (c) a remote server operable to receive data from the Ethernet transceiver through a Website, store the data, and distribute derivatives of the data to listed users which query the data, which is represented by short strings of characters which are utilized by the users when querying the data. | 10-29-2015 |
20150316392 | Presentation of Content During Navigational Instructions - A window of time between navigational instructions is determined. Non-navigational content is then determined for audible and/or visual presentation within the window of time. Emails, text messages, and even video may thus be presented in between the navigational instructions. | 11-05-2015 |
20150330803 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD - An information display device is provided. The information display device includes a memory configured to store information along with its position, a display unit configured to display the information, and a controller configured to control the display unit. The controller controls the display unit to simultaneously display first and horizontal plot sections. In the perspective plot section, part of the information is displayed such that its display position in vertical directions becomes higher as a distance from the information display device or a movable body to which the device is mounted, to the position becomes longer. In the horizontal plot section, other part of the information is displayed such that its display position is changed in lateral directions according to an azimuth of the position with respect to the information display device or the movable body, and the display position is fixed in the vertical directions regardless of the distance. | 11-19-2015 |
20150330804 | INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD - An information display device is provided. The information display device includes a memory configured to store information along with a position, a display unit configured to display the information, and a controller configured to control the display unit. The controller controls the display unit to simultaneously display a first display section and a second display section. The information is displayed within the first display section when the position is within a first target section and a first display condition is satisfied. The information is displayed within the second display section when the position is within a second target section and a second display condition is satisfied. Each of the first and second display conditions is specifiable by a user. | 11-19-2015 |
20160123750 | Navigation Systems that Enhance Driver Awareness - Navigation systems that enhance driver awareness are provided. Information associated with a location of a vehicle may be determined. Based at least in part upon the determined location, awareness information associated with the vehicle may be collected. The awareness information may include at least one of crime information, accident information, legal information, or future traffic information. Based at least in part upon the collected awareness information, output information may be generated for presentation, and the generated output information may be output. | 05-05-2016 |
20160252365 | DIRECTIONAL LOCATION SYSTEM FOR A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE | 09-01-2016 |
701488000 | Speech recognition or speech synthesized output | 3 |
20120323490 | VEHICLE NAVIGATION SYSTEM, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE NAVIGATION SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE BLACK BOX - Disclosed are a vehicle navigation system and a method for controlling a vehicle navigation system. The vehicle navigation system of the present invention comprises: a storage unit; a communication unit for receiving image data mapped with route guidance information from a vehicle black box provided in a vehicle; and a control unit for storing the received image data in a storage unit. The present invention can utilize the image data mapped with the route guidance information as reference data for determining details of an accident by storing the image data mapped with the route guidance information to confirm information including a destination of a driver of an accident vehicle when an accident happens. | 12-20-2012 |
20130054141 | Weighted Path Selection for Mapping Route Selection - A route finding system comprising a memory, GPS device, library of maps, an optimization algorithm and means for capturing user input and outputting data. The user input includes points, goals, constraints and relative preferences. Goals and constraints include characteristics of the route such as the type of road, number of turns, and traffic. The relative preferences are converted into numerical weights, positive or negative. In addition, the system integrates social networks' ratings and comments to further enhance route selection. | 02-28-2013 |
20150378029 | METHOD FOR CAR RELOCATION - A method for car relocation is disclosed. The method is to transmit the ID of a mobile device to a network server, after the engine of a car is turned on. After the engine of the car is turned off, the automobile device or the mobile device transmits GPS coordinate data to the network server via a wireless method. If the automobile device or the mobile device fails to receive the GPS coordinate, the screen of the automobile device will display a frame showing the place where the car is parked, and transmit the related data. By means of the operation of the buttons of the frame, the related data can be transmitted to the network server by the automobile device or the mobile device via the wireless method, and the network server will store related data to overwrite original data. | 12-31-2015 |