Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
701521000 | Including history log | 20 |
20120046862 | Tagging A Location By Pairing Devices - A method of tagging a location using a mobile device entails obtaining position data for a current location of the mobile device, detecting a proximity of another device using a short-range wireless interface, and automatically storing the position data for the current location of the mobile device in response to the detecting of the proximity of the other device. The proximity detector may comprise a near field communication (NFC) interface, a Bluetooth® transceiver or another short-range wireless technology that may be employed to detect the proximity of another device. This technology enables two devices to store a current location to facilitate a subsequent rendezvous back at that same location. | 02-23-2012 |
20130024116 | POSITION MEASUREMENT DEVICE, METHOD FOR GENERATING LOCATIONAL INFORMATION, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In position measurement device, a positional data acquirer measures a present position to acquire positional data. A positional data storage sequentially stores the positional data acquired by the positional data acquirer. A determiner determines, on the basis of the positional data sequentially stored by the positional data storage and a predetermined criterion, whether a position of a user at a present time is a position of a location to be recorded. And, a locational information storage stores, if the determiner determines that the position of the user at the present time is the position of the location to be recorded, the positional data of the position as locational information. | 01-24-2013 |
20130151148 | Place Affinity Estimation - A system and method for estimating a place affinity for a user is disclosed. The system comprises a gathering module, a communication module and a scoring module. The gathering module receives a place and retrieves rich place data associated with the place. The communication module retrieves user profile data associated with a user and a place affinity model associated with the user. The scoring module estimates an affinity score for the place using the place affinity model based at least in part on the rich place data and the user profile data. | 06-13-2013 |
20130282278 | METHODS, DEVICE AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING ROUTE METRICS USING STORED ROUTE INFORMATION - The disclosure is directed to a method, computer program product, mobile device or a system allowing for determining various route metrics based on stored route records associated with routes traversed by the mobile device. The determination of a route metric may utilize processing of a single route record or multiple route records. Exemplary route metrics include route timing metrics such as lap times, or route record metrics. Configurations of computer program products, mobile devices and systems for enabling the determination of various route metrics are also described. | 10-24-2013 |
20140039790 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CORRELATING ROUTES OF MOBILE DEVICES - A route correlation method, an identification method, and a route correlation system determine an implicit relationship between two entities, i.e. two users with mobile devices, following dynamic, but similar paths or routes, but which otherwise lack an explicit relationship. Through this implicit relationship, the identity of one entity can be known to another. The route correlation method includes determining a route for a first mobile device, determining a route for each of a plurality of mobile devices, correlating the route for each of the plurality of mobile devices with the route for the first mobile device, identifying each of the plurality of mobile devices with their associated routes matching the route of the first mobile device, and associating each mobile device with an entity. | 02-06-2014 |
20140136104 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROUTE PREDICTION - Predicting the future location of a user based on predicting the route that the user might take is disclosed. The routes used by the user in the past are indexed to generate a dictionary of routes which can be further augmented with contextual data. The prior routes are encoded within the dictionary such that each term representing a respective one of the prior routes comprises a collection of unique identifiers wherein each of the unique identifiers represents a segment of the respective one of the prior routes. Techniques of text prediction, term frequency for dictionary scores and other language processing techniques are used to predict the further route of the user. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136105 | System and method for tracking activities of a customer at a resort area - A system and method monitor skier behavior. An identifier is read from a lift access product when the lift access product is in the vicinity of a lift boarding area and a scan record containing the identifier, location information of the lift boarding area and a time stamp if generated. The scan record is processed to generate a location event record that is stored within a location database. The location database is processed to determine skier behavior based upon the location event records. | 05-15-2014 |
20140136106 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED IDENTIFICATION OF A PHOTOGRAPHED SUBJECT AT A RESORT AREA - A system and method monitor skier behavior. An identifier is read from a lift access product when the lift access product is in the vicinity of a lift boarding area and a scan record containing the identifier, location information of the lift boarding area and a time stamp if generated. The scan record is processed to generate a location event record that is stored within a location database. The location database is processed to determine skier behavior based upon the location event records. | 05-15-2014 |
20140142847 | RFID SKIER MONITORING SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A system and method monitor skier behavior. An identifier is read from a lift access product when the lift access product is in the vicinity of a lift boarding area and a scan record containing the identifier, location information of the lift boarding area and a time stamp if generated. The scan record is processed to generate a location event record that is stored within a location database. The location database is processed to determine skier behavior based upon the location event records. | 05-22-2014 |
20150112588 | POSITION MEASUREMENT DEVICE, METHOD FOR GENERATING LOCATIONAL INFORMATION, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - In a position measurement device, a positional data acquirer measure a present position to acquire positional data. A positional data storage sequentially stores the positional data acquired by the positional data acquirer. A determiner determines, on the basis of the positional data sequentially sorted by the positional data storage and a predetermined criterion, whether a position of a user at a present time is a position of a location to be recorded. And, a locational information storage stores, if the determiner determines that the position of the user at the present time is the position of the location to be recorded, the positional data of the position as locational information. | 04-23-2015 |
20150308848 | VEHICLE INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE - A vehicle information providing device provides route information to vehicles. The vehicle information providing device has a history information accumulation unit that sequentially acquires at least one of driving location information, power consumption information and charging location information from vehicle-mounted devices of a plurality of vehicle, and accumulates this as driving history information. The vehicle information providing device has a presentation information provision unit that provides information regarding a presentation route in which the information regarding the presentation route is presented in a form such that routes in a vicinity of the private location cannot be identified, when the presentation route is determined to include at least one private location. | 10-29-2015 |
20150316389 | VEHICLE INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE - A vehicle information providing device provides route information to vehicles. The vehicle information providing device has a history information accumulation unit that sequentially acquires at least one of driving location information, power consumption information and charging location information from vehicle-mounted devices of a plurality of vehicle, and stores as driving history information. A presentation route is determined by extracting the stored driving history information. The stored driving history information is referenced to determine a route travelled from the departure-point range to the target-point range, from among the routes travelled by the vehicle as the presentation route. Also, the vehicle information providing device alters the search conditions and the search is performed again, when there are no routes traveling from the departure location range to the destination range within a predetermined range. | 11-05-2015 |
20150345970 | DESTINATION PREDICTION APPARATUS - It is an object of the present invention to predict a destination easily, and a destination display method for displaying a predicted destination. The destination prediction apparatus of the present invention includes: a behavior history acquiring unit that acquires, the behavior history; a visit history acquiring unit that acquires the visit history; a similar behavior date-and-time extractor that performs a similarity determination between a behavior within a predetermined period prior to a present date and time and a behavior in another period with reference to the behavior history and that extracts a date and time of the behavior in another period determined to be similar as a similar behavior date and time from the behavior history; and a destination candidate extractor that extracts, as a destination candidate, a location visited within a predetermined period before or after the similar behavior date and time from the visit history. | 12-03-2015 |
20150345972 | VEHICLE INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE - A vehicle information providing device provides route information to vehicles. The vehicle information providing device has a history information accumulation unit that sequentially acquires at least one of driving location information, power consumption information and charging location information from vehicle-mounted devices of a plurality of vehicle, and accumulates this as driving history information. A composite route generation unit generates a composite route by combining a plurality of routes traveled by the same vehicle or by a plurality of vehicles. A presentation information provision unit provides information regarding the composite routes that are generated by the composite route generation unit. The composite route generation unit extracts information regarding the travel start and end points of the routes included in the driving history information when generating the composite route and combines the routes for which the travel end points and the travel start points are within a predetermined spatial range. | 12-03-2015 |
20150345977 | VEHICLE INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE - A vehicle information providing device provides route information to vehicles. The vehicle information providing device has a history information accumulation unit that sequentially acquires at least one of driving location information, power consumption information and charging location information from vehicle-mounted devices of a plurality of vehicle, and accumulates this as driving history information. A presentation route determination unit extracts driving location information from the history information accumulation unit, searches for a route that has been traveled from a departure point range to a destination point range from among the traveled routes, and determines the searched route as a presentation route. A presentation information determination unit extracts driving history information from the history information accumulation unit and determines one of power consumed while traveling and charging hubs passed when driving along the presentation route. A presentation information provision unit provides information regarding determination results. | 12-03-2015 |
20150369620 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to an electronic device capable of providing route information and a control method thereof. An electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a user input unit configured to receive destination information, a retrieval unit configured to retrieve an eco-driving route capable of minimizing the fuel consumption amount of a vehicle among driving routes for reaching a location corresponding to the destination information, and a controller configured to modify a prestored fuel table based on an actually consumed fuel amount while driving the vehicle, wherein the retrieval unit retrieves the eco-driving route using the modified fuel table. | 12-24-2015 |
20160018233 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PUSHING TRACK INFORMATION - The embodiments of the present invention provide a method for pushing track information, comprising: receiving a key word sent by a client; obtaining, according to historical track information, recommended track information which matches the key word, wherein the historical track information comprises historical track information about a terminal where the client is located and historical track information about terminal(s) other than the terminal where the client is located; and pushing the recommended track information to the client. The embodiments of the present invention also provide an apparatus for pushing track information. According to the technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present invention, the reliability of pushed track information can be ensured. | 01-21-2016 |
20160047657 | AUTONOMOUS RANGE-ONLY TERRAIN AIDED NAVIGATION - AROTAN provides for autonomous terrain aided navigation that is fully independent of the position uncertainty of the vehicle during flight. AROTAN aligns a grid to the search space and periodically updates the search space during the measurement history to account for growth in position uncertainty. AROTAN computes terrain sufficiency statistics for a moving history to provide robust criteria for when to perform the correlation. A post-correlation refinement provides an additional correction of the horizontal position error and a correction of the altitude. AROTAN can quickly provide the vehicle's location based on the correlation from a single measurement history. | 02-18-2016 |
20160102985 | APPARATUS USING RADIO RECEPTION FOR DETECTING DISPLACEMENT OF A VEHICLE IN A DIRECTION AT RIGHT ANGLES TO ITS ADVANCEMENT DIRECTION - An apparatus installed on a host vehicle derives travel locus/condition information relating each of a plurality of reception positions on the vehicle to a corresponding reception condition (e.g., received signal strength), and updates the information at each of successive positions along a travel locus of the vehicle. The currently obtained information is compared with reference travel locus/condition information previously obtained by travel along a reference travel locus, in the same travel direction, by the host vehicle or similar vehicle. Degrees of similarity between the currently obtained information and the reference information are evaluated, and the results used to detect changes in position of the host vehicle along a direction at right angles to its advancement direction. | 04-14-2016 |
20160169692 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING BATTERY MANAGEMENT IN ROUTE NAVIGATION | 06-16-2016 |