An adaptive interface for a programmable system, for predicting a desired user function, based on user history, as well as machine internal status and context. The apparatus receives an input from the user and other data. A predicted input is presented for confirmation by the user, and the predictive mechanism is updated based on this feedback. Also provided is a pattern recognition system for a multimedia device, wherein a user input is matched to a video stream on a conceptual basis, allowing inexact programming of a multimedia device. The system analyzes a data stream for correspondence with a data pattern for processing and storage. The data stream is subjected to adaptive pattern recognition to extract features of interest to provide a highly compressed representation that may be efficiently processed to determine correspondence. Applications of the interface and system include a video cassette recorder (VCR), medical device, vehicle control system, audio device, environmental control system, securities trading terminal, and smart house. The system optionally includes an actuator for effecting the environment of operation, allowing closed-loop feedback operation and automated learning.

Adaptive pattern recognition based control system and method

GPS satellite (4) ranging signals (6) received (32) on comm1, and DGPS auxiliary range correction signals and pseudolite carrier phase ambiguity resolution signals (8) from a fixed known earth base station (10) received (34) on comm2, at one of a plurality of vehicles/aircraft/automobiles (2) are computer processed (36) to continuously determine the one's kinematic tracking position on a pathway (14) with centimeter accuracy. That GPS-based position is communicated with selected other status information to each other one of the plurality of vehicles (2), to the one station (10), and/or to one of a plurality of control centers (16), and the one vehicle receives therefrom each of the others' status information and kinematic tracking position. Objects (22) are detected from all directions (300) by multiple supplemental mechanisms, e.g., video (54), radar/lidar (56), laser and optical scanners. Data and information are computer processed and analyzed (50,52,200,452) in neural networks (132, FIGS. 6-8) in the one vehicle to identify, rank, and evaluate collision hazards/objects, an expert operating response to which is determined in a fuzzy logic associative memory (484) which generates control signals which actuate a plurality of control systems of the one vehicle in a coordinated manner to maneuver it laterally and longitudinally to avoid each collision hazard, or, for motor vehicles, when a collision is unavoidable, to minimize injury or damage therefrom. The operator is warned by a heads up display and other modes and may override. An automotive auto-pilot mode is provided.

GPS vehicle collision avoidance warning and control system and method

A mobile communications device comprising a location sensing system, producing a location output; a memory, storing a set of locations and associated events; a telecommunications device, communicating event and location information between a remote system and said memory; and a processor, processing said location output in conjunction with said stored locations and associated events in said memory, to determine a priority thereof.

Mobile communication device

A user can access a common database from a remote communications port, at any qualified location, to generate a map or other positional information which locates selected items of interest, e.g., businesses, stores, architectural sites, and the like. The database contains information representing the items of interest, including, for each of the items of interest, positional coordinates, a geographic vicinity, and a selected category. The positional coordinates discretely locate the vicinity, while the vicinity specifies the exact locations of the items of interest in the selected category. For example, a user in New York can select the display of sporting shops in the area surrounding Chicago O'Hara International Airport selectively. A user can also access a port and display locations of items of interest within the same vicinity as the user and relative to the user's position. The database can be modified from qualified remote locations to change, or add to, the information therein. An advertisement can be tagged to the display or print out as an association with the selected items of interest.

System and methods for remotely accessing a selected group of items of interest from a database

In a navigation device in accordance with the invention, user profiles may be stored and used to navigate a user who may be driving in a vehicle, on foot, or in other mode of transportation. Each user profile corresponds to one of the user's personae. For example, the user business profile corresponding to the user's business persona may be different from the user personal profile corresponding to the user's personal persona. For instance, the user business profile may include fine-dining type restaurants for business meetings while the user personal profile may instead include fast-food type restaurants for personal dining. The inventive navigation device provides the user with a navigated route, together with information concerning the favorite facilities and events surrounding the navigated route, which satisfy the preferences in a selected user profile. In accordance with an aspect of the invention, blockages may also be established using the device to avoid selected areas, e.g., high crime areas, in the navigated route, or to block transmission of selected information concerning, e.g., uninteresting facilities and events, to the inventive navigation device.

Technique for effective navigation based on user preferences

A navigation system for a road vehicle comprises a route-determining unit and position-locating means. The route-determining unit works together with a mass memory which stores geographic data of a road network. The route-determining unit determines a driving route between a starting point and a destination supplied by the driver of the vehicle. The position-locating devices determine the vehicle position coordinates recurrently from the speed and acceleration of the moving vehicle provided by a measuring unit. A correction unit derives a correction vector for correcting the generated vehicle position coordinates. The correction vector is determined by performing a transposition of the generated vehicle position coordinates to an actual road position as repeated by coordinates of the road network stored in the mass memory. An acceleration operator is derived from the measured speed and lateral acceleration and from the generated vehicle position coordinates. The acceleration operator operates on the correction vector in order to derive a correction value for the measured acceleration. A receiver receives position coordinate signal from a navigation satellite. A Kalman filter mixes the vehicle position coordinates with the position coordinates originating from the navigation satellite.

Vehicle navigation system provided with an adaptive inertial navigation system based on the measurement of the speed and lateral acceleration of the vehicle and provided with a correction unit for correcting the measured values

:Vehicle navigation system provided with an adaptive inertial vehicle navigation system based on the measurement of the speed and the lateral acceleration of the vehicle and pro-vided with a correction unit for correcting the measured values. Navigation system for a road vehicle, comprising inter alia a route-determining unit and position-locating means. The route-determining unit works together with a mass memory in which geographic data of a road network are stored. The route-determining unit determines a driving route between a starting point and a destination which are communicated by the driver to the vehicle. The position-locating devices determine the vehicle position coordinates recurrently from the speed and acceleration of the vehicle in motion as determined by a measuring unit. The navigation system is further provided with a correction unit which determines a correction vector for correcting the generated vehicle position coordinates. This correction vector is de-termined by performing a transposition of the generated ve-hicle position coordinates to an actual road position as repeated by coordinates of the road network which are stored in the mass memory. Also derived from the measured speed and lateral acceleration and also from the generated vehicle position coordinates is an acceleration operator, which acceleration operator operates on the correction vector in order to derive from this a correction value for the measured acceleration. The navigation system further comprises a receiver for receiving position coordinate sig-nals originating from a navigation satellite. A Kalman filter mixes the vehicle position coordinates with the po-sition coordinates originating from the navigation satellite.

Adaptive inertial vehicle navigation system

In a navigation device for land vehicles the orientation signal which indicates the direction of movement along which the vehicle is moving is measured on the one hand by an electronic compass. A further orientation signal is produced by the variation of the vehicle orientation as determined by wheel sensors. These two orientation signals comprise measuring errors. In order to determine an optimum value for the orientation from said values a digital filter unit is used which comprises low-pass and high-pass filters. The value for the orientation signal measured by the compass is presented to the input of the low-pass filter and the further orientation signal is presented to an input of the high-pass filter. The filter unit further comprises a control unit which generates a filter parameter from received orientation signals and supplies said filter parameter to the low-pass filter and the high-pass filter.

Land vehicle navigation device comprising a filter unit for determining an optimum heading from presented orientation signals, and filter unit to be used in said navigation device

The device comprises a transducer (3) comprising a row of photoelectric elements (27), and a coupling member (7) with an entrance (11) which is to be directed towards the document (1) and an exit (13) which is coupled to the transducer. The coupling member is constructed as an integrated optical waveguide circuit comprising a glass substrate (17) in which there are provided grooves (19) which, in order to form optical conductors (21), are filled with a glass having a refractive index which is higher than that of the glass of the substrate. The width of each groove gradually decreases from the entrance of the coupling member towards the exit and over the entire length of the grooves the distance between every two adjacent grooves is substantially constant and substantially smaller than the width of the grooves, so that substantially all light originating from a scanned line of the document is supplied to the transducer.

Device for the optical scanning of a document

Optical scanning device having N linear opto-electronic transducers (157, 159, 161) which are substantially aligned with spaces (183, 185) between adjacent transducers. With each transducer (157, 159, 161) is associated an individual imaging system (163, 165, 167) for imaging a narrow strip (171, 173, 175) of the document on the transducer. Each transducer (157, 159, 161) is displaceable with the aid of adjustment means with respect to the associated imaging system (163, 165, 167). As a result the transducers can be adjusted so that the narrow strips (171, 173, 175) adjoin each other and are aligned. Together they cover a narrow elongate part (169) of the document. In this manner, a comparatively large document can be scanned with a high resolving power by means of comparatively simple and hence inexpensive transducers and imaging systems.

Martinus Leonardus Gerardus Thoone

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Vehicle navigation system provided with an adaptive inertial navigation system based on the measurement of the speed and lateral acceleration of the vehicle and provided with a correction unit for correcting the measured values

Adaptive inertial vehicle navigation system

Land vehicle navigation device comprising a filter unit for determining an optimum heading from presented orientation signals, and filter unit to be used in said navigation device

Device for the optical scanning of a document

Device for optically scanning a document