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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a positioning device capable of acquiring a result of independent positioning in a shorter time. SOLUTION: A positioning method for positioning the position of the positioning device 10 receiving a radio wave based on a propagation time of the radio wave transmitted from a plurality of satellites Si is characterized as follows: each position of a prescribed number of satellites whose orbits are known is calculated only once (S1); a pseudo-distance based on a temporary arrival time of the radio wave from the satellite position is calculated (S3); the position of the positioning device is positioned by an independent positioning method by using the pseudo-distance (S4); and when a timepiece error of the positioning device is over a prescribed value as the result of the independent positioning (S5), the independent positioning is repeated after correcting the pseudo-distance as much as the timepiece error (S4). COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a positioning system and a car navigation system capable of positioning precisely a position of a moving object even when the number of receivable GPS satellites is not sufficient. SOLUTION: This positioning system 10 capable of controlling cooperatively the positioning using radio waves transmitted from the artificial satellites and the positioning by a self-contained navigation method to estimate the position of the moving object extracts a point with the minimum distance with respect to an inertia positioning position positioned by the self-contained navigation method, out of a range positioned using the radio waves, when the number of the captured satellites is less than three, and estimates the point as the satellite positioned position positioned using the radio wave. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a position estimation device for a moving body for estimating the position of the moving body highly accurately without being influenced by a road shape or a peripheral environment. SOLUTION: This position estimation device for the moving body loaded on the moving body for estimating the position of the moving body is equipped with the first estimation means for estimating the position of the moving body based on an output from an inertia navigation sensor group (an acceleration sensor, a yaw rate sensor or the like) loaded on the moving body; a storage means for storing map information including at least node information; the second estimation means for estimating the position of the moving body based on an anticipated moving locus of the moving body predicted from the node information; and a synthesis means for determining the final estimated position of the moving body by synthesizing the position of the moving body estimated by the first estimation means and the position of the moving body estimated by the second estimation means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle surrounding monitoring system that can reduce image recognition processing time and increase a recognition rate. SOLUTION: The vehicle surrounding monitoring system comprises a position detecting means 12 for detecting a vehicle position, an imaging means 18 mounted in a predetermined position on the vehicle to image vehicle surroundings, an image processing means 10 for recognizing stationary objects from pickup images from the imaging means 18, assist information creating means 10 for creating assist information for the next and subsequence stationary object recognition according to the recognition results of the image processing means 10, and storing means 30 for storing the created assist information. The image processing means 10 decide an image processing area for stationary object recognition, with the use of the assist information in the storing means 30. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To ensure an availability of data by improving a precision of the data from an existing map without input operation by a user in a map data updating method and a map data updating apparatus. SOLUTION: A vehicle location is detected from GPS data and INS data. A running orbit is calculated while a vehicle runs. The number of lanes and a width of a road are estimated from a location relationship between a plurality of the running orbits on the same road. Display locations of traffic signals and traffic signs are detected from an image picked up by a camera 24. Three-dimensional absolute locations of the traffic signals on an actual road are estimated from the display locations. The estimated information as update data of latitude/longitude information stored in a map database 10 is stored in an update data storage 16. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an entrance due to a wrong operation into an entrance prohibited area at a parking lot.SOLUTION: An ECU 16 comprises: an operation pattern storage section for learning to store an operation pattern of a driver before/after parking at the parking lot; an entrance prohibited area storage section for learning to store the entrance prohibited area at the parking lot; and a determination section for performing at least one of alarm generation or travel control, when a driver operation before/after parking after the learning deviates from the operation pattern stored in the operation pattern storage section and is determined to be an entrance into the entrance prohibited area stored in the entrance prohibited area storage section. For the operation pattern of the driver, time change of a vehicle speed for each parking pattern is used.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a positioning system for moving objects and highly accurate positioning etc. of moving objects through the use of speed correction data derived on the side of a reference station. SOLUTION: The positioning system for moving objects includes correction data generating means 50 and 52 provided for the reference station 20 for measuring the speed of the reference station on the basis of the Doppler range of satellite radio waves obtained by observation at the reference station and generating speed correction data on the basis of results of the measurement; a data transmission means 54 provided for the reference station for transmitting both observation data of satellite radio waves obtained by observation at the reference station and the speed correction data to a moving object; a data reception means 40 provided for the moving object 30 for receiving the observation and speed correction data transmitted from the reference station; and positioning means 42, 44, 46 and 48 provided for the moving object for positioning the moving object on the basis of the observation data of satellite radio waves obtained by observation at the moving object and the observation and speed correction data received by the data reception means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a GPS positioning device and a method capable of properly computing positioning even when new and old satellite information is intermingled in a GPS receiver. SOLUTION: Provided is a GPS positioning device comprising a satellite information memorizing means for memorizing the newest satellite information of a plurality of respective GPS satellites periodically received from the GPS satellites; a new/old mixture determining means for determining whether the newest satellite information and the satellite information received in the last time and not newest are mixedly memorized in the newest satellite information of the plurality of respective GPS satellite memorized by the satellite information memorizing means; and a positioning computing means for computing positioning coordinates of the GPS positioning device depending on the result of determination by the new/old mixture determining means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To correct accurately a subsequent positioning result, when a combination of satellites used for positioning is changed. SOLUTION: The positioning device for a moving body includes a determination means for determining whether the combination of satellites used for positioning is changed; a velocity vector calculation means for calculating a velocity vector of the moving body by using an observation value of a Doppler shift; a positioning means for positioning the position of the moving body based on a satellite signal; a moving vector calculation means for calculating a moving vector of the moving body in a prescribed time based on a change of a positioning result of the position of the moving body positioned by the positioning means; and a correction means for correcting the position of the moving body positioned by the positioning means by using both vectors of the velocity vector calculated by the velocity vector calculation means and the moving vector calculated by the moving vector calculation means, when determined that the combination of the satellites is changed by the determination means. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly prevent wrong determination of the end determination of a multipath, while the multipath is developing. SOLUTION: This apparatus for measuring moving body position is equipped with a reception means 20A for receiving a signal from a satellite 10, a velocity vector calculation means 60A for calculating a velocity vector V of a moving body; a position measurement/operation means 40 for measuring the position of the moving body; a displacement vector calculation means 50 for calculating a displacement vector M, representing the traveling amount of the moving body based on the history of position measurement results; an angle calculation means for calculating an angle formed by the velocity vector V with the displacement vector M as an evaluation value; and an anomaly determination means 72 for determining whether position measurement made by the measurement/operation means is anomalous, based on the evaluation value. The determination means 72 carries out anomaly determination, to the effect, that position measurement is anomalous where the evaluation value is not less than a prescribed threshold Th1, canceling the anomaly determination, where a time period between the time the anomaly determination is made and the time the evaluation value becomes less than a prescribed threshold Th3, exceeds a prescribed time period Th5, or the moving distance of the movable body exceeds a prescribed distance, and maintaining the anomaly determination where neither the prescribed time period nor the prescribed distance is exceeded. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT