公开(公告)号：US5625556A

公开(公告)日：1997-04-29

申请号：US430495

申请日：1995-04-28

申请人： James M. Janky ,  John F. Schipper

发明人： James M. Janky ,  John F. Schipper

IPC分类号： G01S1/00 ,  G01S19/29 ,  G01S19/30 ,  G04G7/00 ,  G04C11/00 ,  G01S1/24

CPC分类号： G01S19/41 ,  G01S19/235 ,  G04G7/00

摘要： Apparatus and method for providing timing control signals for operation of an engine and other devices on a vehicle and/or operation of telecommunications equipment and/or computer equipment on the vehicle. A Satellite Positioning System (SATPS) antenna and receiver/processor receive and process signals from three or more SATPS satellites and determine and issue SATPS-determined timing pulses and time signals that indicate the time associated with each timing pulse. The pulse-to-pulse time separation .DELTA.t.sub.pp of these timing pulses is adjusted to provide a separation approximately equal to a selected pulse separation .DELTA.t.sub.incr. Alternatively, a supplementary timing device provides a sequence of timing pulses with pulse-to-pulse spacing that is adjustable by varying an environmental parameter .theta., such as temperature or electrical field, for this timing device. The supplementary timing device pulse-to-pulse separation is determined by the SATPS-determined time signals and the environmental parameter .theta. is varied so that .DELTA.t.sub.pp becomes approximately equal to a selected value .DELTA.t.sub.incr that can be used for timing signals on the vehicle. The supplementary timing device pulses can also be used where the SATPS-determined time signals and timing pulses are not available. The SATPS may be a Global Positioning System (GPS), a Global Orbiting Navigational Satellite System (GLONASS) or any other suitable satellite-based system.

摘要翻译： 用于提供定时控制信号的装置和方法，用于操作车辆上的发动机和其他装置以及/或车辆上的电信设备和/或计算机设备的操作。 卫星定位系统（SATPS）天线和接收机/处理器接收和处理来自三个或更多SATPS卫星的信号，并确定和发出SATPS确定的定时脉冲和指示与每个定时脉冲相关联的时间的时间信号。 调整这些定时脉冲的脉冲 - 脉冲时间间隔DELTA tpp以提供大约等于所选择的脉冲间隔DELTA tincr的分离。 备选地，补充定时装置提供具有脉冲间隔的定时脉冲序列，其可通过改变该定时装置的环境参数θ（例如温度或电场）来调节。 辅助定时装置脉冲间隔由SATPS确定的时间信号确定，并且环境参数θ被改变，使得DELTA tpp变得近似等于可用于车辆上的定时信号的选择值DELTA tincr。 在SATPS确定的时间信号和定时脉冲不可用的情况下也可以使用补充定时装置脉冲。 SATPS可能是全球定位系统（GPS），全球轨道导航卫星系统（GLONASS）或任何其他合适的基于卫星的系统。

公开(公告)号：US06411899B1

公开(公告)日：2002-06-25

申请号：US09846415

申请日：2001-04-30

申请人： William O. Dussell ,  James M. Janky ,  John F. Schipper ,  David J. Cowl

发明人： William O. Dussell ,  James M. Janky ,  John F. Schipper ,  David J. Cowl

IPC分类号： G01C2100

摘要： A task description is stored in a database accessible by a mobile computer system. The mobile computer system receives positioning information corresponding to its geographic location and indexes the database based on the positioning information when the information indicates that the mobile computer system is in a geographic location that facilitates completion of a task associated with the task description. The database may be resident in the mobile computer system or accessible in other ways, for example, via the Internet. The task description preferably includes a geocode which corresponds to the geographic location at which completion of the task may be facilitated. The task description may also include textual, voice or other message which can be displayed and/or played back to a user. The positioning information may be obtained from a GPS satellite, a GLONASS satellite or a pseudolite. The mobile computer system may be a portable unit, such as a PDA, or integrated within a vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US06353796B1

公开(公告)日：2002-03-05

申请号：US09513265

申请日：2000-02-24

申请人： John F. Schipper ,  Eric B. Rodal ,  James M. Janky ,  David J. Cowl

发明人： John F. Schipper ,  Eric B. Rodal ,  James M. Janky ,  David J. Cowl

IPC分类号： G06G778

CPC分类号： G01C22/02 ,  B60G2400/824 ,  B60G2401/16 ,  B60G2600/202 ,  G01C21/26 ,  G01S19/39 ,  G01S19/47 ,  G01S19/52 ,  G01S2205/002

摘要： A system for monitoring location and speed of a vehicle, using a location determination system such as GPS, GLONASS or LORAN and an optional odometer or speedometer, for determining and recording the locations and times at which vehicle speed is less than a threshold speed for at least a threshold time (called a “vehicle arrest event”). Vehicle arrest event locations, times and time intervals are stored and/or printed to provide trip and mileage records and for efficiency monitoring. A vehicle odometer and/or speedometer can also be calibrated and/or corrected using this approach.

摘要翻译： 一种用于监测车辆的位置和速度的系统，使用诸如GPS，GLONASS或LORAN的位置确定系统和可选的里程表或速度计来确定和记录车辆速度小于阈值速度的位置和时间 至少一个门槛时间（称为“车辆逮捕事件”）。 车辆逮捕事件位置，时间和时间间隔被存储和/或打印以提供行程和里程记录以及效率监视。 车辆里程表和/或速度计也可以使用这种方法进行校准和/或校正。

公开(公告)号：US6128337A

公开(公告)日：2000-10-03

申请号：US865607

申请日：1997-05-29

申请人： John F. Schipper ,  James M. Janky

发明人： John F. Schipper ,  James M. Janky

IPC分类号： H04B1/7115 ,  H04B7/005 ,  H04L25/02 ,  H03H7/30 ,  H04B1/10

CPC分类号： H04B1/7115 ,  H04B7/005 ,  H04L25/0202

摘要： Methods for identification of, and compensation for, the effects of presence of a multipath signal in a received composite digital signal that includes a direct, distortion-free signal. A direct signal is additively or multiplicatively combined with a distinguishable indicium signal and the resultant signal is transmitted to a receiver. The indicium signal may be distinguished by use of a different frequency or by use of a bit pattern that cannot be included in a direct signal pattern. The receiver identifies the received indicium signal within the received signal, compares the received indicium signal with a reference signal that is substantially a replica of the transmitted indicium signal, determines what operations will convert the reference signal into the received indicium signal, and applies an inverse of these operations to the portion of the received signal that contains the received direct signal, to obtain an enhanced received direct signal with reduced multipath signal effects. An example of the conversion operation is discussed, which can be performed in near real time or in a post-processing mode.

摘要翻译： 用于识别和补偿在接收的复合数字信号中存在多路径信号的影响的方法，该复合数字信号包括直接的，无失真的信号。 直接信号与可区分的标记信号相加或乘法地组合，并且所得到的信号被发送到接收机。 标记信号可以通过使用不同的频率或通过使用不能包括在直接信号模式中的位模式进行区分。 接收机识别接收到的信号中的接收到的标记信号，将接收到的标记信号与基本上是发送的标记信号的复制品的参考信号进行比较，确定哪些操作将参考信号转换成接收的标记信号， 这些操作对包含接收到的直接信号的接收信号的部分，以获得具有减小的多路径信号效应的增强的接收直接信号。 讨论了可以接近实时或后处理模式执行转换操作的示例。

公开(公告)号：US6088650A

公开(公告)日：2000-07-11

申请号：US260793

申请日：1999-03-01

申请人： John F. Schipper ,  Eric B. Rodal ,  James M. Janky ,  David J. Cowl

发明人： John F. Schipper ,  Eric B. Rodal ,  James M. Janky ,  David J. Cowl

IPC分类号： G01C21/26 ,  G01C22/02 ,  G01S5/14 ,  G01S19/30 ,  G01S19/34 ,  G01S19/47 ,  G01S19/50 ,  G06G7/78

CPC分类号： G01C22/02 ,  G01C21/26 ,  G01S19/39 ,  G01S19/47 ,  G01S19/52 ,  B60G2400/824 ,  B60G2401/16 ,  B60G2600/202 ,  G01S2205/002

摘要： A system for monitoring location and speed of a vehicle, using a location determination system such as GPS, GLONASS or LORAN and an optional odometer or speedometer, for determining and recording the locations and times at which vehicle speed is less than a threshold speed for at least a threshold time (called a "vehicle arrest event"). Vehicle arrest event locations, times and time intervals are stored and/or printed to provide trip and mileage records and for efficiency monitoring. A vehicle odometer and/or speedometer can also be calibrated and/or corrected using this approach.

公开(公告)号：US6067031A

公开(公告)日：2000-05-23

申请号：US993693

申请日：1997-12-18

申请人： James M. Janky ,  Derek Steven Smith ,  John F. Schipper

发明人： James M. Janky ,  Derek Steven Smith ,  John F. Schipper

IPC分类号： G01S5/00 ,  G01S5/14 ,  G01S15/93 ,  G01S19/48 ,  G08G1/16

CPC分类号： G01S15/931 ,  G01S13/931 ,  G01S5/0072 ,  G08G1/164 ,  G08G1/166 ,  B60T2201/08 ,  B60T2201/081 ,  G01S19/48 ,  G01S2013/9325 ,  G01S2013/9346 ,  G01S2013/9353 ,  G01S2013/9357 ,  G01S2013/936 ,  G01S2013/9367 ,  G01S2013/9385 ,  Y10S367/909

摘要： A system for monitoring operation and location of a moving first vehicle relative to a second vehicle. A minimum separation distance between the first and second vehicles is estimated, based on the first vehicle velocity, and optionally on the second vehicle velocity, using location determination (LD) signals received from satellite-based transmitters from GPS, GLONASS and LEO satellites, or from ground-based signal sources such as LORAN signal towers, and using ranging signals from SONAR, RADAR or a similar system. The minimum separation distance is compared with the actual separation distance at selected times, and a vehicle driver is advised if the actual separation distance is too small, if the separation distance is decreasing too quickly, or if the second vehicle velocity is decreasing too quickly. The second vehicle may travel in the same traffic lane, in an adjacent lane, or on a road that intersects the road used by the first vehicle. Where the first and second vehicles travel on separate roads that will intersect, the system estimates whether the second vehicle will stop, or will be able to stop, at the intersection. The second vehicle may be a railroad car, such as a locomotive, or a road vehicle, such as an automobile, bus or truck. A maximum vehicle clear-view velocity, consistent with vehicle stopping within a selected distance, is estimated. Road conditions are estimated and compensated for in estimating the minimum separation distance and/or the maximum vehicle clear-view velocity.

摘要翻译： 一种用于监测运动的第一车辆相对于第二车辆的操作和位置的系统。 使用从GPS，GLONASS和LEO卫星的基于卫星的发射器接收的位置确定（LD）信号，基于第一车辆速度，并且可选地基于第二车辆速度来估计第一和第二车辆之间的最小间隔距离， 来自诸如LORAN信号塔的地面信号源，以及使用来自SONAR，RADAR或类似系统的测距信号。 将最小间隔距离与选定时间的实际间隔距离进行比较，如果实际分隔距离太小，则间隔距离过小，或第二车速下降过快时，建议车辆驾驶员。 第二辆车可以在相同的行车道，相邻的车道，或与第一车辆使用的道路相交的道路上行驶。 在第一和第二车辆在相交的不同道路上行驶的情况下，系统估计第二辆车是否将在交叉路口停下或将能够停下来。 第二车辆可以是铁路车辆，例如机车，或诸如汽车，公共汽车或卡车的公路车辆。 估计与选定距离内的车辆停止一致的最大车辆清视速度。 在估计最小间隔距离和/或最大车辆清除速度时估计和补偿道路条件。

公开(公告)号：US6038444A

公开(公告)日：2000-03-14

申请号：US929597

申请日：1997-09-15

申请人： John F. Schipper ,  Hamid Najafi ,  James M. Janky

发明人： John F. Schipper ,  Hamid Najafi ,  James M. Janky

IPC分类号： G01S5/00 ,  G01S5/14 ,  G01S19/25 ,  H04B7/185 ,  H04W36/32 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04Q7/34

CPC分类号： H04B7/18541 ,  H04B7/18552 ,  H04W36/32 ,  G01S2205/007 ,  G01S5/0027 ,  H04W64/00

摘要： Method and apparatus for tracking the location of, and for providing cellular telephone handoff for, a mobile cellphone user as the user moves from one cell to another. A boundary curve B12 between a first cell and an adjacent second cell is defined in an electronic map. First and second quasi-boundary curves QB1 and QB2, lying within the first and second cell, respectively, are defined, where each point on the curve QBi (i=1,2) lies at a selected distance from the boundary curve B12. A common region CR12 of points lying between the quasi-boundary curves QB1 and QB2 and including the boundary curve B12 is defined. The present cellphone location of the cellphone user is determined using a location determination system, such as GPS or GLONASS or a ground-based system. Cellular telephone service for the cellphone user is provided by a first cell site or by a second cell site, when the cellphone user is located within the first cell or the second cell, not including the overlap region CR12. When the cellphone user enters the region CR12 from within the first cell and proceeds toward the boundary curve B12, the user cellphone notifies at least one of the first and second cell sites that the cellphone user is about to leave the first cell and about to enter the second cell. The system advises the user if the cellphone is about to pass to another cell in which a cellular connection is likely to be dropped because no handoff cellular frequencies are available, or because the cellphone is about to enter a hole region where signal strength is less than an acceptable threshold value.

摘要翻译： 随着用户从一个小区移动到另一个小区，用于跟踪移动蜂窝电话用户的位置并提供蜂窝电话切换的方法和装置。 在电子地图中定义第一单元和相邻的第二单元之间的边界曲线B12。 定义分别位于第一和第二单元内的第一和第二准边界曲线QB1和QB2，其中曲线QBi（i = 1,2）上的每个点位于距离边界曲线B12的选定距离处。 定义了位于准边界曲线QB1和QB2之间并包括边界曲线B12的点的公共区域CR12。 使用位置确定系统（例如GPS或GLONASS或基于地面的系统）来确定手机用户的当前手机位置。 当手机用户位于第一小区或第二小区内时，蜂窝电话用户的蜂窝电话服务由第一小区站点或第二小区站点提供，不包括重叠区域CR12。 当手机用户从第一小区内进入区域CR12并且朝向边界曲线B12进行时，用户手机通知第一和第二小区站点中的至少一个手机用户即将离开第一小区并且即将进入 第二个细胞。 如果手机将要传送到蜂窝连接可能丢失的另一个小区，系统建议用户，因为没有切换蜂窝频率可用，或者因为手机即将进入信号强度小于的蜂窝区域 一个可接受的阈值。

公开(公告)号：US5960337A

公开(公告)日：1999-09-28

申请号：US822580

申请日：1997-03-20

申请人： Beth S. Brewster ,  John F. Schipper ,  James M. Janky

发明人： Beth S. Brewster ,  John F. Schipper ,  James M. Janky

IPC分类号： A61K31/02 ,  A61K31/025 ,  A61K31/035 ,  G01S1/08

CPC分类号： A61K31/035 ,  A61K31/02 ,  A61K31/025

摘要： A method for improving the provision of emergency assistance services for an emergency site. An observer of an emergency event contacts an Emergency Assistance Services (EAS) operator, using a telephone to describe the type of emergency event and any special circumstances present. The EAS operator also receives the present location of the observer, using a location determination system that is connected to the telephone used by the observer. The EAS operator is provided with an electronic map showing the location of the observer and the location of at least one available EAS responder for the type of emergency event that has occurred. The EAS operator determines whether a given EAS responder has the equipment and/or trained personnel required to respond to the emergency event and, from a group of EAS responders who do so qualify, selects an EAS responder who is estimated to be able to reach the emergency site in the shortest time. The selected EAS responder is assigned to respond to the emergency event, and the EAS operator optionally monitors the EAS responder to verify that this responder has reached the emergency site. If the assigned EAS responder does not reach the emergency site, the EAS operator optionally and promptly assigns another EAS responder to the emergency event. The LD system can be a Satellite Positioning System, such as GPS or GLONASS, or can be an FM subcarrier system.

摘要翻译： 一种改善为紧急场所提供紧急援助服务的方法。 紧急事件的观察员联系紧急援助服务（EAS）运营商，使用电话来描述紧急事件的类型和存在的任何特殊情况。 EAS操作员还使用连接到观察者使用的电话的位置确定系统接收观察者的当前位置。 EAS操作员被提供有一个电子地图，显示观察者的位置和至少一个可用的EAS响应者的位置，用于所发生的紧急事件的类型。 EAS操作员确定给定的EAS应答者是否具有响应紧急事件所需的设备和/或经过培训的人员，并且从符合条件的EAS响应者组中选择估计能够达到的EAS响应者 紧急地点在最短的时间内。 分配选定的EAS应答器来响应紧急事件，EAS操作员可以选择性地监视EAS应答器，以验证此响应者是否到达紧急情况。 如果分配的EAS响应者没有到达紧急情况，EAS运营商可以选择地及时地将另一个EAS应答器分配给紧急事件。 LD系统可以是卫星定位系统，例如GPS或GLONASS，或者可以是FM副载波系统。

公开(公告)号：US5552772A

公开(公告)日：1996-09-03

申请号：US171552

申请日：1993-12-20

申请人： James M. Janky ,  John F. Schipper

发明人： James M. Janky ,  John F. Schipper

IPC分类号： G08B3/10 ,  G08B21/02 ,  G08B23/00

CPC分类号： G08B21/0211 ,  G08B21/0222 ,  G08B21/0227 ,  G08B21/028 ,  G08B21/0294 ,  G08B3/1083

摘要： Method and apparatus for monitoring the present location of an emergency or general serviceperson, such as a firefighter or a hazardous materials spill clean-up specialist, assigned to perform emergency services at a designated site. The site diameter can be as small as a few meters or as large as several kilometers. The serviceperson's present location can be checked at selected time intervals with time periods ranging from a few hundred milliseconds to thousands of seconds, as desired. The serviceperson wears or carries a location-determining ("LD") unit that receives electromagnetic signals that contain information allowing determination of the present location of the LD unit, and thus of the serviceperson, from three or more signal sources. These signal sources may be FM subcarrier signal transmitters, or may be an integrated combination of FM subcarrier signal transmitters and (1) transmitters for a Loran, Omega, Decca, Tacan, JTIDS Relnav or PLRS or other ground-based system, or (2) transmitters for a satellite-based positioning system, such as GPS or GLONASS, or other broadcast sources. The relative phases or transmission times for the signals from each source are determined and provided for the LD unit. The present location of the serviceperson, or change thereof, is determined and transmitted to a central station at selected interrogation times, or upon occurrence of any of a specified group of other conditions. The central station transmits an alarm signal if one or more of the following conditions is present: (1) the worker's LD is not within the designated site; (2) the central station does not receive transmitted present location information from the LD unit for at least K consecutive interrogation times; or (3) the location of the LD unit changes by less than a selected threshold amount in a time interval of selected length .DELTA.t.sub.change ; or (4) a physiological indicium of the serviceperson is in a danger zone.

公开(公告)号：US06266612B1

公开(公告)日：2001-07-24

申请号：US09334521

申请日：1999-06-16

申请人： William O. Dussell ,  James M. Janky ,  John F. Schipper ,  David J. Cowl

发明人： William O. Dussell ,  James M. Janky ,  John F. Schipper ,  David J. Cowl

IPC分类号： G01S502

CPC分类号： G09B29/106 ,  G01C21/26 ,  G01S5/0009 ,  G01S19/11 ,  G01S19/41 ,  G08G1/0962

摘要： A task description is stored in a database accessible by a mobile computer system. The mobile computer system receives positioning information corresponding to its geographic location and indexes the database based on the positioning information when the information indicates that the mobile computer system is in a geographic location that facilitates completion of a task associated with the task description. The database may be resident in the mobile computer system or accessible in other ways, for example, via the Internet. The task description preferably includes a geocode which corresponds to the geographic location at which completion of the task may be facilitated. The task description may also include textual, voice or other message which can be displayed and/or played back to a user. The positioning information may be obtained from a GPS satellite, a GLONASS satellite or a pseudolite. The mobile computer system may be a portable unit, such as a PDA, or integrated within a vehicle.