Clandestine location reporting for missing vehicles
    81.
    发明授权
    Clandestine location reporting for missing vehicles 有权
    缺陷车辆的秘密位置报告

    公开(公告)号:US06184801B2

    公开(公告)日:2001-02-06

    申请号:US09437335

    申请日:1999-05-11

    申请人: James M. Janky

    发明人: James M. Janky

    IPC分类号: G08G1123

    摘要: Apparatus and method for a location determination and reporting (LDR) system for clandestinely or surreptitiously determining and reporting a missing vehicle present location. The vehicle may be stationary or moving and may be anywhere within reach of a cellular central station to which the location is reported. The vehicle is equipped with a location determination (LD) unit (preferably hidden on the vehicle) that receives LD signals and determines the LD unit present location, a specially configured cellular telephone, and a call interceptor. When the vehicle is reported missing, a central station or the vehicle operator interrogates the vehicle LDR system by transmitting a location interrogation signal, commanding the LD unit to transmit its present location. The vehicle phone does not signal receipt of an incoming call for an initial time period of selected length &Dgr;td, awaiting possible receipt of a location interrogation signal. If the incoming call includes a location interrogation signal, the cellular phone does not “ring” but transmits information on the LD unit present location to a specified recipient. If the incoming call does not include a location interrogation signal, the cellular phone “rings” audibly or visually, after the initial time delay, and simulates behavior as a normal cellular phone for that call. The cellular phone simulates normal operation if a vehicle occupant attempts to use the phone. An unauthorized user of the vehicle receives no indication that the innocuous cellular phone is used to track the vehicle present location.

    摘要翻译: 用于秘密或秘密地确定和报告缺失车辆现场的位置确定和报告(LDR)系统的装置和方法。 车辆可以是静止的或移动的,并且可以在报告位置的蜂窝中心站的任何地方。 车辆配备有接收LD信号并确定LD单元当前位置的位置确定(LD)单元(优选地隐藏在车辆上),专门配置的蜂窝电话和呼叫拦截器。 当报告车辆失踪时,中央车站或车辆操作员通过发送位置询问信号来询问车辆LDR系统,命令LD单元发送其当前位置。 车辆电话在信号接收时没有收到所选长度DELTAtd的初始时间段,等待可能接收到位置询问信号。 如果来电包括位置询问信号,则蜂窝电话不会“振铃”,而是将LD单元存在位置的信息发送到指定的接收者。 如果来电不包括位置询问信号,则在初始时间延迟之后,蜂窝电话“可听或视觉地”振铃,并且模拟作为该呼叫的普通蜂窝电话的行为。 如果车辆乘客试图使用电话,蜂窝电话模拟正常操作。 车辆的未经授权的用户没有接收到无害的蜂窝电话用于跟踪车辆当前位置的指示。

    Vehicle theft system including a handheld computing device
    82.
    发明授权
    Vehicle theft system including a handheld computing device 有权
    车辆盗窃系统包括手持式计算设备

    公开(公告)号:US06147598A

    公开(公告)日:2000-11-14

    申请号:US199034

    申请日:1998-11-23

    IPC分类号: B60R25/10

    摘要: A method and apparatus for providing a vehicle theft alarm using a handheld computing device. A handheld computing device is disclosed that includes an image capture device, a location determination system and a communication device. The handheld computing device can be used for capturing images and transmitting images to other locations via the communication device. The handheld computing device also includes a position determining system for determining position of the vehicle. The handheld computing device can be located within a vehicle and the alarm system activated such that, upon the occurrence of an alarm triggering event, the image capture device captures images of the driver's compartment of the vehicle and the location determination system determines the location of the vehicle. The captured images and the determined location are transmitted through the communication device to a designated remote location.

    摘要翻译: 一种使用手持式计算装置提供车辆盗窃警报的方法和装置。 公开了一种包括图像捕获装置,位置确定系统和通信装置的手持式计算装置。 手持计算设备可以用于通过通信设备捕获图像并将图像发送到其他位置。 手持式计算装置还包括用于确定车辆位置的位置确定系统。 手持式计算设备可以位于车辆内并且激活警报系统,使得在发生警报触发事件时,图像捕获设备捕获车辆驾驶室的图像,并且位置确定系统确定车辆的位置 车辆。 捕获的图像和确定的位置通过通信设备发送到指定的远程位置。

    Hybrid monitoring of location of a site confinee

    公开(公告)号:US5892454A

    公开(公告)日:1999-04-06

    申请号:US734721

    申请日:1996-10-21

    摘要: Method and apparatus for monitoring present location of a person ("confinee") who is to be confined to a designated site, which site can have a diameter as small as a few meters or as large as several kilometers. The present location of the confinee is checked at selected time intervals with time periods ranging from one second to thousands of seconds, as desired. The confinee wears 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 confinee, from three or more non-collinear outdoor LD signal sources and from three or more non-collinear indoor LD signal sources. The indoor LD signal sources may be radiowave transmitters. The outdoor LD signal sources may be transmitters for a Loran, Omega, Decca, Tacan, JTIDS Relnav or PLRS or similar ground-based system, or transmitters for a satellite positioning system, such as GPS or GLONASS. The relative phases or transmission times for the signals from each indoor LD signal source are determined and provided for the LD unit. The present location or change location of the LD unit is determined and compared with the permitted site location coordinates at a sequence of selected times to determine if the confinee is present at the site at such times. The LD unit issues an alarm signal if the confinee is not on the site and has not arranged beforehand to leave the permitted site for a selected time interval. �The permitted site can be redefined, for a selected time interval, to include the first permitted site, a second permitted site and a corridor extending between the first and second permitted sites for a selected time interval, after which the permitted site can be changed again to include only the first or the second permitted site or a portion thereof. �This allows the confinee to temporarily leave the original permitted site to seek medical attention or to attend to other needs, or to be moved permanently to the second site.! The permitted site can be redefined at any time and for any subsequent time interval. One or more exclusion sites can be designated where the confinee is not permitted to go at any time.!

    Integrated mobile GIS/GPS/AVL with wireless messaging capability
    84.
    发明授权
    Integrated mobile GIS/GPS/AVL with wireless messaging capability 失效
    集成移动GIS / GPS / AVL具有无线信息功能

    公开(公告)号:US5760742A

    公开(公告)日:1998-06-02

    申请号:US915192

    申请日:1997-08-20

    摘要: An integrated geographic information and automatic position locating system. In one embodiment, a communication link is provided between a vehicle and at least one base station. A vehicle position tracking system, coupled to a vehicle to be monitored, is connected to the communication link. Likewise, a geographic mapping system also disposed within the vehicle is connected to the communication link. In the present embodiment, the vehicle position tracking system and the geographic mapping system are housed in a portable data terminal. The portable data terminal is removably placed into a docking station located within the vehicle. The integrated vehicle position tracking system and geographic mapping system function both when placed in the docking station, and when removed from the docking station. Thus, the present invention provides a mobile integrated vehicle position tracking system and the geographic mapping system integrated into a portable data terminal. Furthermore, in the present embodiment, the communication link provided between the vehicle and at least one base station can be accessed and utilized even when the portable data terminal is not located within the docking station.

    摘要翻译: 综合地理信息和自动定位系统。 在一个实施例中,在车辆和至少一个基站之间提供通信链路。 耦合到待监视的车辆的车辆位置跟踪系统连接到通信链路。 同样,也设置在车辆内的地理映射系统连接到通信链路。 在本实施例中,车辆位置跟踪系统和地理映射系统被容纳在便携式数据终端中。 便携式数据终端可拆卸地放置在位于车辆内的坞站内。 集成的车辆位置跟踪系统和地理映射系统在放置在对接站中时以及从对接站移除时都起作用。 因此,本发明提供一种集成在便携式数据终端中的移动集成车辆位置跟踪系统和地理映射系统。 此外,在本实施例中,即使当便携式数据终端不位于对接站内时,也可以访问和利用设置在车辆与至少一个基站之间的通信链路。

    Clandestine location reporting by a missing vehicle
    85.
    发明授权
    Clandestine location reporting by a missing vehicle 失效
    秘密位置报告由一辆失踪的车辆

    公开(公告)号:US5629693A

    公开(公告)日:1997-05-13

    申请号:US443235

    申请日:1995-05-17

    申请人: James M. Janky

    发明人: James M. Janky

    摘要: Apparatus and method for a location determination and reporting (LDR) system for clandestinely determining and reporting a missing vehicle present location. The vehicle may be stationary or moving and may be anywhere within reach of a cellular central station to which the location is reported. The vehicle is equipped with a location determination (LD) unit, including an LD signal antenna and receiver/processor (preferably hidden on the vehicle) that determines the LD antenna present location, a specially configured cellular telephone, and a controller. When the vehicle is reported missing, the central station interrogates the vehicle LDR system to determine the vehicle present location. A location interrogation signal is transmitted, commanding the LD unit to transmit the LD antenna present location. The vehicle phone does not signal an incoming call for an initial time period of selected length .DELTA.t.sub.d, awaiting possible receipt of a location interrogation signal. If the incoming call includes a location interrogation signal, the cellular phone does not "ring" but transmits information on the vehicle's present location to the central station. If the incoming call does not include a location interrogation signal, the cellular phone "rings" audibly or visually, after the initial time delay, and behaves as a normal cellular phone for that call. The cellular phone functions normally if a vehicle occupant attempts to use the phone. An unauthorized user of the vehicle receives no indication that the innocuous cellular phone is used to track the vehicle present location.

    摘要翻译: 用于秘密确定和报告缺失车辆现场位置的位置确定和报告(LDR)系统的装置和方法。 车辆可以是静止的或移动的,并且可以在报告位置的蜂窝中心站的任何地方。 车辆配备有确定LD天线存在位置的LD信号天线和接收器/处理器(优选地隐藏在车辆上)的位置确定(LD)单元,专门配置的蜂窝电话和控制器。 当报告车辆失踪时,中心站询问车辆LDR系统以确定车辆当前位置。 发送位置询问信号,命令LD单元发送LD天线当前位置。 车辆电话机不会在选定长度DELTA td的初始时间段内发出来电,等待可能接收到位置询问信号。 如果来电包括位置询问信号,则蜂窝电话不会“振铃”,而是将车辆当前位置的信息发送到中心站。 如果来电不包含位置询问信号,则在初始时间延迟之后,蜂窝电话以可听或视觉的方式“振铃”,并且作为该呼叫的普通蜂窝电话。 如果车辆乘客试图使用电话,蜂窝电话将正常工作。 车辆的未经授权的用户没有接收到无害的蜂窝电话用于跟踪车辆当前位置的指示。

    Arrestee monitoring with variable site boundaries
    86.
    发明授权
    Arrestee monitoring with variable site boundaries 失效
    Arrestee监控与可变现场边界

    公开(公告)号:US5568119A

    公开(公告)日:1996-10-22

    申请号:US171228

    申请日:1993-12-21

    摘要: Method and apparatus for monitoring present location of a site arrestee confined to a permitted site of arbitrary size. Present location of the arrestee can be checked at selected time intervals of several hundred milliseconds to thousands of seconds, as desired. The arrestee wears a location-determining ("LD") unit that receives electromagnetic signals that contain information allowing determination of the present location of the LD unit and arrestee, from three or more non-collinear signal sources. These sources may be radiowave subcarrier transmitters, or may be a combination of radiowave subcarrier transmitters and (1) transmitters for a Loran, Omega, Decca, Tacan, JTIDS Relnav or PLRS or similar ground-based system, or (2) transmitters for a satellite-based positioning system, such as GPS or GLONASS. Present location or change in present location of the LD unit is determined and compared with the permitted site boundary at selected times to determine if the arrestee is present at the site. The LD unit issues an alarm signal if the arrestee is not on the presently defined site. The permitted site can be redefined, for a selected time interval, to include the first designated site, a second designated site and a corridor extending between the first and second designated sites. This allows the arrestee to temporarily leave the original designated site to seek service for medical or other needs, or to be transferred to another site. The arrestee can be excluded from one or more designated exclusion sites.

    摘要翻译: 用于监控局限于被允许的任意大小的站点的现场位置的方法和装置。 可以根据需要以几百毫秒到几千秒的选定时间间隔检查被捕者的现在位置。 被拘捕者穿戴一个位置决定(“LD”)单位,接收电磁信号,该电磁信号包含允许从三个或更多个非共线信号源确定LD单元和被捕者的当前位置的信息。 这些源可以是无线电波副载波发射机,或者可以是无线电波副载波发射机和(1)用于罗兰,欧米加,迪卡卡,塔肯,JTIDS Relnav或PLRS或类似的基于地面的系统的发射机的组合,或者(2)用于 基于卫星的定位系统,如GPS或GLONASS。 确定LD单位当前位置或当前位置的变化,并在选定的时间与允许的场地边界进行比较,以确定被捕者是否存在于现场。 如果被拘留者不在目前确定的地点,LD单位发出警报信号。 允许的站点可以在选定的时间间隔内重新定义,以包括第一指定站点,第二指定站点和在第一和第二指定站点之间延伸的走廊。 这样就可以让被捕者暂时离开原来的指定地点寻求医疗或其他需要的服务,或转移到另一个地点。 被捕者可以从一个或多个指定的排除地点排除。

    Waveguide apparatus and method for dual polarized and dual frequency
signals
    87.
    发明授权
    Waveguide apparatus and method for dual polarized and dual frequency signals 失效
    双极化和双频信号的波导装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US4467294A

    公开(公告)日:1984-08-21

    申请号:US331727

    申请日:1981-12-17

    摘要: A waveguide apparatus guides a first pair of horizontally polarized transmit and receive frequency signals independently of and in parallel with a second pair of vertically polarized transmit and receive frequency signals. The waveguide apparatus is constructed to operate across the 3.7 to 6.425 GigaHertz band with a very narrow bandwidth for the transmit frequency and a very narrow bandwidth for the receive frequency and with a single size of rectangular waveguide for separating the transmit and receive frequencies. This construction simplifies frequency separation filtering techniques and provides effective operation over this broad band with an apparatus which is efficient in terms of space, compact and implemented by a simple package.

    摘要翻译: 波导装置独立于第二对垂直极化的发射和接收频率信号并且并行地引导第一对水平极化的发射和接收频率信号。 波导装置被构造为在3.7至6.425千兆赫兹频带上工作,具有用于发射频率的非常窄的带宽和用于接收频率的非常窄的带宽以及用于分离发射和接收频率的单个尺寸的矩形波导。 这种结构简化了频率分离滤波技术,并且通过在空间方面是有效的,紧凑的并且通过简单的包装实现的装置,在该宽带上提供了有效的操作。

    TELEMATIC MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS USING HANDHELD DEVICE
    89.
    发明申请
    TELEMATIC MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS USING HANDHELD DEVICE 有权
    使用手持设备的电流微流化分析

    公开(公告)号:US20120296579A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-11-22

    申请号:US13335855

    申请日:2011-12-22

    IPC分类号: G06F19/00

    摘要: A fluid analyzing system comprises a handheld device and a management system. The handheld device includes a fluid analysis control module and a telematics device. The fluid analysis control module is configured for initiating acquisition of a sample of a fluid and providing the sample to a microfluidic analyzer for conduction of a microfluidic analysis. The telematics device is coupled with the fluid analysis control module and configured with a wireless transceiver. The management system is located remotely from the telematics device, and configured for wirelessly receiving results of the microfluidic analysis transmitted from the telematics device.

    摘要翻译: 流体分析系统包括手持装置和管理系统。 手持设备包括流体分析控制模块和远程信息处理设备。 流体分析控制模块被配置用于启动对流体样本的采集,并将样品提供给微流控分析器以便传导微流体分析。 远程信息处理设备与流体分析控制模块耦合并且配置有无线收发器。 管理系统位于远程信息处理设备的远端,并被配置为无线地接收从远程信息处理设备发送的微流体分析结果。