1562results about "Marine craft traffic control" patented technology

An apparatus for generating buoy light signals using a collimated light source. The system provides for communication of system conditions and ambient conditions, and can provide homeland security monitoring. The system senses motion of the buoy and compensates the direction of lighting, and optionally acoustics, being generated out over a body of water. Numerous other transportation related embodiments are described including devices for providing user comfort when flying, automotive signaling, auto parking control, sports bottles, visors, and lures.

A tracking system (10) for tracking movable assets (16) and several methods for using the system are provided. The tracking system includes a monitoring device (22), a tracking information network (20), a data communication network (18), a tracker tag (12), and a tracking information server (14). The tracker tag uses GPS technology. The tracking information server provides programmed instructions to the tracker tag in messages via a messaging system. The tracker tag selectively retrieves the messages from the messaging system. The tracking information server provides tracking information and related information to a subscriber. In one embodiment, the tracker tag is in communication with an Iridium satellite constellation (28) and tracking information is displayed to the subscriber when the asset is substantially anywhere in the world. In another embodiment, the monitoring device is in communication with the Iridium satellite constellation and tracking information is displayed to the subscriber when the subscriber is substantially anywhere in the world, preferably via the Internet (36).

A mobile device for enhanced navigation and orientation including a visualization interface, a first sensor for providing signals indicative of a movement of the mobile device, a second sensor for providing further signals indicative of a movement of the mobile device, and a processor receiving signals from the first and second sensors, calculating a position and an orientation of the mobile device from the received signals, and generating a real time simulation of an environment via the visualization interface based on the position and orientation of the mobile device. According to an embodiment, the first and second sensors are implemented as an inertial sensor and a GPS receiver, respectively.

A system for a vehicle is provided for allowing a user of the vehicle or installation to obtain advanced and up-to-date information about the surroundings of the vehicle or installation and the vehicle or installation itself. The system may be located on a marine vessel and it integrates information from a number of different information sources, located both on and off the vessel, en including information from advanced radar and sonar subsystems on the ship, information from conventional instruments and sensors and information from onshore and offshore installations and EO satellites accessed via a control centre onshore. The system may communicate with the control centre via a communication satellite and / or wireless Internet, if available. A data processing apparatus for processing and presenting the data is also provided. The data is received, processed and presented in three dimensions in space and updated in real time or near real time such that time provides a fourth dimension to the data. A graphical user interface for presenting the data is also provided. The graphical user interface provides functionality for reporting an error in the system if the end user's own observations do not match the presented data. Additionally, a system for collecting data comprising more than one ship, the control centre and means for the ships and the control centre to communicate is provided. The system comprises a catalogue and storage network for storing collected data. All data is stored with an associated quality measure of the data.

A vehicle information display apparatus receives multiple pieces of information on mobile vehicles, determines degrees of importance of the individual pieces of information according to specific conditions, and displays symbols of only those mobile vehicles of which importance falls within a predefined range or symbols of only a specific number of mobile vehicles selected according to their importance in graphic form with enhanced visibility.

A device, system and method for controlling speed of a vehicle are provided. The device includes a locational information module for determining location information and speed; a storage module for storing at least one geographic map including at least one route and a speed limit for the at least one route; a processing module configured to receive the location information, retrieve at least one geographic map based on the location information, determine a speed limit based on the location information and compare the speed of the device to the determined speed limit; and a display module for alerting a user if the speed of the device exceeds the determined speed limit. The present disclosure further provides for a system and method for communicating a subject vehicle's speed to a central server where it can be utilized to analyze traffic congestion patterns or notify selected companies or individuals.

A mobile terminal (200) obtains image data related to a product posted on a flier (300) by imaging and sends the image data related to the product to a shopping management server (100). Upon reception of the image data related to the product from the mobile terminal (200), the shopping management server (100) determines the product by analyzing the image data related to the product, obtains at least one of inventory information and sales information of the product, and sends at least one of the inventory information and the sales information of the product to the mobile terminal (200). The mobile terminal (200) combines computer-graphics image data indicating at least one of the inventory information and the sales information of the product sent from the shopping management server (100) with an image of the flier in real space and presents the combined image, thereby solving the problem.

The invention provides a method for inland river bridge zone shipborne sailing active collision prevention. The method comprises the steps of collecting hydrological information, meteorological information and ship information of nearby ships and the ship, automatically updating river map information on line, and performing data storage; forecasting tracks of the ship and other ships according to obtained track information of the ship and other ships by combination with the real-time hydrological information and the meteorological information, and obtaining track information of every ship; calculating the nearest meeting distance and the nearest meeting time of the ship and a target object according to the obtained track information; and giving collision accident pre-warning and active collision prevention suggestions according to the nearest meeting distance and the nearest meeting time of the ship and the target object. According to the method, by predicating ship sailing situations, the shortcoming that an existing ship assistance navigation device cannot accurately obtain the position of the target object, and the nearest meeting distance and the reaching of the nearest meeting distance cannot be pre-judged more accurately is overcome.

A marine ship tracking system automatically and accurately monitors ship movements utilizing a limited number of reports from a marine ship and is easily installed and operated. Ships utilizing the marine ship tracking system periodically transmit reports to a remote tracking center. A ship sends a report to the remote tracking center when there is a significant change in the ship's movement or position, or if a predetermined amount of time has elapsed since the ship last sent a report to the remote tracking center. The report includes current ship information, such as current position and current movement information. Because the ship sends a report each time a significant change in movement occurs, the remote tracking center may accurately extrapolate the position of the ship between the transmissions of the reports. In this manner, the remote tracking center may retain an accurate history of the ship's position and movements at all times.

A method of remotely detecting rule violations at an outdoor site according to one aspect of the invention includes installing a self-contained VMU at the outdoor site near ground elevation, including affixing a chassis of the VMU to a permanent mount. The VMU is operated in a low-power standby mode that includes passively monitoring an ambient magnetic field at the outdoor site to detect a disturbance caused by a presence of a substantial ferrous object. In response to a detection of a disturbance in the ambient magnetic field, the VMU exits the low-power standby mode and initiates an active operating mode. The active operating mode includes operating a video camera by the VMU to capture video data; and wirelessly transmitting a signal representing at least a portion of the video data to a computer network. The video data is received by a remote node in the computer network via the computer network, and stored in association with a database record.

The invention discloses a ship collision avoidance assisted decision-making method and system based on track fusion and track prediction. The method comprises the following steps: S1, ship information transmitted by an automatic identification system of a ship and a radar is obtained and pretreatment is carried out on the ship information to obtain position, speed, and orientation information of the ship; S2, track association and track fusion are carried out on the position, speed, and orientation information of ship; and S3, according to the result of the track fusion, track prediction is carried out on a target ship, and ship collision risk evaluation, avoidance decision making, and target ship posture monitoring are carried out. According to the invention, reliability and stability of the ship navigation data source are improved; safety information during the ship sailing process can be monitored intelligent in real time; and thus the ship collision can be avoided. Intelligence and miniaturization of the ship-borne equipment can be realized well; and the method and system have great practical application values.

A system is provided for optimizing a path for a marine vessel through a waterway from an initial location to a final location. The system includes a propulsion system and a directional system on the marine vessel, which impart a selective propulsion force on the marine vessel at a selective direction based on a received propulsion command and direction command from a processor. The processor determines an optimal path for the marine vessel, an optimal propulsion command and optimal directional command at a respective incremental location along the optimal path, so to optimize a performance characteristic of the marine vessel. The determination of the optimal path, the optimal propulsion command and the optimal directional command is based on the initial location, the final location, at least one operating parameter, the performance characteristic, and navigational data of the waterway.

A method for location-based notifications, the method including receiving a request for a notification from an input device. A current location of the input device is determined in response to the receiving. A reminder location is set responsive to the current location of the input device determined in response to the receiving. On a periodic basis, a new current location of the input device is determined and compared to the reminder location. A notification is provided if the new current location is within a proximity threshold of the reminder location.

A marine electronic device such as a chartplotter which includes a display; a location determining component; and a processing system for receiving location data from the location determining component and for causing information to be displayed by display. The processing system causes the display to display information which assists an operator in navigating and ascertaining characteristics of bodies of water, objects on nearby shores, and other vessels.

Aspects of the disclosure relate generally to detecting and avoiding blind spots of other vehicles when maneuvering an autonomous vehicle. Blind spots may include both areas adjacent to another vehicle in which the driver of that vehicle would be unable to identify another object as well as areas that a second driver in a second vehicle may be uncomfortable driving. In one example, a computer of the autonomous vehicle may identify objects that may be relevant for blind spot detecting and may determine the blind spots for these other vehicles. The computer may predict the future locations of the autonomous vehicle and the identified vehicles to determine whether the autonomous vehicle would drive in any of the determined blind spots. If so, the autonomous driving system may adjust its speed to avoid or limit the autonomous vehicle's time in any of the blind spots.

A method for a short-term prediction of future ship motion in open water to furnish visual cueing information that can be remotely presented to a pilot during an aircraft landing is described. Two sets of samples of the sea surface geometry along a radial azimuth line from a ship as a function of elevation of a sensor are first acquired. These are compensated to remove the components due to the ship's motion. Two wave traces are then separately derived in Cartesian format from the two sets of acquired samples. These wave traces are subjected to a Fast Fourier Transform to detect the amplitudes and phases of the individual wavelength components. The direction of the wavelength components is determined using a measure of their phase change in the scan direction during the time interval between the two scans together with their measured wavelength. The amplitude, direction and phase of each component is utilized together with the known motion characteristics of the moving ship in order to derive a short-term prediction of future ship motion in the time domain. A quiescent period of the ship motion is located by comparing the short-term prediction with the pre-defined operating limit criteria. Finally, a message signal is transmitted to the pilot of the aircraft indicating Time-to-Land and the duration of the quiescent period.

The invention provides a ship remote monitoring system, relating to a remote monitoring system, in particular to a ship remote monitoring system. The ship remote monitoring system can monitor the state of travelling ships and transmits the real-time information of the ship to the Internet by GPRS / CDMA network or satellite; the real-time information is then transmitted to shipping units such as maritime department and shipping company, etc. by the internet; furthermore, data is processed, disposed and analysed. The ship remote monitoring system has the advantages of extremely far transmission distance, stable system and even realizing global communication; the ship remote monitoring system is provided with a set of redundant independent GPS system which can position normally during the failure of AIS; the ship remote monitoring system is provided with a rich and practical visible interface and facilitates the intuitive transmission of the information of ship to corresponding business personnel.

The invention discloses a genetic algorithm-based support vector regression shipping traffic flow prediction method, comprising the following steps: (1) reducing the dimensional number of factors possibly generating influences on shipping traffic flow by a weighted principal component analysis method, and selecting influencing factors with higher cumulative contribution rate; (2) carrying out normalization preprocessing on original vessel traffic flow time series data to generate a data set and then grouping; (3) selecting a kernel function to determine support vector machine (SVM) regression parameters; (4) constructing a support vector regression prediction model optimized by a genetic algorithm; (5) inputting the data set to generate a prediction function; and (6) predicting according to the prediction function generated in step (5), evaluating and analyzing prediction error, and if the error is relatively large, returning to step (2) and regulating the parameters again, predicting once again. The method of the invention has the advantages of higher prediction accuracy and higher stability of prediction accuracy.

Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium for navigation safety and collision prevention are described herein. The apparatus may cause the collection of marine electronic data from marine data sources. Marine data sources may include a radar system, a sonar system, a position system, a tracking system, and / or a chart system. The apparatus may further determine, based upon the marine electronic data, the presence of a hazard in the projected path of the watercraft. The apparatus may determine if the hazard is within a threshold distance and, in response, may cause the watercraft to stop before reaching the hazard. In some instances, the apparatus may transmit a warning alert to the watercraft operator, and after a predetermined period of time without response by the operator, the apparatus may cause the watercraft to stop to prevent collision with the hazard.

The invention relates to a ship rescue information system and realization method thereof. In the system, ship related information is obtained by each subsystem of a data obtaining module, and the information is transmitted to a data application module through wireless or network transmission by a data transmission module, the data application module checks, analyzes and stores data, the ship related information is obtained and operation recording or warning information is formed, the information is transmitted to a data service module as real-time displaying or warning processing, and simultaneously the data service module also can response the command issued by monitor staff for the system, thereby realizing related management operation. The invention has the following beneficial effect: real-time, efficient and accurate ship positioning and tracking position information, operation state and work condition are provided for ship management department and user, thereby improving ship supervision ability, further analyzing obtained ship information, realizing statistical analysis, early warning and warning functions of ship information, and further perfecting ship safety rescue system.

A vessel monitoring and control system. Data indicative of operational conditions for vessel systems is transmitted from the vessel to one or more remote sites and commands are received from the one or more remote sites for controlling the vessel systems. Multiple transmitting and receiving components are available on the vessel for communicating with a variety of different communications systems at the remote sites.

An adjustable surf wake system enhances a wake formed by a watercraft travelling through water. The system may include a flap for deflecting water traveling past the stern of the watercraft, and / or a positioner operably connected to the flap for positioning the flap relative to a longitudinal axis of the watercraft between a neutral position and an outward position. Positioning a port flap in its extended position enhances a starboard surf wake, and positioning the starboard flap in its extended position enhances a port surf wake.

The invention relates to a safety and security system designed to protect a designated area. The system comprises sensors of various types (radars, infrared detectors for instance) and sources of intelligence. Correlation is run between instant-track data and non-instant-track data before the level of threat of the tracks is analysed. Reliability of this analysis is thus greatly enhanced. Also a method is provided to develop systems of this type which provides an integrated specification and design method which covers technical and human factors.

The invention relates to an inland river bridge area ship safe navigation precontrol system which comprises a radar station, an information processing center and an AIS base station. The radar station and the AIS base station are respectively in communication connection with the information processing center. The information processing center comprises a data processing and recording unit, a track fusion unit, an electronic river map unit, a precontrol decision-making unit and a precontrol information sending unit, wherein the data processing and recording unit obtains data from the radar station or / and the AIS base station and processes and records the data, the track fusion unit carries out fusion on the obtained radar or / and AIS data to obtain ship tracks, the precontrol decision-making unit carries out prediction according to the data processed and recorded by the data processing and recording unit and judges whether alarm instructions are sent out or not, and the precontrol information sending unit controls the AIS base station to send out alarms according to the instructions sent out by the precontrol decision-making unit. According to real-time traffic situations, the inland river bridge area ship safe navigation precontrol system can automatically identify navigation risks of the ships, automatically carry out early warning on the ships, guide the ships to pass through a bridge area safely, and reduce accident risks.

To provide a novel driving method for driving an electronic device by using digital gray scale and time gray scale in combination, which secures high duty ratio, which can display an image normally even when a sustain period is shorter than an address period, and which is hardly affected by dulled signal waveform. In a sub-frame period (102) where a sustain period is shorter than an address period, a clear period (105) is squeezed in between completion of a sustain period (104) and start of an address period of the subsequent sub-frame period. The length of the sustain period (104) thus can be set without being limited by the length of an address period (103). This non-display period is provided by changing the electric potential of a storage capacitor line. Therefore, unlike the case where the non-display period is provided by changing the electric potential of a cathode wiring, the present invention is hardly affected by dulled signal waveform.

The invention relates to a marine ship collision preventation warning technology and discloses a method for warning of a warning region of a shipborne automatic identification system, aiming at solving the problems that the warning type of an automatic identification system in the traditional technology is not flexible and the degree of safety is low. The technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows: the warning region is dynamically divided according to the speed of a ship, when other ships enter the warning region, the danger classes of target ships are determined, and warning messages respectively sent to the ship and the target ships based on the emergency first rule according to different danger classes, wherein the warning messages can be flexibly sent in Chinese or English according to different nations of the target ships. The method provided by the invention has the advantages that the warning is flexible and the safety is high; and the method is applicable to marine ship collision preventation.

A marine threat monitoring and defense system and method protects a target vessel in icy or other marine regions. The system uses communications, user interfaces, and data sources to identify marine obstacles (e.g., icebergs, ice floes, pack ice, etc.) near a target vessel performing set operations (e.g., a stationed structure performing drilling or production operations or a seismic survey vessel performing exploration operations with a planned route). The system monitors positions of these identified marine obstacles over time relative to the target vessel and predicts any potential threats. When a threat is predicted, the system plans deployment of support vessels, beacons, and the like to respond to the threat. For example, the system can direct a support vessel to divert the path or break up ice threatening the target vessel.