224 results about "Geographical maps" patented technology

The present invention embodiments include a geographic overlay system including an information system, a mapping system interface to communicate with a mapping system and a database system including National Census geographic boundaries and data files. The geographic overlay system utilizes a client/server model that streams geographic data from a server system to dynamically render vector-based map layers inside a client browser. The geographic overlay system employs a Nationwide database of Census geographies that may be rendered as interactive point, line or polygon objects over a National base map provided by the mapping system. A database builder interface enables users to build the database and server pages. The present invention embodiments overlay translucent, interactive dynamically generated vector-based polygonal Census boundary map layers over geographical maps from the mapping system. The overlaying vector map layers perform thematic analysis, enable information retrieval, display mouse-over tool-tips and query a dynamic block-level National spatial-relational database.

An ECU executes a program including a step of detecting a present location using a GPS system (S1000); a step of reading out data of a geographical map proximate to the present location (S1010) and presenting in the geographical map charging installations including a charging installation employing solar light, together with the location of its vehicle (S1020); a step of, if a presentation switching request is made (YES in S1030) and a real-time solar radiation correction request is made (YES in S1050), detecting a solar radiation amount (S1060) and correcting a charge amount per unit time provided by the power generation installation employing solar light, based on the detected solar radiation amount (S1070); and a step of detecting an SOC in the battery to calculate an amount of discharge done until arrival at the charging installation (S1080, S1090), calculating time required for charging up to a fully charged state (S1100), and presenting the time required for charging in the geographical map (S1200).

Certain examples provide systems and methods for analysis and graphical visualization of healthcare services data. Certain examples provide a healthcare services analysis and visualization system. The system includes a data store to store data related to healthcare services provided in at least one geographic region. The system also includes a processor to retrieve and sort data from the data store based on one or more criteria, analyze the sorted data, and transform the sorted data into a geographical map representation of the healthcare services data. The system includes a user interface to display the geographical map representation of the healthcare services data and facilitate user review and interaction with the geographical map representation and the underlying healthcare services data.

An interface is provided for managing a plurality of tracked objects, each tracked object associated with a corresponding telemetry device. A request is received from a web browser for at least one action to be performed by the telemetry device. A message including information indicating the at least one action is transmitted, to the corresponding telemetry device. The web browser is configured to display at least one geographical map indication of at least one location of each tracked object.

Systems for, and methods of, displaying video information comprising: a second screen device obtaining current play position data of a video being played on a primary screen device (e.g., obtaining from the primary screen device an identification of a current play position of the video, or obtaining information to generate an acoustic fingerprint of the video); determining a current play position of the video playing on the primary screen device based upon the current play position data (e.g., identification of the current play position or the acoustic fingerprint); downloading information (e.g., video map, subtitles, moral principles, objectionable content, memorable content, performers, geographical maps, shopping, plot point, item, ratings, and trivia information) over a computer communications network into the memory of the second screen device; and displaying information on the second screen device synchronized with the contemporaneously played video on the primary screen device.

A system and method for displaying a geographical map using a single stylus movement is presented. A user contacts a display with the stylus and selects an area on the geographical map in which the user wishes to view. The user moves the stylus into a zoom zone which processing interprets stylus movements to either zoom in or zoom out of the map. When the user is satisfied with a magnification level corresponding to the zoom commands, the user enters a pan zone. The user moves the stylus around the selected area to view other parts of the map. Processing displays different map views corresponding to the stylus movement.

Methods and computer readable medium for collaborating on geographical maps between two or more computers are disclosed. In particular, sharing a geographical location on a map between two or more computers and co-navigating a map between two or more computers are disclosed. With respect to sharing a geographical location, the geographical location is retrieved to the first computer. The geographical location is added to the map being rendered at the first computer and is sent to a second computer. A map including the geographical location is rendered at the second computer. With respect to co-navigating, a map is displayed from a map perspective at the first computer. The map perspective is sent to the second computer. A map from the same map perspective being displayed at the first computer is rendered at the second computer.

After defining a relevant market area around a selected geographical point, a map is generated using stored geographical map information around a selected geographical point and a geographical area is selected around that point. Multiple bands are formed on the map around the geographical point and market information is gathered from a database for the defined geographical area. The bands are weighted based according to empirical data drawn from within the market area, if available, or from data from a demographically matched location. A net demand model is constructed to perform point studies, comparison studies, area studies, and multi-unit simulations for the selected geographical area.

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a mapping management computer system. According to various embodiments, the mapping management computer system may be configured for updating geographical maps by assessing map data and operational data including vehicle telematics data to identify portions of a vehicle path that do not correspond to known travel paths. In various embodiments, the system is configured to define these identified portions as new known travel paths corresponding to a public road, private road, parking lot lane, or the like, and update the map data to reflect the new known travel paths.

A method for editing composite geographical images, including importing a raster geographical map file, the raster file including geographical information identifying raster image data, global positioning reference data and a first projection that transforms geographical coordinates to linear coordinates, importing a vector geographical map file, the vector file including geographical information identifying vector objects, rendering a two-dimensional raster image including transforming linear coordinates to geographical coordinates according to the inverse of a prescribed second projection that transforms geographical coordinates to linear coordinates, and re-projecting the geographical coordinates to linear coordinates according to the first projection, rendering a two-dimensional vector image including projecting the vector objects according to the prescribed second projection, compositing the two-dimensional image raster image and the two-dimensional vector image as layers of a composite image, and editing the composite image. A system and a computer readable storage medium are also described and claimed.

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a fleet management computer system configured for providing a fleet management user interface. According to various embodiments, the fleet management computer system is configured for assessing operational data to determine a vehicle travel path and one or more operational characteristics indicated by the operational data. In addition, according to various embodiments, the fleet management computer system is configured for generating a graphical user interface that includes an evaluation results display showing the operational characteristics and a geographical map showing the vehicle travel path.

A system and method for combining geographical and economic data extracted from satellite images, said information enriched with data pulled from additional sources, all aggregated as layers into a geo-spatial temporal map, wherein this current and historic information is used to generate predictions of future urban growth.

A system (130) improves network management. The system (130) associates an event in the network with a network device and provides a geographical map (710). The geographical map (710) displays locations of network devices and indicates which network devices are associated with at least one event.

A central server system communicates with a plurality of communication devices known as RTLS tags worn by participants of an event in a facility. The RTLS tags communicate with a network located in the vicinity of the facility to determine the position of the RTLS tags in real time. The network transfers information to and from a RTIMS server. Information about identities of the participants, the location of the participants and geographical maps of display booths and exhibitor signage at the event are stored on the RTIMS server in a data store. Reciprocity between participants and exhibitors may be established. The data store may be queried to provide participants information relevant for navigation, lead capture, participant surveys and participant traffic flow. Participant locations may be correlated to entity locations or other participants by the RTIMS system to provide location oriented services. There is a data generation plan for the event design.

An email content management method, system and program are provided for mapping a plurality of received electronic mail (email) messages to a plurality of predetermined graphical representations of an email Inbox. Predetermined sender and originating information is associated with an email. When the email is received by the recipient, the associated sender and originating information is used to map the email to a graphical Inbox depicting the email's originating location. Once mapped, the corresponding email graphical Inbox is represented in a graphical display, such as the user interface of an email client. Graphical Inboxes can be represented as subsets of a geographical map or depict an organizational hierarchy chart. Status information related to the received email messages is generated and display attributes are applied to their corresponding email graphical Inboxes.

The invention discloses a line supervision control method based on a vehicle GPS terminal uploading location and speed information. By predetermining vehicle steering line and maximal line deviation value and highest speed limit value in an electronic geographical map, during steering process of the vehicle, the vehicle GPS terminal uploads location and speed information to the supervision center system which, by calculating present actual line deviation value and present steering speed value, judges whether or no the vehicle deviated from the line and is overspeed to supervise line of the vehicle. The supervision centre system provided by the invention realizes the line dynamic supervision, widely applied to various transport operating systems such as city bus, long-distance passenger transportation, logistic transportation and special vehicle and so on. The invention further provides a processing way for line section supervision, which enables the supervision method of the invention to supervise the different section agilely.

Systems for, and methods of, displaying video information comprising: a second screen device obtaining current play position data of a video being played on a primary screen device (e.g., obtaining from the primary screen device an identification of a current play position of the video, or obtaining information to generate an acoustic fingerprint of the video); determining a current play position of the video playing on the primary screen device based upon the current play position data (e.g., identification of the current play position or the acoustic fingerprint); downloading information (e.g., video map, subtitles, moral principles, objectionable content, memorable content, performers, geographical maps, shopping, plot point, item, ratings, and trivia information) over a computer communications network into the memory of the second screen device; and displaying information on the second screen device synchronized with the contemporaneously played video on the primary screen device.

A method of transforming location based objects, such as text, included in a digital source Artwork file, for example a geographical map file, and creating a transformed target Artwork file. The method is particularly advantageous in converting geographical maps from one language to another. The method includes tools for extracting the required location based objects, for example text elements, from the source file, including all pertaining information, into a first intermediate structured database, represented for the user as, for example, a structured table. The required transformations are then operated on the extracted objects, partly manually but also automatically creating a transformed second intermediate database, which is subsequently integrated with the source file to create a target file, which represents, for example, a new map with translated text on new layers.

A method for associating a virtual tag with a geographical location, comprising the steps of displaying (210) a two-dimensional geographical map; receiving (220) inputs specifying a line on the map; displaying (230) a vertical plane passing through the line, perpendicular to the map; receiving (240) information specifying a position of a virtual tag on the displayed vertical plane; and storing (250) the name and position of the virtual tag and the coordinates of the line on the map in a database.

A collaborative, semantic-based knowledge structure creation and management system and method are provided. The system and method may include knowledge structures which include concept based maps which may be linked according to topic, relationship types, conceptual equivalence, and temporally. The knowledge structures may be managed by users, wherein users may perform at least one of adding a new concept, creating a new relationship, confirming an existing relationship, and breaking an existing relationship.

A mobile user tracking system and method for use in a wireless communication network tracks call history information of mobile users. The system has a data parsing unit for receiving data associated with calls made by mobile users and for filtering the data into associated call history information data. The system has a network configuration database for storing network configuration information data. The system has a client system adapted to access selected mobile user information data and associated call history information data and to access network configuration information data. The client system has a mobile user positioning processor responsive to the selected mobile user information data, associated call history data and the access network configuration information data to develop mobile user position information data that represents geographical position of the mobile user in the network. The system displays call history information on a visual geographical map.

The invention relates to cellular communications systems. In order to enhance an efficiency of a cellular communications system a file in electronic form with fragments of a digital geographical map of the vicinity is preliminarily introduced into a control center of a cellular communications system, the map comprising coordinates and characteristics of base stations, arranged in cells and geographical coordinates of the borders of the cells, wherein in the process of radio communications, data on the location of a corresponding mobile station for communication therewith are determined with the aid of a receiver of a satellite location determination system, which receiver is built in a mobile station, and are transmitted through a base station to the control center of the cellular communications system, and the file of a fragment of the digital geographical map is transmitted from the control center of the cellular communications system through a corresponding base station to a mobile station, the map comprising coordinates and characteristics of the base station of that cell where this mobile station is, coordinates and characteristics of base stations of neighboring cells with coordinates of their borders, then a comparison of current data of its location and the coordinates of cell borders is carried out in the mobile station.