2088 results about "Global position system" patented technology

The invention relates to a high voltage overhead transmission line line-inspection unmanned aerial vehicle photoelectric detection device belonging to the technical field of power line inspection. The invention aims at solving the problem of single technology of the existing overhead transmission line line-inspection. The high voltage overhead transmission line line-inspection unmanned aerial vehicle photoelectric detection device mainly comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle, a GPS (global position system) inertial integrated attitude azimuth detection device, a damping device, a rotation detection nacelle, a ground data receiving processor and a controller. The high voltage overhead transmission line line-inspection unmanned aerial vehicle photoelectric detection device is characterized in that the GPS inertial integrated attitude azimuth detection device is arranged at the inner part of the unmanned aerial vehicle; the rotation detection nacelle is hung below the unmanned aerial vehicle by the damping device; a photoelectric stabilized platform is installed in the rotation detection nacelle; flexible combination of any two or more of a visible light camera, an ultraviolet ray imager and a full-digital dynamic thermal infrared imager and a laser ranging device are borne on the photoelectric stabilized platform; and the rotation detection nacelle is provided with a visible window. With the adoption of the high voltage overhead transmission line line-inspection unmanned aerial vehicle photoelectric detection device, a high voltage transmission line can be monitored, and a comprehensive and precise high voltage overhead transmission line line-inspection task is realized by combining interchange among a plurality of sensors.

Restrictions on use of a cellular telephone in a vehicle, such as an automobile, are imposed using a global position system (GPS) device to determine the location of a vehicle in relation to geographic regions in which legal or customer restrictions on cellular telephone use are to be imposed. Network or local short-range wireless transmitters supply information to a cellular telephone describing potentially applicable restriction information retrieved from network databases. In response, a cellular telephone determines applicability of such restrictions and applies them to further use of the cellular telephone while such restrictions continue to apply. Alternative arrangements allow vehicle-based or network based processing of region and restrictions information to yield command messages to cellular telephones to control their further use.

An apparatus for deleting personal data stored in a portable electronic device includes a global position system (GPS) unit, a storage unit, a signal receiving unit, and a control unit. The GPS unit determines a real time location of the portable electronic device. The storage unit stores personal data and the real time location determined by the GPS unit. The signal receiving unit receives a signal sent from a remote control terminal. The remote control terminal sends the signal if a distance between the remote control terminal and the portable electronic device is within a predetermined range. The control unit erases the personal data stored in the storage unit of the portable electronic device in response to the signal received by the signal receiving unit.

A positioning and navigation method and system thereof can substantially solve the problems encountered in global positioning system-only and inertial navigation system-only, such as loss of global positioning satellite signal sensibility to jamming and spoofing, and inertial solution's drift over time, in which the velocity and acceleration from an inertial navigation processor and an attitude and heading solution from an AHRS processor are used to aid the code and carrier phase tracking of the global positioning system satellite signals, so as to enhance the performance of the global positioning and inertial integration system, even in heavy jamming and high dynamic environments and when the GPS satellite signals are not available.

A navigation system suitable for use in a vehicle includes an interior rearview mirror assembly having an interior reflective element. A database at a site remote from the vehicle includes map data and/or directory data. A global-positioning system receiver is operable to receive signals from satellites external to said vehicles. A transceiver is operable to engage in a wireless communication with a remote transceiver located at a site remote from the vehicle to received data derived from the database. A user input allows a user to input a destination. The system responds to an input of a destination by wirelessly communicating the destination to the remote transceiver and downloading directions. A display that displays turn-by-turn instructions to the destination during the road journey based on the downloaded directions and on the signals received by the global-positioning system receiver. The turn-by-turn instructions may include (i) direction, (ii) when to turn, and/or (iii) how far until the turn. The navigation system preferably includes a short-range wireless communication link.

Aspects for providing protection against theft and loss of a portable computer system are described. The aspects include establishing boundary conditions within which the portable computer system is authorized for use and tracking a position of the portable computer system with a global position system (GPS) unit in the portable computer system. The position is compared to the boundary conditions to identify whether the portable computer system has violated the boundary conditions, and anti-theft routines are performed when the position has violated the boundary conditions. The anti-theft routines include calling a preset phone number with a cellular calling facility of the portable computer system.

The invention discloses an automatic-navigation crawler-type mobile fruit picking robot which comprises a mechanical execution system and a control system and is characterized in that the mechanical execution system comprises an intelligent movable platform, a fruit picking mechanical arm and a two-finger type manipulator, wherein the intelligent movable platform comprises two crawler assemblies, an experimental facility fixing rack, a supporting stand column, a cross beam, a speed reducer and the like; and the control system comprises an industrial personal computer, a motion control card, a data collecting card, an image collecting card, an encoder, a GPS (global position system), a monocular zooming camera assembly, a binocular camera, a laser ranging sensor, a control circuit and the like. The automatic-navigation crawler-type mobile fruit picking robot integrates the fruit picking mechanical arm, the two-finger type manipulator, the intelligent movable platform and the sensor system, integrates multiple key technologies such as fruit identification, motion of the picking mechanical arm, grabbing of a tail-end executer, automatic navigation and obstacle avoidance of the movable platform, and the like, and really realizes automatic and humanized fruit picking.

A wireless device including a transceiver that utilizes a power supply is described. The wireless device includes a Global Positioning System (“GPS”) section having a plurality of GPS subsystems and a power controller in signal communication with the power supply and GPS section, wherein the power controller is configured to selectively power each GPS subsystem from the plurality of GPS subsystems.

Location-based technologies (e.g., global position system (GPS)) can be employed to facilitate providing multi-modal, multi-lingual location-based services. Identification of location can provide significant context as to identifying user state and intentions. Thus, location identification can facilitate providing/augmenting data and services (e.g., location-aware based suggestions, truncating contact lists based upon location, location-based reminders as a user approaches a predetermined location, truncating pre-loaded tasks, suggesting routes to accomplish pre-loaded tasks in a PIM). Still other aspects can augment GPS location identification with a compass, accelerometer, azimuth control, cellular triangulation, SPOT services of telephone, etc. Effectively, these alternative aspects can facilitate determination of a target location by detecting movement and direction of a user and/or portable device.

A telecommunications system and method for rapid start-up of a Global Position System (GPS) receiver integrated with a mobile terminal is disclosed. The location of a reference GPS receiver associated with a Base Transceiver Station (BTS) within the cell that the mobile terminal is currently located is used as the local position estimate for that mobile terminal. The GSM TDMA frame numbers are first correlated with the GPS clock signal. Optionally, this correlation is adjusted using the adaptive frame alignment mechanism. This local position estimate is used to ascertain the location of the GPS receiver. The correlation data is then sent to the GPS-capable mobile terminal through the Short Messaging Service (SMS) cell broadcast facility or the Broadcast Control Channel (BCCH) facility of the GSM network to enable the built-in GPS receiver to calculate its position relatively quickly.

The invention discloses a travel track data-based stroke identification method. The stroke identification method comprises the following steps of: dividing track points through speed, and combining the track points with the speed lower than a certain speed threshold value into candidate remaining positions; and combining the candidate remaining positions by utilizing a distance threshold value and a time threshold value so as to determine a true remaining point. According to the stroke identification method, the problems of positioning drift and jitter of mobile phone positioning track data is solved, and the stroke identification precision is high; when 300 seconds is taken as the time threshold value and 1,100 meters is taken as the distance threshold value, the recall ratio is 87.66 percent, and the precision ratio is 81.56 percent; and meanwhile, GPS (Global Position System) positioning track data can be analyzed through adjusting the distance threshold value and the time threshold value.

A horizontal navigation system aided by a carrier phase differential Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and a Laser-Scanner (LS) for an Autonomous Ground Vehicle (AGV). The high accuracy vehicle navigation system is highly demanded for advanced AGVs. Although high positioning accuracy is achievable by a high performance RTK-GPS receiver, the performance should be considerably degraded in a high-blockage environment due to tall buildings and other obstacles. The present navigation system is to provide decimetre-level positioning accuracy in such a severe environment for precise GPS positioning. The horizontal navigation system is composed of a low cost Fiber Optic Gyro (FOG) and a precise odometer. The navigation errors are estimated using a tightly coupled Extended Kalman Filter (EKF). The measurements of the EKF are double differenced code and carrier phase from a dual frequency GPS receiver and relative positions derived from laser scanner measurements.

This invention relates to an automatic driving system of a road vehicle, especially to a system which providing automatic driving information indication for traveling vehicles and realizing vehicle automatic driving through the vehicle automatic control system, which is characterized by comprising: fixing markers at interval along a road travelling line, receiving information feedback by the fixed markers through a set relay information station and forming the vehicle and road information on the road, and constantly supplying the road and vehicle information of the road where the vehicle is to a vehicle automatic receiving processor after the received GPS(Global Position System) information and the vehicle and road information on the road are overall treated, installing an automatic driving software in a vehicle-mounted computer which can receive and treat relevant information of the relay information station at any time, constantly sending operation instructions to a vehicle automatic controller so as to keep the vehicle travelling information direction line consistent with the vehicle driving speed direction line, and sending instructions to the vehicle automatic controller according to the selected mode by a driver so as to realize vehicle automatic driving.

The present invention provides a very flexible, digital system for capturing and storing panoramic images using progressive scan (that is, non interlaced) technology. The system includes a digital image input device and an associated control computer. Since the image capture device is digital it can be easily and flexibly controlled by software in the control computer. The image input device has six lenses positioned on the six faces of a cube. While the image input system can have other lens configurations, the use of six lenses in a cubic configuration is optimal for a system that is used to capture a spherical panorama. The six lenses simultaneously focuses different images on six CCDs (Charge Coupled Devices). The image input device also includes an embedded controller, and data compression circuitry. The embedded controller controls the exposure time of the CCDs (i.e. the effective aperture and effective shutter speed) and reads image data from the CCDs. The image data read from the CCDs is compressed, multiplexed, and sent to the control computer. The control computer stores the images in frames, each of which have one image from each of the six lenses. Each frame includes six images that were simultaneously recorded and any associated information, such as audio tracks, textual information, or environmental information such as GPS (Global Position System) data or artificial horizon data. The control computer includes a user interface which allows a user to specify control information such as frame rate, compression ratio, gain, etc. The control computer sends control information to the embedded controller which in turn controls the CCDs and the compression circuitry. The images can be sent from the control computer to a real time viewer so that a user can determine if the correct images are being captured. The images stored at the control computer are later seamed into panoramas and made into panoramic movies.

The invention relates to the technical field of traffic control, in particular to a wireless traffic signal system and a method thereof cooperated with vehicle tracks at intersections. The invention adopts a special short-range communication mechanism. The system comprises intersection transmitting equipment, vehicle receiving equipment, a singlechip, voice output equipment, GPS (Global Position System) equipment and a vehicle display. The singlechip carries out data fusion processing on real-time traffic information and the longitude and the latitude of vehicles to obtain information of traffic signal lamps on the vehicle tracks and outputs the information to the vehicle display. The method comprises the step that the singlechip carries out data fusion on information of an electronic map, a real-time traffic lamp signal, vehicle track positioning and traveling direction and displays the traffic signal on the electronic map when the vehicles enter the communication range of a special short-range communication technology. The invention can ensure that the traffic signal is transmitted to the vehicles through the system under the condition that a driver cannot clearly see the front signal lamps and thereby the driver can clearly know about the current contents displayed by the traffic signal lamps by using a display or voice prompt system.

The invention provides a method and a system for forwarding a telephone call. The inventive method includes receiving a telephone call from a calling party line to a called party line, determining a location of the called party, determining a proximity of the location of the called party to one or more subscriber locations, and directing the telephone call to the one or more subscriber locations based on the determined proximity. The subscriber locations may be predefined by the called party. The location of the called party may be determined using a global position system and/or a radio frequency signal, for example.

The invention discloses a method for switching indoor ultra wide band (UWB) location and outdoor global position system (GPS) location, which is used for achieving the seamless mobile guiding from outside to inside and from inside to outside by means of organically coordinating the outdoor GPS location with the indoor UWB location. According to the method for switching the indoor UWB location and the outdoor GPS location, on the basis of the geographic coordinate of wideband global satellite (WGS) 84, by means of a custom local coordinate system serving as a space reference for a mobile guiding system, coordinates of an indoor control point can be calculated according to the coordinates of an outdoor known point, so that under the unified coordinated system, according to location coordinates of tourists and coordinates of entrances and exits, by means of obtaining action modes such as speeds, moving directions and the like of the tourists and judging whether the tourists enter into the broadcast switching areas, the GPS location and the UWP location can be real-timely switched, and the self-adaptation method for switching the indoor UWB location and the outdoor GPS location is nature, timely and reliable.

The invention discloses a road condition information generating method based on bus global position system (GPS) tracking data. The method includes that (1) in a bus road network data structure, actual bus stations, station points, route intersection points and intersection nodes are expressed by nodes, each two adjacent nodes that are on the same road and in the same direction are connected through a line section, the line section is defined as a road section for representing a single-direction actual road section, and a driving direction of the road section is used as an associate attribute of the road section; (2) all GPS tracking data of n buses within certain time period T are obtained; (3) all GPS tracking data of the n buses are matched to the bus road network data structure; (4) average speed (img file='DDA0000591646390000011.TIF'wi='42' he='59') of h buses that are matched with the corresponding road section is used as road condition information of the actual road section. According to the road condition information generating method based on the bus GPS tracking data, the whole bus road network data structure is established through point elements and line elements, and road conditions of the road section can be accurately reflected.

The invention relates to a dangerous goods transport vehicle dynamic monitoring method and an early warning device. The method comprises the following steps: (1) arranging the early warning device which comprises a collision, rollover and temperature and pressure early warning module, an early warning arithmetic and a threshold value; (2) acquiring the acceleration, the dip angle, the temperature/pressure and image signals of a goods wagon; (3) carrying out calculation on each signal and comparing the signal with the preset threshold value and sending out a corresponding alarm command; (4) displaying alarm information and sending the alarm information to a remote monitoring center through a global position system/general packet radio system (GPS/GPRS); (5) after the alarm is completed, returning to the step (2); and (6) carrying out real-time monitoring on a goods state and the alarm information by a driver through displaying. The corresponding early warning device comprises the GPS/GPRS, cameras, a card reader, a triaxial acceleration sensor, a display screen, an artificial alarm, a buzzing alarm, a temperature/pressure sensor, a dip angle sensor, a secure digital (SD) card storage and an electronic control unit which comprises a microprocessor. The collision, rollover and temperature and pressure early warning module is arranged in the microprocessor. The invention can be used for carrying out real-time monitoring on collision, rollover and temperature and pressure, thereby being beneficial to driving safety and rescue operation.

The invention relates to a tunnel lining disease detection device based on an infrared temperature field and a gray level image. The tunnel lining disease detection device comprises a vehicle-mounted mobile platform, illumination equipment, a photoelectric encoder, a GPS (Global Position System) receiver, an inertia unit, a synchronous controller, an area-array camera, an infrared thermal imager, an acquisition server, a display control device and a power supply system; tunnel lining two-dimensional image data, infrared temperature field data and fracture surface deformation data are combined with positioning data of the GPS, the inertia unit and the photoelectric encoder to establish a tunnel model with gray level information, temperature information and fracture surface deformation; and tunnel lining cracks are analyzed, and the length, width and lining leakage water information of the cracks are automatically detected. For the tunnel lining disease detection device, the advantages of infrared temperature field detection and two-dimensional gray level image crack detection are combined so that the detection result is relatively reliable, the speed is rapid and the working efficiency is greatly improved.

A coherent adaptive subcarrier modulation system applies subcarrier modulation to quadrature modulated signals with constant envelope modulation suitable for efficient sinewave and squarewave subcarrier modulations. The quadrature subcarrier enables the addition of new signals to the in-phase and quadrature phase signals with spectral isolation in the Global Position System while maintaining a constant envelop amplitude.

The invention relates to a fire monitoring and warning method on the basis of an unmanned aerial vehicle. The fire monitoring and warning method comprises the following steps: utilizing the unmanned aerial vehicle carrying a digital camera and a GPS (Global Position System) receiver to circularly monitor and shoot images, recording the shot images as well as a GPS position and a shooting gesture at a shooting moment, and sending back to a ground station in real time; scanning the received images by the ground station, identifying a potential fire point (grid) and a fired fire point (grid), and obtaining an accurate fire scene position and a scope; calculating boundaries and a gravity center of a plurality of fire scene scopes at adjacent moments by the ground station on the basis of continuously shot aerial photos, thereby obtaining a point farthest away from the gravity center of the fire scenes, namely, obtaining a fire starting point; and analyzing the change in the position of the fire starting point, so as to judge the fire extending direction and calculate the fire extending speed and acceleration. The fire monitoring and warning method has the advantages that the demand on image processing capacity of a carried device on the unmanned aerial vehicle is low, the load of the unmanned aerial vehicle is light, the continuous flying polling time is long, the risk in losing or damaging the device is low, the fire extending direction is automatically extracted, the fire extending speed and acceleration are automatically calculated, and the practical applicability is strong.