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20100121564 | REMOTE GUIDE SYSTEM, REMOTE GUIDE METHOD AND REMOTE GUIDE DEVICE - A remote guide system is featured by including: a server with a route search processing unit for searching a route from a departing place to a target place so as to distribute a search result, and a route guide processing unit for distributing guide information for guiding a user from the departing place to the target place by passing the searched route; and a moving object connected to the server, and with a route search request processing unit for transmitting a request of a route search to the server, and a present position processing unit for correcting a present position by employing map image data and for guiding the user based upon the guide information acquired from the server. | 05-13-2010 |
20140172198 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, MOVABLE-BODY-MOUNTED APPARATUS, TERMINAL DEVICE, AND CENTER SERVER - Provided is a communication system capable of enhancing convenience for remotely operating a movable-body-mounted apparatus mountable in a movable body such as a vehicle. For example, a communication system includes a movable-body-mounted apparatus including: a movable body information storage part which stores movable body information including a received signal quality of a radio wave used for communication to/from a center server and information on a vehicle; a separation determination part which determines whether or not a user who moves along with the vehicle is separated from the vehicle; and a movable body information notification part which notifies the user of the movable body information stored in the movable body information storage part when the separation determination part determines that the user is separated from the vehicle. | 06-19-2014 |
20140303826 | REACHABLE RANGE CALCULATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A reachable range calculation apparatus for computing a range that a vehicle traveling on stored energy is able to reach, comprising: a storage part for storing beforehand information on a required amount of energy consumed when the vehicle moves, using each of a plurality of areas into which a map has been divided as a unit; an integration part for integrating, with respect to movement of the vehicle from a specified origin to a surrounding area, a required amount of energy on the basis of the required amount of energy stored in the storage part, each time the vehicle moves between areas; and a range determination part for determining, on the basis of a provided specified amount of energy and an integrated required amount of energy obtained by the integration part integrating energy-consumption amounts, a reachable range, which is a range of areas that the vehicle is able to reach using the specified amount of energy. | 10-09-2014 |
20150071698 | OILY INK COMPOSITION FOR BALLPOINT PENS - An object is to make an ink composition for a ballpoint pen, ensuring that the width of writing line is thin, even slight unevenness or feathering does not occur at the boundary between the writing line and a paper sheet, ink-depleted writing line that is writing line in a state of ink being lacked near the central part of writing line is prevented, and the writing line is clear. The ink viscosity is set to 200,000 mPa·s or more at a shear rate of 0.019 s | 03-12-2015 |
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20080224832 | Electronic tag data writing method and electronic tag read/write apparatus - In an electronic tag data read/write apparatus, an electronic tag receives a response request from a reader/writer, generates a random number in a random number generator, stores the random number in a memory, and transmits the generated random number to the reader/writer. The reader/writer conducts masking processing on write data on the basis of the random number every size of the received random number, repeats the masking processing until all of the write data are subjected to masking processing, and then transmits the masked write data to the electronic tag collectively. The electronic tag conducts deciphering processing on the received masked write data every size of the random number stored in the memory, repeats the deciphering processing until all of the masked write data are deciphered, and writes the write data into the memory. | 09-18-2008 |
20080224833 | IC MEMORY, INFORMATION COMMUNICATION APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An information management system comprises information processing unit | 09-18-2008 |
20090113087 | STREAM DATA TRANSFER CONTROL DEVICE - There are provided a stream I/F section | 04-30-2009 |
20090209282 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MOBILE OBJECTS - According to one aspect of wireless communication control apparatus and method for a mobile object according to the present invention, the wireless communication apparatus and method include the steps of: collecting communication-state information corresponding to positional information of the mobile object for each of a plurality of communication methods that are used to make a connection to a wireless communication device of the mobile object, and that can be selectively set in the wireless communication device; referring to the communication-state information corresponding to the positional information indicating a current position of the mobile object, and selecting one communication method from among the plurality of communication methods that can be selectively set in the wireless communication device; and setting, in the wireless communication device, control information used for communications based on the selected communication method. | 08-20-2009 |
20120136574 | VEHICLE OPERATION SUPPORT SYSTEM AND VEHICLE OPERATION SUPPORT METHOD - A vehicle drive support system, and its method, includes a storage apparatus for storing charging station information to manage attribute information containing position information of charging stations, a communication apparatus for receiving a route search request containing an origin, a destination, and a residual quantity in a battery from a mobile and transmitting a response to the route search request, and a route search processing unit for searching a route passing through the charging stations while maintaining a state in which the residual quantity in the battery is greater than 0 between the origin and the destination by using position information of the charging stations contained in the charging station information in response to the route search request received by the communication apparatus, and giving the searched route as the response to the route search request. | 05-31-2012 |
20120161692 | CHARGING CONTROL SYSTEM - In a charging control system, electrically-driven vehicles whose charging levels are lower than such a charging level required to drive these electrically-driven vehicles over a necessary minimum drivable distance are charged with a priority, and such an electrically-driven vehicle whose charging level quickly reaches the above-explained charging level among these electrically-driven vehicles is charged with a top priority. Also, in the charging control system, an order for dynamically charging vehicle-purpose batteries is rearranged by monitoring a change in charging environments, for instance, an electrically-driven vehicle is newly coupled to a charger in a half way; a commonly available electric power amount is increased by solar power generation etc.; and a supplyable electric power amount (W) is lowered due to utilization of electricity by a subject other than electrically-driven vehicles. | 06-28-2012 |
20130238162 | DRIVING RANGE CALCULATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A storage part stores beforehand, as an energy consumption graph, amounts of energy consumed by a vehicle traveling in both directions along road links on a map. A processing part traces a road link from a specified start point location peripherally, calculates, for each road node, a first and second integration values obtained by integrating amounts of energy in a direction moving away from the start point location on the energy consumption graph and in a direction moving toward the start point location on the energy consumption graph, and based on a relationship between the sum of the first integration value and the second integration value, and a given specified amount of energy for each road node, decides a round-trip driving range which is a range within which the vehicle is able to return to the start point location by using the specified amount of energy. | 09-12-2013 |
20130261953 | ROUTE SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRIC AUTOMOBILE - An object of the present information is to search for a route taking into account the charging times in the charging stations. When an electric automobile provided with a battery cannot reach a second point from a first point without the battery being charged in a charging station halfway, a route-search processing section specifies one or two or more charging stations, which the electric automobile is to pass through in order to reach the second point from the first point in a shorter time including a charging time in each of the charging stations and moving times among the charging stations, and derives a route for reaching the second point from the first point passing through the specified charging stations. | 10-03-2013 |
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20140152456 | Failure Point Diagnostics in Cable Telemetry - Methods and systems for failure point diagnostics in cable telemetry at a wellsite. The methods involve providing a system includes a cable operatively coupling between a surface modem and a downhole modem that is operatively coupled to a downhole toolstring of one or more downhole tools via a toolbus. The methods further involve generating a plurality of test signals, sequentially applying the test signals across one or more test loops in the cable telemetry system, and generating a failure point alert when at least one of the test signals fails in at least one of the test loops. The failure point alert identifies which component of the cable telemetry system caused the test signal to fail. | 06-05-2014 |
20140152457 | Toolstring Communication in Cable Telemetry - Systems and methods for toolstring communication in cable telemetry. The methods involve positioning a cable telemetry system in a wellbore. The cable telemetry system can include a surface modem, a downhole toolstring of downhole tools, a downhole modem operatively coupled to the downhole toolstring, a cable operatively coupling between the surface modem and the downhole modem, and a surface data routing module that polls and trains the cable telemetry system. The methods also involve performing a pre-transmission poll of a rate requirement for the downhole toolstring and a telemetry type for the downhole modem, applying a training phase to establish a transmission link between the surface modem and the downhole modem, configuring data obtained by the downhole toolstring for an uplink via the transmission link, and transmitting the uplink via the transmission link. | 06-05-2014 |
20140152460 | Toolstring Topology Mapping in Cable Telemetry - Toolstring topology mapping systems having a downhole toolstring including a master node controller and a plurality of nodes and related methods. The methods involve querying each of the plurality of nodes in the downhole toolstring for actual topology information, receiving actual topology information from each of the plurality of nodes in the downhole toolstring in response to querying, and generating a topology map of the downhole toolstring based on the actual topology information from each of the plurality of nodes in the downhole toolstring. The methods can also involve comparing the topology map with the input topology information to identify topology mismatch and then take remedial actions if needed. | 06-05-2014 |
20140218206 | Multi-Scheme Downhole Tool Bus System and Methods - A multi-scheme downhole tool bus system is provided. The system may comprise a tool bus master and a number tool bus slaves coupled together via a communications link The communications link may include an uplink communication and a downlink communication. The uplink communication and the downlink communication may include a number of communication schemes or data rates. | 08-07-2014 |
20140333452 | Inter-Tool Communication Flow Control in Toolbus System of Cable Telemetry - Systems and methods for inter-tool communication in toolbus systems in cable telemetry. The systems can include downhole equipment deployable into a wellbore via a cable, The downhole equipment can include a toolbus, a toolbus master node including a buffer, and nodes operatively coupled to the toolbus master node via the toolbus. Each of the nodes includes a buffer. Of the one or more nodes, a sending node sends a message, and a receiving node receives the message via the toolbus master node and sends a buffer full message to the toolbus master node when the buffer of the receiving node is full. The toolbus master node sends a buffer full message to the sending node and the receiving node when the buffer of the receiving node is full, and buffers the message at the toolbus master node until the receiving buffer is not full. | 11-13-2014 |
20140354446 | Cable Telemetry Synchronization System and Method - Cable telemetry synchronization systems and methods. The synchronization can involve positioning downhole equipment into a wellbore via a cable operatively coupled to a surface module that can include a telemetry system master clock. The downhole equipment can include a toolbus master node and at least one slave node module having a node clock operatively coupled to the toolbus master node. The synchronization can also involve sending a frame start command to the at least one slave node module from the toolbus master node at predetermined intervals, receiving a clock value from each of the at least one slave node module, calculating a clock offset for each of the at least one slave node module, and sending an absolute clock value and the calculated clock offset for each of the at least one slave node module via a downlink synchronization command to the at least one slave node module. | 12-04-2014 |