Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Vehicle subsystem or accessory control
Reexamination Certificate
2000-12-18
2003-11-11
Zanelli, Michael J. (Department: 3661)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Vehicle subsystem or accessory control
C701S002000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06647328
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
These innovations and technology have been designed to improve the public's safe use of vehicles, equipment and machinery. They have been first designed to improve on the already deadly and destructive situations of out of control vehicles due to operator incapacity, and/or car theft and carjackings. The objective has been to help limit and/or restrict as many fatalities, personal injuries and property damage as possible. This will basically be accomplished by reducing the amount of time and space these horribly uncontrolled and irrational events exist for and/or take place in. These innovative systems and devices are not a panacea. The invention is simply designed to improve on an already poor public safety situation by limiting the time and involved area of these irrational events (e.g., out of control machinery).
It is the full intention of this technology to ultimately support and help provide fully automated robotics systems that can remotely control vehicles and equipment in a responsible and accountable manner in the future through the best and most optimum progression of commercial developments, first, from uniquely combined Commercial Off The Shelf C.O.T.S. products, and secondarily, as a condensed, consolidated set of hardware, firmware, and coordinated software programs in accountable, protected system of products that will become multi-industry standards and insurance requirements and rate qualifying devices for remote control and robotics.
In an effort to initiate a collaborative process and be a part of any dialogue along these lines either already in progress or planned for in the future, this technology will develop and continually augment, its preprogrammed controls, communication systems, and functional peripheral devices, sensors and systems to be a part of the diverse equipment and systems already merging, communications with programmable control circuits and electrically controlled devices, like those detailed in this application. It will also continue to offer the most needed solutions for a progressive accountable process of remote control and device deployment as well as increase and enhance computers and software to ultimately run, safe, accountable robotics vehicles and highways as has been discussed earlier in all the related patent applications.
The programs of the present invention will first structure acceptable accountable remote control protocols in a progressive layer of commercial enhancements to best marry their social, economic, environmental, and technical presence through commercial markets. This is a necessity because, there actions will be governed by the individual systems capabilities. Triage control will be programmed for the best option at any given time to control a vehicle and responsive systems in the safest manner through any available equipment on the market at a given time and/or outfitted on any particular host piece of equipment. Because, there will be such a wide variation of individual equipment capabilities, a great deal of effort has been taken to backward engineer, as well as, accommodate present engineering and future engineering in this process to develop acceptable modalities and standards for accountable aggressive remote control at various levels. There will be many versions of “Triage” that will first have as a goal to slow, stop and secure a vehicle stationary position.
The next progressive development detailed in this application will control the steering in degrees. And finally the speed control either using OEM cruise controls modified for this purpose or any of the acceleration controls detailed in this application and/or related patent innovations that will be responsive to the interface data commands given by any onboard control circuitry. A protected Primary Focal Node a (PFN) will house this control circuitry and communication circuits to receive transmissions and/or directions supplied by GPS signals and interactive highway transmitters, RF signals, or infrared beacons and/or any cell phone locating technology, along with distant sensors to remotely guide and control speed and direction remotely in robotics scenarios. Ultimately this inventions Primary Focal Node a (PFN) will manage preprogram travel plans for long and even short travel, as well as, handle completed vehicle operations, if so desired.
This invention will first commercialize these devices for specific use with law enforcement stressing the need for responsible supervised optimally physically visible scenarios first. So any technical bugs can be worked out and the learning curve for the rest of humanity can be plotted and develop with proper progressive guide lines and instructions for the safest public use. This also needs to be done progressively to equip the individual vehicles with these devices. Either for the new vehicles and/or for any after market or retrofitting of old ones. This will be initially accomplished through Commercial Off The Shelf parts or C.O.T.S. innovations, a process already described in earlier related applications. Secondly, this invention will strive to commercialize these devices along with its electronic control systems to be as much a part as possible in developing the interactive highway systems in any collaborative effort that presents itself. As this process progresses, the original third modality, described in PCT/US97/21516, a private, public and/or commercial monitoring and control system of any size will be created and combined to fulfill the scope of this invention for not only the automobile industry but also, for many community public safety programs, which, are termed Green Eyes and Spider Eyes program and detailed in this and related patents and involve machinery and equipment. This commercialization will interface its technology and any other associated technologies through the 1000 series devices along with the 1100 controller systems and the 1200 network to ultimately create fully automated and robotics public transportation systems that will produce more individual freedom for all the public, increase its safety, security and develop accountably for society to transact its mechanized business responsibly and with fair exchange to each other individually. (The time question is: when and how long?) And this question finds its answer in how well all work with one another in any joint ventures, with real genuine cooperation from the individuals, businesses, and governments involved. Time estimate, circa 2015, for fairly extensive and sophisticated social transportation and environmental control systems. This is a modest estimate for full robotics in an acceptable, accountable and/or societal form for personalized transportation. But there will be a vast amount of changes in any personal transport vehicles.
2. Background of the Related Art
Humanity is already married to its technology, and like all other marriages it will only be as functional as those in the relationship. The vehicles, machines and equipment are here in this human existence. This technical automation, communication, and control of machinery has already been proven to be a real present day need for humanity as it strives for its own individual social emotional development. So all that remains is to make this technology available, affordable, and perfect it, to be as secure, reliable, responsible, respectful of and as accountable to the individual, to any business and to the government it will be serving. This is the goal of this technology for remote control of humanity, s equipment and the responsible development of robotics.
The invention has been designed to work with all willing technologies to develop a secure and accountable communication and control systems for every piece of Machinery through a Machine Messaging Network (MMN), detailed in PCT/US99/00919.
There are many other commercial interest in this area, as well as different technologies. These technologies have very specific and finite focuses with their remote control and/or automated vehicle systems in w
Donner Irah H.
Hale and Dorr LLP
Kline and Walker LLC
Zanelli Michael J.
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