Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Navigation – Employing position determining equipment
Reexamination Certificate
2005-05-17
2005-05-17
Black, Thomas G. (Department: 3663)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Navigation
Employing position determining equipment
C701S301000, C340S902000, C342S455000, C382S104000, C382S113000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06895332
ABSTRACT:
An emergency vehicle alert system includes a first GPS receiving unit provided on the emergency vehicle that determines emergency vehicle location information of the emergency vehicle; a transmitter unit provided on the emergency vehicle that transmits the emergency vehicle location information by way of an emergency vehicle location signal; a second GPS receiving unit provided on the motor vehicle that determines vehicle location information of the motor vehicle; a receiver unit provided on the motor vehicle that receives the emergency location signal output by the transmitter unit of the emergency vehicle; and a map display that displays a current location of the motor vehicle and a current location of the emergency vehicle. The emergency vehicle is shown as an icon on the map, whereby the icon has a different visual characteristic depending on the position of the emergency vehicle with respect to the motor vehicle.
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King Byron
Yancey Drew A.
Black Thomas G.
King Byron
To Tuan C
Yancy Drew A.
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