A wireless system for providing services and time-critical information about places and events to mobile computers and their users proximate to their current locations or potential destinations within enclosed areas, urban landscapes, and open areas, including travel distances and transit times, entertainment, merchants' messages, area attractions, communications, current locations of system users, and traffic congestion information and user-generated information from bar-coded objects and digit...

A working situation management system which includes an input section for inputting information relating to working, and a detecting section for detecting an occurrence of a predetermined change in the input information. A producing section included in the system produces information indicating a time at which the predetermined change occurs and information specifying the predetermined change, in accordance with the detected predetermined change. A storing section stores the information indicati...

A personal monitoring system to be worn by an individual in a hazardous situation comprises an enclosed face mask which includes a transparent shield over at least the eves a sensor module secured to the individual which includes a plurality of sensors, a microprocessor and an RF transmission means operable to transmit data obtained by the sensors. The face mask includes a heads-up display comprising a housing containing an electroluminescent display panel, an optical lens, a microprocessor, and...

A power situation indicator configured to provide power information in a rotorcraft is presented. The power situation indicator includes a detection unit configured to detect a current value of each of a plurality of control parameters, each of the plurality of control parameters including a pre-determined operating limit; a calculation unit configured to normalize on a common power scale (a) the current value and (b) the pre-determined operating limit of each of the plurality of control paramet...

A driving situation detection system capable of detecting driving situations swiftly with high reliability is obtained. The driving situation detection system includes real curve arithmetic means reference vehicle model and observer means, a differentiator unit, a model curve radius arithmetic means, and an assessment unit. The arithmetic means generates real curve radius signals based on wheel speeds. The reference vehicle model and observer means processes input signals utilizing a linear refe...

An apparatus and method providing a system which realistically presents a simulated situation including a sequence of acts to which a desired trained reaction of a participant or trainee is obtained, evaluated and adapted for study and analysis. The simulated situation is presented so that the trainee is part of the situation and his reactions thereto are recorded to facilitate his training. The apparatus includes a means for projecting a simulated situation involving a sequence of acts on a scr...

The invention relates to a method for detecting a rollover situation in such a way that a restraint, such as belt tighteners or head airbags, can be released at the right time during rollover. The signals that pertain to several sensors and detect transitional and rotational movements are detected, connected to one another and evaluated.

Methods and apparatus are provided for generating an integrated vertical situation display. The method comprises generating a profile view frame, producing a first profile view of a first track of the vehicle in the profile view frame beginning at about a current position of the vehicle and ending at about a predetermined location, and extending a second profile view of a second track of the vehicle from about the predetermined location. The apparatus comprises a display configured to display a ...

Each flight attendant would carry a small portable receiver/transmitter device, similar in size to a pager, and a central receiver/transmitter located in the cockpit. Each portable receiver/transmitter has a numerical designation (1, 2, 3, etc.) which is unique to that one device. The portable receiver/transmitter has two buttons (yellow alert and red alert), a numerical display, indicator lights, and a vibrator. In a developing situation, a nearby flight attendant presses either the yellow or r...

A method for providing an observer with an intuitive awareness of a tactical environment is disclosed. In an illustrative embodiment, the method displays a 360.degree. panoramic view of the environment surrounding a warship, wherein the view is augmented by radar data, infrared imagery, visible imagery, and tactical information about targets within the field-of-view.