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Wireless location assisted zone guidance system incorporating a system and apparatus for predicting the departure of an animal from a safe zone prior to the animal actually departing

  • US 10,251,371 B1
  • Filed: 03/18/2015
  • Issued: 04/09/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A wireless location assisted zone guidance system that generates an advance notification stimulus to notify an animal of an impending safe zone departure, comprising:

  • a housing;

    an electrical power source contained within said housing;

    at least one animal stimulation apparatus electrically coupled with said housing and powered by said electrical power source;

    a wireless location determination apparatus contained within said housing, powered by said electrical power source, and adapted to operatively generate electrical latitude and longitude information representative of a current position of said housing;

    an electrical processor coupled to said wireless location determination apparatus and operative to receive said electrical latitude and longitude information therefrom;

    memory electrically accessible by said electrical processor;

    a data table stored in said electrically accessible memory having an ordinate and abscissa, a first one of said ordinate and abscissa corresponding to longitude and a second one of said ordinate and abscissa corresponding to said latitude, with each value stored in said data table identifying a one of said at least two assisted guidance zones including said safe zone;

    said electrical processor adapted to operatively compare said received electrical latitude and longitude information to said data table to generate a first represented current position within said data table and to generate a second represented current position that is subsequent to said first represented current position, adapted when each of said first and second represented current positions within said data table have a stored value identifying said safe zone to calculate a represented future position in said data table based upon a displacement between said first and second represented current positions, adapted to retrieve a future position value stored in said data table at said represented future position, and further adapted to vary an output of said at least one animal stimulation apparatus responsive to said future position value not representing said safe zone.

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